The Bug Hug was born in 2020 as a result of the owner’s need to reinvent her career path and the synergy of family work. As an artist and educator she felt the need to redirect her work to a project that already existed in the drawer of dreams – the bug hug. The family, with more than thirty years of experience in children’s clothing, helped to give birth to a new brand of clothing aimed at babies and children. With its own design, national manufacture (in its own workshop and in partner workshops) and selected raw materials, the garments result in a contemporary and eclectic style that respects sustainability and ecological responsibility.
There are 16 square meters of space where you can watch the jewelery proposed by the duo Diogo Dalloz and Ni Romiti, two friends who met at Milan Design Week in 2015. At Jewelery Experience you can be dazzled by pieces that combine the best of avant-garde design, with the tradition and technique of Portuguese jewelery. The author pieces are unique, all with a story, a moment or a goal. They are born from the imagination and vision of the creators, gaining shape through artisanal methods, with raw materials ranging from gold to silver, to noble and noble metal. A proposal that brings Portugal and Brazil together, in a timeless, modern and glamorous relationship.
Glood is a grocery chain specializing in international products, and its first store was opened in 2011 in the São João do Estoril area. Its stores sell products originating from various countries and each continent, such as the United States of America, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil, among other examples.
In Glood spaces, food products such as beverages, sauces, snacks and cereals are mainly sold. You can also find a range of hygiene and beauty products as well as “Pop Art Gifts” (gifts using imagery from popular culture figures).
For 30 years in Porto city center, Estrela do Oriente is a typical restaurant recognized for its specialties in fish and meat dishes. With an excellent snack bar service, a wide range of natural juices is available. You can also taste its famous francesinha. In the restaurant you can find a varied menu, including their specialties, with selected meats from the Arouca region and always fresh fish. With extensive experience in organizing events, offers special menus for birthday parties, baptisms and communions. It is still a good place to watch a football game while you drink something and enjoy some of our specialties.
Situated in the street with the same name, the Padaria S. Dinis is a hot bread establishment, with fresh bread served daily. For this reason alone, it would already deserve the attention of our senses. However, the Padaria S. Dinis is much more than that, it is also known for its varied pastries, having Berlin balls (the Berlin ball is a traditional German cooking cake, whose recipe arrived in Portugal during the Second World War by Jewish refugees, becoming an immediate success. It is sprinkled with sugar, but while the Berliner is garnished with mainly red sweets (strawberry, raspberry, etc.), the Berliner ball is filled with a yellow sweet called pastry cream through a side blow and is always visible. With the exponential sale of this product, the flavours of the filling have also increased. The Berlin balls are fried before being stuffed with the pastry cream. Their German counterparts have a slightly smaller diameter and are usually sprinkled with powdered sugar. In Portugal, you can find Berlin balls in most bakeries, which sometimes also have them without filling. They are consumed a lot on the beaches from north to south of the country during the summer), cream pastries, various versions of éclairs and croissants, just to mention a few, as well as for its daily meals, based on the tradition of Portuguese, regional and local cuisine, with modern versions of some well-known dishes and having its version of the famous Francesinha (a sandwich from the city of Porto, consisting of sausage, fresh sausage, ham, cold meats and beef steak, covered with cheese later melted; it is garnished with a tomato, beer and piri-piri sauce and can be served with French fries as a side dish), and ‘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). The service is attentive and personalised and the space is welcoming, having a family atmosphere.
Garrafeira Soares is dedicated to the retail and wholesale beverage trade, standing out as the market leader in the Algarve region. Following the market trends and a strong bet on its expansion, Garrafeira Soares opened its first store outside the Algarve, making its debut in Porto. It is distinguished by the numerous and exclusive brands of Port wine, of various years and ranges. A place where you can taste wine by the glass, tapas and experience the best of Porto, as well as other wines and spirits. The company’s activity is divided into two distinct areas: retailing, with a network of twenty own stores, and wholesale, supported by the sales tea.
The Cardona Pharmacy has been in operation since 1943 in its current facilities, having gone through several phases of modernization and progress over the years until it became what it is today. Today it provides excellent health care to its customers, with attentive monitoring by its highly qualified and dedicated professionals. Here you will be able to fill in all the medications prescribed by your doctor, as well as purchase all kinds of medication without a prescription. You can also purchase various types of products such as cosmetics, supplements, peri- and post-natal products and take advantage of the numerous special promotions that take place throughout the year.
In this open studio, the client/visitor will be able to observe, purchase and create together with the Painter Hugo do Lago in his creative space. Hugo do Lago is an artist who studied at Camberwell College of Arts London, UWE Bristol and has a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. After a few years abroad, he decided to return to his city and open, in 2017, an Art space in Porto which offers the best of his experience and shows the best of the city. Here you can buy original works created by yourself (Watercolours – Acrylic on canvas – Drawing), custom-made frames or participate in daily workshops, at varied schedules, of Painting, Water colouring and Drawing.
With a warm atmosphere and friendly and helpful service, Café Alem D’Ouro is a reference for its homemade sweets. Their francesinha is their most famous product, which is available all year round and not just at Christmas. But there are many other options such as its highly praised scones, orange muffins or cheeses of various flavors (chocolate, mango, passion fruit, almond and coffee). You can also taste the salty ones, such as the patties, the ball or the pastel de Chaves. It’s the perfect place for a meeting point, a snack or a coffee break, accompanied by one of their homemade pastries.
Opened in 2013, it is a bar which opens to the street, with music, concerts and snacks. In the middle of downtown Porto, it tries to bring the street to the street, in this reciprocity of undergoing, experiences and smells. The Rua occupies an old building in the area, with a characteristic interior patio. The architectural project of adaptation to the bar sought to realise the idea of approaching the street, of integration and continuity, using elements and materials from the exterior urbanity, such as the granite of the pavement, the balcony iron bars, the typical tiles and the urban graffiti. On the menu, you can find various solutions for drinking and snacking, ‘potatoes bravas’ (extremely spicy potatoes), padrón peppers, tibornas (similar to a Bruschetta), among others, and even a puff pastry Francesinha.
Fuzz Store is a shop that delights fans of music, TV, film and pop culture, selling t-shirts, accessories and official merchandise from the biggest references in all these areas.
In the heart of Porto, more specifically at Rua Firmeza, very close to the largest shopping street in the city, Fuzz Store is an inviting place where the two Brazilian owners, deep connoisseurs of music and all the material they sell, are fully available to help. In this store we can assist all those who like to wear their greatest cultural references choosing the products they most identify with.
A space dedicated to the sale of Tamagnini Design products which, more than a jewelry brand, is, in the words of its owners, “a devotion to good taste.” It was born by the hands of the Jaime and Paula Tamagnini brothers and is the result of the connection from their family to the world of jewelry, from the time of their great-grandparents. Together they put their personal imprint on current jewelry inspired by ancient jewelry techniques. These are the jewels that Tamagnini Design create and recreate thinking of the Tamagnini Woman, a woman who appreciates the detail, beauty and comfort, who lives her life by including jewelry in her daily life and giving the soul and shapes to the jewels created for her. Their motto is to create jewelry for women with good taste.
