le xurrasco - Cambo-les-Bains

We love it here! Our son even asked if we could go back to the Portuguese restaurant that we went last year. Make a reservation or you will be lucky!

Looking around Cambo for Sunday dinner, we came across this small jewel of a restaurant, full of character and good humor. We had an excellent meal. Not high kitchen, this is a busy restaurant with a take-away trade and obviously a local favorite, but the food was well selected and delicious. Maybe a bit expensive, but we were very happy with our experience.

The Xurassco serves roasted meat or stockfish. The food was genuine but cooked without finesse, served the Portuguese way with french fries and rice. The portions are big, but the price is nearing that of a menu in a traidtional restaurant. Extremly unpleasant were the...crude jokes of the French owner at the expense of his Portuguese wife who is doing the cooking.

A real gem. Fantastic hearty portuguese style grilled food. Great friendly, welcoming service at a good price. We were a party of four adults and four kids and were made very welcome. French service can be a bit sullen and cold but not here. The...waiter/owner was great with the kids. You always know its good when people are being turned away at the door on a Tuesday.

We were surprised to find this style of food here. Basque? Maybe. French? Certainly but French Portuguese. Anyway, it worked and was very enjoyable! The steak kebabs were excellent but to be honest my pork ribs less so. The ribs tasted very good but I'm...used to the meat falling away from the bone which they didn't. I was the only one of four of us, however, not to give this place a 5 but it is my review not theirs. Owner (Bernard? very cheerful friendly person. The place is adorned with a local artists paintings very amusing some of them (a caricature style The restaurant is close to the hotel we stayed at (Le Trinquet so quite convenient