We were in the area, and heard that the area was a known for the Portuguese community, so we wanted to try the portuguese cusine. This restaurant looked good from the outside...
The waiter who served us speak little english....well...we were used to it now that we had spent a few days in quebec city, and montreal...
so he told us about this absolutely worthy chef tasting menu, that sounded really good...3 tasting portion of meats, including filet, chicken and 3 tasting portion of seafood, including escargos, squid and a seafood rice dish, and it comes with soup and salad....but my heart was kinda unsettling that i was wondering if i wanted the chef to "dictate" what i am eating...one of my friends don't like seafood, so she opted for ordering a la carte...
The waiter went through things really fast, so i had a hard time following...my friend had to literally go to get him to make sure he didn't place the orders of the tasting menu before we were ready to order.
The soup came and it was pretty good....quite promising....my friend's steak dish came, looked pretty good.....quite promising on how the rest of hte tasting menu would be....
finally our seafood portions of tasting dish came...i was expecting that they would come course by course and in separate plates, instead, they came all on one plate that has 3 separate small compartments, kinda like those nuts/snack plates at party. No biggies. I am green, save dish, save water, save on dishwashing detergent....
so you could imagine the portion is really small, like 2 bites, the taste if the dishes....mediocre at best...
the same thing with the "land dishes"....i should have listened to my heart and went with a la carte....
the dessert is the portguese tart...this one is better than those i had in Hong Kong/ Macau...but it wasn't warm or anything...we saw a tray of it sitting out next to the bar area, so they probably just grabbed from that tray....
we should have be alerted when the serve asked if we were using coupon when we first walked in.....