Estórias na Casa da Comida — Restaurant in Lisbon

Believe it or not, it's one of top restaurants in Portugal. First of all, you will be excited from the restaurant itself. The interior design is so unique, warm and welcoming, that will make you take a lot of pictures, especially in The room with the decorative fireplace. The service is outstanding. Each one of the waiters and the owner himself were proofing all night long that they are in love with their work - sending positive energy is important- but also they were proofing their experience and professionalism (excellent serving of wine, elegant serving of food) I left at the end the NUMBER 1 factor, that made me,  as a restaurant critic, characterise it as one of the best restaurant of Portugal. THE FOOD. The food will make close your eyes. All dishes are outstanding, prepared and cooked with love. The techniques of the chef are also unique, the ingredients are high quality and the presentation will make you hesitate to destroy the beauty of the plate. So, don't leave  the restaurant if you don't try the mouthwatering goat cheese salad, the gripper with the mussels jus, but mostly the fillet mignon and the French cut lamb chops. The deserts are excellent too, offering different textures, aromas and tastes. The bill you will get at the end will certainly make you smile. It's for sure the most value for money restaurant that I have visited in Europe and the USA the last year. For this kind of "cuisine" I normally pay five times more. A thousand Bravos to the whole team of the avant-garde restaurant of Lisbon...

We entered the restaurant with high hopes of a great dinner for our last night in Lisbon. We left wondering why we did not return to the same restaurant the previous night.

For a distinguished restaurant, etiquette was not upheld. Tables lacked tablecloths, deviating slightly from the usual fine dining experience. Utensils were not displayed from the get go, even after taking our orders.

We ordered the 'One walk through the menu' set meal. Portions were so minute we were almost thankful we had snacks before dinner. The appetiser tasted as if it were simply a biscuit stuck onto a scoop of canned tuna - one of the worst impressions the first dish of a set can give. It gets worse.

Each subsequent dish lacked direction. Layout was fantastic but there was scant attention paid to the dining experience. How and what should be consumed first? Instructions should have been given either implicitly through food placement or explicitly by waiters.

We selected a 2014 bottle of white wine but they presented us with a 2016 bottle. It wouldn't have even been noticed had my dad not been asute.

Desserts were sweet but again disappointing. For a dish termed 'pudding insanity', one would expect pudding to play the main character. Rather, the palate was flooded with a variety of other sweet or overly creamy pastries.

I had very high expectations of the restaurant following the great reviews by fellow tourists. Let's hope that this is simply a once off fluke and that it never...

This food is so forgettable. I just ate it and I forgot all of it. The only memorable feature was the ridiculous shapes that resulted in elaborate and complicated plating efforts and dishes that were served barely warm. Save yourself the 55€ and go to Pingo Doce buy something and cut it in a triangle and paint some sauce and flower pedals on it. For those extra curious, the partridge salad had bones in it and tasted like it was made by a chef who had smoked his taste buds away. The oyster was warm and served with lemon jelly, terrible. The cheaper bottles of wine on the menu were all sold out. The best plate was the microwaved grouper and cafeteria vegetables. This place is just bad, uninspired food, preying on customers who don’t know...