We had a funny adventure with looking for the restaurant serving francesinha which my erasmus incoming res. recommended. When we've finally found it, the door was completly locked. While deciding not to give up and standing on the corner of Avenido 1 de Maio and Rua Miguel Bombarda one guy came out to us to invite to his restaurant - 'Retrio da Marginal'. As soon as we've entered the place, it seemed to be like entering the time machine. For me the place looked like polish 'milky bars', popular over 20 years ago during communist times. Obviously we were not in Poland and the main reason, why it couldn't be milky bar, was the fact that they had Coca-Cola there. Anyway, we went on... There was one guy sitting by the bar and another one by the table. The owner kept on saying sth to us and pointing the end of the room so we moved forward... Actually I didn't know what was happening but then I saw sth like a kitchen window and a cooking lady... Then a small corridor appeared and "Sala de jantar" written above it. It was clear, the most representative part of the restaurant was still ahead of us. We've passed the corridor and there it was. Hudge dinning room with loads of tables and next to two of them an old couple and a family dinning. After taking a sit, the owner and the waiter served us very politely with everything we wanted.Francesinha was good and the french fries were like home made - Bom apetite!
(This is one of over 30 posts, which I accidentally deleted one day in January. Luckily, I was able to recover them thanks to the backup done by DanielSan! It's a pity that the comments are gone but someting is better than nothing.)
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