éLeBê Entreparedes — Restaurant in Porto

Insultingly Bad

I write less than one bad review per year— it’s not something I like to do. Our experience here was just so bad that I have to warn others.

Maybe the kitchen was in crisis when we went, or the chef was angry… It felt insulting to receive the food we got.

We ordered the Elebe Salad, and it was served with chunks of rock-hard avocados . Whoever was cutting them and putting them into the salad had to be well aware that they were inedible. If you don’t have a key ingredient available for a dish, take it off of the menu, or add a quality substitute — don’t put something in that guests literally cannot eat! In addition to this, many of the salad greens were rotten.

We also received a dish that featured a hard boiled egg. The egg yolk had a dark gray ring around it, an obvious sign that it had been very overcooked. This is another one of those total basics. The smaller, fried egg on my daughter’s soup was hard and rubbery— what’s going on in that kitchen??

We were very clear that my daughter had a gluten allergy, but she was still served soup with croutons in it. One of our entrees also has to be remade because the chef had added bread (at least our server caught that one).

A cod dish came that was very tough and seemed to have been microwaved, with very old, soggy potatoes… Almost nothing tasted fresh or delicious. It seemed that lots of corners were being cut, and diners were treated like we wouldn’t be able to notice the difference. This is unforgivable in most situations, but even worse when you are paying such high prices for everything! The prices were just outrageous for the quality of the food.

We are trying to just forget that meal ever happened— luckily, all of the other great restaurants in Porto make...

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