Description: The restaurant came highly recommended and we were told we had to book which we duly did. We got there and were seated outside on the verandah with 3 other other tables. Inside was also fairly full.
Ambiance was ok and decor great on arrival but is lost once you are outside on the verandah. But we were there for the food.......
I felt the menu was too full - trying to keep everyone happy, I suppose..
The service was good and we had brought our own wine which was from the Darling Cellar - a Black Granite Shiraz, which is beautifully drinkable. We ordered starters, a calamari with a hint of peri peri which was tasty and tender, an excellent starter. The only issue was that I needed a spoon for the sauce, which I was not going to leave for anyone else! The other starter, a 3 in one pot was sumptious. A tasty combination of prawns, mussels and snails, in a delicious creamy suace. Again the spoon was needed!
Our main courses were 300g lamb chops with seasonable vegetables and Mocambique style chicken. Great value for money. The vegetables with the lamb were carrots and courgettes which were tasty and complimented the meaty lamb chops well. Lamb was tender and succulent. The other main course was a mocambique style chicken - disappointing! Good as far as grilled chicken goes but where was the true heat of Mocambique? The starter of calamari with a hint of peri peri was hotter than the mocambique chicken. No evidence of peri-peri was found. On looking back at the menu, peri-peri was not mentioned. Did I make the mistake of assuming that Mocambique style chicken would be hot? On request for heat, I was brought a bottle of chilli sauce - just not the same when thinking one was going to get mocambique style peri-peri chicken.
We completed our meal with ice-cream and chocolate sauce and a Frangelico Dom Pedro which were a real treat - except that my ice-cream had icy bits in it...... melted refrozen ice-cream? What happened to the pasteis de nata?
All in all a pretty good meal and would recommend you visit it for a meal.
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