Restaurante Do Forte em Funchal

01/01/2025: Google értékelések/cikkek alapján esett erre a snack bárra a választásunk. Szerettünk volna egy olyan helyen ebédelni, ami nem a luxi kategória és hozza a “snack bár” jelleget. Kissé kintebbre esik a várostól és elsőre habár nem túl bizalom gerjesztő, hidd el, hogy jó lesz. Amúgy fullon volt, mikor megérkeztünk. Majd’ 30 percet vàrtunk, de tök jó élmény volt. Kedves a személyzet, finomak az ételek, a mennyiség is tökéletes. Árban pedig majdhogynem verhetetlen, eddig még nem volt, ami lekörözte volna. :)

31/12/2024: It's always fun to see the look on the face of the staff at a restaurant/cafe when you rock up and say: "Table for 13 please", but the staff of Bela 5 were unfazed and shuffled things around a little and soon accommodated us. It was really buzzing and is clearly popular with locals (always a good sign) as well as tourists - I assume the fact that it's pretty highly placed on the Tripadvisor league table generates a certain amount of business. Service was friendly and fun, and they were able to accommodate the two veggies in the party with no problem at all. A lot of us had the various steak-filled Bolo de Caco, though there were a few variations (including one who had a tuna steak instead of beef in hers, and liked it a lot) plus loads of hand-made chips (truly excellent). When I asked for a "large beer", the question came: litre or half-litre - a new one on me but I went for the half. Everything arrived quickly and was truly delicious. One of the party asked for some hot sauce: one of them was clearly for fun and came with a strict warning (I tried it too - I've seen less brutal military weapons) but the other was more sane and very tasty. Bela 5 was by a long way the best lunch venue in our five-day stay in Funchal. It's popular, the service is great, the food's amazing, and unbelievably the bill for the 13 of us was below EUR100. Go the Bela 5. It's fabulous.