Restaurante Toca do Coelho — Restaurant in Vila Nova de Gaia

Love this little place. Visited it in 2018 and enjoyed it then. And having just visited again this month, I still enjoyed it. Same people working there 6 years later. No fuss, simple food but good. Honest price. Good choice of light plates to share tapas style and full-on main meals. Great option for lunch and generous glasses of wine. Lovely Cod fish cakes, tasty and cooked to order. Octopus salad is plentiful and has good fresh flavours. The Hake portion is flaky and nicely cooked. Little sardines... yummy. The homemade cheese cake light and nice to share. Seating outside with umbrellas.. with a view out to the river just in a side street. Visited for lunch 2 days in a row. The guy running this works hard, as do the staff behind the scenes. Friendly place....

There is no need to step into the busy, overpriced market when you can eat outside along the river and have authentic, affordable, and delicious food here. The service was excellent, they were very quick to take our order and quick to bring the food out. They were also very patient explaining the menu for non Portuguese speakers. I had the Bacalhau a la casa and it was amazing. They deep-fried the fillet and it came with fresh fried chips which were piping hot when I got them. We also had the grilled dorado and it was also very good. I can't believe we got such a good meal...

Disappointing experience. Saw the good reviews so walked across the bridge with my wife and 3yr old son just to eat here. We were seated by a waiter then waited for 30mins and he didn't even get to our table to clean it as yet, let alone take our food or drink order or even apologize for the delay. He was the only guy waiting tables even though there were 2 other employees just standing around at the door entrance and inside the restaurant. After getting fed up waiting for 30mins we just walked into the adjacent Mercado and had...