This place sprung up so quick I didn't even know it existed for sometime until I finally realized it was there so I decided to try it out.
I'm not entirely sure how to start this review as this place truthfully confused me.... I do believe its a Portuguese Chicken place but what kind of establishment I cannot say, It appears to be a mixture of cafeteria and restaurant with a touch of fast food which is needless to say a little off putting, I will explain further ;)
Let me start by saying the decor is rather impressive considering they claim to be going for a more casual and family atmosphere... I feel like its way more trendy and modern but beautiful none the less. The layout of the place is where I feel it starts to fall short though with crammed tables and large, almost useless horse shoe booths that offered nowhere to hang jackets. This made the space seem a little cluttered and confusing with inconveniently placed main arteries and walkways that made for a fair bit of traffic around the self serve touch screen pop dispenser. This is another thing that put me off a little, I expect to see something like this in a fast food place not a restaurant, they had a full bar so I was baffled to see this machine there and where it was which was as I said causing so much traffic that many people were opting out of getting their drinks to wait for an "opening".
A rather metro gentleman escorted myself and my friend to a huge horse shoe booth located at the back wall beside the self serve pop machine which I felt was kind of a waste as a larger group could have sat there but he told us how the whole thing works and essentially you walk up to the bar and order. From there you can also order from a small and I will say horribly overpriced and unimpressive selection of wines or you can serve yourself at this "handy" machine they have provided for you. The same area as this machine also has ALL of your cutlery and dining needs including sauces and condiments so you can imagine how busy that small, confined space gets. I was actually shocked when someone brought the food to the table as I was expecting to cook it myself at this point lol!
Anyway, on to the food which I am going to say off the top is WAY too expensive for Portuguese food especially! We ended up getting the variety platter to share and it was basically a shit load of chicken... pardon my language but that's the truth of it. A giant wad of meat to digest and because it was all chicken there was no variety.... even the different sauces tasted very similar to me. The two sides were TINY and nothing to write home about.
I usually adore Portuguese chicken so for me not to like this was a rarity and at the price they are charging I really wasn't impressed so unless there is some unforeseen reason to return I probably won't be