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Bola de Berlim is a signature dish of Portugal; we have verified places to eat it in Porto. A soft fried doughnut split open and piped with bright yellow egg-cream (creme de ovos), dusted in fine sugar. Start with where to eat Bola de Berlim in Porto.
A soft fried doughnut split open and piped with bright yellow egg-cream (creme de ovos), dusted in fine sugar. The Portuguese cousin of the Berliner.
Bola de Berlim arrived in Portugal with German Jewish refugees fleeing Europe in the late 1930s and 1940s; bakers in Porto and Lisbon swapped the jam filling for a thick egg-yolk-rich pastry cream (doce de ovos), and the Portuguese version was born. Padaria Ribeiro on Praca Guilherme Gomes Fernandes, founded 1878, is widely considered the canonical Porto reference for the bola.
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Where to eat Bola de Berlim in Porto: the editor picks
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