Reviews - Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa
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Ian M. • 4 reviews
October 29, 2024
10/10Such great advice from the waiter regarding food and wine
Parminder W. • 55 reviews
October 18, 2024
10/10A great find, loved the food and service.
Theresa C. • 1 review
October 8, 2024
9.5/10Our waiter Andre was fabulous. The food was so delicious and amazingly reasonable. The setting was lovely and quiet.
Sérgio F. • 15 reviews
October 10, 2024
8/10Nd
Katie S. • 3 reviews
September 29, 2024
9.5/10Great food, attentive service and unusual dishes.
John E. • 2 reviews
September 19, 2024
7/10The service was very good the selection of food on the menu was very limited
Isabelle H. • 1 review
September 7, 2024
4/10Service was very slow and food was not as described in the menu. Burger was also served cold and almost raw.
Mariano I. • 15 reviews
September 8, 2024
8.5/10Overall a nice experience. The service was surely the best part as the waitress was friendly and helped us pick the dishes and wine to go with it. The starter and dessert were great but the mains didn't hold the same standard, so a good culinary experience but not the best.
Marin U. • 36 reviews
July 31, 2024
10/10Nice ambience and very good food and service
Julia K. • 11 reviews
July 29, 2024
3/10Very disappointing. The waiter was incredibly nice but very overworked. It took 40 minutes until we got our starters, and even longer before we got our drinks. Our 3 starters were eaten up at least 15 min before we got the 1 juice, 1 mojito and 1 glass of wine. The strawberry mojito was so bad we had to send it back, and then it was almost 20 min until the new one came. The food was not hot when we got it. We could see the food and the drinks standing on the counter for 5 min until it was delivered to our table. I would really not recommend this place. The good things were the waiter, and the tiramisu. But the overall wait and quality of food was not worth the money. Save your time, energy and money by going somewhere else. For the restaurant: please don’t overwork your staff. Out of the people we saw working there, only one did a good job. Don’t let 1 person carry the weight of a complete restaurant staff.
Lynette M. • 2 reviews
July 28, 2024
9.5/10The atmosphere was welcoming and the staff were helpful to us as visitors to Lisbon. We were trying Portuguese dishes. I had the codfish - chef style, and it was delicious. My husband had the sea bass in a tasty broth. Desserts were spot on. We had red summer sangria which was perfect for the summer evening. The prices were extremely reasonable, especially for the quality that we had. Highly recommend this place.
Daniel D. • 2 reviews
June 14, 2024
10/10Great food, nice ambience and nice staff.
Marco T. • 41 reviews
June 26, 2024
10/10It was a fantastic experience, again. The food was delicious, the service was excellent, and the atmosphere was cozy and inviting. Highly recommended!
Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa • Owner
Dear Mr. Marco Tael, Thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Delfina – Cantina Portuguesa and for your kind words. We are very glad to know you enjoyed your experience with us and we look forward to welcoming you soon. Warm Regards, Delfina's Managementt
Ximena P. • 13 reviews
June 21, 2024
8/10In general the experience was good, but the service little slow, they took a lot of time to bring drinks, and per example they completely forgot about the water I ordered and the white wine was little bit warm and I have to ask for ice. But anyway, it was a good experience.
Rossy V. • 1 review
June 6, 2024
6/10Not real portugués food and too expencive
Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa • Owner
Dear Mrs. Rossy Velasquez, Thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Delfina – Cantina Portuguesa. It is only through feedback such as yours that we are able to improve, where necessary your service levels. The situation described is not characteristic of the type of experience we aim to provide to our guests. We look forward to welcoming you soon and exceeding your expectations. Warm Regards, Delfina's Managementt
Claire G. • 3 reviews
May 24, 2024
10/10Great find hidden away. Had a lovely heated outside dining area in a beautiful square, which was nicely protected from the wind and the noise of the city. Great chilled ambiance and cool decor. Food was lovely and the staff and service were great.
Paulo C. • 10 reviews
May 28, 2024
10/10Good food, great wine and cocktails, best service - our waitress was so wonderful
Berill N. • 1 review
May 18, 2024
9/10Excellent food. Cost atmosphere. Wonderful interior. Thank you!
Mariana A. • 13 reviews
May 7, 2024
2/10Made a booking for 19h, left at 21h with no food served. The table wasn't ready on arrival despite the fact that the restaurant was empty. We ordered the food within 20min and we got only the bread with the drinks. Stale wine and tasteless lemonades. 1h 45min later still no mains. We cancelled everything and requested the bill. Still 15min to get it and we had to head to the counter to pay and leave. They still had the nerve to come with some dishes ready and suggest we got them as take away. Shame on you for even charging the drinks and the bread. The worst experience ever. Do not recommend, stay away.
Galvin C. • 3 reviews
April 28, 2024
10/10We both thought this restaurant was excellent in all ways. So good we told our son & his wife who are in Lisbon soon & they made a reservation straight away. Best meal of our 5 night holiday
Gordon K. • 16 reviews
April 8, 2024
10/10Small but tasty menu. About half seafood plus some meat. Well presented. Pleasant and efficient waiting staff. Good local wines and wider range of soft drinks such as red berries lemonade. Near two metro stations.
Craig M. • 1 review
April 3, 2024
2/10No idea we booked through this app. Zero discount and annoyed we booked last minute. Terrible.
Vince L. • 1 review
March 29, 2024
5.5/10My wife’s chicken and rice dish did not look or taste appealing. I asked for a fish dish with no bones but the waiter did not understand, so I selected the fillet fish. I have never had a fish with so many large bones in it. The starter was good and I saw other starters that looked good but all the mains looked awful. Overpriced for ordinary food. Only bad meal I had in Portugal on our stay.
Mafalda L. • 23 reviews
March 2, 2024
8.5/10Good food, very nice staff and very good dining room. Just didn't understand why there were 5 busy tables all very close when the room is quite big and had so many available tables. The guests could be spread in the room and not concentrated all in the same place. The lucky part was that our neighbours were Dutch and therefore both them and us were not able to understand eachothers conversation. Really, cannot understand it when there were so many available tables in the room ☹
Majella L. • 3 reviews
February 25, 2024
6/10We arrived early for our booking but were happy to wait as the weather was dreadful. We got a poor reception and were not felt welcomed at all. We ordered one starter to share between 2 of us and both of us ordered the Portuguese steak. The first 2 bottles of wine we tried to order were not available so we settled on another. We had a long wait for the starterbut it was okay. Only one dinner arrived and when we enquired about the other we were told they were only aware of one steak ordered!!! The manager approached and when we told him how unsatisfactory the whole experience was he was very apologetic and proceeded to speed up arrival of second steak which was undercooked due to speedy arrival, no fault of his! Overall we left feeling frustrated at what should have been a lovely dining experience on our last night totally ruined. The only exception being the professionalism expressed by the manager but it definitely needs tweaking concerning staff attitude.
Ali M. • 1 review
February 2, 2024
9/10Good food in a lovely restaurant. Menu not very extensive but good quality. Excellent service and friendly staff.
Arturo T. • 12 reviews
January 20, 2024
10/10I came back to Delfina restaurant because the quality of food is great. This time I went for a place where I can talk and enjoy the food. Always food was excellent. Nice ambience and service very discreet when they needed to be. I will come back again. Thank you Delfina.
Ermanno R. • 18 reviews
January 19, 2024
10/10Excellent food, great service from the girl who did serve us. They have been so nice that I asked to put a small candle on a dessert for my wife (it was her birthday) and they did with no notice and putting the candle themself.
Allyson I. • 9 reviews
January 18, 2024
10/10An excellent range of traditional Portuguese food all cooked to perfection. We visited twice during our short visit and sampled different things each time as the choice was brilliant. Everything our party tasted was raved about. I’m sure we could have still tried the rest of the menu and felt the same.
Patrick W. • 121 reviews
January 7, 2024
8/10Duck rice is not as good as it used to be in the past (chefs have since changed) but remain of good quality as were th eappetizers. Very nice decor, warm, aestethic and low level of noise. The service is attentive and readily available . . . but why this new mania of suggesting a tip when presenting the bill. I understand it is the rule in the U.S .(due to the poor treatment of the employees by their employer) but I will never succomb to that pressure in Portugal.
Sofia M. • 12 reviews
January 6, 2024
7/10It’s been years since I’ve been here for the last time, but I had a good recollection of it. Things change. So did this place. We had some kind of codfish (bacalhau à Delfina), which was nothing but a mush of cod with a lot of mayo and parsley. Horrible. We also had the duck confit, which was absolutely blend with watery sauce. Coming down to the wines, they were out of a lot. We drank our fourth choice, because the others were not available. Actually the wine, was the star of the meal. A white 70/30 from Martin Boutique Wines. I won’t go back, sadly, because the location is great and the place is lovely and cozy.
Michael R. • 1 review
January 2, 2024
8.5/10Staff was friendly throughout the evening. The food was even better than expected and looked really good. The price was well worth the food.
Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa • Owner
Dear Mr. Michael Ramos, Thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Delfina – Cantina Portuguesa and for your kind words. We are very glad to know that you enjoyed your experience with us and we look forward to welcoming you soon. Warm Regards,
E l. • 3 reviews
December 27, 2023
10/10Very very nice place to go for a meal in Lisbon. The service staff was very nice and helpful. Could not ask for more. Would enjoy going back again.
Ilaria G. • 14 reviews
December 9, 2023
10/10All very good. Very good in particular the codfish and the drinks!
Alex W. • 2 reviews
December 4, 2023
10/10+2The restaurant is located nearby the municipal plaza but is not noisy at all. The staff members were very friendly and never hurried you to order nor to finish. We ordered bread, sauteed pawns as starters. The bread was okay but the pawns were delicious. Dipping the bread into the pawns sauce was really good too. The grilled cod tasted good but texture seemed just a bit overcooked. Maybe one minute less would have been perfect. The pork was tasty and texture was good. Sweet potato mash was just perfect. However, the white wine we ordered seemed okay,especially after so much port wines these days. So the comment on the white wine is purely personal. Finally, we had chocolate cake with lemon ice cream and deconstructed cheese cake with some red berry sauce. They were both excellent. The hot chocolate and the latte were as expected. Overall, the food bill came to 90 euro with a 10% gratitude (you do not have to pay this part if you do not want to) in a total of 100 euro for two persons. Consider the environment
Elina S. • 2 reviews
October 24, 2023
7/10The atmosphere is very nice although the food and service were very average.
Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa • Owner
Dear Mrs.Elina, thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa. This is very important to help us better understand the costumer experience and improve our service levels. Warm Regards, Delfina Management.
Silvia S. • 1 review
October 23, 2023
9.5/10Excellent food and outstanding service
Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa • Owner
Dear Mrs.Silvia, thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Delfina - Cantina Portuguesa. We are so happy to see that you enjoyed your visit and we hope to have you back any time soon. With our best regards, Delfina Management
Carl N. • 5 reviews
October 20, 2023
10/10Fabulous food and service We will go back again
Steve W. • 5 reviews
October 10, 2023
10/10Nice restaurant with great service and great food. Got 30% discounts booking through the Fork, which was a bonus. Sat in the patio which was very nice and quiet. Would go back.
David S. • 3 reviews
September 19, 2023
9/10The staff was terrific; very friendly and attentive.
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