Fuji: the experience

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The Fuji Restaurant is a japanese place that has already been mentioned in our blog. The team A Coffee In Oporto decided to try its take away service.

First we want to point out the sympathy and promptitude of this service. Once in the restaurant you can choose which sushi pieces you want, while having rice and prawn pasta also available. Each box costs 5€ except the rice box, which can be ordered for only 2,50€.

The food was definitely satisfying, the sushi is amazing and the ingredients have quality. It was a different meal that led us to become fans of this place.

Fuji is an economic option that is available for everyone. For only 5€/person we had a full and enjoyable dinner. The team A Coffee In Oporto believes you should most definetely visit this cozy little japanese restaurant, Fuji.

Video: Guarany

Do you still remember Guarany we talked about on our second post? The team A Coffee In Oporto went back to this emblematic café and restaurant to make a video where every reader can get to know more thoroughly this space. 

We hope you like it and feel tempted to visit!

Fuji Restaurant

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Fuji was launched in 2009 on Santa Catarina’s street and it has been delighting those who visit it, whether it’s to try a typically Japanese dish for the first time or to repeat the experience.

The decoration of the restaurant grants us a voyage to Japan as soon as you pass by the door. The yellow tones rule in a very welcoming environment.

For those who prefer the comfort of their own home, Fuji has a take-away service, and for the price of 5€ you can buy a box of sushi to go. In the restaurant the menus range from 6€ to the rodízio for 13.90€, although by night the rodízio costs 12.90€.

The restaurant is open everyday from 12am to 3pm and again from 7pm to 11pm.

If you really want to try sushi, A Coffee in Oporto advises you to visit Fuji. We guarantee a good treatment and the food is going to make you want to come back.

PItch Club

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The Pitch has two faces: day and night. During the day this bar works as a coffee shop and restaurant, while in the evening it opens the doors to incredibly fun nights.

Pitch is considered one of the top bars and clubs of the Invicta. The space is divided in two floors: in the ground-floor the atmosphere is similar to any pub you find in the streets of London, and in the floor above is the bar, with a 60's decoration and a DJ booth.

In this bar you can dance to the sound of alternative and contemporary styles that contrast with the retro decoration. The space was launched and decorated in a way to optimize the acoustic, a good aspect to cover in a place like this.

This is one of the places you should visit if the intention is to have a night out with your friends, or even just to enjoy a nice light meal in the restaurant, which is open during the day.

The Lingerie Restaurant

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Recently opened, The Lingerie Restaurant is placed in Gonçalo Cristóvão's street. It's a place that may seem ordinary at first sight, but actually can be full of surprises.

This restaurant intends to give eroticism and sensuality to its costumers' dinner, an innovating concept that aims to be the Moulin Rouge of our town. Seduction and eroticism  can be noticed right away by the decoration, with warm colors and erotic images decorating the walls. But there's more, the staff has an unusual outfit... lingerie.

When it comes to the kitchen, the dishes are exotic and aphrodisiacs, with menus that range from 20€ (without beverage), to 40€. This prices include the house's shows such as striptease on stage with a pole.

Besides the space intended to dinner there is the wine bar, a space that obeys to the same concept as the restaurant. The visitors also have access to a wide library of erotic books.

If you want to surprise, amaze, and leave the prejudices behind, The Lingerie Restaurant is ideal, leaving anyone astonished with an experience that one doesn't forget.

Capa Negra II

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Capa Negra II has a history of over forty years and is known as one of most bustling restaurants in the Oporto area. The reason for that is one of the Oporto's typical dish called Francesinha, and the way this restaurants perfectly honors it.

Placed at Campo Alegre, Capa Negra II is on the top 10 best national restaurants, all due to the Francesinha. Though for those who don't know it, the doubt persists: What is Francesinha? This emblematic dish from the Invicta city is a mix of roasted meat and sausages with other meat, all between two slices of toasted loaf bread with cheese on top. The perfect combination goes along with french fries to help savor Francesinha's sauce.

Capa Negra II has a very prolonged serving period during the week, opening at 12 am and closing at 1:45 pm. The prices range 10€ to 30€, depending on the meal and the clients can always use the take-away service.

If you would like to try this typical northern dish, we recommend that you visit Capa Negra II. Forty years of history and constant buslting cannot be wrong. Our best advice is that you arrive early so that you guarantee you won't have to wait too long. 

(Francesinha)

Casal Lounge

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In february of 2010 was launched right in Avenida dos Aliados the Casal Louge Caffé. Located in the building of the old Totta & Azores Banc, an architectural masterpiece of particular beauty, the Casal Lounge Caffé has its very own concept: it's a coffee shop, restaurant, pastery and bar. So, you can go there to have a wonderful breakfast, an amazing lunch, a snack, or only for a drink with some friends listening to a DJ.

This Lounge Caffé stands out for its homemade ice creams with more than 30 flavors to choose from. Crepes, homemade cakes, pizzas, pastas and the great invention of cakes with queijo da serra.

The space is pleasant, large, and its highlights are the leather couches, the walls covered with images of several european cities and a seventeenth-century chandelier. This coffee shop also presents an esplanade with Oporto's City Council and Intercontinental Hotel as a background, even if in opposite sides.

The Casal Lounge Caffé is definitely a place to visit, anytime, because it has the right options for each time of the day. 

La Bohème

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The new La Bohème presents a welcoming concept of gathering and sharing Entre Amis, offering a long list of wines, delicious tapas and a lot of music.

In the Galerias de Paris' street, La Bohème is known for being the best place within that street to enjoy a glass of wine. It's the ideal place to hang out with you work colleagues after a long day at the office, tasting a nice wine, snacking some tapas, and relaxing in downtown Oporto. In La Bohème you can also count on a pleasant music selection fitting the athmosphere of a work lunch, a quite afternoon or a meeting at the end of the day.

The image of the bar borns from the treatment of the walls and ceilings with different heights in wood of thin rind and pine floorboards' pavements. La Bohème is a space with peculiar personality, where its verbal identity inspired in the new french art suggested a visual approach built manually and materialized in an unique language. The visual and verbal environment of the impress suggests a casual but sophisticated, cosmopolitan universe, and yet welcoming.

Bubbles Vanity: Food & Bar

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Bubbles Vanity Food & Bar, the new project by BV Trading, opened up this year in Oporto's downtown, in Rua Conde de Vizela. This company operates in the beverage market, manufacturing sparklings and semi-sparklins, and Bubbles Vanity Food & Bar came to democratize the consumption of drinks like champagne. Aiming all kinds of costumers, Bubbles isn't elitist and it presents all kinds of sparklings and drinks, from Lambrusco for the youngers to  the most refined champagne such as Armand de Brignac. Every week there will be featured different kinds of champagne promoting new experiences and gathering moments.

The name Bubbles comes precisely from the bet on "bubbly" beverages, but they're not the only ones worthy of attention. During the day, Bubbles' meal service stands out for having as executive menu for lunch, and a contemporary style cuisine by dinner time.

However, this Food&Bar also has an exquisite snack menu, including Burrata, Creme Brullé de Fois Gras, the renowned iberian "Joselito"'s toasts or even the micro-hamburguers.

The space itself is also quite a highlight, for its bar has a DJ, a winter garden, a themed bar associated to Armand de Brignac's champagne and a restaurant-lounge, so that while in Bubbles you may never feel adrift, there are places for all tastes.

This bar, despite being recent, is already one of the major references in Oporto's night. It has modern and welcoming space, and the drinks promise to leave you bubbling.

Café Ceuta

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The Ceuta cafe was born in the 50's and it still stands today as a landmark in the Invicta. Placed near Clérigos, this cafe offers a joyful service and it's open until 2 am from monday to saturday.

This cafe is the place to hang out with some friends or even stay for a meal, where the highlights are some typically portuguese dishes like tripas and francesinhas or even others like Duck rice. When it comes to drinks, sangria is the most famous one there.

Aside from the gastronomic features, in the Ceuta cafe you can enjoy a nice pool game, domino, checkers or chess.
The decoration reflects the time of its birth, it has friezes of fresco painting by Coelho de Figueiredo, marmorite's pavement with gaskets and marble wainscotings.

It's one of those places you must visit if you're trying to know more about the history of the city. Besides, the food is typical and amazing.

Clérigos

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Clérigos’ Glamour

In the new Passeio dos Clérigos was born Clérigos, a restaurant filled with glamour. This restaurant, with a modern and distinct decoration, catches the eye of everyone who passes through the street, which by itself is full of style.

Born from the partnership between Shis and Pedro Lemos, Clérigos is the first of three to open up to the public. The restaurant is particularly about snacks done in an open kitchen where anyone can see the cooks doing what they do best.

It’s a luminous place, well framed with a pretty modern decoration and little details as highlights, such as the machine that serves wine by glass, which is on the left from who goes inside. About the wine service, clients can choose between the taste, half glass and full glass. It’s a self-service feature and it works with a card provided in the counter.

The balcony is one of the spaces which are important to point out, because on top of having great lights they have an amazing view to Carmelita’s street. This restaurant has several tables, all decorated with a flower in its center, and various plants which provide a certain joy to the place.

Although the prices are not that inviting for most people, it is a place one should visit and even enjoy a snack in.

O Guarany

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Founded in 1933, the Guarany Café, better known as the “musician’s café”, stands out for having a very special atmosphere, result of the commitment between the tradition, the quality service and the artistic spirit which from early marked its existence. This was always a space of gathering and culture. After an improvement that occurred in 2003, Guarany offers a singular space, where the organization of events remains constant. Café Guarany is a restaurant and a historical café, located in Aliados Avenue, in downtown Oporto, Portugal. 

Integrated in an outbreak opening of cafes in Oporto in the middle of 1930, in January 29th 1933, Café Guarany opened, as a project of the architect Rogério Azevedo, with decoration of the sculptor Henrique Moreira. One of the walls now shows paintings of Graça Morais. The decoration reminds guarany Indians of Southern America and its tropical invocation is allusive to Brazil of the 20th century as the first coffee producer. 

Events

Café Guarany is by tradition a space of gathering and culture. Given that organizing events is a constant part of the café, you’re free to know more about the program and see the album of past events if you just click here. 

Specialties 

Codfish Guarany’s style, Sea bass baron Brise’s style, Shrimp Stroganoff, Hake fillets Salesman’ style, Marget of duck with Tawny Porto, Sirloin Guarany’ style, Veal steak Mirandesa’ style, Sirloin skewer with barbecue sauce. Besides this gastronomy, Guarany has several qualities of wine, created by its cupbearer.