Gourmet products local specialties and wines Porto

Specialized in the sale of pão-de-ló (a kind of cake without butter), the house was later transformed into a bar and hosts concerts during the weekend. A friendly and warm place, where you can eat and drink well! The establishment continues to sell the famous cake, produced a few kilometers from Porto, and offers many other delights to its customers. People also come here to have a tea, to buy traditional and delicatessen products and to listen to music during cultural evenings.

In 2006, the Bolhão market was classified as a historic monument. After 4 years of renovation, it finally reopened in 2022. Strolling through the stalls of fresh produce and colorful stands is one of the great pleasures of a stay in Porto. Don't hesitate to stop and taste a delicious pastel de nata or have a glass of vinho verde in one of the bars, while tucking into cod acras or cold meats. Near the Bolhão market is the Santa Catarina shopping street, with its many boutiques, restaurants and cafés.

A true haven of peace dedicated to tea. Several spaces are reserved for its making like the Indian room or the Ganesh room. The store offers a wide range of teas. In addition to the wide variety of teas on offer and the delicious little cakes that accompany them, light meals are served at lunchtime. Another particularity of this place filled with zenitude, from Monday to Friday, one can exchange a book for a cup of tea. Outside, there is a pleasant terrace with soft music and a large, relaxing garden.

Not far from the Carmo church, you will discover a simple place, but with a window full of typical conventual pastries, made with egg and sugar: papo de anjo, pastel de nata, doce de castanha com ovo... You will have understood: sugar and egg are the main ingredients. Moreover, the low prices invite to the sin of greed. Let's add that the service and the welcome are smiling and tempting, which does not help to resist. But why should we? Come and visit us.

Another surprising store in Porto. In this artisanal chocolate shop with a brown and white frontage, obviously reminding the world of chocolate, the products are guaranteed of excellent quality, original and greedy. The deliciously retro packaging dresses them up. Let yourself be tempted by the dark chocolate filled with cherry compote, by the whisky truffles or by the small cakes. Smiling welcome. You will not leave empty-handed. Nice store to bring back nice gourmet souvenirs to your loved ones... or to yourself!

Gourmands and gourmands whose word chocolate already makes you salivate, run to this store, it will know how to melt you. This tiny chocolate shop opened in 2013 in rua das Flores. It's a welcoming and very cute place. In the window you will melt in front of the chocolate creations. We are conquered by the small space on the spot with its white tables and chairs, perfect for a sweet break and a small coffee, accompanied, needless to say, by a chocolate with port wine. To you the most beautiful culinary photos!

The Bom Sucesso market was completely renovated about ten years ago. The architecture and the stalls are a mix of tradition and modernity. A must-see, since it has a different atmosphere from other markets. You can find the classic fresh products (fish, meat, vegetables), but there is also a part with gastronomic products only Portuguese and a food court with different restaurants. The emphasis is on promoting the made in Portugal. It is ideal if you stay in an apartment and want to cook good products.

A lot of good things in a lot of little cans beautifully lithographed with original illustrations that pay tribute to the past. After Lisbon and the Algarve, Comur, a company specializing in canned sardines, arrives in Porto. The rich lights give the store a circus feel. Sardines and other sea products, usually relegated to the rank of basic canned goods, are particularly well presented here. The preserves are delicious and do not contain any additives or preservatives: everything is natural.

This is without a doubt the most charming of the stores located on Rua Formosa. Its yellow front and its signs definitely stand out from the other stores. Opened in 1917, A Pérola do Bolhão offers cod, cold cuts, dried fruit, canned fish, Port wine and cheese from the Serra da Estrela. The exchange with the shopkeepers is very appreciable (they speak French) and the service is smiling. It is obvious that you will leave with one or more products to bring back in the suitcase or to taste quickly. Machine to put under vacuum.

Leitaria da Quinta do Paço is a former dairy, which has been transformed into a pastry shop with specialized recipes based on milk and butter. The house has made a name for itself with its famous chocolate eclairs and the bola de berlim (a kind of sugar doughnut, possibly filled with jam or chocolate). The whipped cream is homemade and you can buy traditional butter. A greedy and calorie-laden break but when you like it, you don't count!

Opened in 2018, this hybrid venue is part store, part wine cellar and part library. In its colorful room, you'll enjoy one or more cod fritters filled with Serra da Estrela PDO cheese while drinking a glass of port. There is a singer on weekends who is accompanied by an organ dating from the 18th century. The price is a bit high but the place, sublime, deserves at least to take a look at it once. We leave with a glass engraved of the day of our arrival.

Mercado Beira-Rio is a market located in Vila Nova de Gaia. It offers a variety of services including on-site dining, takeaway and no delivery. The market offers a unique culinary experience with its restaurants, fast food stands, ice cream parlors, fruit and vegetable stalls and wines. It also keeps traditions alive by offering fresh produce and recalling the days when our grandparents shopped at the market. Mercado Beira-Rio is a place where you can discover the city's dynamics and culture through stories, legends and events.

Beautiful and very large selection of Port and Madeira wines in this delicatessen that exists since 1934. The waiters will be able to advise you among all the references exposed according to your tastes and your budget. You can also find traditional products of excellent quality such as the classic cod, a high quality sheep's cheese and a divine Brazilian coffee whose beans are ground in a century-old machine. You can also buy very good preserves, dried fruits (the nuts are extra), good chocolate and fresh bread

Loja das Conservas, which also exists in Lisbon, has a sales outlet in Porto. It is one of the most serious references for finding canned fish with a deliciously retro packaging. In addition to sardines, you will find tuna, mussels, octopus, cod and mackerel. The choice of seasonings is also very wide: natural, olive oil, tomato, onion, lime. The traceability of the products sold here is guaranteed by the renowned ANICP, the National Association of Fish Preserving Industries.

This well-known delicatessen in Porto has been around for several generations and keeps in its walls the nostalgia of memories. Here you will find high quality products such as a rare dried cod, matured for 24 months, excellent alheiras (Portuguese sausage), but also confectionery, dried fruit, jams, Valongo cookies and a beautiful wine cellar. A whole universe is declined around the pastries, their ingredients, their accessories and their decoration. Perfect and delicate welcome in a well organized store.

Here is a cosy place with a vintage decoration and a nice soundtrack where you will feel at home very quickly. Lots of choices, savory and sweet, to snack on at any time of the day. Generous salads, great toasts, homemade cheesecakes. Excellent tea (hot or iced). Ideal for a brunch or tea time alone or with friends. Some customers come here with their computer to work (almost every table has an electrical outlet) but it's also a great place to write your postcards! Lovely waitresses.

Padaria Ribeiro exists since 1878, it is a very beautiful traditional bakery in which you want to try everything. It's a good thing! The pastries in miniature version will delight the gourmets who want to discover the salty and sweet specialties of Porto. Delicious almond and passion fruit tarts, cod fritters or devilishly good camarão rissol. Special mention forthe pastéis de Chaves, small breads stuffed with minced meat. To make it all go down, we order a good squeezed orange juice or an excellent coffee.

Founded in 1933 by the Bastos family, Arcádia is a superb chocolate factory with Art Deco architecture that has other stores in the city and in the country. The "lambareiros" will have a hard time making their choice and leaving this magnificent store. Let the salesmen advise you instead. Of course, you must try the port chocolates. And those with ginger and cinnamon. But also the cat's tongue. And the macaroons. Don't forget to try the almonds, they are terrible! This artisanal chocolate factory is also a tea room.