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| - The Short: Outrageously over-priced and mediocre.
The Long: Unless you're the local lunch crowd, this is a takeout experience since the interior only has a small counter with limited seating. Monteiro is relative new and has a fairly small menu with burgers, Portuguese chicken and a few baked desserts. There are a few pasta dishes but they're only served during winter.
Most combos come with fries and a small salad. The fries are seasoned before serving and of the "home cut" variety, we found them way too salty. The salad is nothing special, at all.
The woodchip/charcoal grill is the feature here and the smell is noticeable as soon as you walk in. You can expect to find half a dozen chickens on the rotisserie at any given time.
The chicken comes in three varieties, mild, spicy and very spicy.
We tried the half-chicken combo and the burger combo. The burgers are 150g and thick. They have a nice variety of cheeses for the burgers, blue, brie, cheddar and Swiss.
In our case, the burger was undercooked and had a bright pink center - always a scary affair. The fries had a burnt exterior and a raw interior. The salad was bland, wilted and barely edible.
As for the chicken, it wasn't anything exceptional and traditional Portuguese chicken is seasoned as it's cooked, not basted with a paint brush before serving.
As for the prices, yes, it was stupid expensive. At over $30 for two combos (doesn't even include drinks) we expect to be impressed.
We were far from it.
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