O Moinho — Restaurant in Sintra

One of the best surprises when visiting Sintra/Colares area in October last year after being dissapointed by so many things in Colares. Even when I arrived just a few moments before they closed, I explained that they were on my list of places to visit and extremely nice waitress explained to me in English what was in which pastry, took my order and promptly I received some of the best pastries I had during my vacations with very nice cold coffee which they made to order. The place itself is very cute, clean, obviously loved by locals. I took some of the pastries with me and enjoyed them the next day. It would be my dream to visit again one day and stay for a few hours. Also have to point out that the toilets were very nice and clean (sorry for making them dirty with my shoes after the floor was wiped :() It is also very nice to just walk around later, nice surroundings with green areas there. Bus stop close by. I cannot believe this place is not yet on Tripadvisor...I might try to start it there. All the best to the pastelaria staff, take care guys. Eva from...

We were a group of English and Portuguese-speakers looking for lunch. For some reason they sent over a young server to speak to our table in garbled English, he attempted to describe what food they had on offer but it all came out mostly unintelligible. He pretended to take our order, and subsequently had to be called back to the table a second time just for him to get it all.

In the end, he proceeded to bungle the order and then embarrassingly argued with the patron about their order. It was an unfortunate and avoidable situation as any reasonable person would recognize their error in such a mess and avoid such an exchange. And any half-decent server would know to check twice rather than deliver such a bizarre meal to a customer.

If this is typical service here, we...

We found ourselves in a surreal situation: a neglected place (including toilets with no water coming out of the taps), practically empty with a hostess/cook who treated us like we were stupid tourists. In addition to this, the other bad surprise was the dishes we ordered: the francesinha was drowning ina sauce that looked a soup, 5 slices of pata negra, and a glass of white wine that was unqualified and looked like a lemonsoda. All this at exorbitant prices never seen before in 15 days of staying in this...