Time Out Market Porto

October 7, 2025

This is Porto's time out market (similar but smaller than the one in Lisbon) and is located right next to the Sao Bento station. There are two stories here where the food stalls are located and toilets are on the 1st floor. The outside of part of the market has folks with handicrafts and other souvenirs. Good places to grab a meal like the locals do. Prices are reasonable and produce appears to be fresh. Pretty crowded so getting a table can be a challenge.... But a good sign of whether a place is worth trying is the footfall and that was definitely quite high here .... Unfortunately I can't remember the names of the places we ordered from but there was one that was fully vegetarian (we had eaten out fill of meat for the day earlier) which served several middle eastern items and there was this other italian one that served the brilliant chocolate truffle in my other photo. This place likely merits a spot on your Porto gastronomic tour.... Ideally right before or after a trip to the Sao Bento station, for convenience if going a day trip to Braga or Guimarães

September 16, 2025

It’s an amazing place to try out local, high quality restaurants around Porto in a more casual, friendly setting. It’s attached to a main train station at the center of the city so it’s hard to miss. My personal favourite restaurant served traditional Portuguese food with grilled octopus and fried shrimp balls. The shrimp balls were a bit salty but it balanced out the oily octopus quite well. The price was reasonable for what I got and there are tons of other restaurants that I didn’t get a chance to try.

October 21, 2025

After a very long round trip by train to the Douro Valley, nothing felt better than a delicious meal. Just beside the train station, we found time out market, a place offering a wide variety of dishes; from sweets to seafood, meat, pasta, salads, and soups. We were very satisfied with our double bacon burger and triple cheeseburger from Brusco burger (upstairs). I have no idea why the meat in Porto tastes so exceptionally good, even for someone like me, who usually finds the taste or smell of meat unpleasant, it was a really nice experience. The French fries were very crispy, though many pieces were cut a bit too thin. The mayonnaise was tasty, but the honey mustard sauce was too sweet for my liking. The sauce portions were also quite small, and compared to the meal price of €12, the €3.50 side dish felt a bit overpriced.

September 21, 2025

Absolutely fabulous place! We only discovered it by accident after a train trip. We had seen the outside many times and assumed it was a basic railway cafe!!! How wrong were we!!! Outside had seating and entertainment whilst we were there. We had a great Aperol Spritz whilst enjoying a live DJ. Then we went inside and there was a huge choice of quality food stalls. Huge choice and they all looked absolutely amazing. Took us a while to make our choices but we finally settled on Rafa Louzada. We sat at the long tables inside and met two fabulous couples, on a local pair and the others were from Germany and Mexico. We literally could have stayed all evening! Great food, great wine, great atmosphere and great company! Can’t ask for more! Highly recommend.

August 1, 2025

Really enjoyed eating here. Really good concept of having so much variety under one roof: there's something for everyone. We had mains of pork cheek and cod swim bladder (wife says it was a lot better than it sounds!) followed by a chocolate brigadeiro and a coconut cake. We weren't too sure about the red peppercorns in the chocolate mousse; but service was fast, friendly and the overall experience was great.