Mar Belo Portuguese Restaurant/Lounge Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "From seafood to steak, you won't be disappointed with the dish."
• "Authentic and flavorful food. Highly recommend the Pork Shank."
• "The food was delicious...perfectly prepared and seasoned."
• "The food is consistently good."
• "The skirt steak is amazing as is the calamari."
• "The food experience is the closest you will get to actually being served food by your Portuguese grandmother."
• "Everything was cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "The pork was not cooked tiger order some was others not."
• "The lobster bisque was unlike any lobster bisque I've ever had... A stronger vegetable taste and no lobster taste."
• "Lobster wasn't clean properly."
• "Paella made me sick with stale seafood, partially cooked rice where the chef didn't dry the water completely."
• "The seafood was rubbery."
• "Strak was so tough it couldn't even be cut."
• "Fliet Mignon was on the salty side and somewhat chewy and frankly not very tasteful."

Service

Pros:

• "Service is personal and attentive."
• "Superb service from beginning to end."
• "The staff was very attentive without being overbearing."
• "The waiter was tremendously kind and attentive."
• "Service was excellent."
• "The wait staff is very professional and extremely friendly."
• "Service was exceptional!"

Cons:

• "How can you only have one waiter in back dining room?"
• "Service is horrible & this was very unprofessional."
• "We order 2 paella’s wait 1:30 minutes and they only bring 1 out."
• "I'll start by saying the food was decent. As several have noted before me, what made the experience such a disaster was the awful service."
• "When we made the reservation, they asked if we were celebrating anything. We told them it was my birthday and they never acknowledged it. Why ask then?? No excuses for this."
• "Horrible service they were racist with me and my family."
• "Waiter came up to me as I'm eating and turned my plate around as I'm eating extremely rude I will never come back here."

Ambiance

Pros:

• "Ambiance is very nice and the restaurant is elegantly decorated!"
• "It's a nice clean and a little upscale place."
• "well, ambient nice and calm, you got the place."
• "An unprompted Happy Birthday song for our daughter was so kind."
• "Atmosphere was cool, family oriented and happy."
• "Great Ambience, Friendly Staff!"
• "Also, a perfectly pleasant environment."

Cons:

• "The toilet seat in the Men's room was broken and the soap dispenser was empty."
• "The only downside to this beautiful restaurant is it is on a busy street in the middle of a run down neighborhood."
• "Pretty loud with not such a peaceful atmosphere."
• "The atmosphere is elegant and modern but with a touch of the coast."
• "The restaurant is on a busy street so it can easily be missed from the front."
• "Although the other people had good meals, my dinner was poor. I ordered the Chilean sea Bass, it had no flavor at all, the asparagus was hard and tasteless."
• "Way over rated priced for quality and quantity."

Value

Pros:

• "The food is delicious and the drink selection is abundant."
• "It's a bit pricey but extremely worthy."
• "The lunch specials are very affordable and delicious."
• "It is great value."
• "Amazing food, at a great price. No entree is more than $35 and is far better than most restaurants."
• "Simple menu, excellent drinks and enjoyable desserts also are a plus."
• "Everything truly is. The sangria was so flavorful."

Cons:

• "Almost $200 gone and we're both very disappointed."
• "We spend over a$120.00 dollars for a really bad meal, what a shame for them to say it’s a Portuguese restaurant."
• "So all in all I had a very expensive potatoes dinner ($36)."
• "For a party of two, they added a gratuity of 20% to the check without any prior notice."
• "This place is nothing special.way way way over rated priced for quality and quantity."
• "If you are willing to travel a little North, I think you will find a bit more authentic Spanish and Portuguese food restaurants."
• "We left without having dinner & very very disappointed!!!"