Aquario Restaurant

I heard so many amazing things about this place so I decided to go and check it out. It will say the decor is a little dated, not that that matters to me. The food was excellent and very fairly priced service was excellent. Do you will only one thing that me and my dinner partner were not thrilled with was the classical rock cover tunes that were played. Something a little bit more restaurant like would have been appreciated. I'll definitely go back and I will recommend this place to everyone I know. Excellent seafood. It was a little strange that they served us grapes that look like they should have been thrown away with the brown ends.

Great friendly spot conveniently located 8 minutes from the Westchester airport. From the moment you walk in you can just feel the authenticity. We were seated and immediately served bread and Portuguese sausage slices which was nice because we were hungry. The only reason I give 4 stars is because we had told our waiter upon sitting down that we truly only had about 30 minutes before we needed to go to the airport to catch our flight. He said no problem but then did not come back to take our order for more than 15 minutes- which is a bit long even if we didn’t have a flight to catch. I ended up waiving down another employee and explained the situation to them. They took our order and had the food on the table within 5 minutes! It was excellent and the second server who helped us was very great. Hope to visit again when we are not on a time crunch.

We were passing by traveling to Allentown PA. We we attracted by the restaurant name. It serves indeed a Portuguese cuisine not so much a Brazilian cuisine. Tony, the server was awesome!

Excellent restaurant with nice menu options.
The grilled octopus appetizer is one of the best I've had.
Their paella is an excellent entree, however I find the shrimp slightly overcooked.

If it wasn’t for the slow, inattentive service, I would have given it 5 ⭐️. It took us a very long time to order, and just as long to receive our food (it was a Friday night, perhaps they were too busy or short-staffed in the dining room and kitchen?). I was really impressed to see that the owner was working as a waiter and he even offered us an extra espresso and after dinner drink, you don’t see that kind of old school dedication very often. The staff is very friendly, but at a fine dining establishment one would expect their wine and water glasses to be refilled. The complimentary appetizer (chorizo) was delicious, and the bread was good quality. We had the octopus appetizer, halibut, and filet mignon. All was excellent, except the filet mignon was rather chewy and under cooked. The espresso was perfect, like you would get at a bar in Europe. I would definitely dine at Aquario again, just hope that the service would be better.
They also offer valet parking.