Oporto Café
This Portuguese wine, tapas and espresso bar on Richmond doesn't take itself too seriously
My favorite of the tapas plates was camarões piri-piri, an oval dish of juicy shrimp sautéed in olive oil, garlic, lemon and piquant piri-piri pepper oil with a dash of Madeira wine for sweetness. The olive oil and garlic sauce, which I sopped up with bread, was the best part. It went wonderfully with a glass of fresh-tasting Frascati, one of Italy's best-known white wines.
I also loved the potato salad with olives, garbanzo beans, boiled eggs and bacalhau, the Portuguese salt-dried cod. And for eight bucks, the pesto pizza, which had a reasonably crispy crust, was an excellent deal, although there was a lot of mozzarella and sliced tomatoes on it and not a whole lot of pesto.
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Oporto Cafe
3833 Richmond
Houston, TX 77027
Category: Restaurant > Italian
Region: Greenway Plaza
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Pizzas: $8
Panini: $7
Salad: $7
Shrimp tapas: $9
Potato bacalhau salad: $8
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My biggest disappointment in the tapas was advertised as linguiça. I should have paid attention to the menu, which called it "Portuguese-style sausage," a sure sign that it wasn't the real thing. The dish turned out to be cut-up sausage links sautéed with onions, peppers and some potatoes that tasted leftover. Polpetti de carne e salsicce turned out to be the same sausage chunks with some bland meatballs in a tomato sauce.
Oporto doesn't pretend to be a dinner destination, and it's a mistake to try and turn it into one. The night we sampled the meats and cheeses with the bread basket, followed by a pizza, I ended up feeling like I had eaten too much bread — which, in fact, I had.
But Oporto is ideal for a long lunch, especially if you can indulge in a glass of wine. And it's great for an afternoon espresso and a panino, or a bottle of wine and some tapas after work.
You don't expect much from the food in a cool hangout like Oporto, which is why the tasty tapas come as such a pleasant surprise.
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