Michael H.
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Me and my beautiful wife decided to visit Restaurant O Mira because they are conventionally located around the corner from where we reside.
We were greeted by a nice young man, and by a gentleman who quickly informed us that they had little fire?!? We’ll call him 🔥
We are seated and the young gentleman asked if we wanted starters. Neither me nor my wife speak Portuguese yet, but we are trying to pick up little words here and there. 🔥heard us talking and soon after he began to serve us and sent the young man away. Like the young man left!
🔥recommended something totally different than what we originally asked for, but hey when in Portugal, try the recommendations.
Food arrived and we ate our meal. My wife had the tuna steak entree with cabbage and boiled potatoes and I had some sort of fish (grilled- lightly fried) with the same sides and we both enjoyed a Gin and Tonic.
Towards the end of our meal, 🔥checked on us and began to make small talk. Here’s why I gave this restaurant 5 stars….🔥assumed that we were tourist. It was very odd that he asked us if we wanted to take our leftovers with us. No one has ever asked us if we wanted to take home scraps, but it’s cool I’ll take it! When we told him that we were not tourist he seemed to be really surprised, almost shocked. I don’t know what I did but right after his vibe changed.
It was time for the check and too my “surprise “ what we originally asked for would have cost us roughly €30 max, but what was recommended to us came out to €79,84. So that was pretty disappointing. We’ve been in country for quite a few days and that was the most expensive meal we’ve had here! Eating in Cascais and other similar cities that we’ve visited hadn’t been that much for us.
Turned out to be a real bummer for us both, but hey, I hope the restaurant much success and love.
To 🔥 you really should do better and not take advantage of people, particularly people who are vulnerable. We really wanted to support this restaurant because we are neighbors but can’t recommend this place.