Taberna Dona Antonia — Restaurant in Porto

I rarely leave reviews but something felt really off here. You guys can decide for yourselves but I'm just sharing my honest experience:

We walked in a bit after 7pm looking for a table for 2. A guy in white stops us from behind and asks us with a dead pan face what we're doing here. When I asked about the waiting time, he responds inpatiently "It's one hour and a half because we just started."

Ok, that sounds odd because I look around the restaurant and see people already half way through their entrees. But sure, since we weren't that hungry anyway I ask if we can put our name down.

"No."

"So we just wait here?"

"You can, but its an hour and a half," same inpatient attitude.

At this point, I'm 99% sure he just wants us to leave. "Ok" I say as I head for the door. Not sure if he mistaken that for me agreeing to wait 1.5 hours but at this exact moment a "table opens up because somebody cancelled." Crazy how that happens.

"Enjoy it," he adds.

We sit down and try to order the Tripe Rice, which was somehow sold out 15 minutes after they opened when they "just started." No big deal, we go for the Duck Rice.

What's "surprising" is that in the next 30 minutes after we sat down, I see 4-5 tables (out of the ~8 in there) finish up and leave, with other customers who walked in seated immediately. By the time we were leaving at around 7:50, almost all tables have switched out. So here I am again thinking - why was our wait time "1.5 hours" and why did you have to give us that scorny attitude?

As you can see, this interaction really soured my mood for the meal. Because absent of this, I would have said the meal tasted ok and the service (by the other servers) was warm. But instead, I am here busting out a mini essay and still thinking about this after the fact because one person made me feel so unwelcome. Instead, I'm going to say this place is unreasonably pricy (seafood rice for 2 is a whopping €54). The duck rice we ordered was a glorified lasagna a little bigger than the size of my hand for €24.

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