Restaurante Estaminé — Restaurant in Faro

As a hospitality consultant, my food experiences are always very… thoroughly analysed.

Getting in was fine, nice hostess.

However, once seated, staff was hard to… reach. The place looked very high class so I was expecting high class service.

It look disorganised and took a little long to order everything as there was not much estructure amongst the staff.

The food was OK, had the Petiscos sharing for 2, was overall… fine. Had the seafood pasta, yes, fine. And some potatoes.

There were some basic details that were overlooked, no salt, no pepper unless requested, again hard to reach the staff, but as no other options, yes, OK.

Disappointed to realise that we paid 14 euros (3,5€ per person) for one piece of bread each (small), and a few olives. Our bad for not being used to their way in Portugal.

However, it made it… sour towards the end.

We left as we felt… disappointed overall with service and food (for the price), but walked away considering that they are the only restaurant in the island and they have the upper hand.

Professional opinion as a hospitality consultant: polishing some details, with the facilities they have, it would be a much better experience for their customers.

Won’t return if I go back to the island. Would bring my own...

During our holiday in the south of Portugal we had lunch at this restaurant, it was a recommendation from the house owner. What a disappointment, in many ways. When we arrived the lady who received us was really unfriendly. Maybe because we had a couple of kids with us? No idea. The restaurant is really noisy, it was hard to understand each other. Also you're seated in some kind of a tent, not really what you would expect. About the food: We first had our appetizer, which wasn't the best. All was deep-fried for too long and way too crunchy. We all ordered a dish, but most of it was just terrible and not fresh. When we asked the personel, they just ignored us. There was 1 friendly guy who at least spoke to us in a normal way. The rest of the personel were all looking around the restaurant, but not responding to our asks in any way. Really terrible. There are so many good and friendly restaurants in the area, this was really terrible compared to everything we had experienced so far and also the highest bill we got during our holiday. Would not recommend this to...

1,000% we recommend this place. The other reviews don’t do the place justice.

Yes, it is more expensive than other restaurants in Faro. It is also the only restaurant on the deserted island and it has an incredible atmosphere and AMAZING views. AND THE FOOD IS AMAZING!!! Your taste buds will be thanking your for a very long time if you eat here.

The waitstaff was so friendly and wonderfully attentive.

While we spent a bit more than 50€/person for our group of 4- you certainly don’t need to.

We had two bottles of white wine, two appetizers (the smoked tuna and the gooey cheese), entrees for everyone (grilled sea bass, mushroom linguini, and the calm rice which feeds two people), and two desserts (the keké chocolate lava cake and the cheese desert)

We recommend all the dishes we tried! And if you only had one drink and an entree each person you could easily keep your bill around 25-30€/ person.

Sadly I don’t have any photos of the food, because it looked so good and tasted so good upon arrival we lost ourselves in the meal and just had a wonderful,...