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“Friendly but bland food”

Eleven Bistro & Restaurant
Ranked #107 of 924 Restaurants in Melaka
Price range: RM 15 - RM 50
Cuisines: Portuguese
Dining options: After-hours, Breakfast, Reservations
Restaurant details
Dining options: After-hours, Breakfast, Reservations
Reviewed 4 July 2019

Visited here as a couple and a friend. Staff are friendly but that’s pretty much where the good points end.
We had the vegetable soup and salmon fried rice, both of which were tasteless to the extent that we had to force ourselves to eat. We also had one of the Portuguese chicken curries. This was very spicy but had nothing much else going on apart from spice. Also the jug of coke we had was flat.
Reading other reviews it seemed we must have picked the wrong dishes but judging by what we had it was pretty poor.
Finally the place was a bit dirty and there was an odd smell. Overall I wouldn’t visit again.

Date of visit: July 2019
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Reviewed 10 June 2019 via mobile

It was a great dinner with my friend, we really enjoyed. Good food and service, staff was friendly too. Highly recommend for dinner.

Date of visit: May 2019
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Reviewed 23 May 2019 via mobile

The quality of food was delicious, the problem in this place is the menu, is a lot of options for food last 2 visits I have a problem because of 4 dishes I order 3 are not available, so check the menu and ask what is the food they have, a lot of the dishes on the menu are not available to order, is a big shame i visit several times this place, the taste and quality of food still good, but this last 2 times I ordered and 4 minutes later they said this dishes we don’t have, few chicken orders, crab, vegetables, soups, etc most of them don’t have.
So better ask the waitress, what they have to place a order and not get disappointed.
This could be a excellent restaurant but they decided to stay hooked on the time and not improved.
Excellent food with limited options, in a huge menu, but just in the paper.

Date of visit: May 2019
2  Thank EugenioA193
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Reviewed 4 March 2019

Two sister restaurants next to each other. One Nyonyan style and the other Portuguese. We tried both and found the menu extensive (they are happy for you to mix it up across both styles) and staff very friendly. The Portuguese Mussels in cream garlic sauce were the best my wife has ever tasted. Going back again tonight.

Date of visit: March 2019
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Reviewed 10 February 2019

We wanted a quick bite and although we were in Malacca for Nonya food w wanted a change and Portuguese sounded good. It is really Portuguese Goan food so do not think you will have genuine Portuguese, but it was very good.

We had the "Portuguese" chicken curry and it was great, so different from the normal North or South Indian or SE Asian that you get. We talked to the shy Chef, Shwe Kim, and she told us it had chili, lemongrass and vinegar and none of the other usual spices. It was mildly spiced, which what we had asked for. Some excellent garlic stir fried square beans and Brindjal finished the meal. Highly recommended, not just because of the chefs excellent food but also the waitress (CT) who was fabulous, bouncing about and very enthusiastic. She really helped make the meal.

Date of visit: February 2019
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