Before '88 or so we used to ride around and make dinner reservations because many (most?) places didn't have phones and if no one 'signed up' they often didn't open at all.

But since then, I have made a total of three dinner reservations: Easter Sunday one year when we were a family of eleven; one evening a few years ago when we wanted to take a Granddaughter to a special but small place; and lastly, we made a dinner reservation at Mario's Bistro right after they moved and reopened at Porto Cupecoy and we wanted a specific table. That's it for all those trips and all those years and we've never had a problem.

Unless you're a large group, it's a major holiday or you're a particularly large group, I don't personally feel it will be necessary to make reservations, but that's purely a personal opinion. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />