Invicta Madragoa — Restaurant in Lisbon

Probably one of the best resturaunts I've been to, in the world let alone in Lisbon, not just with the food but also passion and hospitality. The menu is just the right size and selection and is everything you could dream of when it comes to hearty, homecooked food. It's the heavenly dream of any hungry pescatarian.

The experience is perfected by a beautiful, cozy setting tucked away in Madragoa, and the empassioned and fascinating conversations with Antonio on wines and food from allover Portugal leaves you feeling humbled by their pure love of what they do. Their knowledge of food and drink is only surpassed by the clear pride in what Portugal has to offer the world and for that, I am truly in awe of.

This isn't just a resturaunt, it's like walking into a family get together at Christmas or Midsummer. The wonderful, kind and ultimately talented couple that run Invicta are the best friends everyone should hope for.

Thank you both for making our stay in Lisbon 100% more special than we could ever have hoped for. This resturaunt is the main reason I plan on returning to Portugal as soon as I can.

I am a bit disappointed after the visit - the food was ok but not very special what I would expect after reading comments. The gentelman was indeed very nice bit he had to take care about the whole restaurant so he forgot our order and brought us something that we didn't want to have. Also because of that the service was very slow. Another weird thing to me is that it seems that the restaurant ran out of some producta and the service man was regullary going to the shop nearby - if he bought only water it would be fine, but he went also to buy tomatoes to our salad just after asking us if we ordered tomatoe salad. From that kind of restaurant I would expect a conscious choice of best quality products and not buying them in a random shop. Last, but not least the place is very small so if there is a group of people who behave loud, it's immediately becomes loud at the whole restaurant so that it's hard to talk. Also they wanted to fit a 6 person table near us so that there was no space between me and other guy and everyone who was going out of the restaurant was touching me...

Absolutely love the ambience in this small stone walled restaurant. We received excellent service from the waiter too, including a complimentary drink to start and finish.

The food was a little bit hit and miss, I’m not sure if my expectations were too high given the glowing reviews. We had a starter of egg and chicken mince (I forget the name), this was delicious and we had never tried before. We also had bread and olive oil.

My partner ordered the octopus and rice, this was very tasty. The broth was delicious. I had the grilled octopus with vegetables and potato. I personally was disappointed with my dish as I do not believe that the octopus was particularly fresh, it was chewy and had an almost ammonia like smell. I have had octopus many times previously and this wasn’t the tender meat that I was expecting given the reviews.

The wine paring suggested by our waiter was excellent with our food though.

Overall, maybe I would be willing to try another time as it may have just been my dish, or maybe my expectations were too high, but I was definitely underwhelmed by...