Mia Porto Due

Worst Unilocal spot ever. Waste of time; waste of money; and waste of calories. Food was total crap and the service was slow. Restaurant was nearly empty but still took nearly an hour to get the four dishes we ordered. The pizza was edible, but not good. The kebabs were passable, but not good. The steak in mushroom cream sauce was awful. The fries were not good… And everything was pretty expensive (especially for the poor quality). Yes, the restaurant looks pretty inside… But I would never recommend this place to anyone. Ever.

Lovely restaurant!
I went to this restaurant last weekend and I had the most amazing beef with mushroom sauce, home-​made patatoes and special vegetable as my main dish. It was so good!
You can just see and taste that the food at Mia Porto Due is prepared with care.
I would definitely recommend Mia Porto Due!

Fantastic service in this little tucked away joint on a Monday in Cardiff!
Friendly, attentive staff– simple fresh food and a nice bottle of Portuguese Red for 2!
Would happily eat here again!

Nice setting, good drinks selection, friendly, helpful staff, nice ambience and a very decent musician that adds to the experience. Very good food importantly.
Starters were fine, not brilliant but good. The main course is where it’s at. You must experience the Espetada skewers. A choice of different meats on a skewer with sauce of choice. Delightful. Excellently cooked, succulent and tasty — will leave you wanting to return again. The musician cracks a few one liners to accompany his fine, subtle music that harmoniously plays in the background and is not intrusive. Service is excellent and friendly, there is a genuine warmth about the place. Recommended.

really delicious Portugal and Italian food in Cardiff

The food here is like none other I’ve experienced, well, I’d never had Portuguese until I visited this place. I ordered the espetada and they brought it out on skewers and hung it above our table. I found it hard to accept that this was all for me alone due to the amount of meat on the skewer. The service provided is so attentive you will be most unlikely to wait very long for anything. The moment I thought about wanting another drink the table staff were there at my side to ask me how they could help almost as though they we reading my thoughts.
I found the actual restaurant to be a little dark but the food and service more than made up for any issues I might have had with the décor. Porto’s is really easy to find on St Mary Street. You will probably see one of the family out on the street outside the restaurant handing out flyers. If you get the chance to go here for food I would highly recommend it although, I think I must have drunk a lot when I was there last as things are a little hazy now. This is definitely a top place to go for a meal though.

For a restaurant, there’s a certain legitimacy that comes with age that can’t be matched by newer, crisper, more stylised places. The Brewery Quarter is a place that suffers from this; everything in there seems so clean and new and so designed that it lacks any kind of soul. It’s like they designed it to be cool, so it can never, ever be cool. It comes across as too affected.
That was largely how I thought about Mia Porto Due at first. I thought it was a smarmy little upstart, riding on the coat tails of the old, established Porto Due that lives just around the corner. I was also a little incredulous at how close the names were, thinking this new, lifeless chain restaurant was trying to steal the reputation of our rustic charm-​laden restaurant on St. Mary’s Street.
Then I realised they were owned by the same people, and I stopped being such a feisty twit so I could try the food there. And it is good.
You can tell the two restaurants are run by the same people, as the same amount of care is shown in the food. So if you have any of the preconceptions I unfortunately saddles myself with, discard them now. Mia Porto Due is better than you think.

You won’t find too many homely family-​owned eateries on the chain-​bar-​and-​puke-​splattered drag of St Mary Street. In that respect Porto Due sticks out like, well, an independent Portuguese (and Italian) restaurant. Food envy is high on the agenda if you don’t do your research before visiting, however: even a 16oz t-​bone steak will have you crying into your wine when they bring out skewer after skewer or their speciality Espetada. Huge metal spikes of pork, chicken, beef or seafood hung directly above tables, there’s something about the borderline savagery of ripping hunks of food onto your plate that adds to the satisfaction of an already wonderfully sating dish. The staff are approachable and fellow diners even more so: don’t be surprised if you leave with a few new friends to add to a bulging stomach.

Located in the trendy Brewery Quarter area, this is the newer and younger sister restaurant of the original Porto Due on St Mary Street.
Its wooden, orange and white sign is very clean and crisp — completely different to the old-​fashioned green shop frontage of the original restaurant, and suggests a more modern eatery. This image is continued inside, where the décor definitely has a far more café-​bar, contemporary feel to it than you find in the cosy original restaurant around the corner.
I still prefer the original Porto Due in terms of the restaurant itself, but this newer one still offers the same kind of quality menu featuring colourful Mediterranean dishes, with strong Portuguese and Italian influences. Chicken piri piri, espertadas, home made pizza, pastas and risotto dishes are a few of the items you can expect to see on the menu — and their wine list offers a good range including plenty of less obvious choices.

Porto Due is a quirky, but elegant restaurant decked out like an antique rustic Portuguese style taverna. With terracotta walls adorned with what my mother would call ‘typicos’, (ever since her two week holiday in Madera, where everything on sale in the souvenir shops that was characteristic of the island was labeled ‘typico’, for the benefit of the tourists), it makes for a pleasant setting for a relaxed evening out. Although occupying two floors, it still manages to retain an intimate feel.
The food is a synthesis of authentic Portuguese fare and classic Italian cuisine, and quite unsurprisingly, there’s plenty of meat on the menu. Porto Due is probably most famous for its Kebabs, served on large metal skewers, measuring about a couple of feet in length, that are hung from the wooden beams above your table. All options are available with a choice of beef, pork, lamb, fish, chicken or a mixture of all five, which is then drizzled in garlic butter and served with fried potatoes and vegetables. It’s food with a touch of theatre for the more dramatically inclined. The waiters apply the garlic butter by tying it around the tops of the skewers and then vigorously rubbing it with a cloth until it melts its way down the meat.
If you prefer fruits of the sea there’s plenty of choice. The muscles are particularly good, (I’m reliably informed… I don’t like them myself), and are made in the unfussy traditional way, then piled high in big dish. They look impressive, and smell pretty good too… lots of garlic and butter… so they’re bound to!
Inevitably the wines are great. Italian red is my wine of choice wherever I am, so I’m well served here. There’s some full-​bodied Portuguese offerings as well.
The only down side of eating here is if you have a vegetarian in your group. There’s a couple of veggie options on the menu, but they’re nothing to write home about… standard veggie lasagne, amongst one or two other pasta dishes. They’re made extremely well, but are hardly inspirational.

Un amour de petit restaurant!
Le Porto’s Due est un restaurant italo-​portugais, dans un cadre charmant et atypique, idéal pour sortir en couple ou entre amis (en petit commité toutefois).
La cuisine est tout simplement excellente, et l’on sent qu’elle a été faite avec soin et sur le moment. Les prix sont tout à fait raisonnables, surtout en comparaison avec le cadre et la qualité d’un repas dans ce restaurant.
A tester!

well I am portuguese and I have to say that it was a sad experience. there wasn‘t really a selection of traditional portuguese food (except 2 or 3 dishes from madeira) and the food was incredibly bland wich is amazing because I had seafood and that‘s pretty hard to mess up. they have no rigth to call themselves a portuguese restaurant.

Porto’s Restaurant is a very, small restaurant which is on St Mary’s right in the centre of cardiff and its great.
The food is fantastic and the service is very good, the staff could not do enough to help. The selection of meat on the skewers which hang from the celling beams is great and the steaks are melt in the mouth. My favorite is the mushroom rissotto for starters or main. I has it for a starter and I was a hudge portion and struggled a bit with my main.
It is a great restaurant and we tend to visit on a week ngity when is not so busy but still full. This is the sort of restaurant which is dieing out in City Centres because of all the chains.

Schöné Atmosphäre.
Leckeres portugiesisches Essen. Sehr zu empfehlen. Ich war mal zu einer Weihnachtsfeier hier.
Leckere Weine, nicht ganz billig.