26 Oct 2024
Our guide was great but the Fado evening itself & the dinner were both disappointing. The city tour before going to the restaurant was good and covered key points of interest. On arrival at the restaurant (we were on time), we had to wait nearly 30 mins as they hadn’t completed setting up. Once seated we were given some flattened brown sliced bread with ham & cheese. Not great. Dinner choices was fish, meat or vegetarian and we had to wait nearly 45 mins for them to arrive. Dessert was awful - a choice between 3 flavours of mousse. I chose lemon, which didn’t taste of much & was very heavy. The restaurant consisted of 2 rooms with the Fado singing repeated in each one. Whilst intimate in terms of venue it wasn’t really the traditional Fado performance I’d read about. Would not recommend. I’m sure there are better alternatives.