O Brilhante Restaurante

Av. Bulhão Pato 24, Trafaria, Portugal

★ 4.4 (64 Google reviews) · Restaurant · Compare this place

Cuisine: Portuguese

🧳 Tourists' spot
🏠 Local score 4.44 small sample · 9 reviewers
vs
🧳 Tourist score 4.39 small sample · 18 reviewers 😊 83% good (4–5★) · 😐 11% okay (3★) · 😖 6% bad (1–2★) Written reviews only — star-only ratings aren't counted.

Who eats here?

🏠 33% locals 67% tourists 🧳

9 of its 27 recent reviewers are from Portugal - 18 are not.

Reviews are sparse but span Aug 22, 2016–Mar 5, 2026. With 9 local and 18 tourist reviewers, there is enough evidence to call this a genuinely mixed crowd. The exact 4.44★ vs 4.39★ gap is still a small-sample estimate.

🌿 Quietly reviewed - about 0.2 new Google reviews a month

Before you go

Practical details reported by 36 reviewers in the data we already collected.

Reviewer-reported
Food 4.59 29 reports
🏠 4.5★ (8) 🧳 4.56★ (9)
Service 4.48 29 reports
🏠 4.33★ (9) 🧳 4.33★ (9)
Atmosphere 4.48 29 reports
🏠 4.11★ (9) 🧳 4.33★ (9)
Price per person€10–15 21 reports
Meal typeDinner 60% of 15 reports
Order typeDine in 100% of 18 reports

How locals and tourists have rated it over time

📈 Improving - up to 4.57★ from 4.23★ earlier

Everyone: 3★Everyone: 4.67★Everyone: 4.33★ Tourists: 3★Tourists: 5★Tourists: 4★Tourists: 5★
Everyone Tourists Google all-time 4.4★ Oct 22 – Aug 25
🧭 81% of reviewers are Google Local Guides

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Based on 27 recent written Google reviews · confidence: low · checked 2026-07-13 · newest review 6 months ago