Restaurante Lourenços — Restaurant in Mealhada

The food was good. Quite good, actually. By the pictures you see that I had the bacalhau com broa and my friend had a big salad. They were both very tasty. Now the service is where the worst come out, I would give it under one star if I could. We sat outside, we were greeted by a waiter saying that the restaurant was still not open but we were welcome to stay sitted and as soon as it opens he would bring us the menu, and so we did. The restaurant opened, a couple of families went inside and we kept our table outside. A couple more came after them and they all took orders before we were even greeted with the menus. Between getting the menus and actually ordering, everybody in the restaurant was already eating. We ordered starters and main dish, the main dish came first. And the starters were just bread and olive oil, go figure. Then, we got our main dish but no cutlery and no napkins. We asked for them but got only cutlery. We went half a meal without napkins and then we got our starters. I think that if we would've sat inside, the experience would've been much better, but sitting outside we really...

Overall disappointing, especially considering the prices. I ordered the roast chicken steaks. They were totally bland and served with dry white rice. No sauce, no seasoning, no taste. The flies were also quite annoying (we ate inside). I'm giving 3 stars because my husband enjoyed his goat stew (careful if you don't like fat, because half of the meat consisted of thick layers of fat). If I based the rating on my food only, it would be definitely lower. Not a restaurant I would recommend...

We just visited tonight without a reservation while the whole town was full of national chess championship people, meaning they were super full and busy. Despite this busyness we got a table outside with fresh air. Our food came so fast without compromising the quality. Both the waiter and waitresses were very kind and friendly. Thanks and we will be back for the next visit. Soup was delicious and grilled fish with side dish: cabbages. Yummy...