A Fabrica da Picaria

Craft Beer $$

Porto's first brewpub. The tanks sit in the room, the beer is born in front of you, and the address gave the project its name.

A rehabilitated Baixa building on Rua da Picaria holds the brewery, the bar, and a kitchen running traditional Portuguese food at fair prices (Guide de Porto).

Google reviewers hold it at 4.7 and TheFork users score it 9.5 out of 10. For a brewpub in a tourist city, those numbers are rare.

The back of the building hides the quiet asset: outdoor seating that Tripadvisor reviewers call lovely and most walk past without noticing.

Skip imported bottles entirely. Drinking anything not brewed in the room misses the point of the address.

Lunch runs local office tables. Evenings split between beer travelers logging Untappd check ins and Baixa regulars eating full dinners.

The 11:15am open makes it the rare Porto craft address that works for a daytime pint.

Five minutes from Aliados station on Line D. Book on TheFork for Friday and Saturday dinner; every other window takes walk ins.

What to order

  • 01

    The house lager

  • 02

    The rotating IPA

  • 03

    Francesinha and a pint

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