Top Restaurants in Salto
Where to eat Steakhouse food in Salto: The Best Restaurants and Bars
Discover Restaurants offering the best Steakhouse food in Salto, Salto Department, Uruguay including El Mojarra, La Caldera, Isidoro, Parrilla El Porton
Things to do in Salto
1. El Mojarra
Overall Ratings
3 based on 85 reviews
Reviewed By aquamaster
Gracias Mojarra y equipo por la diferencia de preparanos comida para celÃacos, una deliciosa tortilla de papas, y una más que abundante sopa de remolacha y zapallo. ¡Muy agradecido! Les deseo lo mejor , se lo merecen.
Best International food near Salto, Salto Department, Uruguay
2. La Caldera
Overall Ratings
4 based on 49 reviews
Reviewed By grahamstanley
Disappointing. Our experience wasn't like the majority of the reviews here. The restaurant looked promising and we took a table outside - we ordered some great wine and looked forward to the food, but it arrived late and I'm sure my steak had been hanging around. It tasted good, but the waiter should have served it 15 minutes earlier when it was actually freshly cooked. The waiter was also dour and not very responsive. Overall, a disappointing dining experience.
3. Isidoro
Overall Ratings
4 based on 19 reviews
Reviewed By RalfSouth
Restaurant choices in Salto above the fast food category are relatively slim. This one is a welcome recent addition. It provides well executed, simple dishes in a tastefully recycled old house with indoor/outdoor seating. The food categories offered are relatively few and straight forward - Uruguayan barbecue, thin pizza, a couple pasta dishes, a few salads, and some other assorted fare. What makes the formula work is that every dish no matter how pedestrian is well executed. On our last trip we started with some delicious barbecued provolone cheese, some of the best weâve had in Uruguay. We then had a bife angosto (excellent grilled steak) some pizza (best weâve had in Salto), plus a salad. All hit the spot. Desert choices follow the same pattern â few, basic dishes but all well made. We opted for some delicious sambayon-flavor ice cream. Wine choices are a bit on the trite side - widely distributed Uruguayan wines that donât surprise on the upside. One worthy exception to this is Atlantico Sur Cabernet Sauvignon, one of my favorite Uruguayan mid-range wines (to my chagrin they donât always stock it). The service is excellent, the small kitchen keeps humming like the Energizer bunny even when the restaurant is relatively full (weâve never experienced a long wait for our food.) A friendly tall gray haired man who is constantly circling the tables and making sure details donât fall between the cracks. This is a small city restaurant run with the snappiness of a metropolitan eatery. BOTTOM LINE: If you happen to be in Salto for one of the few meals of the week this restaurant is open for (as of this writing dinner Thursday-Sunday, lunch on Sunday) you wonât be disappointed eating here.
What to do and see in Salto, Uruguay: The Best Places and Tips
4. Parrilla El Porton
Reviewed By RalfSouth
There are hardly any scenic restaurants in Salto, but this entry sets a great precedent. El Porton is actually an old Salto restaurant which operated in a couple other locations over the years but they didnât stick. I have high hopes that this one will. Located in an old fishing club, this glass enclosed venue towers over the majestic Uruguay river looking west at the Argentine shore. If you get a table by the river window youâll have 180 degrees of beautiful scenery to look at. The venue could still use a few decoration tweaks, as of today it is a bit cavernous and very noisy. Half of the vast room is setup like a living room with a big couch. It adds a warm, homey touch, and probably helps absorb some of the echo of the place (at the cost of table space.) But more needs to be done to quite the place down, for example separating the living room from the dining hall with some wood lattice type partition and/or hanging some some hefty drapes over the street side windows (the interesting view is not on the street anyway.) Noisy or not, this is still the most scenic venue in Salto. And itâs got an outdoor patio to boot, complete with a trampoline for the kids to jump on while the food arrives.The food at El Porton is classical Uruguayan barbecue. For appetizers we had the classic melted provolone cheese and some chorizos (barbecued sausages), both tasty. The main course selection includes all kinds of meats, from fleshy cuts like âcolita de cuadrilâ to bony cuts like âtira de asadoâ and even some entrails for those so inclined. We went for the king of the steak hill, the entrecote. It is one massive piece of meat, tasty and skillfully cooked. They also offer a smaller âpetit entrecotâ version (but life is too short for that.) We also ordered a serving of barbecued vegetables for the vegetarian in our party, they hit the spot. To accompany the meat we had fries, and salads. The fries were tasty though larger than I fancy them (they had a rectangular cross section of about 8 mm x 200 mm; I prefer a square of about 8 mm x 8 mm or less.) The salads were freshly made and tidily presented. My grated carrot and tomato salad was great, both in look and taste. We had a bit of a malfunction with the watercress and tomato salad. It was clear that the watercress had been hastily washed, including a blade of mowed-down switchgrass and other garden debris. When we pointed the problem out the waiter was very apologetic and responsive, quickly replacing the offending salads (we swapped them for tomato and onion salads, no debris there). Our deserts were basic local staples like dulce de leche mousse, fruit salad and ice cream; they were all par for the course. The wine list relies on two Uruguayan houses, Stagnari and Carrau. Iâve never hit a true gem in either; in this occasion we had a 375 ml bottle of 2013 Tannat from Stagnari and it was fair.The service is friendly and competent; when the place was at its busiest occasionally we had to hunt around for our waiter but never for long. BOTTOM LINE: If you like a good, big barbecued steak and you want to see the best view in Salto this is your place. The only catch is you have to find it open - the expansive view is best appreciated with daylight, yet the restaurant only opens for lunch on Sunday. (If you wonât be in Salto on a Sunday and still want to catch the daytime view you can have tea at this restaurantâs teatime annex called Magnolia. That one opens in the afternoon from Thursday to Sunday.)
