Vai e Volta

16€ All you can eat fresh seafood grilled to perfection with just salt. Warm customer service and they can speak multiple languages for those who are from outside Portugal (Spanish, English & French). Great variety of seafood (Sardine, mackerel, sea bass & baby squid etc.) and drinks. Amazing value for money I can’t recommend it enough.

Highly recommended if you are in vicinity
Delicious fish and cosy environment
Fishes are served quickly
The salad also taste great!

Will definitely comeback again!

Pro tip: arrive at 12pm as there is super limited table

This place came recommended by a friend and what splendid advice. Simply put “all you can eat” grilled fresh fish (15 euro) brought to the table until you can’t stand up. Tomatoes, boiled potatoes, baked sweet potatoes and very reasonably priced Portuguese wine (10 euro). Sardines, sea bream, baby squids, mackerel, etc all cooked to rustic perfection. Great service, busy and unforgettable.

Great all you can eat fish for 15 euros. They didn’t skimp on the quantity of fish brought to the table. Wine was good and reasonable. Make reservations if possible. Recommended.

So amazing! MUST TRY! Highlight of our trip so far. We didn’t order anything… you sit down and they immediately start bringing the most amazing seafood! Our 2 year-old was in heaven. Good wine. Good food. We will come back here for sure next time in Portugal. Do not miss.

Wonderful place for all you can eat grilled fish. Fresh fish and nice variety.
Friendly owner and staff.

I absolutely love this place. We sat inside by the toilet because the outside was full and it was STILL outstanding! So simple, there's no need even to think, really: just sit down and start working your way through the perfectly grilled fish and seafood until you can't any more. I'm not sure I'll ever be the same again. Oh yes and they're super friendly.

My wife and I stopped in here on our last day in the Algarve. Wow I wish we had gone here on our first day as I would like to come back many times. What a great place! They have friendly workers and the man working the grill always had a smile. He serves up so many kinds of fish, and they are always fresh off the grill (the grill is just 2 or 3 meters from your table). The fish was always perfectly cooked even though they were different styles and sizes of fish. The man really knows how to cook fish properly. I also need to talk about the side dishes, they have a fresh and flavorful tomato salad, potatoes with olive oil, sweet potato, and some unusual but delicious dip we had never seen. They also give you olives, bread, small sardines, and a tuna/mayonnaise spread.

If you want fresh, and I really mean fresh fish for value. This is where you go!
Pay 12 euros a head, all you can eat fresh fish right off the grill. Very delicious and the side dishes will also surprise me.

Trust me, I'm a big guy, trust me when I say you must come hungry! Very hungry!

Family run business, everyone is really friendly and make you feel at home. Feel free to talk to the BBQ master and ask about the fish!

Definitely recommend!!!

One of our first meals in Olhao, can’t recommend enough, fab concept, EXCELLENT value for money and nice relaxed atmosphere. The fish is mainly local catches, seabass mackerel etc be prepared to debone, it’s worth it. ❤

This is an all you can eat BBQ fish restaurant which was absolutely amazing. Such friendly, attentive people. For €14 per person you literally get all you can eat fish of various sorts. He keeps bringing them fresh from the BBQ that is in front of you, until you say no more. We must have eaten 14 fish between us and they were the freshest tastiest fish. Nothing added other than a bit of salt. Just superb, can definitely recommend

A meal for two. Excellent service throughout, from adequate waiting time with a drink in hand, to being seated at a table with attentive waiting staff. A reassuring portion of seafood that keeps getting delivered to your table until you have had your fill. Grilled fish and calamari that had been salt rubbed and grilled to flavourful perfection - sliding off bone with ease. Good selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beers. Recommended.

The best fish I ate on my vacation in Portugal! ♥ You pay 15 eur per person and they keep bringing a lot of varieties of amazing fish - the balance between the salt and lemon is amazing and they all tasted so good! Side dishes - salad, potatoes, the sauce is very very good, and I definitely fell in love with their home made corn bread 🍞 Would recommend this restaurant 100%! Btw, their sangria is also very good!

The most amazing food experience in Olhão. Hospitality, food and atmosphere is great and feels like dinner at best friend's house. 'all you can eat" grilled fish plates keep coming till you are done. Everything fresh and unimaginably tasty. House wine is great too!

Our Airbnb Host recommended this lunch only fish restaurant round the corner to where we were staying, he told us it was famous & well reviewed. It’s open from 12 - 15, we got there a little after 3, we thought we might be too late but the owner said no problem, let me clear this table. We weren’t disappointed, it’s simple set price system, you sit down & fresh fish or squid is served until you can’t eat any more. You’ll get accompaniments, a chopped tomato salad, selections of sweet & new potatoes, a wonderful bread sauce with garlic & coriander, olives, bread, hummus & anchovies all for a set price. They have a drinks menu with wine, beer, soft drinks & spirits all reasonably priced. It was full of locals & tourists. The staff & the owner were attentive & friendly. I didn’t try any of the desserts on offer maybe next time.

A simple & super nice local experience. All you can eat for 15€, fresh from the grill including 3 amazing sides. They served at least 5 different types of fish.

This restaurant is amazing! We loved the delicious and fresh fish. Staff is also very friendly and we highly recommend to go here if you are in Olhao.

Absolutely delicious food, fabulous wine, excellent service, the whole experience was wonderful :)

Alright, this place is a must go. Olhao overall is super touristy and majority of places are not very good and are overpriced. Almost everything by the pier is like that. Vai e Volta instead is a hidden gem in the old town. Authentic, simple, and very good! You get all you can eat grilled local fish for €12 per person. Crazy I know, so leave a generous tip as these guys deserve it 😀 Super nice staff and fantastic fish away from all the tourist traps! Nothing fancy but great quality and that’s all
It counts. Highly recommend it, we loved it!

Super kind wait staff! They grill the fish in front of you. You pay €15 for all you can eat variety of fish. They bring it to your table. Best meal we have had !!!