The child-friendly flavour of the place extends throughout the resort.
Glantz reiterates this point and says local health authorities in San Francisco are currently trying to enact a ban on these kid-friendly flavours.
There are people around doing an amazing job of dislodging that whisky reputation, though, like the people behind Monkey Shoulder triple malt Scotch, which is changing the way people think about whisky with its cocktail-friendly, mellow vanilla flavour.
Head to the harbourfront and you'll be met with large, juicy specimens at Restaurante Mira Mar (42 Avenida do Mar) where the friendly atmosphere gives a flavour of the local humour and waiters jovially explain how to eat the fish "properly".
The test is as nebulous as "hard-working families', the cliche adored by politicians: there will be as many flavours of "family friendly" as there are ministers in government.
Its brash promotion of revolution with a Muslim Brother flavour looked prescient as friendly new Islamist governments sprouted in the Arab spring.
The cod with samphire was excellent – fresh, delicately flavoured and served by friendly and helpful staff – while my eggs Benedict the next morning were cooked to the letter, with doorstep-thick honeyed ham.
Nothing's stopping you from lacing your own version of this with methamphetamines, but I went for a family-friendly cake base and flavoured mine with Lindsay Lohan's life blood, ie Red Bull.
But it is difficult to find a better spot than friendly Le Barav, which still has the feel of a neighbourhood hangout rather than the latest bourgeois bohème (bobo) flavour of the week.
The staff are friendly and patient: they will let you try every single flavour at the long counter before making your choice.
