A tale about food
and our city,
Porto.

In an unexpected twist, our Christmas gifts came early.  The 2019 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards have just awarded our Porto Food Guide as the national winner in 3 categories: Best Culinary Travel / Food Tourism Book, Best Self-Published Book, and Best Digital Book for Sale. This competition happens annually since 1995, and is one of [...]

Christmas season has arrived, and in this time of celebration and traditions, there's a lot of fuss over food. While most Portuguese dedicate their body and soul to a multiplicity of cooking endeavors during Christmas Eve, there's something most of us agree on buying out. It's the bolo-rei (king cake), the cake that colors tables [...]

In Portugal—at least in the North—every time you sit down at a typical restaurant and you’re asked what you’d like to drink when you answer “wine” you’re asked the question: “verde ou maduro?” (literally, green or mature). The answer depends on individual tastes, but people don't think twice and instinctively respond… maduro (or verde)! How come [...]

We invited the author Cristina Castro, researcher and promoter of traditional confectionery, to share her account of some of the most fascinating finds of her research during the writing of "A Doçaria Portuguesa". When I first began my quest of finding Portugal's sweets back in 2015, I was eagerly anticipating what I would find. Sweets [...]

The recipe for the pastel de Tentúgal was born somewhere in the 16th Century by the hands of the Carmelite nuns of the convent of Nossa Senhora do Carmo (or Natividade) of Tentúgal.

Great design is timeless. Since beautiful items make your home feel special, discover some of the best design that revolutionized kitchen and tableware throughout the 20th century, and still influence our taste today.