A Galeria — Restaurant in Lagoa

This restaurant has the potential to be very good, Ideally situated in a picturesque setting. I got the impression that it is a family run restaurant Mother ,Daughter & Son, but I could be wrong.

The girl showed us to our table (Disappointing cheap plastic garden furniture) but we where there for the food not the furniture.

The girl who showed us to our table and took our order was most unpleasant never once smiling, she looked as though she hated her job, we nicked named her the Mona Lisa, if she looked at fresh cream it would turn sour. Never once did this girl smile or interact with the customers.

The young man who also served was more pleasant but totally useless when it came to helping us with the menu or the wine list, this is white wine and this is red wine. No help at all.

Anyway I had soup to start and it was not bad, but far from good.

For the main course, I ordered a steak Medium/Well and my partner ordered sword fish. The steak was totally dry and I could not finish it as it was like chewing leather.

As for the sword fish was in-eatable, and presentation of the dinner plate was appalling. We could not wait to leave this place and when the girl (assume the daughter) to clear our dinner plates she seen that dinners were hardly touched, but she just cleared the plates and left without asking if there was anything wrong.

We asked for the bill and could not wait to get out of the place.

This was the worse meal so far on our holidays, we will...

Poor Poor very poor. Where do I start. The four of us on the last night of our holidays thought we would try this place. First warning was the staffs attitude as we walked in. They seemed startled that we wanted a table especially when he asked for one indoors.

Having placed our order we were given a unique range of appetisers to share which were ok, two of us had starters which seemed to lack the flavouring advertised on the menu. Bland.

Moving on to main courses, all but one of us ordered a stone dish where you cook the meat at the table. We should have had chicken fillet and steak fillet instead we got small pieces of meat that we were not sure of its origin. It was tasteless and dry and my case definitly not fillet steak.

The staff never once asked if everything was ok and did not even check on our satisfaction when a huge amount of the meat was left. The salad on the plate was a joke and accompanying sauces unpalletable. The chips were cold and few.

Staff didn't seem able to even raise a smile. Possibly the worst dining experience of my life and definitely the worst in Portugal.

Had a lot better meals for half the cost so you dont get what you pay for as some others have said.

We left feeling hungry and queasy. Hope there are no further problems but wouldn't...

This is a very good example of a very bad restaurant!

This restaurant has earned itself a place in my "Hall of Fame" - as the worst restaurant I have ever had to endure. The staff were miserable and unfriendly - and service was so slow we thought we would need to order breakfast! We were made to wait 20 mins for a free table to then be told by another member of staff that a table was available inside The electrical fuse box was right next to our table, and one of the fuses kept tripping - meaning a member of staff would lean over us to reset. After a few times we just started to reset the tripped fuse ourselves each time it tripped. The food was the worst we had during our stay in Carervieo. The fish kebab was the cheapest, tasteless fish imaginable with some limp prawns, and the stone cooked sirloin steak turned out to be frying steak. The salad was limp and prepared by a chef who clearly...