Located at the corner of Cheltenham Road with Cheltenham Lane, Bica Bistro Café offers Brazilian-Portuguese cuisine in an excellent location. Nonetheless, I am confused with the name of the place. Bica is the term used in Madeira and Lisboa for coffee although the place does not look like a cafetería. Also, on Facebook, the page is called "Boca Bistro Café" which means something very different.
Anyway. A friend told us the Bacalhau Com Nata is really worth it. However that day, we were not lucky and, for some reason we couldn't be able to understand, the cod was not available. There was a promotion on tapas and we ordered 3 tapas to share as well as a main each. I chose Portuguese Style Feijoada (£9.95) and the rest of my friends ordered Chicken Chimichanga (£8.95) and Piri-Piri Chicken (£8.95).
Over 45 minutes later, the food arrived. We had so many things to talk about that the wait didn't bother us much. However, the place was not busy enough to take 45 minutes to serve some tapas and 5 mains...
First, we had the tapas to share, which are not in available to take-away: mushrooms with cheese (I loved them), tiny fried fish (I thought they were served with ali-oli sauce which was missing) and albóndigas in tomato sauce (slightly dry meatballs).
Then, mains arrived. The appearance of my main and the Chicken Piri-piri was very similar. The pork of my dish (lower left) was nicely cooked and the sauce was very tasty. Sadly, it was accompanied with a scoop of overcooked rice. Funnily enough, a couple of minutes earlier, we had been talking about how difficult it would be to cook rice badly...
On the other side, my friends mentioned Chicken Chimichanga was a nice portion but it was too rich in spices and their mouths were on fire after having the huge burrito.
Overall, it was an OK 13-pound lunch. Long wait and average food. However, the place is in a very nice location and beautifully decorated.
WEBSITE: http://bicabistrocafe.com/
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