For many years, we've enjoyed the food at Canela's, and their location on Earlham meant that we…read morefrequently ate there before seeing a play at the Donmar. But our last two visits have witnessed a slow change in the way Canela does food. They have dropped the 6 or 8 large serving items in favor of having tapas-sized servings, and the number of those options has likewise decreased. The cheese board, the charcuterie are still good, as are the pastel de nata, but if you have not eaten at Canela's in a few years, you will notice the change immediately. What used to be an option (sharing food with your dinner companion) is now part of their "social dining" approach (phrase from their banner outside).

Found a little piece of home beautifully tucked away in Covent Garden. Surprisingly I managed to…read moreactually get some nice weather here and after a long day exploring some of the most popular places around the city, I passed by this small (and cozy) spot and decided to give it a try. The place is tiny but has a really nice feel to it, helped by the really nice choice of tables, huge windows facing the street and a beautiful display of their sweet and salty treats. I ordered one of the most popular choices back home for an afternoon (or any time of day for that matter) snack: pão de queijo (or cheese ball) and a quindim for dessert (sorry but I can't remember its English name). Both were simply delicious and on par with some of the best I had back home! Definitely worth any £ spent on them and worth a visit if you'd like to try them. I had an opportunity to talk to Wagner, who seemed to be one of the owners, and he was very nice and attentive. Definitely recommended! Love it!

Went to Casa do Franco with family. Statrted with the Bread and Couvert which was very good. We had…read morethe red sangria and the piri piri chicken with oregano and the rice with chorizo and fried chicken skins. It was delicious. Others in the group with gluten allergies had plain piri piri chicken and plain rice. Everyone enjoyed their meals. The service was good and even though our waiter had a slight issue understanding us at first, he made sure our order was correct.

Came here with some friends and we ordered everything on the menu. Portions were tapas sized and…read morefood was really delicious. My biggest qualm however is that they are pretty strict about the 2h dining time. Yet, service was slow the night I was there and food took forever to arrive so the entire dinner felt very rushed. Enjoyed everything on the menu, especially the grilled mushroom, the piri piri chicken, the feijoada. Will return again!

Absolutely loved this place! Great food, beautiful wine and welcoming staff! This restaurant…read moretransports you to Portugal for the evening!

Took a Portuguese colleague to drag me out this far south. Such a friendly joint in such a dodgy…read moreneighbourhood - but isn't that always the case? As the other reviewers have said, come hungry and always order meat. If not then at least opt for the cheesy-meaty wet sandwich of death (you read it here first). Consider skipping breakfast tomorrow.

came here on a saturday night at about 7pm and there was no wait which made me so happy since there…read morewere such long lines for every place in the soho area. - piri piri chicken (3.5/5) - it was decent but a tad dry and under seasoned. however, adding the peri peri sauce and peri peri oil that it comes with does make it a bit better. - charred cauliflower (4/5) - delicious and surprisingly tender, almost unrecognizable as cauliflower. the sauce was a bit on the sour end for me but still enjoyable - casa rice (5/5) - fantastic and bursting with flavor, a perfect complement to the chicken - piri piri prawns (5/5) - AMAZING, highlight of the meal. flavored to perfection and the shrimp heads were so juicy. i could easily eat 5 servings of this.

We walked in, not having reservations, but they seated us pretty quickly. All the food we ordered…read morewas delicious and the portion sizes were great for the prices. My husband generally doesn't care for mushrooms, but the grilled garlic mushrooms that we ordered were his favorite he's ever had, so much so that he wanted to keep eating more and more (and I can agree as a lover of mushrooms that they were some of the best prepared that I've had!). Additionally, I have never tried African rice before, but it was so flavorful and the addition of the crispy chicken skin was great. The server gave great recommendations for the Vinho Verde wine. I enjoyed both of the ones that we got and my husband, who enjoys port liked the port + tonic cocktail. It's beautiful inside and lively but not too crazy or loud. It's a lovely place to go to for an intimate date or with a group. We would definitely love to come here again with more people so that we can share more items on the menu!

Don Teodoro - home of the cheap Portuguese lunch…read more You'll find this little cafe stuck by a pub on a not-so-fashionable side street in lower Camden Town . At first it may look like a regular greasy spoon and you'd be right - it's got all those metal chairs and local service tendencies of a lunch pit-stop cafe. But behind that is the menu: it's from Porto and it's got some great strange selections for budget prices. Take for example the ultimate lunch meal - as described by Wikipedia: FRANCESINHA (meaning Little French Girl in Portuguese) is a Portuguese sandwich originally from Porto, made with bread, wet-cured ham, linguiça, fresh sausage like chipolata, steak or roast meat and covered with molten cheese and a hot thick tomato and beer sauce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha Come on, you know you want it? It's crazy cheap too. Shame on Yelp for not having a Portuguese category

Real Portuguese place in London. Came here for lunch and it was tasty. Has the beef skewers with…read morebasmati rice and chips. Everything was so good except the rice was a little dry. The beef was awesome and chips were perfect. Good service and cool atmosphere make this place worth it.

We went for cataplana, which we have come to love since our trip to Lisbon. The food was great and…read morewe were thrilled to have found a Portuguese restaurant not too far from home. The seafood was ample and fresh. The broth felt a bit thicker than what I had locally, but it was all solid. Service was okay. They brought things out promptly, but I felt the staff were quite dry sometimes -- perhaps, because they were so busy on a Friday evening. Ambience was spacious and very local. We saw a lot of who seemed to be locals to the neighbourhood and Portuguese people too -- authentic but not the poshest decor.

I can't believe I never realised what wonder lie behind this unassuming door to a standard bungalow…read morewarehouse overlooking the Heathrow Express tracks. Glad to finally be invited to travel back to the future and experience a most fun Sunday lunch - Portuguese style. The menu includes a great selection of fresh fish dishes and paella which come with massive side orders of either chips or mixed veg. Everything is fairly basic and definitely not haute cuisine but good value. What makes this place so special is the amazing atmosphere, it feels like walking into a family do in the 70s. We all sang along to the cheesy music and even joined into one round of Bingo. Not recommended for romantic dinners, but excellent for a light hearted and casual party. Oh, and as the name implies, sport flimmers permanently from various screens. I was in two minds about even writing a review as this seems to be such a well kept secret ...

This place will make you feel like you are on holiday without leaving the country…read more It is a very basic warehouse with large flat screen TVs that show sport, a bar area and a restaurant area. The food is all typically Portuguesa as are the owners and the waiters. You will truly feel like you've gone to Lisbon for the evening. The décor is very basic but bursting with character and the food is very good, some things more than others. For example the lamb chops are extremely tasty but the beef can be quite chewy.

I think this is the closest thing to a food "hole in the wall" Islington has. Just five weeks ago…read moreCafé Brasileiro popped up as a clean, tasty and friendly establishment. It's also adorable with a lovely man serving and making all the food out the back. I walked past this place this morning and thought, "I must pop in for lunch, this place looks too cute." I'm so glad I did! Browsing the menu there is a host of Brazilian home baked delights on offer, from chicken croquettes to cheesey dough dumplings. I went for one of their home made sandwiches filled with egg mayo and tonnes of salad. That with an apple cost no more than £3. What a great value lunch. They do have a little sitting area for 2 people that you can eat at. It's really nice because you can sit and watch the world go by while munching your lunch. I am so going back here to try the rest of their menu as well as their coffee. Well done Café Brasileiro, I can't wait to see you grow ever popular with the locals.

After having returned from my few week sojourn to Rio i was massively in the doldrums and suffering…read morewithdrawal from my pao de queijos (cheese balls) , coxinhas (chicken in manoic flour - deep fried) and cupuacu (super healthy amazonion juice). So every day I'd hot foot it down and stuff my face with salgadinhos (snacks) and brush up on my portuguese with the owner. So I really didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he said that he moving on and to be replaced by a Vietnamese cafe (my second favourite food in the world). Where oh where do I get my snack-fix now?!

Came here based on some online review recommendation which led to a major disappointment…read more The only thing nice about this place is the outdoor seating in a nice weather day. Our server wasn't particularly nice or friendly, looked very shocked when I only want to drink water than anything else. Food was very average...at last for the 5 dishes of seafood we ordered...the octopus was the best out of all.

Nice to dine outside. My hamburger was salty but tasty. My husband had the margarita pizza he said…read moreit was good. We were outside under huge umbrellas. There were lots of leaves on the ground plus a rib bone from the lamp chop! Next to our table. Not. Cool!

You could hear everybody's mouth crackling! I buy my roast hog on their small store inside Borough…read moreMarket, they don't have the yelp place yet so I will put my review here. The sandwich is compose of roast hog with crackling and applesauce in a roll. The roast hog is so delicious and really it cracks in the mouth. This reminds me of the crispiest pork in the Philippines which is called "lechon", the roll is perfect paring to the hog. Price is okay with the deliciousness you get. A must visit if you are in Borough Market.

3.5 £6 for a massive…read moresandwich with this sweet purée sauce, greens, and a hunk of pork. I recommend the wrap just because the huge ciabatta bread was just too much, I couldn't properly enjoy the meat. The meat was very well cooked and flavorful, with a nice crisp crunch of the leaves. He added a couple pig skins which were frankly too hard and chewy to eat. The meat is really really good, just don't get the voluminous bread roll, try it in a wrap.