Pastries worth having twice!

The upcoming few posts shall be about food!

I have already written about the snacks that we tried on our first day in Porto, and food that we had in Aveiro.

The morning before going to Aveiro, we had breakfast in a bakery not far from our hotel. (I am not sure whether I have already mentioned it, but our hotel in Porto has a very central location, and there are a lot of eateries nearby, within easy walking distance.) Pastelaria e Confeitaria Moura was recommended for its jesuítas (described as “triangles of puff pastry topped with a layer of sugary icing”). We tried this and a few other pastries; everything was good!

Their jesuitas are clearly their most famous product; it is featured on the cover of their menu.

Not knowing the names of anything, we made our selections at the pastry display. We also ordered a coffee and a hot chocolate. (I tried hot chocolate in a few eateries in Portugal, and none of them were good. The Portuguese seem to like a mild chocolate flavour…)

Basically things are rather cheap in Portugal. Some pastries cost around a euro, a little higher or lower. I won’t dig out the prices because I think it’s more effort than it’s worth.

The round one was called a “drum”, as I saw on the receipt after paying. We had taken a small one; there was a regular-sized one too. The jesuitas also had big and small sizes, and we took the big one since it was famous. 

The puff pastry seemed to contain some kind of fruit; you can see a jelly-like strand poking out of the half-eaten piece.

All the pastries tasted good, but our (or my?) favourite was the drum.

We were taking the bus from Porto to Lisbon early in the morning, so the day before leaving, we went back to this shop to buy some pastries for breakfast the next morning.

the take-away box

This time we took a big drum and a small jesuita. We also tried one new item, but I have forgotten what it was like. :P 

After our huge lunch in Aveiro, we didn’t feel that we could eat much for dinner, so we shared a kebab box from a nearby kebab shop. The shop is really close by…we just go out and turn the corner of the building, and there it is! So I went out and bought it back to the hotel; I didn’t even bother swapping my slippers for walking shoes.

The kebab was quite good, but cannot compare to what I had in France or Germany. The downside was that it didn’t come with any salad, only fries. (Note: The first night, we had actually tried another kebab shop (corner shop on the same street), but it wasn’t good at all.) 

And did I mention? All the food in Portugal is on the salty side. (except pastries :P )