Cafe AS

if you're spending a morning in porto without a fixed agenda, rua de santos pousada isn't the obvious tourist circuit, and that's partly the point. cafe as sits in a quieter residential stretch of the city, the kind of street where locals actually live rather than just pass through for the views. you're not going to stumble in here by accident. it takes a small decision to come, and that decision tends to attract a certain kind of visitor, people who'd rather sit with a cortado and think than queue somewhere with a line out the door. well regarded among porto's specialty crowd, it holds that reputation without apparent effort. the cortado in the morning, before the city fully wakes up, is exactly the right reason to make the detour down santos pousada.