Beira Calhau — Restaurant in Funchal

Very poor food and service at Beira Calhau despite nice building. Go to Barra Azul 50m towards Funchal instead (tried both) despite its less appealing appearance. Barra Azul has much better food and service at a lower price.

27.11.2022: Barely noticed by waiter, who let neighbouring guests (!) tell us that he couldn't speak English, so we had to wait for another one. Got menus and ordered, fair enough. Then I seeked another waiter's attention to get towels due to the chill. She looked on her phone and ignored me. Twice. The third time she replied, grumpy as f*. So she heard me and just ignored me... Finally the food arrived. I ordered a hamburger plate, and it arrived without bread, ketchup and dressing. I had to go and remind them even after leting the waiter know my disappointment. Another ordered fish that seemed to come straight from the freezer. Third one ordered fish soup containing tuna, which was not written in the menu, therefore she could not eat it due to pregnancy. Either way it was awful, along with the replacement dish she ordered (and paid for).

Only positive thing was the views, which is also better at Barra Azul. It is clear that the owner wants to maximize profits with high prices, low raw material costs and low pay for cook and...

Staff barely noticed us, no ambience, eventually someone brought over menus. Food came very quick which was a positive as it meant we could get out of there quicker. The lapas is opportunistically priced to take advantage of foreigners looking to try a local delicacy (by far the most expensive thing on the menu for what is essentially chewy muscles in garlic oil). Ordered the vegetariana tagliatelle, which was closer to a stir-fry. Had every vegetable under the sun thrown in it. Sometimes less is more. It still tasted ok though. The bolo de caco was...

Cheating? and not apologising and not recognising the mistakes, I ordered 1 prawn, according to the waitress the weight is 50g, but in the check the weight is 250g, I complained and got a new check with 150g prawn, it was a normal tiger gamba and not a giant Australian one. I paid since the waitress said without doubting that that gamba weights 150g. No apologies at all. Is it a scam? Anyway we forgot something at the table and they came behind us and brought it to us, so there is good people...