Maria Batata - Óbidos

The food is overpriced for the quality but the ambience makes up for it as it is a truly beautiful property and restaurant.

O espaço é bastante agradável, com uma decoração alternativa, os colaboradores muito simpáticos, no entanto a qualidade da comida não vai de encontro às expetativas. Pedimos feijoada de coentros e chocos, que estava com pouco sabor e o pato com esparregado era muito bom, mas a carne estava apenas selada e pouco cozinhada, bastante crua em alguns pontos. Foi uma oportunidade para experienciar um local diferente, longe da confusão, todavia penso que não voltaremos.

I got a tip on this place and I wasn’t wronged in this choice. Nice environment with nice attendees. A must to go if you’re in Obidos or in Caldas da Rainha! Be sure to check the hotel Rio do Prado were Maria Batata is located!

Simply fantastic! Highly recommend! The tornedo was very good, soft meat and with an excellent flavour. Exquisite flavours and I am planning to come back.

Even in the dim evening light we could see neglect on the grounds ... what once might have been a quite beautiful hotel was rusted, peeling or abandoned, and not in a rustic-chic sort of way. I'm sad to say the dinner was the same. Our meal lacked the most basic levels of quality, for the highest prices we've paid outside of Lisbon. The worst offences--the frying oil tasted old; many sauces tasted like they were from a bottle; the 42 euro dogfish pasta was weirdly served with too much cheap elbow macroni; when we asked for fresh ground pepper, we were given a breakfast-service-style shaker that was rancid. How old must pepper be to smell that bad? Between 5 appetizers and mains, nothing was good. We ate a frozen pizza when we returned home. The cheesecake was good, the wine was excellent, the service was kind, covid procedures good, but almost everything else was unacceptable at these prices. I want to support the industry, and I have a lot of patience in these times, but I feel quite cheated by this dinner. If you can't deliver the same quality or service you had pre-covid, please try something different.