Toca

What a great place to eat! If you are searching for real Portuguese cousine look no further than this place. This is it! No fancy stuff just comfort food well treated big portions and with a great selection of Portuguese wines. Any Portuguese person or not Portuguese will feel welcome and happy in this place.

I was introduced here by a Portuguese friend and alas, finally some decent Portuguese food since my trip to Portugal! From the starter of sardine gras to the traditional bacalhau a bra, everything tasted delicious despite the simplicity of ingredients. The bacalhau tasted just like the ones I had in Portugal. Since we were there in a large group, we also ordered some Portuguese white wine with our meal. An enjoyable addition indeed.
The value here was also great. Their food came in very big portions and almost all of us were able to take our leftovers home for a second meal.
The service was good and familiar. Maybe it was the birthday party upstairs, but the overall restaurrant felt like a big family party.

Portuguese food at its best in London. What else could you ask for? If you miss thise fantastic flavours from your sumner holidays to Portugal then this is the place to go. Prices range from 10 to 20£ for a meal, but to be honest ig you conpare the quality with other restaurants a 20£ meal here would be worth 30−40£ at peers. Again, food is fantastic, a good list of wines and great service! I am now a regular

Possibly one of the best Portuguese restaurants in london! They do the best octopus in town (polvo a lagareiro), definitely worth a try to any sea lover! If you re into meat then posta a mirandesa is a must! Very good restaurant with accessible prices!

I have been going to «A Toca» for a long time… I used to ttravel from Wembley to Wandsworth just to have a «Posta a Mirandesa»…The best steak this side of town. Great service, couvert and prices.
Frequento a Toca ha muitos anos e posso dizer que e um dos melhores restaurantes que ja fui. Os pratos sao grandes e muitos saborosos… Super recomendo!

Local Portugese café and restaurant around Vauxhall that serves many authentic Portugese food. Our visit here was prompted by a recommendation of my Portugese colleague who pre-​warned me of the excellent food here. It was excellent indeed. I had a good feeling about the authenticity of this restaurant as majority of the clients are Portugese.
It started from the warm welcomed by the restaurant staff and servers which continued all throughout our stay. The menu selection was quite overwhelming and the delicious looks and smell food that keeps passing by our table was distracting. Eventually, we ordered the pork skin, calamares and squid salad as our starters. As for the entrée, my husband and I shared the mixed grilled meat while our Argentinian friend had the Picanha meal (brazillian style marinated meat with rice and beans and corn). Holy Mole! Our table filled up quickly so as our bellies. We ate so much meat and much is still left because the portions here are generous. It is no problem as we are happy to take it home and enjoy it some more.
I am really impressed overall by the food and service here. I will definitely be back here sooner than later.

Having moved into the neighborhood, was excited to try out our new Portuguese restaurants (there are several in the area). The restaurant is nothing fancy, but the food is fabulous. We had the arroz con marisco (seafood rice), which was a big paella-​ish stew (so alot more liquid than a paella). Some of the other tables had the seafood skewers, which looked amazing. We didn’t try the salted cod, but that’s a pretty typical Portuguese dish, so I would assume it’s pretty good. A Toca also runs a café next door, so if you’re looking for pastries, breakfast, etc check it out. As with most Portuguese places, they have my favorite pastry, which are these egg tarts (they are similar to the Hong Kong egg tarts as well).

Awesome place to eat.
The Tapas plates are huge.
Value for money, the service was great.
If you want a place that feels like home, then you must visit.
Located in Stockwell, its easy to get to.
Well worth the visit.

Toca is a small restaurant well known amongst the Portuguese living in London. The word of mouth is probably the only way to discover this restaurant since you probably would not choose it for its décor or location. The food is one of the main reasons I have become one of the returning customers there, more specifically clams in white wine sauce and posta a mirandesa (beef prepared in a traditional Portuguese style).
Other things I would recommend are amazing selection of petiscos (tapas), octopus a lagareiro and pasteis de nata or baba de camelo for desert.
The portions are quite decent and when going there we usually order one or two starters and then share the main course. The prices are moderate, a meal for two with two starters, a main, 2 deserts and a bottle of wine cost us around £ 35.
The thing that might surprise you or put you off is the fact that there are several televisions in the restaurant broadcasting Portuguese channels all the time. Also, if you are not a football fan, you should avoid it on the days when Portuguese teams are playing. Not only will it be almost impossible to get a table there, but it can get extremely noisy.

lovely! proper portuguese food and portuguese drinks. but go on saturday, that’s the only day they have queijo fresco :)

This is a little portuguese restarant located in Stockwell. The place is well located not too far from stocwell station. The place is not a royal pala, but the simplicity of its décor still makes it a nice place to go for lunch. The food was nice and the price not too expensive at all. I did not eat much becuase it was lunch time but I enjoied it still. The people are nice too.