Mariscaria Bom Sucesso — Restaurant in Porto

As a die-hard sea food lover, I cannot recommend it. If you want the best authentic, tasty, well cooked sea food, then this is Not your place and is not worth your money in my honest opinion.

This is what I call a "fast sea food" stand. As expected, the food, service, attention to details were all very lacking for this price range.

The good: Rice: well cooked Shrimps: some of them were fresh, others were super salty

Critical points: Muscles had a lot of sand. My teeth were grinding loud when I was chewing. Not well washed at all. This is a no go.

Razor scallops were fried, to the point where it loses all its natural juiciness and the tenderness of the flesh. the way it was cooked really destroyed the deliciousness of these clams.

Staff: were not particularly attentive, love to entertain between themselves (which is okay), but somewhat distracted when it comes to serving customers.

Sea food is very expensive and must be cooked with high levels of attention and skills. This defeats the point of eating sea food.

Therefore I would not recommend it for sea...

Great seafood in the heart of a large indoor self service restuarant and eatery mall.

The dishes were reasonably priced, tasted delicious and had lovely flavours.

Make sure you use the seating area that isn't facing the bus terminal, as the other outdoor seating area has a much more sophisticated feel to it akin to being in a trendy bustling modern city area.

This isn't your typical restuarant as in this mall you go to the food counters to order, pay,, and wait for your food, and then carry it through the mall to one of their seating areas. This restuarant has two spacious outdoor seating areas.

To me this seemed like a unique experience, which was very enjoyable because there were many different vibrant restuarant stalls and eaterys to wander around to see all of the many varieties of Portuguese and world foods. In fact, I consider visiting this mall to eat as a must do whilst your in Porto.

I'll definitely be eating here again when I visit Porto again, and I'll definitely be trying another random restuarant in this mall also whilst I'm...

I got the seafood combo with one crab, several mussels, and a lot of barnacles. That was the first time I had the barnacles. They were briny with the texture of shellfish. For those never had it before, you have break it off from the shell side and you would be able to pull the meat out. ☺️ I gave it a four star because I wish I got more of the sauce for the mussels (see photo) because it was delicious and went well with the barnacles; just not enough. The crab was so meaty. There is a lot of meat in the legs too. So don’t just throw them away! The best part was the stuffed crab shell. You got to order the mini toast also and eat them together!

Since it’s inside a food court, you can’t expect too much in term of the atmosphere. But this food court has many selections and I highly recommend it also. Overall a very pleasant experience. Just took a long time (1.5 hours) to finish because there were lots of food and the barnacles and the crab both took...