"The diners at Bar Douro make for happy sardines, tucked in at the blue-tiled bar in tight rows, chinking green-tinted glasses in the golden light. As a celebration of Portuguese cuisine, the restaurant hedges its bets between classical approaches to dishes like bacalhau a bras — flaky salt cod tumbled together with shreds of fried potato and eggs — and culinary school reworkings of homely plates like feijoada, producing a menu that blows hot and cold. Bar Douro’s homage to Portugal’s unique garlic sausage is a solid star, though: Velvety croquetes de alheira sit in perfect formation at the four corners of an azulejo, plastered on with generous cushions of salty aioli." - Hester van Hensbergen
