Best Eats in Porto
Rustic Cuisine On a Budget
During my month-long stay in Porto, or anywhere I visit for that matter, I’m always searching for the traditional rustic cuisine of a place. There is so much one can learn from the history of a country when you taste its food.
Porto Eating Experiences
The cuisine of Portugal and Porto, in particular, does take some getting used to. A lot of the food is quite heavy while being simple at the same time. The peculiar arranging of fries in a circle around the plate is a little odd. The enormous stacks of dried whole cod in the supermarkets can be overwhelming. The sausages labeled chorizo have nothing to do with the paprika filled Spanish version. The cheese is often made from the milk of cow, goat, and sheep at the same time. Then there’s alheira, a bready sausage or kind of meat patty made with various meats other than pork; it seems the more types of animals the better. Alheira is the type of rich sausage that finds itself on your burger in a Portuguese restaurant or with fried eggs at a worker’s café. It’s a good thing that Porto is a city with lots of hills, you’ll need to walk off the food! Oh, and then there are those very creamy desserts thick with egg yolks…
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