A Marisqueira de Matosinhos
📍 Matosinhos & Leça, Porto
Seafood towers with almost every kind of shellfish, a seafood lover's heaven. On the pricey side, with an extensive wine list to match.
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Matosinhos, a short metro ride from central Porto, is where locals go for grilled fish straight off the boat. Skip the Ribeira tourist menus — these are the spots I send everyone to.
By Edmund · Updated 2026-10-14
← See all 66 spots on the interactive mapSeafood towers with almost every kind of shellfish, a seafood lover's heaven. On the pricey side, with an extensive wine list to match.
Go to the Matosinhos location specifically; it is the better of the two by a distance. Excellent quality here.
A calm and formal Portuguese seafood restaurant. When they have carabineros (scarlet prawns), order them: the preparation is top-notch. Everything from the sea here is tasty, and the wine club means the list is excellent. Winemakers eat here.
Walk along this street around numbers 200 to 300 and follow the smoke: two or three blocks of seafood restaurants grilling outside. All of them are good and the atmosphere is perfect.
Affordable seafood grilled right on the street. No frills, just fresh fish cooked perfectly over open flames.