Don't be duped. Researched in advanced, reviews looked good as did the menu. Sat down, the waiter…read moreput bread and cheese on our table, then proceeded to tell us that they had two options: steak or saitan. Maybe they were hoping we wouldn't leave because they had already put food down on the table? The only positive thing I can say is that they didn't make a fuss when we left.

The whole menu at the time consisted of only one pre-fixe set of items. This was strange. So the…read moresolitary entree was sirloin steak on a creamy chimichurri-like sauce, which was not even tender at all. The cheese plate was great, the dill marinated salmon was excellent, and service was also very good. Strange, just strange. For a fancy-looking place, I'd have appreciated a wider selection.

Go. Just go. Don't be intimidated by the menu. It's simple and singular by design. Make a…read morereservation. If it is before 9, you will sit in the front of the restaurant. If it is after, closer to the back end which is up a small flight of stairs. If it's your first time stick to the classic steak entrecôte and the never ending fries. Start with a salad. Skip the bread so at to have room for steak and fries. The wine selection is superb. The service amazing but not overly fussy. This is bistro food. So no frills but that is what makes it extraordinary! Tip: watch what others order, point politely and say: "Ishto, obrigada!"

Hella good! We…read morewalked in no reservations not ready for the ambiance on a referral from a bartender to eat something that would change our lives. And it did! I had all the helpings of fries and extra sauce with medium entrecote. Good wine and a wonderful waiter. So good. I hate to say it but it's better than the same dish in France where it originated. Do it!

3.5. I was craving Neapolitan pizza while in Lisbon and came across Forno d'Oro. I got a pizza with…read moreburrata, arugula, and prosciutto. It was okay, not the best pizza I've had but I do understand that take out is never the same as eating in. Price was fairly high.

This was good pizza - but with the amount of awards this place has honestly I was expecting to be…read moreblown away, which I wasn't. Everything else about the visit was extremely pleasant though. There was a bit of a wait for our table even though we had a reservation, but the folks ahead of us who were at our table were having such a good time that I didn't even mind waiting for them to finish up their drinks. Our server was attentive the entire time which was very much appreciated. There's a cool ambiance about this restaurant -- everyone here (except me!) were dressed very trendy. We started off with a round of caipirinhas which were well made and strong. For pizzas, we went with the caprese and margherita pizzas which were a nice balance. The caprese was topped with fresh arugula and cherry tomatoes which were refreshing. The margherita was everything you'd expect it to be. If you're craving pizza in Lisbon, give this place a try!

We walked by this hole in the wall while looking for another restaurant and decided to try this…read moreplace instead. We got the frango churrasco and were warned it would take 1/2hr by the owner serving tables. While we waited, the locals streamed in and out. Some stopping for a cafe at the counter some getting take out, this was by far the busiest place on the block . Our food was well worth the wait. The frango was freshly prepared and delicious. Highly recommended.

My "medium rare" rump steak was completely rare and I wasn't even able to cut it. The fries just…read moretasted like fat and the service got half of the orders wrong.

Our driver recommended this restaurant to us on the way to our hotel. It's only two blocks away so…read morewe thought we'd give this place a try. It's a big establishment that looks beautiful outside and inside. Our waiter was very observant, bringing another customer napkins when he saw the customer had spilled something on himself, and bringing us more bread when he saw we were almost done. However, he mixed up the combinations of our orders. The beef steak order was supposed to have Portuguese sauce with fried eggs but there were no eggs and it came with mustard sauce, which didn't taste as good as the Portuguese sauce. The chicken steak was supposed to come in mustard sauce and no fried egg but it was covered in Portuguese sauce topped with a fried egg. Pao Torrado Fatitas (bread) - .65 euros. 2 Manteiga, 2 Manteiga Alho (4 packs of butter)- 3.20 euros. The garlic butter was too addicting for my own good. The beef/chicken steaks drenched with either Portuguese or mustard sauce came with two free sides (rice, salad, etcand a fried egg for an extra charge. The chicken steak was only 9.95 euros while the beef steak was 15.60 euros. I absolutely loved the spinach purée side, it didn't sound appetizing but it was so bomb. Try dipping your fries in it! Overall, the chicken steak was a bit boring even with the sauce. They didn't have hamburgers left.

Cute joint with easy food. Mussels and chips or steak. We had the tartare starter -- mussels,…read moresalmon and tuna with toast, and the Thai mussels (AMAZING) as well as the Fraiche mussels. Both came with shoestring fries and a kind of aioli. The dessert selection was banging -- we went with the strawberry cheesecake and peanutbutter cheesecake (AMAZING). For drinks the Sorvina Amber cerveja was great, and the G&T with raspberries not only looks fantastic but tastes delicious too -- served in a massive goblet, look out! Service was efficient and friendly, decor was cute with good ambience. We didn't have a reservation on a Friday night but arrived just before 8pm and were lucky enough to get a table for two but had to be done by 10pm. The place was packed not long after 8pm.

If you have ever eaten mussels you know these aren't right, in any way. They're really dirty, some…read moreof them taste wrong, a lot of them are still closed. The waitress couldn't remember my Stella, after asking it several times, let alone bring us some salt. The fries were okay. The beers are really unnecessary expensive, 5 euro for a Stella are Scandinavian prices. Wouldn't go here, really.

Ahhhh Farta Brutos...my first cod meal in Portugal. Wifey and I did a wine tasting last night and…read moreafterwards we decided to stop at Farta Brutos for dinner (we'd already walked by it 3-4 times. When we stopped to look at the menu the woman acting as hostess and server didn't use any English but convinced us to stop. FARTA BRUTOS, is a tiny place with a LOT of character that's been around for 113 years (as I mentioned above, our waitress spoke zero English so this was a little challenging at first). After our wine tasting I decided to have another taste of red from the Douro region (no, it doesn't really pair well with what I had, but I don't care). It's a crappy photo, but we had an appetizer plate (they're sneaky-they bring it to you THEN tell you if you don't want it they can take it away...we kept it). Olives (for Wifey) and a tuna mixture that didn't seem to have much more than olive oil and finely chopped onions - and it came with some Portuguese bread - I loved it. For our main meals, Wifey had a "fish rice" meal and I had a baked cod dish with potatoes and spinach that had enough garlic on it to keep the vampires away for the rest of the trip. We finished with a chocolate mouse that was nothing like anything I ever had. It was more like a thick frosting...so rich and chocolaty...so good... There are plenty of great places to eat here in Lisbon...the struggle isn't FINDING a place it's CHOOSING a place

We were seeking an upscale fine dining experience and we found it in this 40-seat restaurant that…read morehas been in business for 113 years. Two wines: 1. Branco - Esperão, €26 2. Tinto - Quinta de Porrais, full bodied, 14%, €35. The couvert is bread and a yummy, sweetish tuna pâté. We shared 2 pratos: 1. Dourado de Português - whole fish in a tomato, pepper, onion sauce. Accompanied by potatoes. We picked that fish to death to get every last morsel. 2. Arroz de Pato - baked rice with duck meat pieces inside the cassoulet and sausage on top. Rich and crispy. The aroma was seductive. Dessert was an assortment of custard, orange and plum. Coffe and aguardente. + Excellent service from the owner. + Charming atmosphere. Traditional and soothing. _ Cloth napkins + Wi-Fi + Hefty flatware. €129

Had a Sunday Brunch here, before going off on some touristy stuff…read more 1 star because it was horribly over priced - I think/hope, even for Europe. The food was fine, and the service was quite pleasant, but the per person meal cost was offensive for what was being offered. I'm not usually one to complain about pricing, but... For the same price, I've had all you can eat sturgeon cavier. Just saying.

So hugely disappointed with this place. Before moving to Lisbon we'd put together a list of places…read morethat we wanted to check out, and being huge oyster fans this was near the top of the list. We won't be going back. First of all the service was so slow to take our order. We aren't the sort that rush and worry about ordering as quickly as possible, but this took forever. It seemed like we'd been forgotten, despite the fact that we were on what seemed like a prime table. When they finally took it, we ordered a starter of scallops to share, and then two dozen mixed oysters between us. We had to ask for a wine list though, as they'd not bothered to give us one when we say down. The oysters came before the starter, with the scallops turning up half way through. This would have maybe been forgivable if it hadn't been for the fact that the scallops were awful, the oysters gritty (this is maybe not totally fair as six of the French one's were superb) and the shallot sauce was hardly there. The wine we ordered was okay, but the water we ordered never arrived. The place looked like it was trying to be a classy French bistro, but ended up looking like a the dining room in Fawlty Towers. We knew it wasn't cheap, and the bill was as expected, but I can promise you that it wasn't worth it. We won't be going back, and will be advising visiting friends to avoid it.

This restaurant looked like a hole in the wall place in a triangular corner. When we entered we…read morewere pleasantly surprised by how nice it was inside. It was packed with people, which was a good sign. We enjoyed all our dishes, especially the tiger prawns, octopus, and seafood rice. The sangria was average. The service staff was very friendly and attentive.

The restaurant is away from tourist neighbor. But I suspect its target customers are tourists…read more They play American pop music all night long which is fine with me, but if you are looking for a local experience, this may not what you expected. Pastries de Bacalhau - the crust was not brown enough. May be longer time. The stuffing was flavorful but it's more the cod taste than the flavored mash potatoes which I prefer. I actually prefer the other local restaurant I tried the night before better. Caldo Verde - The potatoe part of the soup is great. Perfect viscosity but the flavor is not. It wasn't salty enough but more importantly is the flavor of the veggies and the spicy sausage they supposed to use that makes the soup taste different. Grilled giant pawns - The flavor of the prawns is not as intense as expected and hope to be. The squid ink pasta also lacked of flavor. That's disappointing. With the prawns, they should at least use the prawn shell to make sauce for the pastas. The pasta was tasteless, didn't even use enough garlic and olive oil to flavor it up. Seafood rice - Another disappointment. They used fish, small mussels and little bit of shrimp pieces along with some bigger whole shrimps and mussels. However, the rice was lack of the true seafood flavor that made from shell fish. They also added cilantro which overwhelmed the whatever left of seafood flavor. The lemonade was not a sweet lemonade but sour. Fyi. It's not fair we just went to another restaurant in the neighborhood and everything was so much better but people should know.