Sardines in Porto

[VascoH]

This one is for you Tracy. I told you I would have sardines in Porto when doing my Camino. Well I enjoyed them today. Whilst not officially on my camino yet they still tasted yummy. Start my camino on Sunday.

 

[Anniesantiago]

Were they the grilled ones from the lady down by the river?
YUM!

 

[VascoH]

It was at the markets on the Rio Douro so many eateries there don't know which it was. When I saw Sardines on the menu I knew that was place for me to stop at!

 

[Francescalignumvitae]

Hello All,

Am heading out to Porto on Wednesday morning - taking a couple of days to chill (well, really warm up as the UK has had one of the longest coldest winters on record!) and then start walking on 26th April.

Love fish.

Love Sardines.

LOVE GRILLED FISHY SARDINES! Where is 'the lady near the river' that I have read of in other posts????

Any info very appreciated!

Blessings to all,

Francesca

 

[Former member 22438]

Love to be there too end of May and buy them again .try frango com piri piri. Chicken with hot sauce. Tipical Portugese dish. Yummie yummie !
Bom caminho

 

[kipsna]

Hi Francesca and friends... Cross the huge great bridge from the main part of the city and walk toward the coast along that riverside footpath, past all the port museums/drinkeries. About 5 minutes along, there is a teeny restaurant on the river. All the sardines in Porto and Portugal in general are fantastic, but these are THE BEST!
If you keep on walking, eventually you get to a place where you can take a ferry back across the river and then the tram back into the central area.
Kim

 

[Diogo92]

I'm here just to give you a good advice: if you want to eat good sardines, you must come to Portugal in Summer time. Just because, in Summer 90% of the sardines that you will find are FRESH! Right now, most of them are frozen, not bad, but not the same has the fresh ones.

Try also some seafood and grilled mackerel. You'll see what I'm talking about.

Best regards
Diogo Martins

 

[Anniesantiago]

We just walked down to the north side of the waterfront and there was a lady there, grilling sardinhas. They were lovely!

 

[sulu]

smelling sardines was one of my best memories of my first day on the Portugues. Unfortunately I passed them all at about 10am, I promised myself sardines for lunch but when I was ready for lunch there were no sardines Monday I will be in Porto, I am going to find that lady

 

[Guillaume Nicol]

Hi everyone!!
I don't normally post on forums, but this definitely needed a little message. My girlfriend's a huge fanatic of grilled sardines, and before leaving Porto (early September) I absolutely had to find this little old lady for her... Which we did!
So for all you grilled-sardine lovers out there, the place is called Antiga Casa zé da Guida, and is just after some ruins along the river, where the footpath deviates from the road and goes a little over the water, you won't be disappointed!!

 

[Serg06]

Hi everyone!!
I don't normally post on forums, but this definitely needed a little message. My girlfriend's a huge fanatic of grilled sardines, and before leaving Porto (early September) I absolutely had to find this little old lady for her... Which we did!
So for all you grilled-sardine lovers out there, the place is called Antiga Casa zé da Guida, and is just after some ruins along the river, where the footpath deviates from the road and goes a little over the water, you won't be disappointed!!

Thanks for the info! I guess Sunday was the wrong day to come by, they were closed ):