Sagres - Hamburg

The full name of this restaurant is Sagres & Benfica, not just Sagres.We went here as it looked good from the outside, menu looked good and so on. Frankly though there are too many Portuguese restaurants in this area. Located about a 10 minute walk from the Madison Hotel and near the main street that runs along the harbor.We had Filete Cordeir forno and Lobinhos porco. Neither of which were all that great. The best thing here was the beer. There are many restaurants in the area, have a look around. If a last resort it is not terrible, but I definitely would not return unless it was a last resort.

We found this place while exploring Hamburg Harbour and had passed many Portuguese restaurants nearby to get there, due to a recomendation of a local. It looks like an authentic Portuguese restaurant or taverna from former times where nothing has been updated, including, sadly, the bathrooms, which are not good. The menus are old and worn and the whole place has an air of decay. However, the waiter is efficient enough and there is plenty of fish to choose from. We had grilled fish with fried poitatoes and side salad and it was fine. The half litre of house red wine was very good and the price was OK. I think the place could do with a little updating whilst retaining it's old world charm.

We stopped in this quaint, little Portugese restaurant while poking around the waterfront section of the city. Only wanting a light lunch, we ordered two different soups, one with various vegetables and the other a traditional soup with potato and shredded kale. Although the server was friendly, the food was very slow in arriving. The place was not busy, maybe 4 other customers already eating but it took a while to get our drinks. It took more than half an hour to get our bread and soups! The soups were small but tasted good. We sat across from the display fridge with all kinds of whole fish on ice. The restaurant had some interesting decorations and a large flatscreen TV playing the soccer matches. We didn't mind passing the time here, it was pleasant, but only average in terms of food. The prices were on the high side for the main dishes.

One of the first and best Portuguese restaurants in Hamburg turned into to worst between all Portuguese restaurants and in Landungsbrücken since it good new management. If you are reading this and already sitting on the restaurant, keep it simply. Order something that the cook will have to cook at the moment, like: grilled fish and order only fish you know.I ordered a shark stake and it was the strangest I have ever seen, another waiter comes and ask if the sword fish is OK and in the end I discover I have just eaten a cheap Butterfish.

We bumped into this restaurant and were not familiar with the Portugese kitchen .. the place was quite full (Saturday evening) but we were seated at a table for six and much later another couple was seated at the other end of the table .. we started with a platter with Portugese 'tapas' just to get an impression of the different things (sardines, calamari rings, artichoke, cheese, prosciutto, a sort of sausage) .. then we had the fish stew Portugese style as a main course .. with large chuncks of fish, some mussels and nice veggies .. the red house wine we drank was really nice .. all in all a pleasant place and tasty food (lots of fish dishes) and for a very reasonable price ..