I've been to this restaurant half a dozen of times with my husband and our friends visiting from…read moreUS. We never had a bad meal there. Actually, no mediocre meal either. It was always wonderful and the service fast and friendly. The place has been full every day of the week, including dead-season winter months. The meals I would recommend is any grilled fish (dourada, seabass, salmonette, sardines, etc). Seafood rice is delicious. Also try any Cataplana dish. It is a rich fish stew with potatoes, onions, bell peppers, etc. As far as wine, try Ermelinda house wine. We only drank white, it was great and inexpensive. Bon appetite!

Um restaurante setubalense com peixe muito bem preparado, com serviço execelente, e com um ambiente…read moremuito agradável.

Interesting place. Do not expect any luxury but a good service and good food at a very decent…read moreprice! Decoration is a bit old fashioned but one goes there for the service/food/price really good balance.

Don't do it Terrible service and food mediocre…read moreHad to get up and leave Super unorganized

This restaurant seems to be quite popular with non-Portuguese customers. We ate there just once,…read moreand we're not extremely impressed. It was underwhelming, both in terms of food quality or service. It has a good location on Avenida Luisa Todi. However, two blocks from this place there are several restaurants which have much better food as well as service.

Excellent!!!! So pretty inside. No one's chasing you down with menus Very gracious.read more

Nice place to enjoy local fish from local people out of a local kitchen with locals…read more Good and friendly service with a smile and a joke. They tried the best the could to help us in English. The 4 of us are convinced to give them a good rating thy deserve.

It looks like this is where the locals eat. We were planning to eat at another place, walked by…read morethis place and noticed they were packed so we walked in. We knew they must be doing something right. The waiter barely spoke English thus we communicated primarily buy pointing at the menu and at the fish. Thanks to google translate we were able to figure out what we were ordering. You order from the blackboard menu that's in the entrance and you point the fish that you like and they'll cook it for you. They had red wine that were in unlabeled bottles which was on on the sweet side. It seemef more juice than wine. There's nothing fancy about the place. It's a mom and pop operation. You can tell the seafood is fresh. We had deep fried fish and a grilled sea food kebab-like dish. I don't recall the names anymore. We also observed how the locals eat their food. They use olive oil as a condiment like we would use ketchup, or an Asian would use soy sauce. So we poured it on our fish, squid and shrimp and sure enough they tasted really refreshing. Suffice to say we were quite happy and satisfied with our experience. Too bad we can't come back.

Great food and service. Totally different from the typical restaurant in the area that serves fresh…read moregrilled fish. Here you can find some really tasty starters and an amazing meat!! One of the 2 or 3 best places in Setubal to have a great meat. Price is above average but so is the food. Worth going to

These tiny snails, which you will see on plants and walls all over the countryside, are practically…read morea staple of Portuguese food, yet also almost a secret. Russo dos Caracóis was the best of three caracóis experiences! First one in a backstreet snack bar in Campo Pequeno was salty but delicious, next one near the water in Alcântara was bland, but this was perfect. The flavor of abalone but 5X in a tiny bit of meat you pluck or suck straight from the shell. In a perfectly seasoned herb and garlic broth, every one (and there are a lot in an order) was clean and fresh. Don't bother with the big snails, they're tougher and not as tasty. Toasted bread, cheap cold beer, and lively companionship keeps it all moving. Patient, fun, and generous staff. Gave friendly language lessons, and tips on where else to go for some food and experiences that aren't on the usual tourist agenda. Get there early, it got packed out at 630pm on a weeknight.

Best place in Setúbal to have Caracóis (snails). Usually…read moreovercrowded, you will have to queue. Some waitress are very friendly, others are awful. Still worth going to have this amazing food with a cold beer and toasted bread.