A Carvoaria

Very good meat, nice staff and very nice experience! We ate inside and lack a bit ventilation. A bit more for the expensive side comparing with other local restaurants but really worth if you like good meat

I went in to try 3 different steaks. All were great. They initially serve a table full of starters (not free) but after I told them to take them away they make no fuss about it so all good.

I have eaten at this restaurant three times in the last week. I cannot recommend this restaurant more highly. The two items on the menu in the pictures below are my favourite.

Unfortunately, the worst experience in Portugal. We managed to order after 30 minutes in restaurant (service forgot about us). I ordered the speciality of this restaurant: mixed skewer "a la carvoaria" (veal and shrimp) for 20 euros and my husband ordered a steak. I asked for a medium veal and my husband asked for medium rare steak. My skewer looked amazing but it was done rare/blue - so i asked to make it more like asked before. But the worst part was that even shrimps were made rare - and it's really not healthy to eat shrimps raw! I was disgusted and barely ate anything. In the pictures you can see grey areas on shrimps bellies. My husband has steak more grilled than mine and we asked otherwise. We have a lot of experience with meat and steak houses and this was our worst so far. Our side dishes were punched potatoes and grilled ananas. Grilled ananas was ok, but punched potatoes were not punched - they were just really expensive young boiled potatoes. Overall it was very loud in restaurant.

Very dissapponted with the experience, as our expectations were pretty high considering the fact that the place was recommended by a local. The waiters were going around and giving you appetizers and bread on the table which you had to pay of for of course which is understandable, but they came 3 times with these, before we could even order what we wanted. Now the food part, we got the shrimps in garlic sauce from the appetizers menu. The shrimps were crazy overcooked and do not let me even start on the price for those. We also got a steak which we wanted medium rare, it was far away from medium even. Then from the side dishes, they bring you the salad in a bowl wrapped in plastic wrap still, which does not look very good in my opinion. I am not happy to be writing this but maybe we were just expecting something more from this place.

Loved everything about the restaurant, the staff were very friendly, the portion of our food was more than enough for my husband and I. But you cannot compare our portions with others as we are the kind who eat small portions. We ordered wagyu sirloin steak (300grams) with mushroom risotto and punched potatoes for the side. It was great and i would highly recommend it for meat eaters. It was 50€ in total as we shared the steak and the sides.

I had high expectations but I was not satisfied at all, quite the opposite. I ordered a steak medium rare and it came done. As a side dish I had smashed potatoes which were old in taste and appearance. The salad I ordered came ready wrapped in plastic wrap. It tasted okay but it didn't look the best. It was topped off with shrimp for 20 euros which were very overcooked. Whole experience was very mid …

Without being the best steakhouse Ive been in my life (far from it actually, in terms of venue, service, atmosphere), I can tell tho it is the best quality/price wagyu steak Ive ever had. Great meat quality, reasonable prices and good portions