The peanut mousse? A simple whip of peanuts, cream, and caramel sauce. 30 minutes later, our desserts finally come. We order the desserts - 2 Chocolate Mousse and 1 Peanut Mousse.
Clearly there was not a limited space but oh well. By this time, there were around 5 tables out of 15 in the room that were empty. Not flavourful.Īfter 1 hour and 45 minutes, we finally finished our food after waiting ages and ordered dessert. The service was just bad, and the food would be lukewarm and so basic. One person finished eating at a point where someone else would only just get their meal. The starters came together, but then the main courses came at completely random times. He was just arrogant.Īs we sit down, we were met by the kind waiters and ordered at around 7:10, but the food only came at random times. Unacceptable, as there should be no time limit to how long we take to eat. When we went to reserve, the host was disappointed to hear we want to reserve at 7:00 pm, and tells us that we MUST finish by 8:30 because of limited space. The chefs, however, take a long time to cook, and the host is rude. Slow food prepared by good chefs should be eaten in a restaurant and not amidst the chaos of a food court.Īnd if you’re visiting Lisbon and enjoy an interesting food experience you shouldn’t be a fan of this market either.Disappointed to say the least. I won’t comment on the quality of any of the food we ate because this isn’t really the venue to eat food of any kind other than maybe fast food. It’s a little like the frustration of lining up in a place like Disneyland but except for rides one is lining up for food. The lines at dinner (and perhaps at lunch too) are very long so that your hot prepared food becomes cold once you’ve lined up elsewhere as well. If you want to try food from multiple locations like we did, you have to secure a table which one of you has to guard, while the other lines up. So if you want to use cash you must line up, purchase a Time Out Market card and fill it with as much money as you want.īut if you don’t spend it all there are no refunds and if you don’t have enough when you order you have to run back and stand in line to refill your card. The main problem with the market is that they don’t accept cash. We made the mistake of coming for dinner where the food from Marlene Viera was recommended. The Market is a collection of unique food venues. They definitely need to address this issue as it isn’t fair for people going to eat to have to hover and wait for so long. It’s nice to have a little walk around in the day/evening and if you can get food there I would recommend it, but the wait for a table was just absolutely ridiculous and we left feeling rather frustrated at having to wait and then rush. You go to the individual vendors to order, they then give you a buzzer which will alert you when your food is ready. You also can’t take your food to go because everything is served on proper ceramic plates, I’d have happily had a takeaway bag if it was offered. My partner couldn’t be bothered to wait for food in the end so we went elsewhere. The food we had was good, I went to Castro’s and had the cod fried balls with tomato rice for €9 which was excellent value! But we left pretty soon after eating because we felt guilty about hogging a table. Sadly, they don’t offer outside seating which is a real shame and many of the people there stayed chatting and drinking after they had eaten so were in no hurry to leave. It’s not a very nice thing to have to do and it felt a little awkward but there was no other way to be seated. We found the trick is to hover/stand by a table and genuinely just wait until someone leaves. It wasn’t necessarily the queue for food but the wait for somewhere to sit! We must have waited for at least 45 minutes before we found a place to sit. We came one evening for our dinner and were really looking forward to it, especially hoping to try food from multiple vendors but it was just ridiculous. The Time Out Market is insanely busy! And I don’t believe there is a ‘quieter’ time to visit.
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