Welcome to your self-guided Food Tour!
Let me start by thanking you for choosing Taste Porto to guide you through Porto’s food secrets. After 9 years in business and tens of thousands of happy guests, including Anthony Bourdain and Rick Steves, we still get pretty excited about showing you around our beautiful and delicious city.
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June 15, 2020
Tasting Location #1: Loja dos Pastéis de Chaves
We love Loja dos Pastéis de Chaves! Today we’ll introduce you to amazing people, such as Jorge and Vanessa. He was a hotel concierge, she was a lawyer, and both quit their jobs to open this shop, so let us welcome you into Loja dos Pastéis de Chaves. The name…
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June 4, 2020
Tasting Location #2: Bolhão Wine House
Welcome to Bolhão Market Bolhão Market is one of the oldest markets in Portugal and in our opinion the most iconic one. Walking into the market using the main door, you will find photos of all the vendors saying “Olá” to you and directing you to where they are. Downstairs…
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June 4, 2020
Tasting Location #3: Confeitaria Moura
Welcome to Confeitaria Moura, a bakery that opened in 1892 in Santo Tirso, a city located 30km away from Porto. This shop is run by João Pelayo, he is the fifth generation of this family and he was working as a financial consultant in Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal,…
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June 4, 2020
Tasting Location #4: Taxca
Welcome to TAXCA! This place opened in 2013, owned by Tiago and Hélio, two brothers that wanted to bring back to life the old Porto taverns that have existed in town ever since medieval days. They were owned by farmers that sold their products here. During the industrial revolution days,…
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June 15, 2020
Tasting Location #5: Fábrica da Picaria
Welcome to Fábrica da Picaria, Porto’s first brewpub The owner, Tiago Duarte, worked in one of the two big Portuguese industrial beer brands – super bock, known for their light pilsner beer – until he saw the opportunity of taking his beer-making expertise to a new level by making his…
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June 15, 2020
Tasting Location #6: Oficina dos Rissóis
Welcome to Oficina dos Rissóis. You may be wondering what a “rissol” is. Well, it is a very popular petisco that can be found in many Portuguese cafes. These half-moon-shaped croquettes are usually filled with shrimp, cod, vegetables, or meat. Commercially, rissóis are normally fried but, at Oficina dos…
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June 15, 2020
It was a pleasure to have you!
Now that this tour is coming to the end, let me recall what we managed to do during the time we were together: Our tour started at Loja dos Pastéis de Chaves with a minced meat pastry;Then we went to Bolhão Wine House, inside Bolhão Market, to eat a…
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June 15, 2020