Red Fez Lounge

I come almost four times a week to this family owned restaurant. The food is great I haven’t been able a reason to fin a complaint. I appreciate this family owned businesses instead of chains that only serve frozen food.

So I don’t know if it was an off night or if this restaurant has taken a turn for the worse since they are «under new management», but this place let us down.
When we entered the restaurant we were excited to try out this hole in the wall after reading a fellow Unilocaler’s review, but we quickly became dissapointed with our experience.
The restaurant itself is in need of repair, but that doesn’t impact this review. What does affect it is the terrible service we received as well as the fact that the food was bland and lacked heart. We didn’t get silverware, it took forever to get plates because they «ran out», and the waitress was beyond absent. The bartender was actually the person we interacted with the most.
The shrimp Mozambique was not actually shrimp Mozambique but grilled shrimp with hotsauce. We were rationed Portuguese rolls and there was no real difference between the Seafood Rice my wife bought and the Mariscada I had for dinner. The only difference was the half of a lobster and the price.
The final nail in the coffin was the atmosphere with some of the other diners. We couldn’t tell if the family having a domestic dispute or the table full of men demeaning women was worst. That being said, if we were looking for an average meal this restaurant would meet the build but having expected a little more we were definitely dissapointed.

I like this family run, little Portuguese restaurant in Chicopee. Mom is in the kitchen cooking up some of the best Portuguese food around. I stopped yesterday for lunch and had Feijoada, the national dish of Portugal, I have had it many times before in other restaurants and this is just as good if not better in many respects as I have had. It is made with pork, pork belly, beef, chourico, cabbage, red kidney beans and served with yellow rice. It is a stew cooked low and slow which allows the flavors to meld, producing a medley of culinary symphonic ecstasy. In true Portuguese fashion, Portuguese bread always accompanys the meal, along with black olives. I ordered a glass of Portuguese red wine which was positively delightful along side the Feijoada, total price out the door before tip was $ 13.13, a value. This is a a real hidden gem in Chicopee and I plan to run the menu, sampling as many of those «Old World» Portuguese comfort food delights as possible.

If you want some really good Portuguese food, then this is the place to go, the food is really good, place is clean and bright, they have good drinks and keno, the people there are nice too, give this place a try, you won’t be disappointed, try the lobster oh so good.