Friends Pub - Lowell

Went there on a Friday night and the food as well as the service were exceptional. Prices are moderate. I can recommend the Kale soup and the Galinha Alentejana as well as the Carne Alentejana. We will be back.

Awesome food it was a great meal waitress was all alone and did every table and still was filling drinks and asking how is our meal A

Great food. Had a dish with Shrimp and a great orange colored sauce garlic sauce. Camarao Alhinho. It was fantastic. There was only the bartender there, and I think she may have also been the waitress. No fault of hers but the service was very slow

You can have the classic dish of Carne Alentejana $16.95) at @friendsrestaurantlowell. Marinated cubed pork with littleneck clams in a zesty white wine sauce, served over cubed potatoes with rice. Or you can have the A Chefe version for $21.95 that adds scallops 1 large) and shrimp 3). Not sure if this was worth the extra $5. There were three whole clams, so it wasn 't exactly an abundance of them. The potatoes were cooked perfectly and then lightly fried. The pork was tasty and tender. The gravy was fantastic, well seasoned, and really delicious. It was plenty of sauce, and that makes me happy. The white rice was unremarkable and cold. Second photo is Bifes De Porco Amigos $17.95). Fried pork steaks, flavored with garlic and white wine. served with fried potatoes and rice. All the other pork dishes said pork loin, so I 'm not sure why they called them pork steaks? This was pork loin as well. The rice was warm today, and the potatoes were just lightly fried. Three good-sized slices of tender pork in an excellent sauce. I think this was just about the same sauce that I got with my previous meal. It was coldish outside, and it was coldish inside as well.

I’m giving it a 1 because I can’t give a 0. We were there last night and the place is small and was very loud. The food was horrible and the service was even worse! The only good thing about the place was the drinks because you can’t screw that up.. sumols and the beer but the waitress spilled the beer all over my husband. This place is not worth your time or money! I don’t know how this place gets a 4.5 rating when I’ve been to many Portuguese restaurants on many..many trips to Portugal and this place doesn’t even compare!