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A Tasquinha
Tucked inside a rustic house, this touristy but pleasant place offers cask wines, garlicky appetisers and good northern specialities. The tourist menu includes three courses, coffee and drink.
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Abadia
It's gotten a little touristy, but this rather cavernous backstreet place serves up very good northern dishes, including excellent porco preto (flavourful grilled pork) and tripas (stewed tripe).
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Barão de Fladgate
With excellent food, enviable views, and of course lots and lots of port, the restaurant in Taylor's port-wine lodge is a worthy splurge. The menu is long on seafood, the speciality being (surprise!) bacalhau (salt cod).
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Boa Nova Casa-Chá
Designed by famed Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza and completed in 1963, this cliff-side tea house and restaurant is set alluringly above a crashing sea. Massive boulders frame the white, low-rise building, while inside the Zen-like design continues as light floods the wood and stone interior. The restaurant is 20 minutes north of Porto along the coast. It's also accessible by bus 44 and 76 from Porto.
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Café Ancôra Douro
A downmarket counterpoint to Porto's posher cafés, near Cordoaria. It's a cavernous, casual place where students nurse coffees for hours and munch on crepes and light meals.
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Café Embaixador
A perennial favourite of everyone from suits to construction workers, this double-decker Art Deco restaurant provides good standards at excellent prices. Skip the upstairs buffet - it's overpriced cafeteria fare.
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Café Majestic
Porto's best-known teashop is packed with prancing cherubs, opulently gilded woodwork, leather seats and gold-braided waiters who'll serve you an elegant set breakfast, afternoon tea or any number of snacks and beverages.
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Casa Filha da Mãe Preta
Set smack on the Ribeira's riverfront, this is the most congenial of a long line of touristy riverside restaurants. Go early to bag an upstairs front table for views of the Douro. Don't confuse it with the old taverna of the same name, one street back.
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Churrasqueira do Infante
This no-frills eatery is popular with students and is the best budget option in the Ribeira, offering tasty, grilled-to-order meats and fish.
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Confeitaria do Bolhão
This cheerful Belle Époque café, popular with everyone but especially ladies of a certain age, serves good food at great prices, including a daily lunch special of soup, main course and fresh-squeezed juice. The front counter serves an irresistible array of local sweets to go.
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Confeitaria Sical
New but already popular with the literary types from the neighbouring publishing houses, this lunchtime joint has a bright interior done up in a clever take on traditional Portuguese tiles.
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Don Tonho
Built into ancient riverside ramparts, this elegant restaurant serves traditional Portuguese fare prepared with a contemporary twist. Opened by Rui Velosa, crown prince of Portuguese pop, it serves up superb seafood, including fine bacalhau (salt cod), and also boasts one of Porto's most extensive wine lists.
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Indian Classic
The only decent ethnic option in the centre, this cheerful (though by no means cheap) eatery cooks up surprisingly good Indian fare, including fragrant lentil soup and excellent grilled meats and curries. English spoken. Open until midnight.
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Mariazinha
This snug but rustically elegant eatery, run by an enthusiastic husband-and-wife team, serves creative haute cuisine based on market-fresh ingredients. You must order from the prix-fixe menu. In fact, each course comes as a surprise, along with a different Portuguese wine. Reservations recommended.
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O Comercial
Hidden at the back the stock-exchange building, this one-of-a-kind restaurant boasts towering arches, old-world service and a stylish, fireside lounge. At dinner, the food has been known to disappoint, but the three-course lunch menu is a great value, especially when you factor in all that atmosphere.
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Pedro dos Frangos
This simple place draws the crowds with its very good frango no espeto (spit-roasted chicken) and other cheap grills, all served with heaps of chips. Join the good old boys for a meal standing at the bar or upstairs in the no-nonsense dining room. There's talk of expanding to new location across the street.
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Restaurante Imar
The best deal on Gaia's waterfront, this classic, family-run Portuguese eatery serves up the usual dishes in an unrepentantly old-fashioned dining room.
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Restaurante O Verde Vegetariano
This uncluttered little self-service restaurant has a varied selection of vegetarian dishes and an elegant, minimalist dining area that looks onto a pleasant green space.
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Simbiose
On two floors in an airy, quayside townhouse, this new spot serves up decent traditional cuisine and lovely river views. But the real deal is the very good, weekday lunch buffet.
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Suribachi
This squeaky-clean restaurants offers decent fare in a contemplative, meat-free atmosphere in the back of a New Age health-food store.
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Tromba Rija
Porto's branch of Leiria's famous eatery offers a huge, soup-to-nuts buffet of classic, well-prepared Portuguese dishes - plus all the wine, port and homemade liqueur you can drink. Tromba Rija is great introduction Portuguese cuisine - and always festive thanks to all that free booze.
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