Peterborough
O Sado

O Sado

United Kingdom, PE1 2PL, Peterborough

Steak • Coffee • Seafood • European


"My husband and I often pop to Bar O Sado on Saturday mornings for a latte to get the weekend started in a gentle way. It is a little Portuguese cafe in the centre of Peterborough 's Lincoln Road right next to the bus station. Named after a Portuguese River in the owner 's home town we believe. The atmosphere is very relaxed, the staff are all warm and friendly. Dora, the welcoming owner, is always keen for us Brit 's to try some authentic Portuguese cuisine in the evenings. We have had many evening meals there, the grilled king prawns and meat kebab dishes are divine and definitely worth a try! After your evening meal you should also try the after dinner fortified wine-just ask Dora as we 've forgotten the name but it seems very popular. The food and drink here are very good value for money. We sometimes eat breakfast there too, we mostly order omelettes and toasted ciabatta although the regular Portuguese bread is our favourite. English breakfast is also available although the mushrooms are tinned so not my favourite. You can also get some unusual light bar snacks during the day both sweet and savoury. Try the caramel 'camel spit ' or, if they have it, the delicious chequer board cake! During the day it can sometimes get very busy with mostly Portuguese clientele milling about and visiting each other 's cafes, especially when there 's a Portuguese football match on TV. It is quite small inside, and it is decorated basic cafe style with a couple of fruit machines at the front. You can see through to the kitchen area at the back where chef is constantly cooking. The restaurant 's seated area is also at the back. The TVs play music channels most of the time in the background. You can just sit at the bar at the front- locals tend to start on the wine quite early! There are also three tables outside the front. Sometimes we will just sit outside and order a cold sagres lager to while away the weekend afternoons. We like O Sado because it is like a mini break away from the British norm if you can forget you are in the centre of Peterborough. The people watching can be an interesting experience. In the summer you can simply chill, listen to the Portuguese conversation in the cafe and imagine you are in warmer climes. Give it a try, sit and watch the world go by at Bar O Sado."

St Petersburg Russian

St Petersburg Russian

52 Broadway, PE1 1SQ, Peterborough, United Kingdom

Pizza • Russian • European • Vegetarian


"We organised a family get together to have a meal somewhere that none of us has been and thus settled on this place. Appearances from the outside made it look very authentic and welcoming but that was too good to be true. I arrived first with my wife and we decided to have a small shot of Sambuca, and the young waiter did not know what this was until we pointed it out on the menu. Eventually everyone else arrived, and so we started ordering our drinks. They have the same name wine listed under red wine and white, and every time we asked for a red wine, a white wine came. Eventually we decided to try and ask for a bottle; all of the red wines were out of stock apart from Blossom Hill which was £12, 4 times the cost of that from a supermarket. A few of us ordered starters and they can in a reasonable length of time. The garlic bread with cheese was nothing more than hard piece sof bread, fried in oil, with cheese melted on top. After just a moment or two, in the bowl, it was just full of oil dripped from the bread wasn 't very edible at all. The fishermans snack was suppose to consist of battered squid and prawns. The squid we recognised and was of decent size, but the prawns, they were so small you could not tell if you were eating one or just a bit of plain batter. We ordered the mains at the same time of the starters, and we had to wait over an hour for them to come, and still, whilst several us started eating, we had to wait a further 10 15 minutes for the rest of the guests ' food. I had the pan fried shark. It was disgusting. The outside was burnt to the crisp, whilst the middle I was unsure if it was cooked through, and all it tasted of was just fried salt. There was no shark taste whatsoever. It was suppose to come with vegetables and aspargus, the latter missing. A relative had a margherita pizza, which looked anaemic, the crust looked like it was made of crisps it was that thin, and the taste, was just salty, oily cheese. In fact, it didn 't appear to have any base sauce whatsoever. It came to dessert and only two guests decided to order due to the length of time it took for the mains and was told it would only be 10 minutes (as they close at 10). However, it took 25 minutes. They ordered the Hot Kiss and the pastry was not cooked through at all, it was raw. We arrived and ordered food at around 7.30pm and we wasn 't out, solely on waiting food, until 10.30pm 3 hours for just two courses. They didn 't have enough menus for us, so we had to share and then we had to give our menus to others whom was sitting in eating. The waiter had to be shown on the menu what we wanted to eat despite pronoucning it correctly. As for the atmosphere, they had a huge TV where we was sitting, playing violent rap music with the videos, showing these music artists with guns putting it at others. That was disgraceful. We shall never be returning to here again. It is true that they say, if a restaurant is empty at a peak time, there is usually a good reason why."