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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Signature drink: Portuguese sour ale on tap
Food: Toasties and snacks
Capela Incomum on Travessa do Carregal in Porto's Cedofeita is a 19th-century chapel reworked into a small wine bar, with Douro. At Travessa do Carregal 77.
Signature drink: Douro red by the glass
Food: Petiscos and cheese boards
The Gin Club on Rua de Candido dos Reis in Porto stocks more than 150 gin labels behind a long wall-mounted bar, with a Portuguese-gin tonic flight.
Signature drink: Portuguese-gin and tonic flight
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
Mirajazz on the Escadas do Caminho Novo in Porto's Miragaia is a rooftop wine and jazz bar reached up a steep stone stair, with 24 wines by the glass.
Signature drink: Douro red by the glass
Food: Petiscos and small plates
Vinologia on Rua de Sao Joao in Porto's Ribeira is a French-run port-only tasting room with around 200 references from small Douro producers.
Signature drink: Tawny port flight by small producers
Food: Cheese and charcuterie boards