The order of the words is not a detail. It is the category we compete in, and it is what separates us from the other houses in Porto.
Fado no Porto is a tribute to traditional fado and to Portuguese cooking, in a vaulted stone room hidden in the heart of the city, next to São Bento station.
We are not a restaurant that sometimes has music. We are a fado house where you also eat well, and the difference shows across the whole night: the fado is not a forty-minute set at the end of the meal, it is sung from beginning to end, every night of the year.
We give the stage to the voices keeping this heritage alive and to those arriving now. We announce no line-up and no names: each night has its own fadista, and the surprise is part of what you come here for. Anyone who comes back never hears the same night twice.
At the table, real Portuguese cooking, made for a night without a clock. Nobody asks for the room back. You stay while there is fado and appetite for it.
Book a table There is fado every night, and dinner is by reservation.
“Fado is not sung, it happens.” Fado is felt, not understood and not explained. What matters is feeling it.
The house is small on purpose. An old stone vault, tables laid underneath it, and nobody between the person singing and the person listening. The acoustics of the stone do the rest, and that is why quiet is asked for during the fado: in a room like this, the voice needs no microphone to reach the back.
It is also why dinner is always by reservation. There are no spare seats.
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Excellent experience!! Fantastic service. Very friendly staff. Phenomenal food, beautifully presented. Thank you Jessica for the fado and for the surprise of Ana, who sang for us too. Wonderful voices, with their fantastic musicians!!!
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Márcia Lourenço
Google
The best restaurant in Porto for hearing fado, with incredible food to go with it! Thank you Eduardo for looking after us so well! We will definitely be back!
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Cristiana Simoes
Google
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Dinner is by reservation. There is fado every night, in two shows: the first around 19:45 and the second at 22:00.
Group and company dinners are arranged directly with us, by phone 934 000 100 or on WhatsApp.
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