Café Luso - Fado & Food Group

Mihaela Dinca

in the last week

The best place in town for listening to live Fado music. If you want to book a table, ask for Pedro - he is really helpful and friendly. The food is very tasty, we really enjoyed the evening and the Fado experience. Congratulations!

George L. Profeta

3 weeks ago

Place is always packed from what I have heard. The food is good and service is ok although they messed up our groups order. Four of us ordered veal but we're served fish. It was later corrected after we complained. The entertainment was great with 4 great singers and three talented musicians. Two glasses of wine per person came with our order. Another person in our group received a bottle of wine for her trouble of receiving fish instead of veal like us (although we did not get a bottle of wine at all for our trouble having to wait for our corrected order). I would give them 5 starts if not for the mixed up orders.

Nitin Bahadur

a month ago

5 stars for the food and 3 for the Fado. The Fado singers were really good but the dining area is huge and the voice impact gets lost. If you want a true Fado experience go to a smaller venue. In food, avoid the dessert with “chorizo”....it’s too strong to be a dessert. Fado tries to be fine dining but fails because it takes in too many customers and everyone is seated very close to each other.

Andrew Kuhn

a month ago

This place is a tourist trap. The tables are packed with tour bus groups. They even have a shameless sign with each company on the tables. The food was not very good at all. We didn’t eat most of it. We traveled Portugal and Spain for 10 days and it was by far the most expensive restaurant by a mile. I would not recommend for the food. The fado singers were excellent and put on a great show.

L.Z. Tang

a week ago

I wish that I could say my experience was wonderful. If the staff had been polite, it absolutely would have 4 stars. The food is nice, they offer typical Iberian style dishes and the local salted cod. The wine is okay, and it goes well with the food. But beware the rude staff. Our table had ordered our meals. The waiter brought round salted cod before the seabass, and he ended up with an extra salted cod. Instead of taking it back to the kitchen, he irritability remarked that "one of you definitely ordered the cod". The correct number of sea bass arrived during this episode, and the waiter with the cod walked away saying "it's screwed up already". English was not his native language, so I can only assume he wanted his guests to hear. The fado singer scolded the entire restaurant into complete silence while our soup was being served, as she could not sing with so much as a single whisper or something like that. And a waiter dropped silverware into the silence that followed and she marched away. Also, what I found most unfavorable was their lack of concern for dietary restrictions. My mother is allergic to dairy, and restaurant was notified in advance of our arrival that her meal was to be made separately. A small placard with a no dairy sign in Portuguese was placed in front of her, yet the main meal and dessert were made with butter and cream sauce/custard!! And the gluten intolerant couple did not receive any accommodations.