Porto Restaurants

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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