Walking the city with one of the six guides feels less like venue-hopping and more like dropping in for a catch-up with a series of food-loving, old friends.

Loosen a belt notch for Taste Porto’s superb downtown food tours, where you’ll sample everything from Porto’s best slow-roast-pork sandwich to éclairs, fine wines, cheese and coffee.

A couple of years ago, while researching my Portugal guidebook, I explored the crusty old industrial city of Porto. There I joined tour guide André Apolinário on one of his “Taste Porto” food tours.

A very fond memory of our foodie adventures while hosting Anthony Bourdain in Porto.

Get into the city’s foodie groove on Taste Porto’s three-and-a-half-hour walking tour. Guides take you everywhere from retro-cool conservas (tinned fish) shops to patisseries making traditional conventual sweets.

Indeed, food is the only part of a culture that we take into our body, that becomes a part of us, enters our blood.

What better way to be introduced to the city and to the local way of life than to take a food tour with Taste Porto.

Our Downtown Food Tour was with our Guide Joanna from Taste Porto. Joanna explained that part of the ticket costs goes to the homeless people of Porto for food and shelter. We love working with companies that ‘give back’.

I called up my friend André Apolinário, the founder of Taste Porto Food Tours and got him take around the best “little eateries” in Porto for a full day of eating and drinking around Porto.

Taste Porto is one of the most popular and well-known food tours in Porto and I can highly recommend.

Não espere pela gastronomia dos restaurantes mais populares do Porto. Aqui, vai andar por ruas estreitas atrás dos lugares menos óbvios da cidade.

Our Downtown Food Tour was a city walks intensive.