Casa Verde Restaurant Ltd - Vancouver

Good Food, Nice Owners. Now a lot of the menu items are named in Portuguese but are described in English, so we split the pork/clam dish, the two were stacked on top of some fries, and might i say they were some of the best fries i have ever had, the white wine oil type sauce thing was magical, and the fries were reminiscent of a great fish and chips joint. The clams were steamed to perfection too. The Piri Piri chicken wings were great and the pitchers of Kelowna Pilsner Lager for 13 bucks is hard to beat. Only beef was the prawns were more like shrimps and they still had their skin/shell on... If you're lucky the owner may serenade you with the aid of a karaoke machine. :

It 's better than it looks on the outside. Casa Verde doesn 't look like much from the outside. It 's definitely green, as the name says in Portuguese, but it gives off a vibe of mould green, influenced by the tatty industrial street it 's on just west of Commercial. Inside it 's nicer, homey like a down home restaurant in the Douro. The food tastes OK in a rustic way too. It put me in mind of a Portuguese version of places I 've eaten in in France and Italy where the local truckers and farmers go, but not the tourists (except me. <br/ <br/ I started with Casa Verde 's take on soup made with kale leaves. Kale is a Portuguese culinary staple for soups. 'Souple '? Theirs was a simple potato broth y affair with strips of kale leaves. The few thin slices of sausage in the bottom (NOT chorizo, sigh... didn 't add much to the flavour. But it was nice in a sorta country way.<br/ <br/ Since I was there on Sunday, I decided to try their weekend only special, the grilled piri piri chicken. It cost $13 for a half chicken, some fried potatoes and a simple green salad. The chicken had a good crispy skin, studded with peppery Portuguese spices. It was hot, but not mouth rippingly so. Be sure to ask for a bottles of ketchup and piri piri sauce and mix 'em together for the fries, because they can use some help. The beer was cheap $4.75 for a pint from a microbrewery out Kelowna way. Casa Verde isn 't as good as Bairrada in Toronto 's Portugal Village, but it 's better than Nando 's. I think. I 've never been to Nando 's. And I think I 'll keep it that way.

Hubby had a craving for Portuguese sardines. Ordered it he loved it. I got liguini w/ clams in white wine sauce, excellent! Caesar salad was ok. Chorizo was good. Young girl serving us was nice polite, same for older couple who was serving, too, I would come back for that service. BUT... when I went up to pay for our dinner, the blonde behind the counter was NOT friendly at all. Wife of the chef? I would not return just because of her. Too bad.

Went here for an authentic Portuguese meal and was underwhelmed on the whole. We were the only customers at dinner time. First of all there was no air con and no fan so it was sweltering inside. The table cloth was crumpled and had a scorch mark and the menus were dirty. They had no ice, no diet soft drinks and no clams ( on menu).The tv was on full volume making it hard to hold a conversation. The half chicken was too tough to cut through and too salty. The staff however were lovely and attentive.

My husband is Portuguese and was very excited to find a restaurant with good Portuguese food. When we were driving there, I was questioning if the restaurant really existed in this area. It did and it was worth the drive. We were all very happy with the food and it reminded us of the amazing food we get in Newark, NJ. The service was great and so fast. We enjoyed watching the old timers sitting around drinking their espresso and speaking Portuguese. Don't be put off by the location or appearance.