Zen Bistro - Imbituba

When in Ibiraquera, do yourself a favor and visit Zen Bistro! And if you decide to have a dessert—I suggest you do—order apple pie. Theirs is the best you will ever have! Oh, and what to say about the veggie burger? A complete and healthy meal that will make you smile every bite you take. The place and the food made me very happy! Kudos! Much Love

This is, in my view, the only worthy place to go and have lunch in Ibiraquera during the season. First of all, the location is the best. In the middle of Mevlana Garden, which is a beautiful place by the lagoon, you find the Bistro, nested in close by the pool. The atmosphere is welcoming and very relaxed. The music in the background is just supporting the peace, not disturbing it, which tends too happen a lot of places. Its a place too chill out, rest and take your time too enjoy your meal. Which is absolutely delicious. Today I had a wonderful Sushi Bowl, very tasty and delicate. Yesterday I had the beans rice, with baked pumpkin and tofu salad very nice and filling. My friends had Tuna Melt Burger for the second time they just loved it and didnt manage too choose something different today : Also the crab starter was very tasty. Its difficult too choose from the menu because you want too try everything. For the ones that wants something light (and cold in the heat they have 2 kinds of smoothiebowls, acai and tropical, which I hope too have one of the next days, before I head back too Norway. If you are in Ibiriaquera, or close by, I can totally recommend a visit too this Bistro. The food is made with presence and love and this is a rare quality nowadays too find around in the many restaurants.

It's a nice place to lunch, by the pool of Mevlana Garden and near the Ibiraquera Lagoon. Great place to hang out and to rest by its gardens. Most of dishes are fish based and they're healthy, pretty well done and flavorful. Salad usually are side dishes. Really worthwhile. My wife just love it! Although its dishes are not quite big a couple may split one of them. The place also has craft beer, some wines and sparklings.

As of this writing the main picture for this attraction shows a photo of some luscious sushi. This lured me to go there, even though this place is a 40 minute drive from my Praia do Rosa stomping grounds. Well, it turns out that was last year. This year there is no sushi, but thankfully there’s still some nice food to have lunch at this poolside bistro (the place doesn’t open for dinner, though the pizza restaurant next to it does. The Bistro is part of Mevlana Garden, a manicured hotel in Barra de Ibiraquera (a sleeper town featuring a great beach with both ocean and lake exposures. The hotel grounds outside the Bistro are worth a visit, featuring a Zen/Budhist theme (even including a meditation building. We recommend picking a day with some wind flow though, we went on a still day and the hotel grounds (Bistro included were toasty. We started our lunch by ordering a greens/carrot/asparagus salad and a crab “casquina”. They were both great (they were out of asparagus for the salad but it worked fine anyway. For main course we had a Mushroom lasagna and some shrimp grated in a mix of mandioca flour and coconut milk. The lasagna was very good, the shrimp dish was quite tasty but a tad heavy (the mandioca flour gave it a dense starch consistency. For drinks we had a wonderful green juice (featuring a leafy vegetable that the staff couldn’t translate for me and a lemonade (a bit on the watery side, we had to ask for extra lemon for it. For desert we had a vanilla ice cream with maracuja (passion fruit sauce, an absolute delight. The service was competent, the personnel are mild mannered and on the quiet side (perhaps in keeping with the Buddhist themed place. Bottom line: while the food and the venue are quite nice, I wouldn’t trek to this area from a faraway destination just to enjoy them. But if you are in the area anyway (e.g. enjoying the wonderful nearby ocean/lake beach it may well be worth stopping by here for lunch.

Pizzas muito boas, massa integral, ambiente agradável, atendimento excelente. O lugar em que está é muito bacana, fica dentro da pousada Mevlana Garden, com vista para a lagoa e jardins lindos.Vale a visita!