Ribeira's — Restaurant in Porto

What an experience. My wife and I visited yesterday evening and ordered a bottle of white wine, 2 starters and 2 mains. Wine arrived and the waiter poured a tasting measure. It was from the same winery but red not white. I pointed out that I'd ordered a white. No argument from the waiter about what I'd ordered, but he said 'But it's open now. What's the matter, don't you like red wine?' I love red wine, but I ordered white! He just wasn't prepared to change it, but I said surely you must, you've made a mistake. Eventually, he said he would change it if we really didn't want the red but he made it sound like it was the most unreasonable thing he'd ever been asked to do. We didn't want our meal to be spoilt by an unpleasant atmosphere and told him we would keep the wine if it was that much of a problem to him. He subsequently brought over a single glass of house white for my wife 'because the lady was upset'. A little while later, a server brought out our mains. Where are our starters we asked? Again, the waiter didn't argue about us having ordered starters, but really couldn't see what our problem was with them not turning up. If we didn't want to start with the mains, they would just take them back while we waited for our starters. We decided no thanks, this wasn't our night, and we paid for the red wine that we hadn't ordered, took it with us and left. Terrible, terrible attitude and service. Fawlty Towers...

Beware: Staff will try to keep your extra change. Paid in cash, waited 5 minutes for the euros they owed me. There were almost no customers and all waitresses were standing around because it was slow, so I knew they kept the leftover euros. I asked the nicest waitress for the euros I was owed; a different waitress eyed me up and down with a dirty look on her face - then they finally gave me the euros they owed me and started whispering to each other in the corner.

I have an American accent, but I worked UK restaurants for 5 years. Keeping the change without asking is the oldest trick in the book towards meek tourists. If I would've gotten caught doing that as a waitress in the UK, I would've been fired.

I was initially planning on tipping them several euro in coins until the attempt at stealing my euros happened.

Otherwise - River views were amazing, Sangria was very good, calamari was okay (better in some UK restaurants ironically), never got the dessert menu I asked for. There's so many other friendlier and tastier restaurants in Porto. I only ended up here because a different restaurant I wanted to go to was closed. Read reviews and avoid this tourist trap. They only want tourists for their money; they don't actually care about tourists - this is coming from someone who works with international tourists...

This restaurant has tables inside and small ones on a veranda overlooking the Douro River with a view on Vila de Gaia. We stumbled upon this place en route to another restaurant that didn't have outdoor seating and decided since the sunset was gorgeous to grab an outside table and enjoy the view.

The food was ok but not to my liking. We were told to try the grilled sardines as this is a specialty in Porto but the bony fish really turned me off. I had an amazing green salad though and got to taste some of my husband's grilled polvo which was cooked to perfection. We both had some cocktails and then left for an evening stroll along the river.

Wait staff seemed to rush too much. There were people waiting but no one enjoys a dinner when you have waiters consistently asking if you're done...