Manjar do Douro — Restaurant in Lamego

This place tried to scam us, but semi failed. Read on! But as they say… if you haven’t been scammed, you haven’t been on holiday. See photo for proof!

Cue an English and a Chinese guy turning up, the restaurant hand us a menu in English. The prices seemed a little high for Portugal, so I asked for the menu in Portuguese. No surprise, there was an alternative menu in Portuguese (nothing that google photo translate couldn’t handle!).

Although not identical menus, there are identical items with significantly higher prices on the English menu. The restaurant stated that some items in Portuguese couldn’t be translated to English…. Then decided they had given us the evening menu. Obviously there was no lunchtime English menu available!

Also, the restaurant gave us the famous tapas. Although nice, whilst eating I read the reviews about how much this place likes to charge per person for this unannounced pleasure. Once the restaurant staff knew we had clocked the scam, they only charged us 5EUR each for the tapas, however other people have been charged up to 10EUR for the tapas.

A real shame as the food was nice, but left a sour taste having attempted to scam us. Hesitantly they let me take a photo of the menus at the end for...

A disappointing restaurant, tourists beware.....At first it seemed like a charming hospitable restaurant but we soon realised we were being treated differently for being tourists. The waiter continually tried to up sell everything from their menu. As soon as you sit down they give you starters which amount to 7.50Euros each! Quite expensive when you have two children and it wasn't something that you wanted. The food is traditional and doesn't push any boundaries. The children's Hamburgers weren't edible. It became very apparent we were on a tourist menu when the waiter folded the ice cream menu and waved it in front of my kids. It had stickers all over it covering the original prices. A minion ice cream, at a local shop is 1.20 Euros yet they were charging 4.00 Euros each. A bottle of water was 5.00 Euros compared to our up market hotel, which charged 2.00 Euros. Our bill came to around 90 Euros and it really was way over priced for the quality of the food. As a comparison we ate in an amazing restaurant in Porto called Pure 4050 and for 4 people it was 88 Euros and very...

It wasn’t cheap at €112 euros for two people, but many of the restaurants in Lamego were closed the day we visited (Thursday lunchtime) and the few other open restaurants nearby were all jam-packed full, so we opted for this one as it had a few tables available and had a pleasant atmosphere inside (all the other diners appeared to be Portuguese). VERDICT; we enjoyed our dining experience here - three delicious courses of well prepared and well presented food, accompanied by a bottle of Portuguese sparking wine (Raposeira), half a bottle of local red wine (Quinta Seara a Ordens 2020) , a bottle of sparking water, and two espresso coffees. The waitress who served us was very hospitable throughout the meal, spoke excellent English, explained the dishes on the menu where necessary and was also knowledgable about...