Yellow Beach — Restaurant in Oeiras

I have been coming to this beach bar for 30 plus years, back when it was known as O Amarello. It went from the friendly, cosy, relaxing place you could get a good coffee, drink, toast, ice cream and beer to a wannabe high end overpriced beach Restaurant.

As an example, where one day you could get a good Torrada with the proper bread and loads of butter for less than 3 euro, now you pay 5 euro for the wrong dry bread which is very thinly buttered.

The place has become unpersonal, overpriced and disappointing. Where one day O Amarello was worth a 4 to 5 star review, Yellow Beach only deserves 1 star. It went from a cosy, personal, family friendly beach bar popular among locals to a tourist trap that only has tourists as customers with very loud music.

As a side note, O Amarello was called this because the place was painted yellow. Yellow Beach is...

The web site lies. The actual menu is more limited and 30% more expensive. For example the Choco Frito is €15 on the web site menu and €20 in reality. It also bears no resemblance to the real dish from Setúbal. Only one salad - Mediterranean - in reality compared to five on the web site menu (quinoa is not a salad). High markup on wines (the cheapest white retails for €70. Nice try. We ended up drinking water. We live here and thought we would try this beach restaurant. Better to go anywhere in Carcavelos than this place. On a hot Sunday lunch in August it was maybe a quarter full. Evidently, most people...

I ordered a burger that was undercooked in the middle. I sent it back, but when it returned, it was almost in the same condition. I had also ordered a non-alcoholic beer. The first bottle was nicely chilled, but the second one was served at room temperature. When I asked the waitress why, she explained that the previous one had been the last cold bottle they had in stock.

It’s worth noting that the restaurant was nearly empty, right in the middle of the day. Grilling two burgers properly and serving two cold beers should not be too much to ask. Overall, it wasn’t worth the...