Let’s talk about couverts. If there are restaurants that put the tickets on the table without the customer asking, permission is requested here. However, according to customers, entries should be mandatory. The chef Luís Américo makes sure that all the confection is handmade and made on site. So, if you spread black garlic butter and paprika on a sweet, still warm, sweet potato bread, you need not ask where such delicacy will come from. Comes from the chef’s kitchen. And we are only talking about entries. With a strong focus on Portuguese cuisine, chef Luís Américo added simple things of direct flavors to his dishes, depending on the trips he made. In Typographia Progress one eats but also travels.

Mengos was born in 1978, in Porto city center, in the typical commercial area of the city. The name is due to the father of the owner who, having been emigrated in Brazil, became a fan of the Flamengo football club and hence the name of the establishment. Currently Mengos Pastelaria e Restaurante bets on the quality of products and customer service, maintaining its values, history and tradition. Here you can enjoy pastry specialties such as croissants, snacks, Jesuits, palmiers, cream and Berlin balls, as well as gastronomic specialties such as duck rice, Porto-style guts, Braga cod, Zé do Pipo cod and of course , francesinha.

Confeitaria Universo is a space with its own daily production of bakery and pastry products, also serving economical meals from Monday to Saturday. Daily, they have chicken baked on the spit for any time of the opening hours. Its bakery products are varied, with fresh bread and refreshing ice creams, which will delight your customers in moments of pause. Confeitaria Universo has a friendly service, a beautiful atmosphere and plenty of space to have coffee, eat something or wrap yourself in your favourite book. It is a space intended to make you feel at home. Regardless of the weather, all its spaces are air-conditioned. They have a free Wi-Fi network.