O Cantinho dos Amigos Restaurante Lda — Restaurant in Vila Nova de Cerveira

When we came there was just one more couple sitting at another table, despite that the service was very slow and it took ages for the waiter to collect order, which was later brought in a random order - drinks arrived much after appetizers, etc. we had to ask for every small thing and it seemed like the waiter was able to bring only one thing at once - eg: can we have some olive oil and salt/ pepper? Yes. Olive oil arrives 5 mins later. Salt ten minutes. Pepper never did. Part of the order (water) never arrived but were added to the bill and we had to argue about it. For the first time in Portugal the house wine they serve was simply undrinkable. It tasted like pure vinegar. We decided not to drink it and ordered one by the bottle. The waiter was untouched by our dislike of the wine. He said ‘yea, most people don’t like it’. Why do you serve it then? Really don’t recommend! Many more nice...

We have visited the restaurant during a Saturday lunch, while the fair was going on, so the place was really crowded and noisy, but even so the food took an absurd amount of time to be served. By the look of the place we were expecting at least some great traditional food but the seafood rice was just average (too spicy for my taste and with a lot of broken clam shells inside of it), as it was the steak. So the whole experience was rather...

This is a great restaurant, which is up stairs, so great views of the street. Our waiter was a friendly guy, who spoke good English. We had the beef steak which was cooked correctly and was so tender. And the pasta monkfish & prawns, so tasty and monkfish cooked so well. Good valve for what you get €8.95 for steak € 14 for monkfish pasta which you could share, its alot for one. And a jug of wine €6. Also on a Monday night in Nov...