O Caniço — Restaurant in Mafra

Unfortunately all that could go wrong went wrong. We booked a table for 7.30. Arrived on time and were the only ones there. It took 30 minutes for someone to take our order because in the meantime 2 or 3 other tables arrived and were regulars. So the employees took 10 minutes just chatting with each of the tables. It was 8pm when we order and we were giving a paper and pen to write down our order.

At 9.15 the food arrived after we asked for it many times because we had 2 small kids. by the time the food arrived the kids were back to the hotel to eat and sleep. So 1 adult and 2 kids had no dinner.

We were always polite and were not given any apologize or saw any kind of effort to try to avoid the situation, except by saying that they had a group of 20 people before us to be served. Again, when we arrived we were the only ones and people that arrived after us were served, had coffee and left before we had food at the table.

We were recommend by regulars and the service was just the worst possible. Can’t even say anything about the food because I couldn’t even taste it and my friends staying to the end said that by the time they ate they were so tired they could not even enjoy it anymore.

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