Mãe Maria - Cardiff

Visited this restaurant on three separate occasions first occasion tea and cake for 2pounds. Second occasion for English breakfast 5 pounds, third occasion for 2 course lunch with drink 5 pounds. Not only great value for money, standard of food very high and excellent service. Highly recommend. Dated December 2016.

Been having lunch and dinner here on many occasions over the last year or so. The service is great and all the food has a lovely home cooked feeling. Its family run and well worth a visit. The menu is always expanding and the prices are very reasonable. A+

Can only reasonably give 4 stars as I only had dessert here. But their homemade chocolate mouse was excellent. Very rich and thick, much more like a ganache, and absolutely perfect for a chocoholic like me. Apple and Lemon cake desserts that others in our group had were apparently equally as excellent. Looking forward to the excuse to go back for main course at some point from food I saw others eating.

The establishment and the staff were amazing. Lovely little back room if you want to eat in a more intimate place. The front of house is like a cafe of sorts where you can sit and have a cake and coffee. The food we ate was quite dry. I don't know if that's because it's Portuguese food but I felt it lacked in that area.

I took some meat-based food for £10.90 (or so) and it was absolutely terrible. The quality of the meat and sausages was the cheapest one you find in a supermarket at best. Otherwise, the place is nice and the staff pleasant. The fries were good.