Onda Azul Restaurant Restaurant in Calheta

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#127 From 192 in Calheta
7.1
134 Review
Ambience
7.1/10
Food
7.1/10
Interior
7.1/10
Prices
7.1/10
Service
7.1/10
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Price & Cuisine
$$ Seafood, Mediterranean , European , Portuguese
Establishment type
Restaurant
Dietary Restrictions
Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan
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Ander Iva
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6
3 months ago
The wait staff was helpful and friendly but we had to wait for a long time for service at every step. We sat down, waited for a while, then a waitress came to us and asked if it's just the two of us. Then waited some more just to get the menu, although the tables have QR-code menus available which matched what the waitress brought on paper. Then later saw the clients next to us (who arrived at the same time) already finish their desserts when we were still waiting for our mains plates to be taken away. Meat and potatoes were cooked okay but i had to add quite a bit of salt in order to give it any taste. For dessert i recommend the tiramisu with honey biscuit and Madeira wine. That made up for the shortcomings. Oh and coffee tasted weird. I would compare it to instant coffee (although i heard proper coffee maker noises from the bar; sorry i cannot give a better description). Atmosphere was quite nice as it is located right on the beach. It's a pity we arrived when it was already dark. Food: 3 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 5
I had 2 reservations here while I stayed at the Calheta Beach hotel, and I enjoyed it. The food was really tasty, the white wine was great. I recommend trying the sea food - the grilled squid, limpets/mussels and I can’t remember what it was called but basically you have prawns, squid and fish on a skewer- all so delicious! I even went on the wrong date for my second reservation but they still accommodated me.
We enjoyed the food, and they offer good vegetarian options. The service was good, but it is evident that they are understaffed, leading to slower service. Nevertheless, we returned twice during the week as the prices elsewhere were clearly much worse. Service Dine in Meal type Dinner Food: 4 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 4
Absolutely terrible. I ordered the vegetarian aubergine parmigiana. My dinner was half a grey and watery aubergine served ice cold and hot around the edgs with miceowaved mozarella on the top. It seemed that it had been frozen and reheated in the microwave. My husband had the misfortune of tuna in a "Portuguese sauce" (a beef red wine sauce). The tuna was very thin and grey and apparently did not taste at all like tuna and the sauce was not the usual thing you'd serve with fish. The bread "basket" consisted of two slices of very dry white sliced bread and a spoonful of oil and vinegar and a spoonful of red coloured butter. It was a truly terrible dining experience. I went to bed hungry as mine was inedible. Very bad. Service Dine in Meal type Dinner Price per person €35–40 Food: 1 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 1
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Aida Sl
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10
A year ago
Highly recommend to order black fish with bananas! Was wonderful! Staff were very friendly, restaurant not crowded, nice and cozy interior. Service Dine in Meal type Dinner
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Frank Mita
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2
5 months ago
Ordered the steak on a stone. The stone never got hot enough to cook the steak. After the second stone, I told them I didn’t want it anymore. Food: 1 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 3
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Danya Mintz
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2
7 months ago
Hard to mess up fries and kids spaghetti bolognese but those were the worst tasting of what we ordered. Expensive for what you're getting Only positive is it's right at the beach. Service Dine in Meal type Dinner Food: 1 Service: 2 Atmosphere: 3
Used to be a good restaurant. No fresh fish anymore. Looks like meals are already prepared somewhere else and just heated on place. Much too expensive for cantine food. Sorry Savoy, that's not how it should work.
Yeah, your average menu. Food was good except for the kid's fish fingers which was not filet but pressed fish meat. It took thirty minutes for food to come, one of the slowest service I've had on the island so far. But maybe I'm spoiled from the tourist-free pandemic days. Very nice seating, though, very comfy, nice decor. I would go again but not go out of my way.
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Alicja K.
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6
2 years ago
The food was actually good, we had fish of the day and we liked it. But the service was quite poor. We waited a while to get the menu (even though only 6 other tables were occupied). Then we waited a while to get the food. The waitresses seemed irritated and quite bored and that impacted our overall experience of the restaurant.
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