If you ask your parents and grandparents if they remember the grinder’s flute, they will most likely say yes. They announced their presence on the streets, and people who had knives and scissors to sharpen, or even umbrellas to straighten sticks, went toward the music. André Fernandes is Bolhão’s grinder, he learned his art from his grandfather 13 years ago and Bolhão Market is his second home, where he grew up and saw it grow. If you have cutlery, whether knives, scissors, pliers, razors, among others, or if you want to buy cutlery, André Amolador has no tuned music but has very sharp cutlery.
To speak of Rosart Flores is to speak of its owner, Mrs. Rosa. Recognized by her customers as na expert in Floral Art, but also by her good taste, sympathy and personalized service. Rosart Flores can be the ideal place to buy flower bouquets to every occasion such as weddings, bridal bouquets, christenings, communions, natural arrangements and/or dry, crowns and/or palms, decoration of farms/churches, funerals, birthdays, valentine’s day, wedding birthdays, graduations, just to mention a couple of special occasions. You just need to enter, feel the smell of the flowers and enjoy the colors.
Eldorado restaurant has a history of over 23 years, always with the same owner. Its longevity attests to the quality with which it serves its specialties, especially the traditional Portuguese dishes, fresh fish and seafood dishes. Indulge yourself with a fish dish such as Eldorado codfish, sea rice or fish cataplana or one of the seafood dishes such as seafood stew or seafood rice. If you prefer meat, you will also have many options available, such as steak à Eldorado, the Mirandesa steak or picanha. In the end, you can complement your meal with one of the homemade desserts available.
Visão Central has been around for over 15 years. It is a family business, which bets on a personalized service, and has specialized professionals in the area, able to provide advice and suggestions appropriate to each client. Ótica Visão Central specializes in optometry consultations, contactology, eyeglasses, contact lenses, ophthalmic lenses and frames. If you are seeing badly, need to change lenses, want to change from sunglasses to ones more suited to the trends of the year, if you want to try to change glasses for contact lenses, if you need progressive lenses, or if you need lens cleaning product, Visão Central may have the solution you need.
The Sindicato Nacional dos Quadros e Técnicos Bancários (National Union of Bank Staff and Technicians), in partnership with the Ergovisão group, inaugurated this space in 2018. Here you can enjoy vision consultations, optometry and contactology, as well as choose the type of vision product that suits you, be it male or female glasses, contact lenses, sunglasses to enjoy the summer, glasses for your child, glasses to do the sports that you like so much but which need specific glasses, or even protective glasses for work. You have a specialised and accredited team that can advise you, according to technological advances, for example, which type of lens is ideal for your job.
Armazéns do Marquês is an experienced company created in 1987 that operates in the home textile area, underwear and sporting goods. In 1998, it stopped selling sports goods and started selling and making uniforms, overalls and work clothes. Its goal is to provide products with high quality standards that offer the best guarantees to its customers, at the best prices and always giving preference to products made in Portugal. Always with a service characterized by proximity and friendliness. In our activity, Armazéns do Marquês seeks to live up to its values of humanity, sustainability and friendship.
Right in the heart of Porto, Tostinhas Expresso offers a menu that allows those who visit to use at their leisure, whether for breakfast, snack, have a drink or have a full meal. Tostinhas offers an eclectic menu, combined with the eclecticism of the people who come to your door, with options for light meals – soups, appetizers, cheese and cold meat boards, patties, olives, lupins, among others – and with dining options complete – with a wide variety of toasts, meat, fish or vegetarian, francesinha, special steaks, steaks, among others – and options to sweeten your mouth – mousse, pudding, fruit.
Since 1958 this confectionery in the Boavista area has been the delight of those who pass by. Entering Porto Rico is to enter the history of Porto’s pastry shops, with a product offering that spans all the walls, as if we had entered a grocery store from our grandparents’ time. Old but current, it is still sought after by its húngaros, its bolo rei and its digestives. In addition to these specialties, you can find varied pastries and confectionery, jams, teas, drinks, groceries, among others, and an ideal space to have breakfast, snack, have a light meal or snack.
Haity presents itself as a multi-brand chain store, whose activity combines tradition and innovation. The group’s first establishment was founded on December 20, 1979, in Santa Catarina Street, and has since expanded the business into several new stores.
Haity Men is especially dedicated to shoes. In its establishments it is also possible to find a wide range of fashion accessories, wallets and belts, under a cozy space. With a team always available to advise you, Haity is known for a close relationship with its customers.
Open since 1966, Cunha Rodrigues is a brand of haute couture fabrics and since 1996 has been a leader in the marketing of fabrics in Portugal. It has been in this place since 2018 with a new concept but retains the usual excellence. They bet on the exclusivity and charm and refinement of the trends of international couturiers, always seeking to be at the forefront of fashion. In its catalog we can find lace, embroidery, silks, satins, muslin, brocade, patterned, taffeta, wool, crepes, cashmere, velvet, chiffons, paillettes, failles, among others. They provide national designers and designers and have already been trusted by well-known directors such as Filipe La Féria.
The copy center “O Grilo” is located at the headquarters of the Academic Federation of Porto. The name “the cricket” comes from the cricket statue which is the emblematic symbol of this building. This statue was created to mark a series of student protests at the time when Marçal Grilo was the minister of education. The Grilo Copy Center has served hundreds of students in their photocopying, printing, scanning and stationery selling needs. It is an important place in your student life that you turn to at various stages of your journey, either to keep your notes up to date, or to print important assignments, master’s theses or doctoral theses.
Since 2015, this property has been selling, restoring and repairing vintage radios of various brands. Whether as a souvenir of other times or as a decorative object, the old radios are a unique and desirable object. In this sense, the store will do everything to buy or repair your radio and continue to listen to old-fashioned music. We will even look for specific equipment according to our customers’ requests and instructions. Not only radios, but also coil machines, turntables and various vintage hi-fi devices. In addition to these services, this shop has an impressive museum of antique radios.
