The restaurant opens from 12-3pm for lunch, and 7-10pm for dinner. We arrived shortly before 7pm,…read moreand there was a line waiting already! The front of the restaurant is for take out customers, while the dining room is in the back. The waiter didn't give us any menu, because chargrilled chicken is all they serve! Not much choice for sides either - salads and fries, take it or leave it. No apologies. It's interesting to see big families having dinner here, hard to imagine, for an American, that they can all manage to be satisfied with the same dish, without some diet or preference in the way. As you can imagine, for a restaurant like this, they do one thing and do it really good. Tender chicken with a wonderful chargrilled flavor. My husband loves grilled chicken so this is like the 4th chicken place we visited on the trip, and this one is the clear winner. The fries and salad are just meh though.

Do one thing and do it well! Best peri peri chicken on our entire 2 week visit to Portugal. Arrive…read moreearly and prepare to wait but it's worth it.

I loved this place. The food, the atmosphere and the service was great. I'm ready to go there again.read more

This place is great! Adorable old building, friendly staff and delicious food! We could have sat…read morehere and ate/drank all day. The chicken skewers and Mediterranean chicken were delicious and the shrimp skewers were probably some of the best shrimp I've had in Europe. And the Camembert with honey and nuts was perfect! Just the right amount of sweet. Beer and wine were perfectly paired with the food options as well. I would come back here to eat again anytime!

Cute little café in the heart of Portimao. Authentic food and drinks to a very small price!…read moreDelicious Pasteis, cakes and coffee.

Tried this place out first night in Portimão after reading a couple of Yelp reviews. One Yelper ate…read moreat Cletonina each night he was in town, and with his hundreds of reviews on the app, that was good enough for us. Once up the stairs you have a nice view of the promenade, and the surroundings. We were quickly seated and warmly greeted by the staff. They seem to serve by committee here so we met numerous staff members during our meal. The service was quick, efficient, and obviously worked well together. We ordered a shared salad, the lovely K had the steak, Portuguese style and I the Pasta Puttanesca, along with a bottle of wine. The young man who brought us the wine was very nice, asked us how we had enjoyed our trip thus far and told us a bit about himself. Very well done. Our salad was delivered by another person along with the usual white vinegar, extra virgin olive, but also balsamic vinegar which is always an appreciated touch. Our dinners arrived piping hot, especially K's which was bubbling merrily when set down. The steak was a little on the chewy side, but the potatoes were super crispy and the gravy really good. The Puttanesca was good, not great, but was plentiful and well cooked. While we likely won't go all four nights we are in Portimão, but we will be back at least once more.

This week we vacationed in Portimao and discovered this restaurant on day one. For the next four…read moredays, we enjoyed dinner by exploring the vast menu. The service was awesome and the food was unbelievable. We always started with the champagne sangria and the lemon sherbet was the kicker for this sangria. Have a look at my photos from the various dishes we had. What isn't included are the pizzas and the spaghetti bolognese. We typically don't stick with one restaurant while on vacation, but this was the exception. Stop by and give gave them a try. Enjoy!

The food here is delicious and staff are lovely. The local class are amazing! Highly recommend.read more

What an amazing experience! The food was amazing, service was fantastic!! You all must go there!read more

Excellent customer service, the food is of the highest quality, prepared perfectly! And you can't…read morebeat the view! It is our go-to place when we want to treat ourselves or for a special occassion.

It's in a lovely location with a beautiful view over the beach in Praia de Roche. There was a man…read morehandling out information about the restaurant at the bottom of the stairs but we had made reservations. We were offered either a table on the enclosed patio overlooking the water or a table inside. We opted to sit outside and enjoy the view. The service was very good. We shared an order of shrimp in garlic butter and asked to have the heads removed. They were good. For entrees my husband had grilled fish. It did not have any seasoning and he had to ask for lemon. The fish required a lot of lemon and salt and it was still lacking in flavour. I had a grilled steak and it was decent but not that interesting. Not one of the better steaks that I've had. The prices are a bit higher that some comparable restaurants that we've gone to but the food although decent should be considerably better for the prices charged. We would not return as we found the menu to be somewhat limited, the prices too high and the food was a not as well prepared as one would expect for the prices charged.

Very disappointed... food was good, bread was stale, service was okay until it took a half hour to…read moreget our check. The waiter knew we needed to leave but was determined to reset other tables. Then to top it off he added a gratuity for himself, underhanded and sneaky. I would stay clear.

This place is recommended to us by a local, who told us, this is where locals go for seafood…read more The restaurant, along with several others, are located sort of under the bridge. You may be standing at the intersection and wondering where the restaurant is, and then look over the rails and see the sign. Somehow there seems to be a cluster of seafood restaurants in that space, but some of them are empty, with eager smiling ladies inviting you to go inside. Dona Barca not only has a bustling full house, they apparently took over more space across the alley. Even without my friend's recommendation it's clear which restaurant to go to. They have a large cooler displaying what fishes are available. And they do know how to cook their fishes. The sole we ordered was done to perfection, the meat still moist and tender. We also ordered the seafood rice. Sadly, maybe due to inflation, there was way more rice than seafood, and the broth tastes of tomato rather than the ocean's bounty. Only one prawn, a crab claw, plus a small amount of tiny bites of clam, octopus and shrimp that I had to dig around in the rice to find.

Four of us visiting from California came across this gem. Newly renovated and great food…read more Service was fast. Lots of choices and the wine selection was quite extensive. Well lit. Tables were unfortunately a little tightly packed.

We return to this restaurant yearly! The food is so fresh and delicious. Love the cataplana! Our…read moreattentive waiter has been there for years and really works hard to please. Outdoor patio or indoor dining. We love outdoor. Can't wait to return next year...

Came in for pick-up. The chicken was not as good as the one that I usually go to ( I'm not…read morementioning the establishment). Fries were not as crispy as I like. Lagartos( black pork), I had better ones, skip it. Service was okay, not sure why they asked me to wait for 15 minutes when I was the only customer for takeout and it was not peak time. The ambiance was decent , I scoped the dining area and nothing fancy. Happy that I finally checked it out but I will stick with the other churrasqueria close by.

My AirBnB host recommended this place and mentioned it was the "churrasqueira" in the area that…read moreserved the best Chicken Piri Piri. Biased as he may have been (because it's very close to his house), I thought to myself, "Listen to the local." And I'm glad I made my way over. The 1/2 chicken was served quickly, was flavourful, could feed a small family of three (the third being a baby) and only cost a mere €6.50. Parking could be tricky, but there's a giant mall across the street where you can dump your vehicle. The menu has an English translation, and the server was friendly and fast. It's one of those places that charge, if you touch the bread, olives, etc. that they place in front of you. So, if you touch and eat, don't be a stupid tourist and complain...because you've been warned.

We had a lovely lunch at Pinocchio. We sat on the patio and watched people strolling on the…read moreboardwalk. We shared bruschetta with garlic, cheese and tomato and spaghetti carbonara. It was all delicious. The bruschetta was wonderful with bread that was nicely toasted and fresh tomatoes. My husband generally does not care for pasta with carbonara sauce but he loved the one at Pinocchio's. He said that if all carbonara was like this he would have it more frequently. The pasta was cooked perfectly al dente. There was crispy pancetta in the dish that was so tasty and it was not drenched in sauce. An absolutely wonderful dish. We had a 1/2 lt. of sangria with our lunch. It was the perfect meal. The service was very good. If we were in the Algarve longer we would definitely have returned.

This isn't an italian restaurant, it's just one that pretends to be. They recommended their fish…read moreand chips. Go somewhere else. Pronto!