This location was formerly the Taste of Portugal. The door sign says it serves Spanish/Portuguese food and has a «Hookah» bar. The former formal dining room downstairs has been converted to a nightclub. The upstairs bar/dining area remains but has disco style lighting and a seating area in addition to the polished wood bar, 8 or so tables covered with linen, juke box, pool table, and 4 or so flat screen TVs. The dining area has been recently painted in pleasing beige tones. The staff of two ladies dress more like night club hostesses than servers. The service, food, and atmosphere have suffered severely under the new owner, who appears to want to focus on the night club business. On a recent Friday evening there was one customer at dinnertime and no music, no pool players, and nobody at the bar. The bartender/servers were eating and watching TV. This compared to a year ago when there would be a crowd at the bar, 4 – 5 pool players, four or five tables of diners, music blaring, and four different multi-lingual TV channels going. The menu has plenty of traditional Portuguese seafood and meat specialties. It is expensive, but not unreasonably so. There is a list of 4 – 5 specials on the blackboard. Only one(boxed) red/white wine by the glass is available. No credit cards accepted. No desserts. No bread served, but likely available. My grilled salmon special was $ 16($ 17 on regular menu) and adequate but dry. For accompaniments I had vegetables(good) and salad(good). Black olives were served upon request. Service was OK, but I had to interrupt the server’s dinner to give her my order! I don’t recommend this as a place to eat, unless you just want a relaxed place to read, eat mediocre food with cheap wine, and not be bothered by your servers. The jukebox selections are pretty good(a lot of Spanish language songs). The rest rooms are old and peeling.
