Croke Park Bar — Restaurant in Portimão

We went here for the all-Ireland hurling final recently - wife, 2 kids and elderly father-in-law. We were initially looked after by a lovely young woman from Belfast.

Then had a couple of encounters with an older woman (bar manager/owner) who was super rude and unpleasant to us and her staff.

She irately refused us a reservation in an empty bar, for an elderly man and 2 kids, despite an already reserved table beside us.

Despite this unnecessarily unhelpful and rude exchange, we stayed and had a couple of drinks. We saw her bark demands at her staff, choosing to hide away in the kitchen instead of help or work when it got busy. She gave dirty looks to customers and grumpily pushed past other customers who dared block her way through a, then packed, pub.

The icing on the cake was her forcibly demanding my father-in-law (78) move seats so she could set up the tables for the evening crowd. By this time the place had emptied out after the match and was at least a couple of hours before bars even start getting busy again. She could see he was almost finished his drink. Again it was just unnecessarily unpleasant and rude.

It was a disappointing and uncomfortable experience. The reason you seek out an Irish pub is for the good craic and warm hospitality - that's what they're there for. This was the opposite... Truly an Irish bar by name only.

I would recommend avoiding this place as there are tons of other bars with nice people running them and your holiday is too short to waste in toxic...

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