Reviews - Moises
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It seems Portuguese cooking of meat means well done. Our kebab was so dry it was tough to eat. Our cooked cod was moist and very tasty. To enjoy meat, chicken, pork, lamb or beef it should be moist and melt in your mouth. Being from beef country, Alberta, Canada it's a shame to have meat cooked to a well done state. I have learnt from my 3 week stay in Portugal, I will just cook my own meat at home rather than have i... View all feedback.
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Last update : 05.10.2025
Excellent food. The bacalao and the Salmon were delicious and very fresh. Highly recommended. Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5
Not bad, but portions are a little small so I was still hungry afterwards, plus they charge for bread. Food: 4 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4
Last update : 09.02.2024
Good honest food en very frendly hard working people. Atmosphere tipical Portugese <br/ We liked iT very much. We had a tong and sardines end good wine for a good price <br/ From Holland <br/
Last update : 16.09.2023
Delicious, and very reasonably priced! My partner had the bbq chicken which was very tender. I had the pork and clams and the clams especially were insane!! So tasty! And for €11! The restaurant was full of locals, and packed out on a Thursday after 9pm, which probably says a lot. If you’re in the Saldanha area of Lisbon and want a tasty cheap meal I’d definitely recommend!!!
About three years after our first go-around at Moisés, we were back in Lisbon and decided to go back. The first thing we noticed was a much more expensive menu than we had remembered. Nonetheless, we ate there. Three of the four dishes we ordered were subpar. I ordered rabbit just because I rarely have the chance to get it. It was mostly bones. We are aware of how bread and butter will cost you extra in Lisbon, but we found €1 steep for a pat of butter. It was Saturday lunch and we figured maybe the lunch menu from three years before was not available on the weekend. We returned during the week a few days later and saw the menu in the window--better prices. We had lunch again, stayed with fish for the most part, and enjoyed the meal more the second time. However, we did notice a discrepancy between the menu prices in the window. Just as I had suspected, the prices were for sitting at the counter (balcão) and not at a table. Oh well, live and learn. We would probably go back to Moisés, but we were a bit disappointed. In 2017, this seemed like the perfect place, but now it was just average.
Was pleasantly surprised by this owner run family restaurant serving very local, authentic and hearty Portuguese food! I was doing quite a bit of research on Yelp and TripAdvisor for good places for some seafood and most reviews have come back with them being overpriced or disappointing....and I stumbled upon De Moisés which is just a block away from where I was staying and very busy with locals. Busy enough to know that locals would eat there, but not busy enough to generate a long queue of tourists! I must say this is generally my favourite balance of the type of restaurants I like. Good decently priced and yummy local food (to get a feel of the local culture), without the need to be pretentious with its interiors to attract the tourist buck! I'd thoroughly recommend this restaurant to anyone who'd like to have an insight into how locals live and eat in Lisbon at this place whilst enjoying some really yummy and hearty Portuguese cuisine! I literally went for two mains in one sitting as I was hungry and was so impressed after the first main that I had to try the second one after since I could still fit it in!
Nice local and mediterranian cuisine. I prefer veal meals, not sure about fish and seafood. Quite roomy. A middle price range. The 'atmosphere ' is not the strongest side.
This is a traditional diner- style restaurant. A mix of families, local couples and a few foreigners like me scattered throughout. I had noticed that the specials of the day were not translated into English, and my phone battery was dead, so Google wouldn't be helping me. Best solution: sit at the bar always a good choice when you are travelling alone) and the waiter behind the bar helped me with a mix of Spanish, a tiny bit of English, and my pathetic attempts at Portuguese. I wound up with lovely tuna dish with onions and olives. Very simple, but exactly what I needed. Best of all were all the smiles and kind attention. For dessert, the waiter suggested I have Farofias – two light but large) pillowy meringues poached in milk and served with a not-too-sweet custard sauce and cinnamon. It's not a rich dessert, and it was a surprise to me that it wasn't too sweet, either. It was a perfect ending. You won't have an amazing food experience here, but you will be treated well, and have an honest, homely, well-prepared traditional meal.
