Bar do Fundo — Restaurant in Sintra

This is a long review, but to sum it up, go if you like seafood in it’s pure form, great views and very good service. This is an idyllic setting for a couples date but make reservations.

I booked reservation through email. They were great on email and very helpful so reach out to them.

The restaurant is well appointed and feels like a nice beach place to eat. Glassed in or out on the patio both are an option. The patio has a heater above the seats so don’t worry about the ocean breeze. We were quickly greeted by a few pleasant servers and we let them know we had reservations.

Let’s get the nitty gritty out of the way. Everyone we spoke to had very passable or fluent english...much better than my Portuguese. They were also very well staffed with table runners, managers and servers floating everywhere. This place knows how to deal with a rush.

Now, I am not going to mislead you, I’m not a small guy and it was a bit cramped in the smallish restaurant, but I am adaptable. They had reserved us an AMAZING window seat for dinner and we settled in to check over the medium, but thorough menu. As we were perusing, the server brought us over a few different fresh breads, with olive oil, smoked salmon mayo and chicken liver pate. All were great.

Our server took our drink orders. House white for me (very good) and a small red sangria for my wife. Very generous pour on the wine for me and a giant jug of sangria for my wife. She commented later that it was very tasty and the use of apples in it was pleasant.

For our starters we shared:

Four oysters (12 euro) An order of Goose Barnacles (13 euro) White fish ceviche (8 euro)

The orders hit our table very quick (and we placed our mains).

The starters were really good. The ceviche had lovely chunks of white fish and was very generous for a great price. The oysters were super fresh, a good sized and simply accompanied by lemon and tobasco, but they played second fiddle to the Goose Barnacles. We have never heard of them before and just had to order them. There is a picture attached of them. But they look like goose necks attached to a dragon crab claw with stunning colours. We stopped a server walking by and asked him how to eat them as we haven’t had them before.

He showed us and explained that they were prepaired by simply steaming the clusters in salt water. OH MY GOD these flavour bombs are my new favourite seafood. They are really easy to get open, a pinch and twist and boom, yummy flesh. They taste like lemon, salt and a lovely background of sweet. Not rubbery or slimy at all, they have a very firm but delicate flesh. I could have eaten more so try them please! A quick caveat, for this dish, use your napkin as a bib, they sometimes will spurt out some orange at you.

Bar do Fundo has a very well rounded menu that would have anyone there celebrating the seafood cows, pigs and chickens of Portugal. But I am at the ocean so I want something that swam.

grilled octopus with potatoes and Portuguese cabbage (more fibrous and green, almost like kale) with loads of garlic and olive oil. Very tasty with a nice char and well cooked sides that were used to actually build the dish. The portion size was very big and only 15.50 euro. I would say the only thing lacking was a little hit of acid from lemon and some finishing salt, though it didn’t take away from the dish.

Lobster risotto was tasty and presented well. Lots of Parmesan and chunks of lobster and well cooked rice, you can’t go wrong. This clocked in at a pricey 25 euro, but worth it.

We had three deserts because it was a birthday.

Chocolate mousse with peanut praline (crumbled). Tasty but pretty normal desert, nothing wrong with it though! This was 4 euro.

Egg custard that was very similar to a creme caramel at 3 euro

Almond tart icecream that was simply the top three icecream I’ve had. It has little bits of tart right in there. (4 euro)

Overall 5/5 would return! Great service, very good food, great atmosphere and views....

Amazing Food, the ingridients are of a high quality. The menu provides something fpor every taste. Octopus and Cake are always a pleasure, no matter in which season or year. But the service can be terribly nasty. I have always had a table reserved. I have been there often since 2016. The first time we, a group of four, were pretty fancy dressed and we were treated very well. A very friendly waiter, not only friendly and charming waiter that knew the menu by heart. It was a pleasere. I never had a table in his responsibilty again . However, the second time i have been there, it where two of us. We were dressed like the locals, leger. When we arrived the waitress saw as, told us to wait, went to a lovely table on the terrace, took the reservation card and led us to another table inside in front of a window that was broken and could not be opened. I asked if we could have the usually table outside, she said no. Tabel was free for another half an hour without beeing reserved. Food took forever, our table was barely recognized by the staff. I swore that i would never go there, but a few months later i was again in the area and restaurant possibilites are limited. Same game. Dressed up in posh clothes: got a nice table at the terrace and was treated very well. Thought about entering the game and me and my company dressed up in way more expensive clothes than the day before but the didn

t show the label. guess what.. same waitress from the day before took us to a table inside (took the reserved label from one of the outside tables, but after she seated us). Personell once again was not very interested in us orderign anything else but the main course. From that on i always dressed in posh clothes (since limitations on restaurants and the food is really good) and was treated ok. But everytime i go there i think: "It was an exhausting day, it finally couled down and i enjoy the short walk from the house down to the beach. Why cant

We dined as a party of four at this bar. Attracted by the glowing reviews and the appealing Instagram profile, we made what turned out to be a rather unfortunate decision.

We had booked a table on the terrace, but due to the rain, we were forced to sit inside. As a result, we were placed at the only available table, which happened to be right next to the fish display on ice. This gave us ample opportunity to inspect the seafood on offer.

Unfortunately, all the fish had dried-out eyes, and their gills and innards had been removed. This raised serious concerns about the freshness, and we became quite wary of the risk of food poisoning. To err on the side of caution, we decided to order only frozen options: prawns fried in garlic butter, mussels, and octopus.

When the dishes arrived, their appearance alone gave us further cause for concern. Sadly, our worries were justified: one of us felt unwell before we had even left the restaurant. Out of the four of us, three ended up suffering from food poisoning and spent the entirety of the following day confined to our homes. One member of our group managed to avoid the worst of it, thanks only to prompt use of medication.

Overall, it was a thoroughly disappointing and...