MOJJO — Restaurant in Lisbon

What an experience!

From the start, there was a mistake with the Porto: the waiter brought us a glass of wine instead. To make up for it, he poured the end of the last Porto bottle, which barely filled two half glasses, but charged us for two full ones — already a bad sign.

Then we ordered two dishes, but neither was available. Instead, we were offered improvised options, including a so-called "Caesar salad" that wasn’t even on the menu. While waiting, we saw the kitchen staff going back and forth with bags of frozen food, including two large bags of chicken.

In the end, since the chicken was taking too long to defrost, they served us a "Caesar salad" made only of iceberg lettuce and grated parmesan. When we pointed out there was no chicken at all, the waiter casually admitted that the chicken wasn’t ready... So we canceled the salad and switched to a mushroom risotto. It arrived much later, out of sync, and clearly made with canned mushrooms.

To top it all off, when I asked for some bread to wait, we saw the waiter rushing to the kitchen to put frozen bread in the oven. A few minutes later, it was served still frozen in the middle.

In summary: a charming place, but a terrible kitchen, like a badly run cafeteria. Definitely to avoid...

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