This was a dense and large francesinha, utilising a lot of cheese and with a medium-rare sirloin steak inside. The chorizo inside was Smokey, salty and perfectly spiced. There was also a beautifully creamy, fatty, melting mortadella included in this francesinha. The sauce had the perfect balance of sweetness from the port, spice, creaminess, a savoury tomatoey flavour and a slight bitterness from the beer. The egg on top was ideally runny, the bread was lightly crispy, and the cheese was thick, creamy and deliciously high in cholesterol. The chips on the side were outstanding in combination with the sauce, crispy, salty and ready to be drenched.
The Pasteis de bacalhau were incredibly creamy, made from potato, dried cod fish (bacalhau: a Portuguese delicacy), onion, garlic, olive oil and parsley. The interior was soft like a mashed potato consistency and the exterior has a lightly crusted, hash brown like layer. These croquettes are easy to come by all over Portugal, with both the smallest of restaurants serving them and also the most sophisticated ones. We appreciated the slight nutmeg flavour in this batter.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rémi L.
Very nice place to eat the Porto specialty “Francesinha”! Generous portion and pleasant service.
A little waiting in view of the success of the restaurant!
And it's a shame not to know if the cheese used is pasteurized or not.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Beleza Da Silva
I miss it, it's always wonderful to be able to enjoy a francesinha in Santiago, a special thank you to Julia for her service and always with a smile on her face.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sébastien meyer
Very good, I was a little lacking in quantity but as I am a good eater ?. But it was very good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
isabel fernandes
Spectacular Frenchie!!!! Excellent service, good atmosphere and excellent food, I recommend it
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lucy Cunha
Their Francesinha is hailed as the best in the entire city of Porto, and with good reason. The atmosphere is also pleasant, but it's quite busy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hot Dog Portugese Style
Natálie Štemberková
We went here specifically for the Francesinho and it's a really weird combination of everything, but it tastes great. Their sauce with it is excellent. The service is great. I recommend a half portion, the food is very filling.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Laurent Berthomieux
We went to eat at this restaurant in Porto. The francesinha is amazing, home fries. The staff is very friendly, welcoming and gracious. Nice setting with an interesting feature... On the steps some words are written in Portuguese with the correspondence in Porto "dialect". And in the room the monuments to visit are indicated with the distance. We ate on the rooftop. The prices are consistent with the service provided.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Teresa Gomes
One of the best francesinhas I've ever eaten.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Luciana Lima
I went to have a francesinha for dinner on a Saturday night, I was totally disappointed, there was a long wait, I had to eat at the counter, the francesinha was very poorly served, the bread was hard, the meat was the same and there was almost no sauce and potatoes, not to mention...
We ordered francesinha and it was very delicious. Reasonable prices
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
João Gouveia
Excellent Frenchie!!! Super efficient and very attentive staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Francesinha Santiago da Praça Com Ovo
Frederique Menini
Un lieu emblématique pour manger les fameux francesihna! Trop bon et tellement original. Nous avons pris la classique avec frites. Accompagnée d'une Sangria blanche au maracudja. Budget correct de 45€ pour 2. Service hyper sympa avec un gentil serveur parlant un peu français. Bref: on y va à la cool, pas trop tard sinon, queue garantie!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Erhan Atik
If the waiter is Victor, he deserves much more points ???
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
José Lamego
Service: Very incompetent, with a lot of delay in coming to the tables, little friendliness (Brazilian Girl), but mostly due to having very few employees.
Owner: The owner is at the door just directing people to tables, whose work is unnecessary as it is a completely banal place, it is not a Michelin star restaurant.
Owner's mother: She's just at the counter watching the employees work and telling them what they should or shouldn't do, how to move faster, etc.
Francesinha: With 1.5cm bread on top and bottom, too thick and dry. The meat is not very tender and also dry, already overcooked. Sauce: Weak, the worst I've eaten to date. Very watery, no meat was used in its preparation, that's enough for it to be nothing special. Furthermore, it is neither sweet nor spicy. It looks like a barbecue chicken sauce.
Waiting: We asked for sauce because the francesinha was too dry, we waited 10 minutes while the sauce remained on the counter waiting for someone to bring it to the table (Meanwhile the owner and his mother were looking at the street). Until I told him that I had been waiting for the sauce for 10 minutes and that there should be more than one employee, not just one employee to welcome around 10 tables, serve everyone and still accept payments. He brought the sauce but there was nothing to do, as the francesinha was cold. It doesn't come to the table very hot anymore, I think (without certainty) that it won't even go into the oven to heat up and melt the cheese.
I'm sorry, everything is VERY BAD from start to finish, they don't care if people are well attended to or not and zero friendliness.
For francesinha like this, I prefer to eat dry bread.
4.5/5*
This was a dense and large francesinha, utilising a lot of cheese and with a medium-rare sirloin steak inside. The chorizo inside was Smokey, salty and perfectly spiced. There was also a beautifully creamy, fatty, melting mortadella included in this francesinha. The sauce had the perfect balance of sweetness from the port, spice, creaminess, a savoury tomatoey flavour and a slight bitterness from the beer. The egg on top was ideally runny, the bread was lightly crispy, and the cheese was thick, creamy and deliciously high in cholesterol. The chips on the side were outstanding in combination with the sauce, crispy, salty and ready to be drenched.
The Pasteis de bacalhau were incredibly creamy, made from potato, dried cod fish (bacalhau: a Portuguese delicacy), onion, garlic, olive oil and parsley. The interior was soft like a mashed potato consistency and the exterior has a lightly crusted, hash brown like layer. These croquettes are easy to come by all over Portugal, with both the smallest of restaurants serving them and also the most sophisticated ones. We appreciated the slight nutmeg flavour in this batter.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very nice place to eat the Porto specialty “Francesinha”! Generous portion and pleasant service.
A little waiting in view of the success of the restaurant!
And it's a shame not to know if the cheese used is pasteurized or not.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
I miss it, it's always wonderful to be able to enjoy a francesinha in Santiago, a special thank you to Julia for her service and always with a smile on her face.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very good, I was a little lacking in quantity but as I am a good eater ?.
But it was very good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Spectacular Frenchie!!!! Excellent service, good atmosphere and excellent food, I recommend it
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Their Francesinha is hailed as the best in the entire city of Porto, and with good reason. The atmosphere is also pleasant, but it's quite busy.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hot Dog Portugese Style
We went here specifically for the Francesinho and it's a really weird combination of everything, but it tastes great. Their sauce with it is excellent. The service is great. I recommend a half portion, the food is very filling.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We went to eat at this restaurant in Porto.
The francesinha is amazing, home fries.
The staff is very friendly, welcoming and gracious. Nice setting with an interesting feature... On the steps some words are written in Portuguese with the correspondence in Porto "dialect". And in the room the monuments to visit are indicated with the distance.
We ate on the rooftop.
The prices are consistent with the service provided.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
One of the best francesinhas I've ever eaten.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I went to have a francesinha for dinner on a Saturday night, I was totally disappointed, there was a long wait, I had to eat at the counter, the francesinha was very poorly served, the bread was hard, the meat was the same and there was almost no sauce and potatoes, not to mention...
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
We ordered francesinha and it was very delicious. Reasonable prices
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent Frenchie!!! Super efficient and very attentive staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Francesinha Santiago da Praça Com Ovo
Un lieu emblématique pour manger les fameux francesihna! Trop bon et tellement original. Nous avons pris la classique avec frites. Accompagnée d'une Sangria blanche au maracudja. Budget correct de 45€ pour 2. Service hyper sympa avec un gentil serveur parlant un peu français. Bref: on y va à la cool, pas trop tard sinon, queue garantie!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
If the waiter is Victor, he deserves much more points ???
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Service: Very incompetent, with a lot of delay in coming to the tables, little friendliness (Brazilian Girl), but mostly due to having very few employees.
Owner: The owner is at the door just directing people to tables, whose work is unnecessary as it is a completely banal place, it is not a Michelin star restaurant.
Owner's mother: She's just at the counter watching the employees work and telling them what they should or shouldn't do, how to move faster, etc.
Francesinha: With 1.5cm bread on top and bottom, too thick and dry. The meat is not very tender and also dry, already overcooked. Sauce: Weak, the worst I've eaten to date. Very watery, no meat was used in its preparation, that's enough for it to be nothing special. Furthermore, it is neither sweet nor spicy. It looks like a barbecue chicken sauce.
Waiting: We asked for sauce because the francesinha was too dry, we waited 10 minutes while the sauce remained on the counter waiting for someone to bring it to the table (Meanwhile the owner and his mother were looking at the street). Until I told him that I had been waiting for the sauce for 10 minutes and that there should be more than one employee, not just one employee to welcome around 10 tables, serve everyone and still accept payments.
He brought the sauce but there was nothing to do, as the francesinha was cold. It doesn't come to the table very hot anymore, I think (without certainty) that it won't even go into the oven to heat up and melt the cheese.
I'm sorry, everything is VERY BAD from start to finish, they don't care if people are well attended to or not and zero friendliness.
For francesinha like this, I prefer to eat dry bread.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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