Cocktails, wine bars and dives: drinking in Porto for grown-ups.
Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Porto for grown-ups.
The Royal Cocktail Club on Rua da Fabrica in Porto is a dark-wood cocktail room with a Portuguese-spirit-led menu, including a Negroni built on Tres Tigres gin.
Signature drink: Portuguese-spirit Negroni
Food: Snacks and petiscos
Candelabro on Rua da Conceicao in Porto is a bookshop and bar where the design crowd drinks port tonics and Douro reds among second-hand novels and stacked papers.
Signature drink: Port tonic
Food: Cured meats and cheese
Casa do Livro on Rua Galeria de Paris in Porto is a candle-lit former bookshop bar with mahogany shelves, DJ sets at midnight and a port-by-the-glass programme.
Signature drink: Vinho do Porto branco tonic
Food: Snacks
BASE on the Passeio dos Clerigos in Porto is an olive-tree-shaded garden bar in front of the Torre dos Clerigos, with spritzes, DJ sets and a long Sunday afternoon crowd.
Signature drink: Aperol spritz
Food: Pizza and burgers
Letraria Craft Beer Garden on Rua da Alegria in Porto runs Letra brewery's largest taproom, with 14 rotating taps and a walled-garden terrace under fig trees.
Signature drink: Letra Saison on tap
Food: Petiscos and pizza
Catraio Craft Beer Shop on Rua de Cedofeita in Porto is a small-batch beer shop and bar with a rotating Portuguese tap list, sour ales by Cervejeira and 200 bottles to take away.
Signature drink: Portuguese sour ale on tap
Food: Toasties and snacks
Vogue Cafe on Rua Galeria de Paris in Porto is a marble-and-velvet bar from the Conde Nast brand, with cocktails built around Portuguese spirits and a 22:00 to 02:00 crowd.
Signature drink: Vogue Spritz
Food: Light mediterranean plates
The Gin House on Largo dos Loios in Porto stocks 200 gins and runs a colour-changing Sharish Blue Magic gin tonic that draws Instagram queues, plus a Porto tonic flight.
Signature drink: Sharish Blue Magic gin tonic
Food: Snacks
Pinguim Cafe on Rua de Belomonte in Porto is a working-class wine bar with vinho verde on tap, late-night bifanas and a 02:00 cut-off the locals respect.
Signature drink: Vinho verde on tap
Food: Toasties and bifanas
Alma Mater Rooftop on Rua de Joao Pedro Ribeiro in Porto is a tile-roofed terrace bar with a port-cocktail flight, sunset views over Bonfim and a small DJ booth.
Signature drink: Port-house cocktail flight
Food: Petiscos and tapas
Porto Tonico Bar on Rua de Sao Bento da Vitoria in Porto is a small port-cocktail room built around the namesake white-port-and-tonic, with a 60-port list.
Signature drink: Porto Tonico (white port and tonic)
Food: Small plates