O Cantinho da Cristina — Restaurant in Olhão

We used to love sharing rice and clams at Ta Pronto and were gutted to find it had closed last year. So glad to see Cristina has emerged in finer surroundings delivering the same splendid fare. Rice and clams comes with lots of peeled 🍤 prawns too, in a generous pot with buttery juices and coriander. The rice absorbs more of the juices at the table and only gets more delicious. Cristina promised me a few years back that my seafood shy partner would cope with this combo and she was right - we both anticipate this dish with delight and will be visiting twice during our present stay 🥰😋✨ and any...

Menu really odd as dishes are for two people. If you don’t like marisco please don’t go there. All dishes are cataplanas or Xarem and the fish has so many bones that is difficult to eat. Prawns in shells are not clean, has the back vein which is basically poo from the prawns. Disgusting Spent ages cleaning the prawns by hand and fishing the bones so we could eat some of the cataplana. Thought we would find a grilled fish or something exciting. No drinks menu either and the waiters hardly came to the table. So sad. We saw an article in a British paper recommending it but truly awful. ...

This is the new iteration of Ta Pronto on the corner of the market. It was a true 5* destination, great food with super friendly service, at a fair price. This venue has a more extensive and expensive menu but with slower, less attentive service. The food was perfectly acceptable but, sadly, not a match for Ta Pronto, or is it just my fading memory. It’s still going to be on my, must visit list of...