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Best Cafés in Portugal (2026)

Coffee shops, bakeries, tea rooms and dessert spots for breakfast, a light lunch or a break between sights.

12 places · Updated November 12, 2026

Our top 3 cafés in Portugal

  1. Majestic Café Historic Belle Époque café, BaixaPorto's grandest historic café, opened on Rua de Santa Catarina in 1921, with carved wood, mirrors and plaster ceilings in Belle Époque and Art Nouveau style.
  2. Pastéis de Belém Historic bakery and café, BelémSince 1837 this Belém bakery has made its custard tarts by hand to a closely guarded recipe linked to the nearby Jerónimos Monastery.
  3. A Brasileira Historic café, ChiadoOpened in 1905 on Rua Garrett, this listed Chiado café was a meeting place for Lisbon's modernists, and a statue of Fernando Pessoa sits on its terrace.

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1. Majestic Café

Historic Belle Époque café$$$Baixa

Porto's grandest historic café, opened on Rua de Santa Catarina in 1921, with carved wood, mirrors and plaster ceilings in Belle Époque and Art Nouveau style.

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3. A Brasileira

Historic café$$Chiado

Opened in 1905 on Rua Garrett, this listed Chiado café was a meeting place for Lisbon's modernists, and a statue of Fernando Pessoa sits on its terrace.

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7. Café Nicola

Historic café$$Rossio

An Art Deco café on Rossio, opened in 1929 on the site of an eighteenth-century coffee house, with a terrace facing the square and a statue of the poet Bocage.

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9. Café Guarany

Historic café$$Aliados

A 1933 café on Avenida dos Aliados known as the café of music, with marble reliefs by Henrique Moreira and murals of Amazonian peoples by Graça Morais.

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