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Restaurant type

  • Lounge,

Cuisine type

  • Portuguese,

Dishes

  • Seafood,

Features

  • Restaurant With Bar,

Atmosphere

  • Casual,
  • Family,

Products and Services

  • Good For Groups,

Languages Spoken

  • English,
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Opening Hours *Holiday hours

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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  • $11 To $25,

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Meet the owner

Going into its fourth decade of existence, Calgary’s original Portuguese restaurant has seen a lot of changes. What remains the same are the robust flavours in the gourmet home cooking of the Da Costa family who opened Mimo in 1984. Owners Isabel and Joao (John) are like godparents to International Avenue’s east side ethnic food scene. “There’s a homey feeling here,” explains their daughter and Mimo manager Carla Da Costa about why the family has never relocated the eatery to a larger location despite the its popularity. “My parents don’t know if they can get that anywhere else. They love that feeling of welcoming everybody and having people share their stories. It’s kind of like history making itself. It’s important to them.”

When Mimo opened its doors in what is now the Little Saigon Centre, the shopping centre was a sort of little Portugal filled with many businesses catering to Calgary’s then flourishing Portuguese community. With the recession of the late 1980s, most of that community migrated to eastern Canada, but Mimo held its ground and expanded from a small back room into what is now a large, bright dining room.

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Menu & Prices

COLD APPETIZERS MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

Tomato and Onion

All salad are served With Portuguese olive Oil and Vine

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Lettuce, tomato & onion

All salad are served With Portuguese olive Oil and Vine

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Lettuce,tomato, onion, Home cure hamand white cheese

All salad are served With Portuguese olive Oil and Vine

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SOUPS

Kale Soup

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Soup of the Day

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Seafood Soup

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HOT APPETIZERS MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

Portuguese Style Mussels

(olive oil in tomato sauce)

Garlic Style Mussels

Olive oil & fresh Garlic

Garlic Style Clams

(Olive Oil & Fresh Garlic & Parsley)

Spanish Style Clams

(Sautéed
Onions in Tomato Sauce)

20 Chicken Wings

(BBQ,Honey Garlic, teriyaki Salt p Pepper, Mild, medium Spicy and sxtra spicy)

Snails Marinated in White Wine

White ]wine in tomato sauce

Grilled Squid

Delicious Red sauce

Home Made Sausage

Pork Sausage

Grilled Garlic Shrimp

5 shrimp in an order

Fish main course MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

2 filet of sole served with fried potatoes and salad

Poached Cod served with boiled broccoli, carrots, an egg and potatoes.

Baked Sardines (4) served with boiled, fresh Potatoes and a special onion chopped sauce

Grilled Cod with boiled potatoes, fresh chopped onions with olive oil and garlic.

Fried hake or poached Hake, ask your server for more info

Lightly battered cod fried in a blended oils, served w fries & caramelized onions

Sea Main Food MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

Large platter feeds 4 people served with 6 kinds of veggies and lots of seafood

Crab Legs in white wine served with fries

5 lobster tails a Gratin served with fries

Grilled squid served with boil potatoes and sauce

Paella

Combination of rice peppers chicken, beef,crablegs,mussels,clams shrimp, lobster tails,& squid

Meat Main Course MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

BIFE A MADEIRA

3 filet portion of beef with fries and saladmarinated in Madeira Wine

FRANGO CHORASCO

½ chicken grilled on the BBQ served with frieswith salad andpiri-­‐piri homemade sauce

BIFE A PORTUGUESA

Boneless beef with fries fried egg,and salad marinated in a delicious Portuguese gravy

BITOQUE

Steak & Egg & fries

CARNE PORCO ALENTEJANA

Pork & clams or mussels marinated in a sauce served with potatoes

CODORNIZS GRELHADAS

4p quail with fries and salad marinated in a homemade piri-­‐piri sauce

GRILLED or LEMON PORKCHOP

3 boneless pork chops served with fries & salad

VEGETARIAN PLATE

Mix of veggies with rice potatoes and cheese

DESSERT MENU - Mimo Restaurant & Lounge

Crème Caramel Flan

Orange Flan

Poutuguese Custard

Portuguese style Rice Pudding

Passion Fruit Pudding caramel made with pulp and seed of the fruit

Vanilla ice cream with: chocolate, caramel strawberry sauce. Choose one!

Cafe coffee

Portuguese coffee (House secret)

Kahula liqueur, Brandy, & coffee

Kahula liqueur, GM& coffee.

Earl Grey Tea &

Regular Coffee (blended mix)

Delta Coffee Bean (from Portugal)

Delta espresso and milk (iced or hot)

Hot chocolate and espresso

1/3 espresso 1/3 milk 1/3 foam

Assorted Tea flavors to choose from.

DESSERT WINE

TAYLORS

Sweet and made with Tawny

Reserve Port

blend of Tawny and ruby in Whisky

VINHOS BRANCOS (WHITE WINE)

Coreto (Lisbon Region) (1)Forgotten Field (Estremadura Region) (1) Periquita Fonseca (Setubal Region) (1)

VINHO VERDE (GREEN WINE)

Casal Garcia (Douro Litoral Region) (2)Gazela (Douro Region) (2) Docil (Douro Region) (2)

VINHO ROSE (CRACKLING WINE)

Mateus Rose (Douro Region) (2)

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Aveleda Charamba (Aveleda Region)

Charamba

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Alento Alentejo Alentejo Region

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Altano Douro (Douro Region)

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Coreto Red (Lisbonregion) (2)

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Fonseca Terra Altas (Lisbon Region)

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Grão Vasco (Dão Region)

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Herdade Paço do Conde (Alentejo Region)

$35.95

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Peccatore (Douro Region)

$49.95

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Periquita Red (Lisbon Region)

$29.95

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Portada (Estremadura Region)

$43.95

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Sogrape Reserva Douro (Douro Region)

$44.95

VINHO TINTO (RED WINE)

Vitigal Black Label Red (Estremadura Region)

$35.95

HOUSE WINE (RED or WHITE)

Glass of Wine (8oz) ½ Litre of Wine Bottle of Wine (750ml) Litre of Wine Bring your own wine

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Eat your way around the world in Calgary

Eat your way around the world in Calgary

Hidden away in Forest Lawn, Mimo is Calgary’s lone Portuguese place, which makes it just that much more special. Loyal clientele return for the Da Costa family’s friendly service and gorgeous, fresh-grilled plates of quail, squid, cod and Portuguese steak as well as steaming paella pans and massive seafood-and-veggie platters.

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Dining with a difference: Unique Calgary restaurants

Located on busy International Avenue in Forest Lawn, Mimo serves up Portuguese cuisine, with an emphasis on seafood dishes, most of which are prepared on a charcoal grill. You must try their paella, which is loaded with clams, mussels, squid, crab legs, lobsters, shrimp, chicken and beef in a saffron-sweet pepper sauce.

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Global cuisine on International Avenue in Calgary

The city’s lone Portuguese place, Mimo serves gorgeously prepared Old World dishes. As Portugal is situated on the Atlantic, the bounty of the ocean figures prominently in the restaurant’s menu. Seafood dishes include lobster tails gratinada, crab legs in garlic wine sauce and pork-and-clam casserole. Also recommended are the rich, heaping paella, piri piri chicken and beef medallions in sweet, tangy Madeira wine sauce.

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