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| - Very friendly staff and romantic atmosphere, elegant decoration. And? That's pretty much it! Purchased a 3-course dinner for 2 on Groupon. Aside from the nice staff, environment and service, the food itself did not worth what I paid.
Ordered seafood soup as a start in addition to the 3 courses came with the Groupon. Soup tastes OK to be fair. But you can't really call it seafood soup if all the seafood flavor were covered by the creaminess and spices - ijust a regular creamy soup with shrimp and mussels in it at most.
Appetizer: Mexilhoes a casa (mussels). Not much to comment, neither good nor bad, you can't really screw up mussels.
Entrees: Filet mignon de la porto lagos (steak) and Salmao a bebado (salmon). One word - TASTELESS. Meat was hard to swallow. Rice in plate was dry and hard. No comment on the veggies.
Desert: Flan and triple chocolate mousse. I thought you can't go wrong with flan, so my only complaint was the flan was very dry on top. The triple chocolate mousse was more of a triple chocolate cake and has nothing to do with mousse. A good mouse cake should melt in your mouth.
I noticed this place has lots of good reviews. Which I find very interesting. Although the Groupon voucher did not really give me much choices to choose from (you can choose 1 appetizer out of 3 choices, 2 entrees out 3 choices and 2 desert out of 3 choices), I'd assume that they would put some good choices for Groupon as it's suppose to attract new customers, not scare them away with tasteless food. If they only offered some bad-taste dishes for Groupon customers, then too bad, wrong strategy!
To sum up, good environment, not-so-good food.
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