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Restaurante Carlos: Restaurant Reviews

Av. Comandante Matoso, Sagres 8650-357, Portugal
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Ranked #13 of 39 restaurants in Sagres
Price range: $0 - $28
Cuisines: Portuguese
Good for: Families with children, Romance, Local cuisine, Outdoor seating
Dining options: Reservations, Late Night
Restaurant details
Good for: Families with children, Romance, Local cuisine, Outdoor seating
Dining options: Reservations, Late Night
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Montijo, Portugal
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6 reviews 6 reviews
5 restaurant reviews
Reviews in 2 cities Reviews in 2 cities
“Food was good but the service was disappointing”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed September 2, 2012

Went there twice, and had two distinct experiences:

The first experience:

We went for a lunch: the couvert was great with a fish named 'boqueriao' i never tasted before ans was just great, the main dishes were good and the service was very good.

After this first experience we decided to use the restaurant as our meal base during our 5 days vacations.

The second esperience:

The couvert was never was delivered, all the requests took a long time to get answered, we needed to get ourself out of the table to get staff attention.

Waited more than 15 minutes after finishing the dinner until someone get's into our table and asks if we wanted some deserve, we didn't, just paid the bill and left.


Probably had a huge bad luck with the staff (not the same person), i will never get back into this restaurant anyway.

Visited August 2012
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Gibraltar
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44 reviews 44 reviews
16 restaurant reviews
Reviews in 11 cities Reviews in 11 cities
16 helpful votes 16 helpful votes
“Probably the best value for money in Sagres”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed July 4, 2012

Great local restaurant. Don't be fooled by the limited menu as all is cooked to perfection in this great family run restaurant. Their Cataplana with clams is to die for but the same could be said for everything else on the menu!

  • Visited July 2012
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Atmosphere
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
    • 5 of 5 stars Food
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22 reviews 22 reviews
16 restaurant reviews
Reviews in 13 cities Reviews in 13 cities
19 helpful votes 19 helpful votes
“Not Great”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed June 25, 2012

We ate here for lunch soon after arriving in Sagres. The Memmo Baleeira Hotel we were staying in as usual found accommodating our check-in at mid day almost impossible, so we found ourselves with two hours to kill in town, thus...Lunch at Carlos!

My swordfish looked great, but looks can be deceiving, it was a thin oily steak with a little too much brown meat for my liking, it came with boiled potatoes and a large salad on the plate, however this didn't stop the waiter letting us order an identical salad on the side.

Had we known our main came with such a large serving we would not have bothered.

My wife's octopus salad was borderline gross, the chef had failed to clean out its innards, so she spent the start of her meal pulling out all the white gunk from its insides. Yuk.

Best bit of the meal was the 'cover' the bread was the freshest we've had on our holiday. Shame the other dishes could live up to this.

Unlikely to return considering Sagres has so much to offer.

Visited June 2012
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, Gerente at Restaurante Carlos, responded to this review
July 1, 2012
hello
im hereby respond your opinion.
at first alot of people like to eat salad as a starter and than in the main course too,
about the swordfish is not a local fish and we always recomend the local fish, we buy the swordfish in filet so it comes like a steak of swordfish and we put olive oil, and garlic to get a better taste,
about the octupus salad we don´t have that in our menus soo i dont know where didyou eat that beacuse here it wasnt...
i hope you come back again for a better opinion
see you soon....
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Devizes, United Kingdom
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38 restaurant reviews
Reviews in 33 cities Reviews in 33 cities
50 helpful votes 50 helpful votes
“A great place for Sardines!”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 15, 2012

We had a great lunch at this friendly, family run restaurant. There were several locals eating there. There was a good menu from which we both chose grilled sardines with french fries, boiled new potatoes and salad. The sardines were huge, plenteous and cooked to perfection. It is a pity that they had run out of chocolate mousse or we would have eaten these too! The location is not the best as it faces onto a road, but there is good parking nearly and the location did not spoil the meal for us

  • Visited June 2012
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Atmosphere
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
    • 5 of 5 stars Food
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London, United Kingdom
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355 reviews 355 reviews
154 restaurant reviews
Reviews in 147 cities Reviews in 147 cities
285 helpful votes 285 helpful votes
“had a fantastic lobster dinner, with lobster from bassin to table, yummi!”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed June 7, 2012

we went twice to Carlos, once for fish and a second time for Lobster, which had to get organized with a 48h notice. The lobster while certainly more pricey than all other foods served a la Portugese, was worth the money and a real treat.

Carlos is a great guy! good to speak too and discuss food and wine and we enjoyed our time very much.

  • Visited June 2012
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Atmosphere
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
    • 5 of 5 stars Food
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