Marisqueira Hera — Restaurant in Silves

WOW, WOW, WOW.. If you absolutely love the highest quality seafood then you have to visit this wonderful restaurant! To start we had the fish soup. Oh my lord the broth was to die for, flavours out of this world. Finished every last drop and my children absolutely loved it too. Went on to have the most delicious freshly cooked crab which was actually my Son's dish but just had to get involved too! My wife and myself shared the Shellfish Rice for 2 and I can honestly say I have eaten around the world at some top fish restaurants but this one is right up there with the best of them. The flavours in the broth of the dish were absolutely amazing. I could have just eaten the rice with the broth but my word the seafood contained within the dish was utterly succulent and delicious. Stunning!

Onto the service the male waiter who served us was super friendly and attentive. He even let my son pick and hold his own crab 🦀 which of course he absolutely loved!

Overall I just can not fault this restaurant. The other amazing thing was the price. For the Shellfish rice for 2 we paid 38 euros total and I kid you not when i say it could have easily fed 4 adults. Unbelievable!

Lastly, all I can say is you have to visit this restaurant if you are in this part...

We should have believed the reviews. We were seated promptly on an outdoor dining area where there were two tables of two and one of nine. So, not really busy. There was one young lady working the floor as a server. It took ten minutes to get water, and an additional thirty-five to have our meal delivered. My spouse had the piri piri chicken and the servings looked like they came from one of the pigeons you see flying around, and her fries, (chips) were cold. I order a steak fillet (300g) cooked medium and it was delivered warm to the touch, but raw inside. Instead of vegetables or mashed potatoes, the "chef" (or someone else), simply dumped a bag of tasteless, unseasoned, potatoes chips on my plate. Seems like it would be a good idea to let your customers know this is the side for the entree, unless you're TRYING to take their money with as little effort as possible by concealing such blatant cost saving measures.

To their credit, they removed the raw steak from our bill after we asked for it to be removed, but we were left feeling so unsatisfied we went to Burger King where I got a fully cooked Whopper with hot...

Quite possibly some of the worst service I have experienced so far. The black waiter with blonde hair didn't understand a word of English and was very visibly annoyed by the fact that we did not speak Portuguese. When he was bringing our food he asked questions in Portuguese and even rolled his eyes in front of us because we didn't understand him (What the absolute F?) The food was pretty chad although the portions could've been a bit bigger. If I were to rate just the food I'd give 3-4 stars. The service however ruined the entire experience. Not only by the waiter who seemed to work there against his will, we also ordered some food for our child and they totally forgot about it. When I asked where his food was staying it still took another 20 minutes before they brought it (for a small spaghetti...