After several years of experience in the cartoon market, Livraria Manuel Santos opened its physical space in 1999, in Vila Nova de Gaia. About a decade later it moved to Porto. The Livraria Manuel Santos offers a great diversity of old books, first editions, Portuguese literature, monographs and manuscripts. It is a modern space, easily accessible. The Guardian, when voting on the ten most “COOL” neighbourhoods of European cities, put the neighbourhood where the bookshop is located in fourth place, placing Porto ahead of Berlin, Rome, Paris and Warsaw, for example. Here you can count on the experience and expertise of the book world.
Isabel Soares always wanted to have her own space. With many years of experience in the commerce area she decided, in 2006, to fully embrace her passion for aesthetics and open her first space. At the same time, she decided to deepen her knowledge, to study again, in order to combine personalised service with specialisation and knowledge in her field. In 2012, she opened the current space, where she offers her clients services such as laser diode hair removal, waxing, threading, specific hand/foot treatments, specific face/body treatments, treatment massages, personalised nutrition, among others, and products such as body, face, foot or hand creams.
Porto de Magia is a shop characterized by originality and unusual objects, which bring us to our memories of childhood or a time gone by. Here you can get lost in the myriad of items available – musical mechanisms, musical miniatures, carousels, snowballs, stage musical boxes, jewelry boxes, clocks, kaleidoscopes, lamps, magic lanterns, thermometers, trolleys, toys, decorations, frames and postcards, collectors’ items, and much, much more. The worst thing is to come in and not know what not to choose. It may be the ideal place to find unique toys and items not found in general stores.
Douro e Castas is a wine cellar specialized in regional wines and products, mainly from the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro region, but also has wines from other Portuguese regions, such as Alentejo, Dão and Estremadura. It strives for quality products, for the good prices it offers and for the helpful and personalized service it offers its customers. In fact, given their experience and specialized knowledge in the sector, its employees are able to give you the best advice on which wine best suits your specific needs. Apart from private customers, we are suppliers of various businesses.
According to Café D. Duarte, this is the ideal space to regain strength. Just pop in and enjoy your selection of snacks and drinks. Every time you visit Café D. Duarte you will find comforting coffee and light meals. It also has exterior space, particularly pleasant with warm weather. You can choose from a variety of traditional and Portuguese dishes, local dishes or regional dishes. You can also try the tapas dishes, or its fruit, or even the various bakery products and cakes. To the attention of food bloggers: taking pictures and posting them on Instagram has never been so simple, as it has free Wi-Fi. There is also a take-away service.
Fábrica da Picaria is a craft beer brewpub that aims to become a trendy, cosmopolitan, signature and tasteful space, where you can enjoy a craft beer in a factory environment while making contact with the various stages of beer production. This way, in this brewpub, you can taste the beer directly from your fermentation vat. Although beer is our ex-libris, Fábrica da Picaria also serves tapas, sandwiches and traditional dishes, all great choices to accompany the craft beers that surely attract those who visit this space.
With more than two decades of experience serving the city of Porto, Maregional assumes itself as a space for supplying various products with the aim of making each of your meals a memorable moment. Frozen fish, shellfish, groceries such as canned goods, pasta, rice, olive oil and coffee, as well as various wines from various regions are just a small sample of the huge range of products that this establishment makes available to its public, You can always count on the help of staff to answer all your questions and request any advice.
The owner’s name is Eugenia and the history of her café is a “funny” one: she worked in a school nearby, but she did not like working there very much. She took care of the children when they were on their break, but while during school hours her work was more quiet. Bored, but still without another job in sight, she found herself forced to find an escape as an excuse to get out of there. One day, while passing through the street of Bonjardim, she saw a shop that was about to wander and thought she could open a café in that space, betting on her homemade dumplings, something she loved to do. And so Geninha appeared, the name by which she was called at school, where she could share her cakes and snacks.
For Pet Lar owners, having pets was one of the most important decisions of their lives. What they use in their personal lives has transferred as a passion to their business: the responsibility to care of an animal, taking into account the care they need for their well-being. Pet Lar offers personalized service and help to choose the most appropriate and healthy food, products that will provide the greatest comfort, joy, play and all the essential and individualized care for each animal. Pet Lar has have grooming, shearing, bathing services, and sell food, accessories, clothing, cosmetics and anti-parasites.
Vaz Oliveira & Cª. Lda. is a fiftieth anniversary celebrating company, founded in 1963. Its mission is, from the beginning, to render available, in the market, the best articles at the best price in the three areas to which it is dedicated: fabric by metro, home textiles and interiors. For this it has a wide range of fabrics, such as towels, cambreas, cottons, interlinings, combs, felt, flannels, linings, jeans, jute, khaki, linens, tarpaulins, plasticised mesh, raw cloth, sheeting, Turkish cloth, pike, quadrille, dressings, table protectors, serge, surrobeco, tartan, plasticised fabrics, tulle, among others, home textiles, with ranges for hotels and restaurants, and interiors, such as dressing gowns, pyjamas, to name but a few.
Óptica da Praça has as a motto “close to you within reach of everyone”, combining a commercial aspect with the integration in the community, providing basic and free access to optometry and contactology services. In addition, it has a range of products from the most famous laboratories, especially the sunglasses, prescription glasses, contact lenses and maintenance solution, with more than 700 frames in stock, an on-site consultation, and a workshop for the assembly of lenses. The focus is also on specialized, experienced, and customized service, with the policy that no frame is delivered to a customer without being assembled and inspected by its quality control technicians.
Café Ambrizete home appeared in the 70s and can be said to be part of a range of the oldest houses in the area. The name ‘Ambrizete’ derives from the time of the returnees, the people who returned from the old Portuguese overseas provinces, being the name of an Angolan city at the time. At the beginning, with the theme of a tea room, the space contained sofas for the comfort of its clients and paintings on the walls with the theme ‘Angola’. Of these paintings it is still possible to see part of them under the false ceiling, as well as a stained glass window that is part of the origins of the house. Nowadays, the highlight goes to the games of Santa Casa, to its billiards, to the space outside and to its soup, which never disappoints its clients.
