O Tino Restaurant

"Tucked behind the Camden Belushi’s, O Tino is a popular pre-Koko or Jazz Cafe spot and often rammed. This diminutive restaurant is simply decorated—screens showing Porto or Benfica are the main adornments—and has arguably the friendliest staff in London who are particularly generous with the port. The menu spans Portuguese classics, and gambas à Tino is a must: fat, juicy prawns in a silky tomatoey sauce with huge amounts of garlic. Pork à alentejana also stands out—a hulking pile of pork and clams on fried potatoes that soak up the surf-and-turf juices. The owner hails from Angola and her homemade chilli sauce is extremely fiery. On weekends, Angolan dishes like muamba de galinha, a spicy chicken stew, might appear if you’re lucky. " - tome morrissy swan

"Nothing makes us feel quite as comfortable as a restaurant like Portuguese spot O Tino. It has football playing silently on a screen in the background, and arguably the friendliest staff in London who are particularly generous with the port. The headliner gambas à Tino—fat, juicy prawns in a bath of silky tomato sauce and garlic—are essential, and we also have a real surf-and-turf soft spot for the hulking pork à alentejana with clams and fried potatoes." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak

"Sit near the entrance of O Tino, and hear the audible sighs of relieved local Portuguese as they step through the door. Here, home cooking and hospitality are the name of the game, and the welcome that both regulars and newcomers receive is a credit to owners and Lisboetas Florentino and Elisabete. Crisp rissois de camarao (prawn pancakes with a creamy seafood filling), soothing sopa de mariscos, and excellent clams and prawns with a rich, vibrant garlic sauce point to Elisabete’s pride in her seafood cookery. Group dinners are a pleasure, and lunchtimes are good value — eight quid will bag you a huge plate of grilled chicken or pork fillet with a slick of piri-piri." - David Paw