The Yeatman & The Orangerie

Like other reviewers on this page, we have been fortunate to eat at other 2 star Michelin restaurants around the world and feel that this one does not warrant it 's stars. Firstly the ambience is soporific from the first 3 courses in Dick 's bar where...the lighting is so dim you have to use the torch on your phone to read the menu and the pianist feels like he is one short hop skip and a jump over the balcony away from ending it all such is the melancholic choice of music. In the main restaurant the jarring of the colour scheme and old world painting with modern furniture is extraordinary and I don 't mean in a good way. The next 12 courses (as there are a couple of 'surprise ' ones not listed) take so long to come out that we lost the will to live and asked to leave with 4 courses still to go. At which point the service which had been slow up until then became overtly hostile by 2 of the waiters. Our reservation was at 8.30pm and we finally gave up at 11.20pm. Alongside the menu, customers can choose from two tasting menu wine lists. The premium one was €250 each for 6 glasses of wine!!!! We opted to choose our own and were baffled to find that the most expensive wines per glass were €20 making the premium lists pricing inexplicable. Even the more budget pairing list was €125 per head. The food was good and the oyster in particular was really good but just good not spectacular and the the length of time the whole thing took and the lack of imaginative presentation and theatre made for a disappointing experience.

Amazing experience from start to finish! From drinks and amuse-bouches in the bar area looking out over the city, right through the 12-15 course tasting menu (including a dish served at the chef’s table in the kitchen! we enjoyed every morsel. The paired wines were...well chosen and expertly explained with an alternative provided for me as I don’t like dessert wines. The food and service were simply flawless and so very deserving of the restaurant’s 2 Michelin stars

What a wonderful restaurant and place to spend some time! Excellent experience, amazing service and food... Wow the food!!! Brilliant!

Don’t order food to the hotel after the kitchen has closed while buying drinks from hotel and expect to eat it. You will be asked to leave. Never experienced worse customer service from a hotel of this standard in my life. In a nutshell this hotel has beautiful views, nice rooms, assuming you can get the AC to work but acts like 3 star service.

As guests of the hotel, we decided to book an evening meal and we were seated to a table overlooking the River Douro. The service was good and the food excellent. The menu is relatively limited (I had pigs cheeks; so tender) but cooked to a high standard. Wine list was comprehensive. Overall an excellent experience.