The white-bean and tripe stew that gave Porto its tripeiros nickname, slow-cooked with cured meats, carrots and chourico over rice for a heavy Sunday lunch dish.
When Portuguese ships gathered on the Douro in 1415 to sail for Ceuta under Prince Henry the Navigator, Porto sent its best meat with the fleet. The city was left with the offal, including the tripe, which the cooks turned into a bean-and-cured-meat stew. The nickname tripeiros, tripe-eaters, has been Porto's badge of honour for six centuries.
2 editor picks for Tripas a moda do Porto in Porto, ranked by editorial score. All Porto signature dishes · Tripas a moda do Porto across every city.
O Paparico ★ 4.6
areosa · Rua de Costa Cabral 2343, 4200-232 Porto
O Paparico in northern Porto runs an evening-only Portuguese kitchen inside a small stone house near the Areosa church, with a long Douro wine list.
O Buraco ★ 4.3
baixa · Rua do Bolhao 95, 4000-112 Porto
O Buraco off the Bolhao market in Porto is a working-day tasca open since the early 1970s, with veal pie, fried sardines with bean rice and tripas a moda do Porto at lunch.