We stopped at Lawrences's Hotel restaurant after a hike to Pena Palace. On pupose i tried to avoid the very center of the city to avoid typical tourist hunting restaurants with poor food quality. Lawrence's restaurant was attracting due to its history of almost 200...years (since 1800s written on the wall).. Unfortunately the food quality was very poor, and this is through for almost all the dishes. We ordered Lawrences salad as starter and a cheese and cold cut plate. the salad seemed not so fresh, croutons were bought in supermarket, nothing special about it. cheese and colt cut place was full of supermarket low quality products. its the same type of cheeses that you can buy in Aldi or Lidl, some even had the plastic wrap remained on them. for main dish we ordered cod burger and portugese steak. Cod burger was totally cold when served, bun was not even heated, it was just used right after taking it out from the supermarket plastic bag, chesse was melted on the cod patty, but already hard, cold, dried out when served. This dish we did not even touch but sent it back right away. I saw another guest complaining bout the same dish just before we received it.. finally, protugese steak i would rate as ok, but quite chewy.. since the cod burger was unacceptable we ended up eating the steak together with my wife.. i do not recommend this place.More