Lunchtime noodles for two $14 to $16.50; two-course meal $25 to $30 a person.
Raimunda stashes the corpse in the restaurant's freezer — the owner has gone away — and without any training or experience she takes over the business, casually serving lunchtime feasts for thirty.
Monster Mash Up Snack Boxes: £8, paperchase.co.uk "Here's how to pack a bit of fun into their lunchtime: one monster for sandwiches, one for fruit, one for a snack and one for a little surprise or maybe even just a message," says Tara. "They also stack inside each other for easy storage in the cupboard".
To do so they flirted with the rain that delayed the start by three-quarters of an hour and then returned around lunchtime to disrupt things for two and a half more hours, until three o'clock.
It's no-choice tasting menus only, with the simplest being a lunchtime three courses for £25 or five for £35 or seven for £55, scaling up to seven and nine courses at dinner (£60 and £70).
Results, while jumbled, are often good, which explains why there is frequently a wait at lunchtime for a spot at one of the eight counters.
Lunchtime specialities are huge portions for two, such as the peito de boi com arroz e feijão manteiga (beef with rice and brown beans, £8.50), and the rabada com polenta, arroz e agrião (beef tail with polenta, rice and watercress, £9).
If you vomit and make ice cream out of it, are you a star?" Tony Naylor of The Guardian enjoyed his trip to the restaurant in 2008, and afterwards criticised those who thought that spending £323.13 on a meal for two at lunchtime was too much.
"There are rules that forbid nurseries from serving the same dish twice in two months," he adds, "and lunchtime for two-year-olds means four courses, with cheese to finish".
Walkers can break the circuit at Carriages (£10.95 for two courses at lunchtime), where the food is plentiful and delicious.
(The restaurant sells them on the street at lunchtime, four for $5, from a bright-red modified hot dog cart).
