Gayola - Lisboa

Had a great late night experience there. Ordered the Gayola hamburger which was A-star and came with a generous helping of chips. Really nice music and excellent service. Definitely recommend!

“Gayola” is one of Lisbom's long time favorite bars, conveniently open until late at night in the weekends. From Tuesday to Thursday, they’ll serve you food until 2am but from Friday to Sunday it’s all hens on deck until 4am. It’s probably one of the only classy places in Lisbon that is open that late, still serves you food and all the while manages to remain cozy and comfortable and luckily doesn’t fall back on any snobbery or nightclub atmosphere. It’s exactly what this city needs and of what there’s too little of here. A diamond in the rough.<br/  <br/ <br/ They know how to leave well enough alone here. There’s only four hamburger toppings to chose from, all very simple, and whatever you choose, none of the toppings get in the way of the fabulously tender, juicy, melt in your mouth chuck steak. Plus, the olive oil fried potato chips sprinkled with oregano shatter very satisfyingly between the teeth, making for a seriously indulgent treat. Ask for some of their gourmet sauces to accompany your burger and prepare yourself for a wave of umami. It’s simple, spare and possibly our favorite burger in the whole of Lisbon.<br/ <br/ More information and pretty pictures you can find here: lisbom.org/2016/05/24/gayola-wonderful-meat-at-the-end-of-every-rainbow/

The bar was really nice. good bear and really good cocktails. the burgers were really good and we really enjoyed them. the steaks also looked good. the service is really friendly and really helpful. we saw the champions league finale there and then there was a good music. there was a good atmosphere. everything is clean and its a little retro style. we have enjoyed our stay

One of the worst steakhouse experiences I've ever had. As soon as we entered, we were overwhelmed by the smell of urine. However we still wanted to give the place a chance as the reviews on Google and TripAdvisor were pretty good. Looking around, the interior design was lacking, everything looked unclean, run-down and nothing really fit together. It more or less seemed like an out-of-business pizzeria. Still, I thought there will be more than enough reasons to explain the good ratings. We (me with a group of colleagues) were the only ones there. An older gentleman served us, his presumable wife was in the kitchen. He was quite nice, but communicating was tough as he did not seem to speak English, which is fine of course as we were still able to order and get what we wanted. One colleague wanted to check if his order was gluten free (due to celiac's), which after overcoming some language barriers seemed to be fine. Unfortunately, as soon as we got our drinks we started to become shocked by how low the quality actually is in there. The glasses for our drinks were dirty, but most of us did not mind so we did not try to make a huge thing out of it, as two other guests just arrived at the same time. We also got free olives as starters, which were pretty good. About an hour later the waiter brought out cutlery and napkins (one of which was already dirty, it had some sauce on it). At that point I did not really mind anymore as I just wanted to eat and see how much more weird this can get. Of course this is not the best approach on my part, but I guess I shouldn't have to tell a waiter that at least getting clean items should be a bare minimum. He even very clearly saw the dirt on the napkin but was not phased by it. I guess it was part of the experience. About half an hour later our meals arrived at about the same time, which was nice. Some of us had the bacon cheese burger, the others had the sirloin steak. Our expected French fries were instead homemade potato chips, which was surprising but in a positive way. Looking back at pictures of other reviews, I should have expected that, so that's fine, just a heads up there. The burgers looked very dry, the salad inside was dried up. They tasted as dry as they looked. The chips were also very dry and chewy, I guess they were already a bit older. The steaks (which were served with actual French fries) looked good, which they were according to the other colleagues. After a few bites one of the colleagues who also got a burger stopped eating, as his burger tasted funny and had some green coloring in it. I did not want to verify that as to not lose my appetite, I just wanted to have something in my stomach. My burger seemed fine apart from the dryness. Still, it was not a good eat. When we were done the waiter offered dessert (chocolate mousse), but we declined and ordered the bill. Paying worked out fine (we payed separately, which apparently is uncommon in Portugal), but he did not mind and obliged. It was still funny how he walked to the cash register, printed out a single receipt, walked back, took the money, walked to the cash register, walked back to ask what the next one had and repeated this process until everyone payed. That doesn't have to be this complicated, even if they are not used to separate bills. We left and looked for a bar to wash down this whole experience. Just to note, it was surprisingly expensive, so be prepared to pay more than it should cost. Verdict: In general a very bad experience, unclean and sometimes outright disgusting. The waiter was nice and tried to cater to our wishes despite the language barrier. Low quality but high prices. I guess if you don't mind all of that and want a decent steak then you could check this for yourself to see if you get your money's worth. However I would recommend to everyone else to stay away from this joint.

This place offers an ingenious steak talloin and costs only 18 euro! comes with its choice of the sosse and literally a frier basket full of fries. chocolate cake for dessert is quite tasty and beer are big. Go to gayola for quality service and eat! it was so sad that there were no customers at all at this wonderful place. Save her and eat here!