So I'm *slowly* catching up on the many review drafts I never finished at the time, from my trip to Portugal in January... this place was not actually on my list to try, but the place around the corner that had been on my list was, I learned when I got there, closed temporarily for renovation. We'd already been running late for lunch, and at that point I was pretty starving, so I just grabbed a sandwich from the first place nearby that looked decent, in the interest of trying as many places as possible. Well, I very much wish I'd instead just gone back to Porta Larga, where I had eaten a similar sandwich from yesterday. That said, I *want* to give this place one star, as I woke up in the middle of the night that night in, let's say... quite significant amounts of digestive unpleasantness, and I had felt, while eating the two pork sandwiches we tried (leitão and pork belly), that the meat was a little bit too hard and tasted just slightly old, so this feels like the place most *likely* to have contributed to the food poisoning we felt the following day, that pretty much canceled all our plans for, unfortunately, one of only two days we were in Coimbra. But, while I think it's likely enough to have mentioned it here, I absolutely can't *prove* it, so I wouldn't want to give them a rating lower than I would have otherwise.
However, what I definitely can say is that, while we got our sandwiches as quickly as you'd expect for a place where everything is premade and just needed to be sliced onto bread, the bread was just a little too crispy, and both the meats we tried did taste just slightly old and were a little bit too salty to be perfect, and while the menu indicated they had sangria, they... didn't actually have any, just canned non-craft beer, Somersby ciders and juices (also canned, not fresh). So even if the food poisoning was entirely unrelated, I still definitely would recommend that you skip this place and just go to Porta Larga if you want really good leitão, and if you want leitão multiple times, just go to Porta Larga multiple times. :p read more