PORTO·SEAFOOD TOURS

Matosinhos · Leça da Palmeira · Angeiras

Rally Fish: five stickers, one very full afternoon.

Matosinhos runs its own tapas trail as part of the "World's Best Fish" campaign — a paper passport, a string of participating restaurants, and a small reward for finishing. This is the trail we followed.

How the Rally Fish trail works

  1. Pick up a passport

  2. Order the featured petisco

    Each participating restaurant runs one signature tasting — anything from sushi to cod roe, shellfish, fried peixinhos or octopus salad.

  3. Collect a sticker

    Every stop hands over one numbered sticker for your passport.

About Rally Fish

Rally Fish launched in 2016 as part of Matosinhos's "World's Best Fish" campaign. The 14th edition ran in October 2025 with more than 60 restaurants taking part across the municipality. Matosinhos has something like 600 restaurants leaning on grilled sardines, seafood rice and grilled cod, so the passport is really just an excuse to be pointed at the good ones.

From the passport

What actually turned up on the table

No menu, no plan — just whatever the next stamped restaurant put in front of us. This is the honest record.

A sandwich-style petisco on a pewter plate with a glass of beer at a Rally Fish stop in Matosinhos
Stop 1 — the sandwich
A wooden board of croquettes with salad garnish at a Rally Fish stop
Croquettes and greens
A prawn served on mash on a green plate at a Rally Fish stop
Prawn and mash
Tom tasting a petisco at a Rally Fish stop in Matosinhos
Tom, mid-tasting
A Nortada craft lager next to a baked savoury tart with a bite taken out
Nortada and a savoury tart
A bowl of prawns in olive oil with bread at a Rally Fish stop
Prawns, with bread for the sauce
A plated salmon petisco with melted cheese on a blue plate
Plated and ready
Another bowl of prawns with bread, beside a glass of red wine, at a different Rally Fish stop
More prawns, another stop
Two bottles of Nortada Lager craft beer on a table at a Rally Fish stop
Two down
Three small toasts with colourful toppings on a slate board
A lighter stop
A petisco on a pewter plate with glasses of white wine and beer behind it
Wine, mid-crawl
Dave tasting a petisco at a Rally Fish stop in Matosinhos
Dave, mid-tasting

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