Silvas Restaurant

Bookings essential at this longstanding Portuguese restaurant. Casual dining offering hearty portions. Steak was cooked to perfection while seafood options include mussels ( white wine or tomato based sauce), fish of the day or octopus. Restaurant is licensed with decent selection of wines and beer. School kids, families, office workers - the hordes line up for the takeaway section offering its speciality charcoal chicken with garlic sauce. Friendly local restaurant.

WHY DOES IT TAKE SO DAMN LONG FOR FOOD TO COME OUT?? If you can't wait an hour and a half upwards for your mains to come out and spend your whole night in this loud noisy restaurant, you're going to have a bad time. The staff are nice, the atmosphere is honestly not the best, the food is nice but watching six tables of 5+ people diners get served their mains before you feels terrible. Did they literally pull the meat out the freezer, thaw and cook it from frozen? Because it sure feels like it. There is no delivery option here, seems short staffed because it takes ages to wave down staff. I watched one of the waitresses spill half a bottle of Coca cola on two tables (original table + table behind them), she cleaned it up but didn't offer to replace the drink at the original table. Not saying they should be entitled, but I would be VERY unhappy had she spilled it on my phone like she did with the original table. The food overall can be broken down into meat, oil, salt, thyme/parsley + side of veg or carb per dish. Interesting choice to season the lamb cutlets with balsamic oil. I think this place is worth trying, but personally would not come back here. I would say my patience is at best 40min wait for the main after placing the order, then additional time allocated for dining.

Fantastic Portuguese food served here. The restaurant has changed owners recently and the space has had face lift. The food was pretty good. We had the Bacalhau à Lagareiro and Espetada de carne, both beautifully done and super tasty. Please give this place a try if you haven’t done so already. Service was pretty good, prices can be a little above average but the quality of the ingredients is noticeable, so very much worth it.

If they had just served shoe string sized fries, I would choose this place over frangos every time. The food here is pretty much the same quality but I find that when filling the containers, they actually will fill it to the brim and give you quantity. It doesn’t feel like they’re trying to cut costs by going soft on the filling like other places.