A Caravana — Restaurant in Lisbon

I had dinner in this restaurant with my girlfriend and a couple of friends. At first it looked clean and spacious for the Portuguese standards, plus the appetisers and wine were very good. Then we ordered the main courses and everything fell apart. All of the dishes were tasteless, with no salt, a lot of pepper and the grilled stuff was over cooked if not burnt. But what’s worse is that while eating, a cockroach started crawling on the wall next to my girlfriend who just stood up and told the waiters to take it away. The waiter who came to take care of it just threw it on the ground and it started running under the other tables, with the other guests noticing the whole scene. After seeing that cockroach next to our food (that wasn’t that good anyway), we basically stopped eating cause we weren’t hungry anymore. What happened next is that the waiters who were nice at the beginning of the dinner, started to treat us badly as if we were the cause of the problem. I’ve been living in Lisbon for two years and I know about the issue with cockroaches, but 1) it’s a restaurant and it should’ve been kept clean and 2) the bare minimum you can do as owner or worker is saying you’re sorry and taking care of the situation. Honestly I’ve never felt that uncomfortable while eating out, for a price that is by the way higher than the...

The food tasted good, a very local place it seems. But I was put off by how they ripped us off with a very cheap game, as we sat down and before we ordered anything they brought an octopus salad along with some bread and cheese. I thought it’s part of their welcome, because who does that?! When we asked for the bill we found them adding the “welcome dish”, the cheese and the bread to the bill, which was around 15 euros and by mistake they added an extra drink.

Not cool to rip off tourists like that. You can go and try the food, but question their hospitality :) and...

Lovely seafood for lunch, we arrived at 1230pm and were the first dinners. Unfortunately they did not have the octopus salad as it’s a dinner dish but we ordered clams and salmon main, both were very tasty!! Salmon was grilled to perfection and a bit crispy. Clams were cooked w parsley, garlic, olive oil and coriander, SO GOOD. Definitely get bread with olive oil and blanco vinegar. Special mention to our lovely waiter (man with glasses) who was so nice and...