Grupo Naval De Olhao

If you want to try really nice fresh seafood, you have to come here. Staff very friendly.

Delicious fresh seafood, friendly staff and good wine. We had a perfect lunch there.

If you want to try really nice fresh seafood, you have to come here. Staff very friendly.

If you want to try really nice fresh seafood, you have to come here. Staff very friendly.

We read a review to say the restaurant at the Grupo Naval de Olhao did a very good Cataplana. We popped in on a Saturday afternoon and it wasn’t busy, it looked like a cafe plastic tables and chairs) next to the boats and we thought we might try it for lunch on Sunday a sunny weekend in October). We arrived soon after midday on Sunday and nearly every table was reserved. We were able to get a table for 2 phew! The tables around us, outside and inside, filled up. It was busy! The service was fine; not the most attentive, not all that geared to tourists, but friendly and fine. The food was delicious. We had the couvert: bread, butter and pickled carrots. We had house wine which was very nice and went well with seafood. We ordered prawns with garlic as a starter delicious, fresh prawns) for 8 euro); and then seafood cataplana 28 euros for 2), which was fantastic. It came with rice and toasted bread; it was chock full of all sorts of seafood in a light broth prawns, langoustines, crab, razor clams, mussels, clams, and many more. It was excellent. I shall be dreaming of that cataplana for weeks when I am back home in England. We noticed that other tables around us had fish, cataplana, the seafood rice dishes that are a local speciality, and also meat and fish hung on skewers these skewers looked fantastic and were very popular. We finished with mango mousse to share and a coffee. The bill was very reasonable, we weren’t rushed and we had a lovely lunch. I would definitely recommend eating here.