Ma Ja´s

[steffiemills]

For anyone visiting carvoeiro looking for good quality food, fantastic service and great prices, then please check out Ma Ja´s- Our experience of eating out in Carvoerio has been ok...not big fish eaters and chicken only seems to be served on a bone so we have struggled. This is the second time we have been out this year to Carvoeiro and we just wish we found Ma Ja´s before. The food was great, nice selection, good portion and great value for money. Comes highly recommended.

It´s off the main square on the road up the hill to Fergoues. But well well worth the walk.....!

[laserblazer]

The staff are a bit dodgy though

It's a good place to take kids who are maybe getting homesick, foodwise and Jan has a great array of colouring books and the like.

[MaisieK]

Sunday lunch at Ma Ja`s is brilliant and they even make custard to go with the deserts !!!

Maisie

[Ellie]

Ive had couple nice meals at Ma Jas.

[Ma-Ja's]

The staff are a bit dodgy though

Many thanks for all your kind comments, with maybe the above being the exception

Mark and I thoroughly enjoy what we do and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Jan x

[iainmax]

Just back from our first ever visit to Carvoeiro (may I call it CVO?) which we thoroughly enjoyed (I intend to compile a review of the whole experience if I can be bothered, because in my preparations for the holiday I was greatly assisted by various comments on the forum, and would hope to assist others in the same way). It's a pity that my impression of Ma-Ja's from advertising etc was that it revelled in its "Englishness", which is why we avoided it until near the end of the fortnight (before anyone takes offence, I would equally have avoided anywhere which relied on its "Irishness" or "Scottishness"---I can go to a Scottish bar/restaurant any day of the week, why fly hundreds of miles to do the same?).

It transpires that it is very far from the sort of place which has 3 TV's showing Premiership football, and serving John Smiths bitter, which is what I'd feared. Instead it is a compact, clean and welcoming restaurant with good food and friendly service, which I have no hesitation in recommending to anyone. The owners deserve every success, so do yourself a favour and track them down (they lose points only because their location is not ideal).

[laserblazer]

(they lose points only because their location is not ideal).

But then they'd have to have the 3 TVs, non-stop football etc. I think their position is ideal. Handy for a drink before the long climb home.

[miramyra]

Yes agree the location is not perfect but when you do find them,it's a good experience. No TV football, just nice music in the background and a welcoming smile from them both. Whatever the formula, they have found it.
MiraM

[Bruce Wallis]

Each to his, or her own, I guess......not for us

[Ma-Ja's]

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are now in our Winter opening hours which are as follows:

Monday - Wednesday - Closed
Thursday - Saturday - 11.00 until 15.00 and then 18.00 until 21.00
Sunday - 1100 until 16.00

We will then be open everyday over the Chrismas and New Year period before taking a break ourselves

[Gary/Gaynor]

thanks guys for a wonderful Sunday lunch when we arrived in CVO. Same great standard and a warm welcome as usual. Just what we needed to kick start out visit.
Gary and Gaynor
have a good Christams, see you in 2010

[wee beanz]

Had lunch one day last week and it was very nice, would definitely recommend Ma Jas, and look forward to returning on our next visit. Thanks to Jan and Mark, we enjoyed our chat with you.

[Gary/Gaynor]

My mum and her two sisters (the Swansea Crew) had a lovely Sunday lunch and such a warm welcome from Mark and Jan when they visited last Sunday.
Gaynor and Gary
PS must arrange that Monday evening when we are next in CVO August!

[carboy]

We went for lunch one day

Spot on .

[PTBUXTON]

Visited MA-JA's for the very first time week before last,enjoyed the food and the new Pilsner they had just recently put in will visit again.