Barra Santos

"A Portuguese restaurant in the Cypress Park neighborhood known for offering manzanilla sherry on tap and promoting sherry as a food pairing beverage." - Heather Platt

"Though the brunch menu doesn’t have traditional egg dishes at Barra Santos, this easygoing hangout in Cypress Park features some stellar daytime dishes available beginning at noon on the weekends. Belly up the long wooden bar for salt cod fritters and Iberico ham slices before digging into piri piri chicken or a seared pork sandwich (called a bifana), slathered with a piso herb sauce and sliced into bite-sized pieces. Sip on iced vermut rojo or a mini 8-ounce cup of Skyduster lager for a proper beverage." - Eater Staff

"A Los Angeles restaurant led by chef Melissa López, known for its eclectic menu." - Rebecca Roland

"Barra Santos doesn’t accept reservations, so going with the flow is your only option. This small Portuguese spot by the Found Oyster people gets busy after 7pm, which means you should mentally prepare to wait 30 minutes to an hour. That's annoying in most cases but quite enjoyable at this Cypress Park restaurant. The sidewalk doubles as an outdoor wine bar where a server chills your bottle in a bucket stand and you sit on benches as you’re hit with clouds of garlic. Between the drinks and eavesdropping on the date next to you, time flies. And once you’re seated, your patience will be rewarded with piri-piri coated chicken leg confit, a drippy pork sandwich, and a whole grilled branzino looking pretty on a bed of caper-parsley sauce." - nikko duren, sylvio martins, brant cox

"Chef Melissa Lopez only serves Skyduster on tap at her tiny Portuguese restaurant Barra Santos in Cypress Park, a James Beard Award finalist with some of the most desired tables in Los Angeles." - Matthew Kang