Restaurante Monky — Restaurant in Faro

Monkey restaurant is one of the best restaurants in Faro. It is a beautifully decorated restaurant, hip, urban style, unique! I love this place! Highly recommended! Very suitable for a cozy or romantic night out! The menu includes authentic dishes such as nasi goreng (13.90), gado gado 13.50, Pad thai (13.90) Thai curry (13.90) and Ramen (14.90)

Hip staff and nice music (such as Hisking and Daano), creating a nice fibe.

In addition, there is an extensive sushi menu.

We start with a delicious Douro house wine.

Then comes the food, from this amazing female sous chef:

Spring rolls, (6.90), best ever…

Then sushi with avocado and mango (7.50), 10/10!! Sooo good that you prefer to eat it without soy sauce! (PS Gluten free soy sauce available)

Then a Bao Bun with avocado, tofu and peanut sauce (7.40), super tasty!!!

Finally, a super tasty gado gado salad.

Price in total (4 courses/dishes) only 45.30, including water and wine.

The service is very nice. They also work smart: when he comes to ask if you want water with or without bubbles, he immediately takes both bottles and leaves 1 behind..

Monkey has the same owner as Alameda (Fine dining) Faro Centre, which is also recommended!

In the restaurant there are 12 tables inside and 12 on the back terrace.

I love this place! Highly recommended! Very suitable for a cozy or...

The lighting is absolutely perfect for this venue. In a reddish tint, wall art and great table lights sets a lovely mood. We were greeted by a very friendly wait staff, English was perfect, which one should not expect (I am not from the UK or the US btw) and the info each and every dish was plentiful and helpful. The starters are fantastic, the shrimp gyoza, the bao and the pani puri were truly great dishes.

Where the disappointment set it was with our main dishes: the ramen and the laksa. Both must’ve been put out and forgotten as they had cooled down. The laksa was ice cold, although the ramen was still alright. Instead of making a new laksa, the kitchen clearly just took the plate and reheated it in a microwave. The taste of it was also unfortunately bland and unexciting, truly forgettable. The ramen was - decent. The broth felt like instant miso and was pretty mid. The absolute audacity were the ‘chashu’ pieces, not bigger than my thumb of which I counted four of. The menu advertises proper pork belly, of which I ordered extra. Meaning that these little four pieces were the extra meat. Unacceptable and I felt ripped of by the kitchen.

I’d come here again, but not for the mains, but for drinks and starters.

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Absolute rip off! DO NOT GO HERE! The food is, at best, average — the same you would find at one of the cheap Thai restaurants around Faro or in a mall. (Actually those would probably be better.)

We had one green curry and one Pad Thai (at around €14 each), and they were completely average (at best).

And the bill came to a whopping … 53 Euros! Why? We were charged €7.50 per glass of wine (we had a total of 3 glasses.) Never in Portugal have I ever been charged so much for a glass of wine. (Usually it is around €3 to €4 Euros, maximum.)

This entire meal should have cost, at most, €20, as the food quality was completely average, and the entire experience was absolutely nothing special.

I predict that this restaurant will be out of business within 1 to 2 years, and it should be — the sooner the better.

I was cheated and my money was stolen from me with average food, high prices, menu items (water, starter) that were not asked for but charged anyway — and €22.50 for 3 glasses of wine — €53 of my hard-earned money, down the drain.

You can cheat me once, but you will never, ever get a cent of my money again.

I will never go here, and — take my advice — neither should you.

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