Horta Grill Restaurant - Alvor

Thankfully a little off the beaten tourist track. Had a beautiful family dinner with Luis sitting outside. What an amazing view of the sunset over the Portuguese countryside. Food was excellent and service was outstanding. Staff had no problem explaining the food in English. Some very authentic Portuguese options on the menu, fresh local fruit desserts were amazing. Great wine, cold beer and plenty of extras to keep us filled up between courses. Thanks for looking after us, we will be back. Frank

We had a lovely meal at the Horta Grill. Lovely tuna steak. Family run restaurant with great service and a great sunset view. Very reasonably priced as well. Definitely worth a visit if you are staying in Alvor.

In the madness of August my wife and I were looking for a good basic home cooked style Portuguese meal. We were not disappointed and a beautiful sunset for free. Certainly will go again. I had razor clams which were awesome

Great simple food. We always feel very welcome at Horta Grill. A lovely family restaurant. When the neighbors cone to eat here you know it is good food. The owners are very nice, hardworking and professional. A real recommendation for genuine Portuguese hospitality on top of Montes Alvor

It is beyond me where the positive and benevolent comments for this restaurant are coming from. We were there a few days ago with 4 people for dinner and had the following experiences: The menu suggests that there are no fresh food offerings (no daily specials, even just tamboril and chicken skewers), only using frozen goods). We then opted for 2 starters (fried mushrooms and polvosala) and two main courses, steak horta, sardines and fried lagarto (this is a thin strip of meat between the chops and the pork fillet). The champions were swimming in a plethora of oil and the polvo salad consisted of an undefined mass, in which there was nothing in terms of polvo either visually or in terms of taste. The two Horta steaks were sirlon steaks, with the usual fatty edges carefully cut away. The meat was swimming in an indefinable and completely tasteless flour sauce, garnished with potato chips from the bag. The absolute cheek, however, was the Lagarto that was served. Instead of the tender strips of meat, the chef simply fried the cut and tough edges of fat from the sirlon steaks and served them as a dish served with fries for 14.50 euros. This is not only bold and impudent, but actually constitutes fraud on the customer. The waitresses seemed demotivated although the restaurant was only sparsely occupied and forgot orders three times. For these dishes, 2 starters and 2 desserts (orange cake and 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream), as well as 1 liter of house wine, 2 espressos, a bottle of water and 4 Medronho, we then paid over 30 euros per person. Conclusion: We have lived in the Algarve for 25 years, but in our opinion this was the worst restaurant we have visited in that time.