Mae Maria Portuguese - Cardiff

The restaurant appears dark and neglected. The food was decent but took a while to come out and wasn't very hot. The restaurant's location is not ideal, with no parking available and a cheap and uninviting exterior.

I visited this restaurant based on my daughter's recommendation and used a Groupon voucher that was gifted to me. Unfortunately, our experience was not a good one. We went for Sunday lunch and found the service to be lacking, with long waits even though the restaurant was nearly empty. The food was also barely edible. I will not be returning to this restaurant. It may be better in the evening, as my daughter has had good experiences there before. However, personally, I will not be taking that risk.

Like many others, we visited on a Groupon voucher. The restaurant seems like typica al taverna, doesn’t look much from outside but cosy inside. We ate early, 5.30 and were the only ones there. Can’t say we had the warmest or most attentive welcome but service was pretty good after that. Food, excellent value on groupon deal and all tasted fresh delicious. My only negative comment, very few prawns in the starter. I would definitely recommend a visit if you want delicious hot food at an uncomplicated venue.

I went to this restaurant with my family after purchasing a groupon deal for a 3-course meal with wine for 4 people. Despite the quiet ambiance on a Saturday evening, we were impressed by the attentive service from our waiter and the delicious freshly cooked food. The menu offered a wide variety of options, including some that were not listed on the voucher. I would highly recommend this restaurant and look forward to returning to try other dishes. Thank you, Mae Maria.

Went to this restaurant on a groupon voucher, our offer was for a two course meal to included wine, on arrival we were shown a menu that didn't include one of the things we were going to have as a starter{does this mean that there is a separate menu for groupon deals that seems to happen with other offers from this company),so our starter came after 45 minutes and with no one in the restaurant seems to be a very long time to wait, our main course came without to much of a wait after a average starter, myself and my partner choose peri peri chicken which was a half of chicken and chips unfortunately the chicken appeared to just been washed with a thin coating of something which I guess was a peri peri sauce which was tasteless on top of a piece of chicken which was over cooked, we pecked at a few morsels and made our excuses and left not before I used the toilets which are really nice but no toilet paper, you need to improve your act or was this just a blip, in future I will make sure I check restaurant reviews before using a groupon voucher again