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Manuel Tavares has sold cheese, charcuterie, salt cod and vintage port from its narrow Rua da Betesga storefront since 1860, the shelves stacked floor to ceiling behind a marble-topped counter. The Financial Times named it among the world's best food shops in 2021, citing a selection built on direct relationships with small Portuguese producers.
Best for Cured meats, cheese and vintage port
Centro
Porto sandwich institution on Praca dos Poveiros, run since 1987 by two brothers and their wives. Known for the sandes de pernil - slow-roasted pork with Serra da Estrela mountain cheese - adapted from a Brazilian recipe, plus francesinhas and sausage-and-cheese boards.
Best for The pork-and-mountain-cheese sandwich at a Porto institution
Casa Guedes has operated in Porto's Praca dos Poveiros since 1987, run by a pair of brothers and their wives out of a small, tile-lined eatery. Its signature is the sandes de pernil, a roast pork sandwich topped with melted Serra da Estrela mountain cheese, built from a recipe the family adapted from a Brazilian original. It is regularly cited by Porto food guides as the city's best sandwich, known for long queues, sometimes over an hour. Beyond the pernil, the menu includes bifanas, francesinhas, boards of cured sausage and cheese, slow-cooked chicken gizzards, and homemade chocolate mousse. The business has since grown into a small local group with several Porto locations.
Porto
A specialist Portuguese food shop for oils, cheeses, charcuterie, spices, preserves and wine.
Best for Portuguese oils, cheeses, charcuterie, spices, preserves
Centro Historico, Evora
Divinus Gourmet packs more than 500 regional lines into its shop on Praca 1 de Maio, near Evora's Chapel of Bones. Shelves hold Alentejo wines, cured meats, cheeses, olive oils and preserves, along with made-up gift hampers.
Best for One-stop Alentejo wine, cheese and gourmet gifts
Quinta da Lage, Evora
Founded in 1961 and still family-run, this Evora dairy at Quinta da Lage sells its own sheep's-milk cheeses, fresh curds, requeijao and almece straight from the source. The farm shop shares the site with the working dairy and a small animal park, opening daily including Sunday afternoons.
Best for Farm-fresh Alentejo sheep's cheese and requeijao
Melo, Gouveia (Serra da Estrela), Portugal
Fonte dos Namorados runs a restaurant and regional shop in Melo, Gouveia, selling Serra da Estrela sheep's cheese, honey, cured sausages and local crafts. Its online store ships mountain-made products across the Portuguese mainland.
Best for Serra da Estrela regional foods and crafts
Mangualde (Serra da Estrela), Portugal
Vale da Estrela is a family dairy producing Serra da Estrela PDO cheese, curdled with wild thistle from the raw milk of Bordaleira and Churra Mondegueira ewes. It sells its buttery, semi-cured rounds through an online shop that ships across the Portuguese mainland.
Best for Serra da Estrela PDO cheese
Serra da Estrela, Portugal
Quinta das Eiras is a Serra da Estrela apiary with more than thirty years of beekeeping, producing honey, pollen, propolis and beeswax. It sells its mountain honey and gift baskets of regional cheese and cured meats through its own online shop.
Best for Serra da Estrela honey and bee products
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