Casa do Frango Shoreditch in Hackney

Era tanto tempo che volevo provare la cucina portoghese e Casa do Frango a Shoreditch e’ stato il luogo perfetto. Iniziate la cena con le frittelle di baccalà e gustate poi il pollo PIRI PIRI, così succulento che si scioglie in bocca!!! A fine pasto un pastel de nata.

I booked a lunch for my Mum’s birthday and was really looking forward to a delicious meal as had heard lots of good reviews. Unfortunately we didn’t have a good experience. The waitress who served us was very unfriendly. The service was very slow, and all the tables around us weren’t cleared away the whole time we were sat there, even though it wasn’t even a busy time for this not to have been done. The food was average, with my mum’s chicken clearly precooked and was heated up and dry. The sides were good, but overall it was a disappointing celebratory lunch. I asked for a token gesture for my mum’s birthday and was charged for a dessert on the bill before we were asked if we wanted a dessert which was very odd. It was a shame as I was expecting a lot more.

Well I never! What a fabulous place. I went with my dearest friends who I hadn't seen for five years and bizarrely, it's in the same spot as the Ice Bar that we went to together in 2016, the last time we were all in the UK. Anyway, the welcome was wonderful, we felt immediately this was the place for us, on this special evening. The music, the atmosphere, the space between the tables was magnificent. Our initial waiter was so kind and jolly and I wish I'd found out his name so I could have bigged him up in this review. However, we then met Amelie, and she was exceptionally special. She explained the menu perfectly, even though some of us really didn't understand the process. She helped us order exactly what we didn't realise we wanted. She also kept a keen eye on our restaurant experience, making sure that I, for one, didn't over order beer, or food. She was not at all intimidating. It was a fabulous experience and right at the end she said, so timeously, that she knew we didn't want dessert, because we'd spent possibly ten minutes chatting amongst ourselves since the dinner plates were taken away. The píece de rèsistance, however, was the most charming way she cleared the table, including the crumpled serviettes, particularly my own, which appeared to have become a kind of comfort blanket. What a night! What extremes! What an experience.

Lovely service with bubbly Waiter Marco, Food was very good and very rich portion perfect feeling of southern Portugal Highly raccomennt

This place is dreadful. A friend warned me it was bad but another said it was nice so I expected an improvement. Service was good. Friendly. That is the only positive. The only one. Iberian croquette: deep fried mashed potato balls with a tiny bit of ham. Chicken: not good. Oily. Flavourless. You only have one item on your menu. Do better. I wish i were in Nando’s. And I don’t even eat Nando’s… Sweet potato: ok. Peri peri sauce: ok. An insult to Portugal. An insult to chicken. An insult to taste buds. The bill: a drink, some chicken and potatoes : £45. This is why you won’t even get 2 stars. Expensive for low quality food.

The last two times I have come here the same thing has happened, ordered starters and mains and they both come up once, the food sits on the side in the kitchen not freshly prepared, used to be good 18 months ago but terrible now. Got here at 6 the meal was over at 6.45 starters mains and desert