Poleiro is a barbecue and snack bar offering homemade meals at a very economical price. It is ideal for a quick meal where you can try some of its specialties such as chicken, sirloin or bifanas. In addition, it offers a wide range of fish and meat dishes every day, especially traditional Portuguese cuisine. Your servings are generous and you can enjoy menus with drink included. It is a spacious place that accommodates many customers at the same time and is very popular during football games, allowing you to snack or have a few beers while watching a game from your club.

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.

The Casa Pinheiro is a traditional tavern in Porto, over 60 years old, which aims to preserve the customs of this type of houses in the city and preserve the homemade flavours. The appetizers available every day stand out, with focus on codfish fritters, Lamego ham, bucho(stomach of the animal) and boiled ears, among many others, besides traditional Portuguese cuisine day dishes, such as also ‘Tripas à moda do Porto’ (the most representative dish of Porto that dates back to the time of the Portuguese Discoveries is cooked with tripe and fat meat, accompanied with thick slices of dark bread; today instead of bread white beans are used), ‘feijoada à Transmontana’ (bean stew, usually with meat, and almost always accompanied with rice; in Portugal, it is cooked with white beans in the northwest (Minho and Douro Litoral) or red beans in the northeast (Trás-os-Montes), and usually also includes other vegetables (tomatoes, carrots or cabbage) besides pork or beef, to which can be added varied sausages), ‘cabidela’ rice (a stew that uses, during its cooking, the blood – with vinegar – of the animal that is boiled) or codfish à la Braga (cod to pieces, fried; the potatoes and onions that accompany this dish are cut into thin slices and fried in the same oil as the cod, with bay leaf and cloves), just to mention a few. The welcoming and traditional environment invites to experience, to socialise and to share typically Portuguese dishes, with a familiar service and very competitive prices.