Food Festivals in Porto

On 11 November, St Martin's Day, Portuguese communities hold a magusto, an outdoor feast of roasted chestnuts and bonfires, with the first wines of the year.

Enóphilo Wine Fest fills the Alfândega do Porto one November afternoon, with about 40 producers pouring more than 350 Portuguese wines from 15:00 to 20:00.

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Porto's Christmas market fills the Jardim de João Chagas at the Cordoaria from late November, with sweets, charcuterie, wine, crafts and food vendors.

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Samba no Porto fills the Mercado do Bolhão for three days before Carnaval, with live pagode and samba from 13:00 to midnight and Brazilian food on offer.

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Degustar Matosinhos Marisco runs on Thursdays in February, when about 35 Matosinhos restaurants serve a shellfish platter for two at a fixed 70 euros.

Essência do Vinho fills Porto's Palácio da Bolsa for four days in February, with 4,000 wines from 500 producers, 40 guided tastings and a top 10 of wines.

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Simplesmente Vinho is an independent wine salon at the Alfândega do Porto each late February, with over 100 growers from Portugal and Spain and a food area.

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The francesinha festival at the VP restaurant inside WOW offers six builds of the sandwich over one weekend, including chicken, cod, seafood and vegetarian.

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The Senhor de Matosinhos romaria lasts three weeks, with a procession from the Bom Jesus church, a pottery fair and stalls of sardines, caldo verde, farturas.

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Festival Craft puts national and international craft brewers on the central square at WOW in Gaia for three days in May, with petiscos and street food and the Porto skyline across the Douro.

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Vinhos Verdes Essencia Festival is the dedicated Vinho Verde wine festival each June in the Soares dos Reis museum gardens, with tastings, chef-led show-cookings and banquets.

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Festas de São João do Porto is the city's June programme, from the Cascata Comunitária at Bolhão to concerts, a rusgas parade and the 23 to 24 June night of sardines and fireworks.

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Primavera Sound Porto is a four-day June music festival at Parque da Cidade do Porto; the organiser's page names no food market or chef programme.

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Porto Beer Fest pours about 600 beers from more than 50 brewers across five June days in the Jardins do Palacio de Cristal, with street food kitchens and free entry to the gardens.

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São João do Porto, the night of 23 to 24 June, is the high point of the June festivities, with grilled sardines, caldo verde, plastic hammers and fireworks.

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Afurada's fishing quarter keeps its own saint's festival for two weeks from 23 June, with a procession, fireworks over the Douro and street stalls of grilled sardines, fogacas and broa de Avintes.

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The Festa da Broa de Avintes fills the Largo do Palheirinho in Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia, for six August days around the traditional Broa de Avintes loaf.

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Vinhos a Descobrir Harvest Edition brings small Portuguese wine producers to the Forte de Gaia over an October weekend to meet the people who make the wines.