Restaurante Tabique — Restaurant in Braga

Unfortunately my experience was not so good. I was very exited for the meal . The bread amazing the wine excellent, the food not so much. The chicken liver pate had a good flavour but was a bit grainy. The lamb croquettes were the best but nothing special. The octopus was chewy and the XO sauce was definitely not XO sauce. The leek by far was the worst dish, super watery and no salt at all, there was barely nothing of the vinaigrette. The ibérico pork was overcook and what a shame to serve it like that, in again watery sauce, prawns were muchy and flavourless. The beef and chimichurri was disappointing, mine was not good my mate got nice pieces. The chimichurri was not chimichurri. We didn’t had desert. Overall the concept and ideas are good, the menu needs better execution for sure....

Very tasty, lovely atmosphere! A bit warm inside though. There's kind of a share concept to the restaurant, making it slightly awkward to eat there alone, but the food was great and the server – who seemed to be working alone – did a lot to make you feel welcome.

I unfortunately couldn't have the main squid dish since it's a two-person dish, but I had the server's other recommendation, the beef skewer, and it was very good! Although one piece was too sinewy to chew. The chimichurri was excellent! The octopus Japanese salad thing tasted pretty exclusively of soy sauce cucumber salad, and it was still nice but I would probably pick something different next time.

The Basque cheesecake can't be missed!! I went here partially because I knew they had Basque cheesecake and it was...

We happened to be staying in an Airbnb down the road and decided to try it out for dinner. It seemed totally empty from the street but the lights were on so we went inside. We walked down the passage to realise that the space at the back was heaving and we took a seat in the front. The waiter was very kind and helpful and we ended up ordering the couvert, the lamb croquettes, the beef skewers and the potato fries. Every bite and morsel was bursting with flavour. Then we ordered the dessert - the chocolate mousse. It was as if god himself had come down from heaven to bless this mousse. Exquisite. I have maybe left 4 Google reviews in my life but this was so good I am writing it...