Bocamora - Paraná

We have been at this restaurant twice for dinner during our stay in Puerto del Iguazu. We dont often repeat restaurants when traveling. But the fresh fish and steak drove us back! The prawns pasta is also excellent. All always very fresh!! Staff is nice and the view to the river, 3 borders is spetacular. Our favourite! If you want to stay away of touristic traps, this is the place to go.

The big plus of this restaurant is its location - as you read in all the guidebooks. Unfortunately that is also its only real plus and the restaurant has built its entire fortunes on it. And why not? It's always packed with Lonely Planet-driven crowds so it doesn't need to do much. We were told there would be "a 30-minute wait" for the food and did not mind: as Italians, we are in no hurry when eating and are happy to wait for freshly prepared food. The wait turned out to be over an hour and more importantly, the food was just average. If you want to look into the darkness outside the terrace and say "Brazil and Paraguay are somewhere out there!" this place is for you. If you want to eat good, genuine food, look elsewhere.

Thuis restaurant has an excellent terrace view over the three borders point at the river crossing of the Paraná and the Iguazu rivers. I ate a Surubi Bocamora (local fish) which was excellent. Our hotel recommended we choose fish here, my girlfriend took grilled chicken instead and it was rather dry. Waiting times were quite long too but maybe that was because we went on Christmas Eve. If you choose fish here you will be rewarded, if you don't like fish a lower score is in order.

We were seated on the patio with a magnificent view of the Iguazu river and the Brazilian jungle across the river. There was only one other couple in the restaurant when we arrived so we anticipated prompt and continued attention. Service turned out to be slow and inattentive. We had nowhere else to go so it really didn't matter.We arrived before 7 PM, early for the local crowd so we appreciated that they were open and would serve us.We ordered one beef and one chicken empanada for appetizers and they were very good. We shared a huge order of chicken skewers. Some of the chicken was undercooked and inedible. The parts that were cooked properly were delicious.

Beautiful meal which had the best steak during my visit in Argentina! Along with this the view of the river, which consisted of us in Argentina with sun, brasil with rain and Paraguay with lightening was an amazing sight!