OVER the years, whenever I reviewed the hugely popular Cascais Portuguese Restaurant, which used to be on Samora Machel Avenue in the CBD, I felt compelled to write about its main competitor, Coimbra, with its own myriad fans, a few hundred metres away soon afterwards: in the interest of fairness.And vice-versa!
Sometimes I looked at both Lusitanian eateries in the same article, staging an imaginary cook-off between their respective chefs. Almost invariably I decided Cascais' piri-piri chicken was the best in the country, but Coimbra often cooked better chips.
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