Turismo — Restaurant in Barcelos

A nice resturant but an inkonsistent service which is not matching with the delicouse menu. And not the menu is the problem. 😉 Michelin kitchen with mid-level service does not macht.

Here are the details:

Food: a smal menu with a choise of several things like fish and meat. A bit confusing is the system of starters. The service presents you several times a choise of starters and you can choose if you want it or not. Bread and water is obligatory for 4,00€ pP. The main dishes are very good. Most of the choises you have is for two persons. Espacially the fish.

Ambiente: you have a nice view to the river and the city. The restaurant is nice. Only the TV in the middle of the restaurant where you can watch football disturbed the nice moment you should enjoy.

Service: here ist the problem. They give there best but it does not match with the great kitchen. Ypu get the feeling that they have no system. At the beginning of our dinner 4 waiters ask a several time if we want to order. And we said third times that we want to start with main dishes - no starters. The whole time we had not that feeling, for beeing...

Second time visiting Turismo and I was not disappointed. The owner (or manager) went to every single table to describe the menu and sent through the appetizers they thought we would enjoy. The crab pate was an absolute stand out and the deep fried shrimp. The mains were beautiful to look at and had interesting flavours. I had the pork cheeks which seemed to have a Moroccan twist on them, falling apart with the touch of the fork. The cheesecake dessert what light and creamy. Staff were extremely attentive and friendly, fine dining but still cozy. No surprise it has a michelin star.

Reservation seems to be necessary as nearly every table was books. Vaccination checks and plenty of social distancing between tables. Beautiful atmosphere and decor overlooking the river which is lit up by Christmas lights. Would say the the television in the main dining room does seem out of place. I will definitely be returning when I’m on...

Tasty food experience, nice location, anyway the service was a bit confusing and not as we’re much expected from a Michelin restaurant. It started with an irritating explanation of the starterts, which was sooo fast - we couldn’t understand a word. Afterwards a young waitress came and offering some options of starters, even after we’re insisting of directly jump in into the main courses. We’re also confused of some waiters asking the same questions what we’d like to order, even we did order to the other guy at first.

We asked about the desert-options and what we’d expect from them, he was overwhelmed of our questions.

In general nice dinner experience, anyway with the service quality and those flat tv showcasing football matches I don’t believe i would recommend a...