Polvaria João Belhi — Restaurant in Tavira

Nice one among the tourist trap area 🍀

✓ Good quality of the fish but the meat wasn't so good. 🐟

✓ Frozen chips but good quality ones.

✓ Bathroom was clean and with soap!

✓ Great service minus the time.

x The bread tasted like "opened yesterday", that really disappointed me.

x Comparing many typical Portuguese restaurants they didn't serve as much garnish as it should be.

x It took them almost 1 hour to cook 4 dishes with just 3-4 tables occupied. My soup arrived fast but as the main dish came 40 Min later my stomach was already "closed". 👎

x Pricey comparing to those better quality and more traditional restaurants on the other side of the river 💶

Still being critic it was a nice place having Portuguese feeling, I'd come back in case my favourite...

Not a good octopus ‘centered’ restaurant. The menu already unveiled risky ‘fusion’ choices as if a drunk-stoned-head opens a world food book. Still we tried at our own risk. In the end was nothing of traditional nor fusion – polvo frito à algarvia comes in a sweat creamy sauce (?!), polvo “à bras” a disaster, pataniscas de polvo a disaster, even a simple salada de polvo was at a deficient ratio of green stuff with the octopus: all a mix of the wrong ingredients and flavors. Someone smart got a nice location to run a smart thematic restaurant with no menu/kitchen quality. There are better alternatives around to get a good octopus. The service was kind and...

The waiter systematically ignores people arriving after 9PM; you can stand there for as long as you please staring at the menu - he keeps engaging in lengthy chit-chat with guests, apparently unwilling to seat anyone after 9PM. To the same effect, empty tables are left dirty and uncleared, preventing people from seating themselves. Terrible, unambitious and unwelcoming attitude for a place that's mediocre at best. Went on to a competitor two streets away, where I was warmly greeted and welcomed with open arms, and served an excellent meal, even after 9PM. Mind you, google lists 11PM as closing time...