In one of my days in the Algarve area I was hungry for something different than what was being served in the hotel breakfast so I decided to try pancakes in this place. They have a nice sitting area outside in a sunny patch, which is the only thing that deserves a star!
In Portugal, food is usually very good and I was shocked by this that calls itself a business. Many places in the Algarve area don't have a good standard of food and most is a take away type of dish catering for tourists.
When I sat I asked for the menu. I was given a food menu but then when I asked for drinks, was given a second menu (weird). I asked for pancakes and I was brought a very big round pancake that filled a whole plate. The taste wasn't good either, as if it came straight from a pancake mix box. If this wasn't enough disappointment, the presentation was outrageous and I could've done much better at home myself.
A big plate with a huge lump of pancake mix, a dirty pot of old sugar and another pot (exactly the package you get in the supermarket) of some syrup I've never seen before. Then I realized it was dutch, tasted a way too strong and it was more like burned sweet brown sauce to my palate. The whole thing was inedible. I even asked if she had another syrup and then she looked puzzled but offered me again other supermarket tube of golden syrup, saying that this one was liked by the Brits...
I didn't even want to try their coffee as it was probably going to be an instant.
Absolutely disgusted with that place. read more