O Dinis - East Providence

This was my first time dining at O Dinis. My friend heard about it at work and asked me to go. Every detail was just right. I felt like I was eating in my Gramma Estrellas kitchen! I miss her cooking, so it's nice to know there's a place with authentic Portuguese food just like Gramma made. We will surely be back.

One of the best Portuguese restaurants I’ve been to. Congrats!!

The attention was bad, you can't hear yourself, we were waiting for more than one hour until my husband ask to somebody come to the table and he asked something to drink, we were waiting other hour more, the food was coming after that never, EVER nobody was coming to ask if we need something else. I don’t recommend this place to nobody. Also, no parking lot. They need more people to work definitely.

*Updated* We went on a Wednesday, it was packed! We got in super quick, however. Nice small place. Looks like a renovated house. After 10 minutes the waitress comes over and we give her our whole order. Shrimp appetizer, bife a casa, and the swordfish special. I get a beer, fiance gets a soda. We get dry cold sourdough and butter packs with our drinks. It comes with a vinaigrette dressing, nice. Edit: Deleted the rest of my review. We waited over an hour with nothing, got an appetizer, and 20 minutes later left when we still hadn't gotten our entrees after tables that came in after us were eating. Fiancee still really wanted to try their food so she ordered takeout two days later. The staff remembered her and apologized profusely, giving her some free wine as an apology. I take this over-the-top gesture as a sincere apology, and won't hold our bad experience against them. The Bife a Casa was good, cooked perfect, and the sauce was great. The clams were very tasty also.

I ordered takeout, they told me 30 mins, it took over an hour to get my order. I ordered the chicken shrimp in garlic sauce and it was terrible, the chicken was so dry I couldn’t eat it-in trash it went. It definitely was not cooked to order, tasted like it was cooked yesterday and then refrigerated. Completely overpriced! Never again will I order from them.