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😒 3/5 - It's not "the real thing"
By 👻 @Nuno G, 07/23/2021 3:00 am
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The name of restaurant is a reference to an iconic fado song, popularized many years ago by Amália Rodrigues. Being a Portuguese that lived and worked in Portugal for all my live after almost one year abroad this restaurant raised the expectations of home food to high levels. I had to try it!
Rissois de camarão (a salty shrimp cake): the best I ever had! With a delicious filling, crispy outside, no grease whatsoever, they made my day.
Caldo Verde (a soup made of potatoes, a typical Portuguese cabbage and chorizo): even if slightly different from what I’m used to I found it delicious. I would have it again any day.
Gambas de Mozambique: I found them very pleasant, well-seasoned and cooked but any means the size I was expecting. Still a good experience.
Peixe Frito (fried fish): a plain dish of traditional Portuguese tempura fish with a touch of originality by switching the traditional boiled white potatoes by a sweet potato on a bed of Portuguese cabbage. Quite honestly, nothing special here!
Arroz de Pato (duck rice): Traditionally the rice is almost completely cooked in the water used to boil the duck and then mixed with the bird’s meat and slices of chorizo. Then it goes to the oven to complete the preparation. It should came out of it with a perfectly cooked rice slightly crisped on the outside. Instead I got two small fried mushy rice cakes where the duck was almost impossible to find and absolutely impossible to taste. Even considering the chef’s creative freedom it was a complete disillusionment for me on what comes to the presentation, texture and taste. I would not have it again!
Carne à Alentejana (Alentejo pork meat - Alentejo is a region in the South of Portugal where my family comes from): Basically this dish is prepared frying small pieces of pork meat heavily seasoned with “pimentão” (a mix of paprika, dried peppers and other herbs) with clams and then refreshed with white wine and mixed with small cubes of golden fried potatoes. Just before serving some pickles are added and everything is sprinkled with coriander or parsley (depending on what you have around).
What I got instead was a pork stew mixed with a few backed potatoes with the characteristic taste of those backed hours before being served. As a stew, as long the potatoes where replaced by fresh baked ones, it was an interesting dish as main course (the meat was so tender I could would break apart effortlessly) but I was by any means what the dish’s name promised. The least I can say is I was very disappointed!
Serradura: An excellent twist on the Portuguese version, biter instead of sweet but a good way to finish your meal and clean your palate.
Wines: A small but representative selection of very good Portuguese wines was available even if with prices some how above what it was to be expected.
On the overall: A price way too high for what you get even considering my high expectations. I think I will not repeat the experience.
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