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Item: 海灣咖啡屋
Rating: 3
Author: christychinam

Cafe Litoral

3.5

25 食評

味道

環境

服務

衛生

抵食

2754

氹仔舊城區

$51-100

葡國菜

christychinam

等級4

176

After 3 years of covid, the surviving restaurants surely have something special.
Coming back after this pandemic, I was pretty holding a high expectation. Once border opened, their booking always fully booked and mine, I literally gave up on dinner reservations and just went for lunch. Surprisingly, long queue even before it's opening time. For those who are going, remember to make your reservations way before your journey and for those who wish for a large table, make it a month earlier. No joke.
Lunch experience was quite ok. Busy staff were running around but still serving us with smile. We ordered shrimp cakes, tuna salad (was ordered cod fish salad but out of stock even just opened), tumeric saffron braised pork with rice, baked mackerel rice.
First, server served us cold airy bun without butter knife. It was quite disappointing as it was just opened and things shall all be well prepared.
Moving on, salad was a highlight. Very fresh with well marinated tuna. Definitely a good pick. Simple but refreshing.
Shrimp cakes were not my cup of tea. Unexpectedly it was stuffed with loads of salad dressing plus the shrimp. Personally, I dont like salad dressing, so I just omit those thick dressing. Batter was good though!
Braised pork was served very oily and warm. Not hot at all. Pork was very tender and soft. By mixing the sauce with hot rice, the combo made it tasted better. Pork texture was spot on but flavour wasn't as strong as I thought. Tumeric and saffron taste can be stronger.
Last but not least, the baked rice was also just fine. Not every bite can be tasted with mackerel unless.that bite contains pieces. Tomato pasted rice was flavourful. Texture wise, no bad.
All in all, not bad but not as good as I went before. Harder to make reservation but food was rushing to serve because of the long queue.