Água Salgada Marisqueira — Restaurant in Loulé

What an amazing experience it was! After all the touristy traps in Lisbon and Porto we stumbled upon this little gem of a place in Quarteira, and went there every single day of our stay afterwards, because: a. the food is so good and fresh and not overpriced b. the attentiveness and humbleness of staff is something that we also pay attention to, and everyone at this restaurant was so accommodating, sweet and humble, you just want to hug those people (!). Juan was so sweet, and shy, presumably because he thought his English wasn't that good. But we're not coming to the restaurant to speak, we come mainly for the food and to feel cozy. When he saw us popping in 2nd night in a row and ordering a bit less than the previous night, he brought complimentary bread with butter, which was soooo good and fresh, and complimented so well the daily cooked shrimp that we had. On the third night we ordered bread, as it was so good, and they still did not charge us for it (!). We tried paying back in tips. The feeling we got was amazing and made our stay in Quarteira even better. Try their daily cooked shrimp, which comes with lemon and mayonnaise, sprinkled with coarse salt - sounds simple, but it is SO GOOD, cooked to perfection, refreshing and simply amazing. All the other dishes we tried, including oysters, were also yummy. The sauce the clams come in is heaven in a pot for dipping bread into. We could not wait to visit them again and again...

We wandered into this restaurant across from the fish market and had the best fresh fish lunch this trip!

Now, we didn’t have our phones on to read any other reviews and I’m glad we didn’t (because I would never have gone to a place under 4.2 stars on google). Needless to say we had the friendliest servers, the best sea bass and the place itself was cute! Even the kitchen staff were smiling!

Fresh Sea bass was €15 and it was grilled perfectly! We even had a cheesecake dessert which was delicious and not heavy. Highly recommend getting a bottle of the vinho verde (our server recommendation was spot on!) for a light wine with the fish.

Just a lovely little place with quick, friendly, helpful service - we will be...

Stopped for a drink but ended up having dinner. Had the garlic prawns. Thought it was going to be like the sizzling spanish garlic prawns. Whole prawn-deceiving when you remove the heads-6 prawns €14.! Not mad about the way they were cooked tomato sauce,not much taste of garlic. Had the sea bream- delicious, served with fried potatoes and salad. €38- glass of wine and a G&T included. Nice service,but his English not great-ordered swordfish but...