A Petisqueira — Restaurant in Taipa

Finally being able to return to Macau after the city reopened recently to the outside world. One of my first meals was at A Petisqueria. This is a long standing favourite that opened up in 1993 and is today probably one of the best Portuguese restaurants in the city. They are located along Rua de S. João in Taipa Village and are open from 12-3.30pm (lunch) and 6.30-11.30pm (dinner), closed on Mondays.

This is a restaurant very much worth getting reservations on weekends and public holidays. Otherwise, it can be very difficult to be seated. During my recent visit, I had a late 2pm lunch during midweek and was able to do a walk-in seating. Service was friendly, polite and timely just like in the days before the pandemic.

Happy to report that the food served during this return meal was still high standard. On the occasion, I ordered Pastéis de Bacalhau (fried codfish balls) and Bacalhau de Bras (Portuguese home cooked dish with shredded codfish) both of which tasted very good and as expected. Prices lean towards the higher end of the spectrum at A Petisqueria but portion sizes are large and the food is really nice.

Very happy to see that A Petisqueria survived the pandemic and seems to have maintained the high quality food and standards experienced in the past. I look forward to my next meal here during future trips to Macau...

I heard great things about this place and we decided to drop by for lunch as it was a short walk from The Venetian where we were staying. We decided to order the classic Portuguese dishes that we're familiar with like the grilled chicken, sardines and a salad to ensure we were at least eating somewhat healthy.

The grilled chicken was good. I've had much better in other cities with high Portuguese populations but it was the best thing we ordered. The grilled sardines were OK and not something I'd get again. This was probably the most expensive meal we had as part of our trip and that included eating at the awesome Indian restaurant in the Venetian. With all that said, the food is OK here but there are much better meals for cheaper that can be...

it's a popular place and always have to queue at weekends. i booked in advance and got the seat secured. arrived on time and got directed to the seat straight away. we're placed at the corner near the fridge, a small table and dim, not a pleasant one. staff occasionally came and open the fridge but it smells.

we had an octopus salad, clams and baked cod fish. the octopus salad was disappointing. it wasn't fresh and too hard to chew. the clams was OK as well as the cod fish. just the cod fish was made far too oily. i was told it's very traditional portuguese food so expected the food are salty and oily. but it's way too much and we couldn't finish it.

overall the experience wasn't too good as...