Location: R. do Cativo 14, 4000-098 Porto, Portugal

Year of Inscription: 2023

Venue Type:  Tasca / Adega / Compact / Traditional / Theme Bar

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EBG Rating:	8.5/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️ Basic budget range of working class drinks.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Highly distinctive blue colour scheme from the shutter doors, to the tiling to the FC Porto memorabilia on the walls. It’s a tiny bar, virtually a corridor with a long aluminium counter, basic seats and some leaning posts near the back
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ As close as you will get to working class pub culture near the centre of Porto. Regulars familiar with each other, a pattern and rhythm to the day, ritual of service, carried out quite separate from tourism going on around it.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️ Petiscos (snack food) nibbles, TV
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ One of the cheapest central bars in the city, some of the prices will make you quadruple-take. But this confirms the place is run for locals.
Description	60+ years young, this narrow ‘tasca’ has been curated into a near-shrine to FC Porto, however for several reasons that is not among the most interesting things about it. For a start, we are very central in Porto at this point, an area in the city where wholesome working class businesses are dying out fast following inundations of tourists and fly-by-night Americans coming to work remotely. The prospect of finding such a place these days without venturing further out is becoming remote. Then the prices – rub your eyes, rub them again. Yes, in 2023 the sight of a sign advertising a litre of wine for 2 euros, whatever the wine may be, is certainly eye catching. A beer for a Euro, a Ginja for 50 cents? Really. Alfredo Portista serves petiscos (snacks) as well as full meals, petinga ( tiny sardines) or bacalhau with arroz de couve ( cabbage rice) or rojões (fried pork with potatoes). Snacks include Bifana, a famous Portuguese fast food dish – flash fried steak in a bun. Mingling among the locals, soaking up the rhythm and atmosphere of an unspoilt pub with a firm identity and a sense that it’s going nowhere anytime soon. Let’s hope that stays the case. (Added September 2023)