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Cozinha dos Lóios

4.3 (26 reviews)
ModerateMediterranean, Portuguese
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Casual
Moderate noise
Outdoor seating
Good for groups

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Regina J.

Missed our wine tasting today and decided to create the same wine experience in our own. Stopped in here and we had the most delicious port wine. Our server- Rafael was so knowledgeable about the 4 selections we tried.

Baked cod with potatoes and spinach
Jessie W.

Cute little place. We ate in the cellar which was really cool. I had cod with potatoes and spinach. Tasted really good, but there were too many bones in the cod for my liking. Others had steak inside a puff pastry and liked it. The verde wine I tried was very good as well. Skip the dessert, crème brûlée was not good. Waitress didn't speak English very well, but was very kind and tried to communicate the best she could with us, which we appreciated since it was our first full day in Portugal. Giving it 5 stars because overall is was a cool place with pretty good food and drink.

Bife loios.
Des Y.

Another game time decision that panned out. Mostly. We walked in and the club-like beats on the ground floor had me a bit concerned but we were ushered downstairs to a quieter room (that filled up quickly with other diners). Our server was an absolute gem, she's earned one of the star ratings all for her service alone. On to the eats. We started with a couple of sausage apps, and you've gotta be careful here. These are mains-sized sausage apps - they're massive. The choriso sausage was thick and meaty to the bite. The alheira chicken sausage was a more acquired taste: thick casing with a mushier filling made for an interesting challenge to cut it into bite-sized pieces. The salt cod and clams entree was absolutely majestic: a massive serving of cod topped with small clams, and a large prawn on top, whilst surrounded by a crown of hand cut potato crisps. This was seriously great, but the after effect is that you definitely feel the salt after the meal. The bife loios main was also terrific: tender beef, thick brown sauce, pillowy mashed potatoes. All in all, it was better than good.

Portuguese poutine (Francescine)
Julie D.

Stumbled upon this place walking around Porto and was really impressed with the food and service. Service was impeccable and they gent who served paired wines wonderfully with the dishes I chose from the sparkling to the port. Recommend the rump puff pastry which was amazing along with the red wine that was suggested. Perfectly cooked beef with some cheese and a crusty pastry that was wonderful. Chocolate mousse with the port was also perfectly paired. Definitely recommend for a casual dinner with great 80's miaic

Francesinchq

Outdoor seating as well as indoors, full marks on ambience and service. They were eager to serve and genuinely excited to have us. We started with clams, oh my what a delight. Perfect blend of onions, oil, spices and clams, order bread to to dip in the sauce. The star of the night was francesinha...two types of ham and steak sandwich topped with melted cheese and served in a sauce. The layers, the textures and flavors went so well with each other, caught us by surprise. Sauce was tomato based with some spices, I couldn't put my fingers on the content, but maybe salt, pepper, cinnamon and something else. We also tried the pork cheeks with mashed potatoes, was also excellent but the star for me was the Francesinha something different

Agnes W.

My family and I found this place and decided to check it out. The menu looks fantastic and we decided to go with the tasting menu which is a 6 course meal, with wine pairings, for 40 euros. The portions were quite large for a tasting menu - basically each plate was like half of the actual main size!! We were stuffed. The waiters were fantastic and super friendly and the chef popped out to see how we enjoyed our meals. Overall such a great place and would definitely recommend. The wines were spot on with each dish as well.

chef's green tagliatelle
Kathy L.

One of my best dinner experiences to date. We had a wonderful server Raquel who gave us a great red wine recommendation and had super positive energy and outlook on life. The food was delicious and the meat was tender. Cozy inside with a nice, slightly dim ambiance. Highly recommend!

Couscous to share
Mandy M.

My friend and I really liked it here. Service was good (maybe a little too fast sometimes, but we don't mind). Food was delicious. We took couscous to share. Was full of nice flavours. Both of us took risotto next, also very nice. But the desserts were the best. Fruit tartin with chocolate icecream for me and salted chocolate mousse for my friend. Accompanied with a good vintage Dows port wine. So tasteful! Would really reccomend.

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Food was mediocre, service was pretty bad as well - forgotten items, appetizers coming after main course etc.

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Really liked it. Nice decor, music, mood. Food was good and not expensive. :) Staff was very nice.

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4.8(505 reviews)
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I found this place on Google Maps when we were looking for a dinner spot. It was packed and we made…read moreit just on time because there were 2 seats open at the bar! We ordered a few tapas to share: croquets de alheira and croquets de codfish. Both were so good! We loved it. The star of the show though was the pork neck tacos! They were so delicious! So much flavor and perfect. I got the lemonade and it was just okay. Nothing special. Overall, would 100% recommend this place! Make a reservation if you can but if you can't, would still try to stop by!

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4.6(111 reviews)
0.4 km

Small menu that rotates. Beautiful meal. Everything was unique and flavorful. You cannot get a…read morereservation here. We called for a month before we traveled. No one ever picked up the phone, no luck online. We walked up and got lucky on the early side of dinner as we were willing to squeeze into a too small table. Worth it.

So this place showed up on a bunch of lists of places to go in Porto, and for good reason - but I…read morewas having trouble finding the hours, so I figured I'd just get there around noon once I was in Porto, and ask. Around noon, someone did show up briefly to post a sign out front saying they were going to be opening at 12:45 that day (I asked out of curiosity; sounds like it's *often* 12:30, but it's really mostly a "they'll open when they want to" kind of place.) I knew it'd be the sort of place that would fill up immediately, so I got back at 12:30. At least that day, it turns out they still had 1 table left after they sat everyone there before they opened - that last table got claimed at 1, 15 minutes later. It's not a large space, and word is out for good reason. Given it's not a large space, it was also easy for them to have excellent service, which they did. You could tell they were all passionate about the place, and again, for good reason - it was great. Definitely one of the best meals we ate on that trip. Between the two of us, we tried: Complimentary bread and olive oil. One OMG fantastic, wonderful fish soup. The sort of soup you'd want to eat every day if you could. Croquettes that were pretty good. Enjoyable enough, perfectly crispy, a little too salty. Not nearly as memorable as everything else. The seafood rice stew for 2 - a description I always question ("for 2"), but true in this case. It was quite large - and great. Excellent shrimp, which I'm picky about. I'm even pickier about shellfish (clams, mussels, etc). I was expecting to give my wife most of them, but I did *not* do that. They really know how to get and cook the best seafood here. The rice at the top of the stew wasn't anything particular to mention - filling, though, and warming for the drizzly day it'd been that morning. The rice at the *bottom* of the stew, that'd been slowly cooking in hot stew the whole time, was *very good*. :D Wine-wise, they have like a hundred bottles of wine by the whole bottom, some very expensive, some *surprisingly* reasonably priced, but we also didn't need a whole bottle of wine with lunch - by the glass, they just had one red and one white house wine (also solidly priced, though, for a place like this, 6 euros (Be way more than that in the US. I had the red with the stew - solid.) Also a handful of solid-looking ports by the glass, one of which I had with dessert, a reserva tawny for 6.50 euros. After eating the stew, my wife tapped out. I was also pretty full, but I'd spent a lot of effort getting here and I was *gonna* have dessert, darn it. Had what was basically just a whole roasted stewed apple, cooked down until it turned to pudding. Super good. Went really well with a reserva tawny port. This place was great.

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Taberna Dos Mercadores - Octopus and its Rice

Octopus and its Rice

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Flaming salt crusted seabass bass

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Cozinha dos Lóios - mediterranean - Updated October 2026

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