Bar Carrascal Na Praca — Restaurant in Elvas

We had to wait 30 minutes for our restaurant nearby to open and feeling thirsty, a beer was in order! Fortunately, we found Onofre and we decided to sit inside, ordering two 33cl glasses of the standard draught beer, a size up from the Imperial. Not knowing what I had in my wallet to pay, I took all the coins out and headed to the counter with all my coins presented in my hand and asked to pay. How much? I was told 4 euros!! I never really argued it when really I normally would have done. We left the bar and I was trying to look for the price list of the drinks on the wall but never saw it. I felt rather annoyed having been taken for a tourist in all the bad sense of the word! I just felt more annoyed and robbed with a price that would have been more normal in Lisbon. We do live in Alentejo and we have never paid 2 euros for 33cl. That bar had nothing special at all, even less the decor. Speaking in English between us and showing a handful of coins was obviously license for the barman to charge me extra! Shame on him, I never thought I would have to now start thinking of such behaviour in a café in Portugal. We later stopped in another place for an afternoon beer and I asked the barman whether 4 euros was an OK price for what we had at Onofre, his reply was a grimace on his face and he told me that the barman...

I guess navigating smaller cities in Europe regarding food is part of the fun. I completely understand the closures at 3 pm / 330pm. But when you tell me you will check the kitchen and completely ignore me for 15mins while walking past me 5 different times - well that’s interesting service. My parents / grandparents come from Elvas. So this is home to me. To be treated like I’m some non Spanish (yes I went there as I saw you treat Spanish people better) - well that is ignorant. By the way - Canadians (with Portuguese backgrounds because we of all people understand the struggle of our patriots ) would have tipped 20% - as we do back home. Perhaps next time - know your clientele. On my next visit to Elvas - avoiding this place based on...

Large portions and amazingly good local cheese served with olives and bread as a free starter but the food quality was fairly average. My son had the house steak which was quite tough and we had to ask for a better knife to cut it with. The house chicken was good but no vegetables/salad to...