Café restaurants in The North
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Café Astória
Set beneath a grand old portico, with tables on the plaza, Café Astória has a diverse menu of salads, pastas, grilled meats and seafood. Daily lunch specials (€8) are better value than the mains. The upstairs bar and dining room (with veranda seating) opens from 7pm to 2am.
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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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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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Retiro da Primavera
Fortifying yourself before your long bus journey? Avoid the bus terminal's café and nip round the corner to this unpretentious place serving a bigger choice of good-value, standard Portuguese fare.
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Confeitaria Sical
A mix of labourers and literary types from the neighbouring publishing houses rub elbows at this lunch-time joint. The design features a clever take on Portuguese azulejos.
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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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Salão de Chá Lusitana
Next to sweet-smelling Jardim de Santa Bárbara, this sunny, well-preserved art-deco teashop is a local favourite with all, but especially ladies who lunch.
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Café a Brasileira
This beaux-arts treasure is looking a little battered, but it’s still great to linger amid its bowed windows and Corinthian columns.
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Estação Biológica
This natural-products shop in, of all places, a shopping mall food court, does quite good all-veggie meals.
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A Gruta Snack Bar
This stonewalled little bistro has an economical lunch menu, including wine, soup, bacalhau and coffee.
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A Brasileira
Another classic, bright old café that has seen better days - which is the point.
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