Porto · DESSERT TOURS
The 6 best dessert tours you can book today, with what each costs, how long it runs and who it suits. Number one is top for a reason, so start there.
Spend about an hour at Cálem Cellar learning how Port is made, exploring its interactive museum, and tasting Late Bottled Vintage, Vintage, and 20-year Tawny with cheese, chocolate, crackers, and jam. English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish tours are available.
“Great tour informative guide which gave us a better insight into port and its production.”
At Porto’s WOW Chocolate Experience, follow cacao from ancient Central America to the modern bar. Explore plantations, taste raw cacao and Vinte Vinte chocolate, and watch the bean-to-bar process in a working factory. Your 1.5-hour visit includes an audio guide in English, Portuguese, French, or Spanish.
“The Chocolate Story is absolutely worth a visit. From bean to bar, from New World to Old, and from the palaces of royalty to your local convenience store, this museum answers any and all chocolate questions in an interesting and entertaining way. Not to mention the baby chocolate bar you recieve on entry, the tasting stations sprinkled throughout the museum, and chocolate-filled gift shop. Note: If you want to see the in-house chocolate factory at work, don't visit on a Sunday.”
At Porto’s Chocolate Museum, you follow cocoa from Mesoamerican origins to modern chocolate, visit the working Vinte Vinte factory, and sample small chocolate portions. The self-guided visit uses a multilingual audio guide, takes about one to two hours, and includes museum entry but no transport.
“Everything you could possibly want to know about how chocolate is grown, processed, and turned into the products that we are familiar with today. Plus, opportunities to taste different kinds of chocolate.”
Join Maria, a Porto chef and wine expert, for a small-group tasting walk from Jeronymo Trindade to Rua das Flores. Try religious pastries, coffee, canned fish, cod, Portuguese cheese, charcuterie, wine, and Port, with stops that can vary by day.
“Maria is very nice. Her talent and expertise in wine and food is superb. The tour was intimate as it was just 4 of us and Maria. Two couples. We met a wonderful couple from Virginia. The tour itself was spread out, we started at the Almeida Garret monument infront of city hall. Maria took us to have a nice breakfast which included a total of 3 pastries and a local cappuccino, known at "galou". Then we walked over to the door of the market (closed because it was sunday), as were all the shops were we would have looked at the sardines cans which have a historical significance in…”
Spend two hours walking Porto with a local guide such as Edna, visiting three central pastry shops and tasting eight northern Portuguese sweets with matched drinks. Expect a friendly, food-focused outing in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, limited to 10 people.
“Edna was our guide and she was lovely. Very knowledgeable and friendly. My daughter and I felt like we were just chatting with a friend and eating cakes. We didn't have to travel far and wide to experience the variety of cakes/pastries on offer and ended up in a lovely place with a great atmosphere. Really glad we booked on. A slightly later start time than 9am would be a bonus but that's only because I struggle to eat early on in the day!”
Meet Quevedo near Santa Marinha Church in Vila Nova de Gaia for three Port wines matched with Porto bean-to-bar chocolates. You’ll taste LBV, 10 Year Old White, and 20 Year Old Tawny Port while staff explain the grape-growing and cellar traditions behind each glass.
“Erg leuk de combinatie met port en chocolade. Het was lekker en goed uitgelegd om de verschillen te kunnen proeven. We hadden een privé proeverij. Dat hadden we niet verwacht”
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