. . "0"^^ . . "0"^^ . "2"^^ . "2"^^ . "The Short: Outrageously over-priced and mediocre. \n\nThe 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.\n\nMost 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. \n\nThe 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.\n\nThe chicken comes in three varieties, mild, spicy and very spicy.\n\nWe 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nAs 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. \n\nAs for the prices, yes, it was stupid expensive. At over $30 for two combos (doesn't even include drinks) we expect to be impressed. \n\nWe were far from it."^^ . "2015-05-14T00:00:00"^^ .