Sem Porta — Restaurant in Grândola

Absolutely beautiful place. The ambience is just perfect for relaxed dinner and drinks. We started with cocktails on the terrace and then moved inside for dinner. All the staff were super nice and understood the offer and menu. Nice open plan kitchen to look into with "cool" looking/dressed chefs.... expectations were high... unfortunately the food didn't quite live up to that. Whilst beautifully presented and clearly some understanding of some great techniques the dishes didn't quite come together as they should have. Some, not all dishes just missed that final element to make them great. At times I wondered if anyone of the "cool" chefs actually tasted the food before sending it out. Our fish starters for example, looked beautiful, but tasted dull...needed acidity to bring it to life. My wife had the pork which was cooked perfectly but overall very salty. I had the steak which again was perfectly cooked...I ordered it with sauce Portuguese...which I can only describe as dishwater! I still can't get over how something like this could have been served. Watery and totally devoid of any flavour. Shame. Dessert was great though👍🏻 Wine was great and so was the service. If you want to be the best in the area and look cool....you got to get the small details right! The food at the Sublime beach club was...

After leaving one of my best reviews ever for the Food circle at Sublime, unfortunately my supper last night at Sem Porta was very poor. I used to love this restaurant but the service was poor, one starter arriving 20mins after the other and when it arrived it was like a bad broccoli soup with crab in it. The other starter arrived on time but was cold and when sent back it had been obviously heated up in the microwave, not acceptable for a restaurant of this calibre and price. The mains were OK a bit boring and the ingredients used were average. The dessert was weird, unrefined and tasted bad. I'm really sorry to write this review because in the past I've really enjoyed eating here but everything last night was very...

Quelle déception. Depuis des années que je vois cette adresse dans la presse de référence. C'était un rêve d'y venir. Mes amis m'ont accompagnée. Nous avions réservé depuis des semaines une table pour 9. Venus de France, totalement acquis à la joie d'un we prolongé d'exception. Relégués dans une véranda, certes au calme, nous avons souffert des courants d'air et de la fraicheur. Le service a été déplorable. Par exemple les apéritifs sont arrivés après les entrées. Nous avions dû passer nos commandes 48 heures à l'avance car nous étions 9. Pour autant le service a été incroyablement long et mal cadencé. Concernant la qualité, il y a eu de très bonnes assiettes mais, pour la majorité des plats principaux, ce fut très en deçà de nos attentes : sur-cuisson des poissons, manque d'assaisonnement, pas de garniture autre que qqs légumes. Aucun relief. Nous avons été incroyablement déçus, agacés par l'attente et l'isolement. Nous ne nous sommes pas sentis les bienvenus. Pourtant les plus grandes adresses du monde devraient être des lieux exemplaires, humbles, authentiques. L'élégance tient aussi à la poésie de l'ambiance....