Photo: rilo 2006, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.A Pérola do Bolhão is a long-running grocery on Rua Formosa, beside the market hall. Shelves hold tinned fish, coffee, wine, sweets and pantry staples that travellers pack and residents restock. It is a shop, not a café with a queue for selfies,...
Mercado do Bolhão, the city’s market hall
Photo: Joseolgon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.Mercado do Bolhão is Porto’s central covered market, rebuilt and reopened as a working hall. Stallholders sell fruit, fish, meat, flowers and snacks. Saturday morning is the busy ritual; weekday mornings are calmer for a proper shop.The city and the market operators publish hours....