Mar 30 2008
Where to Buy Portuguese Food Online
Once you have visited Portugal and discovered the wonderful cuisine available, you may find yourself missing the tastes and smells of the foods you sampled. Thankfully, the wonder of internet shopping means that we can all find somewhere to purchase some of those wonderful foods.
Perhaps you are a whizz in the kitchen and need to find traditional ingredients, perhaps you are missing the taste of home. Maybe it’s just that you can’t forget the delicate flavour of Serra de Estrella cheese. Whatever the reason, there are several good online stores which cater to Portuguese food lovers around the world.
Here is a round-up of some of the best places you can buy Portuguese food online.
I’ll start off with a site for those of you in the UK. Portuguese Food.co.uk is a new online shop catering specifically to the UK market. I thank my colleague at work for this one as he spotted a sticker in the back window of a car advertising the site in Manchester and knowing my endless obsession with everything Portuguese, pointed it out to me the following day!
Portuguese Food.co.uk is a Portuguese run company with a nice range of foods online. They have a good looking, easy to navigate website and a passion for Portuguese food. I emailed the owners and asked them to tell me a little more about the company. Here’s what they had to say:-
“We offer a truly unique range of High Quality and specialised produce from various regions of Portugal including our very own Home made branded goods.One such produce is pork in the form of Chorizo & Serrano Ham, which in Portugal is a tradition that has been around for hundreds of years for which Portugal is now famous. Many Portuguese families would cure the meat from a whole pig utilising every part to make a range of delicious cured chorizos packed with herbs and spices.
We supply to UK Restaurants, Hotels and various catering outlets direct from our warehouse in Portugal. We find that the customer experience brings them back for more.”
For the vegetarians amongst us, they also offer traditional sea salt, confectionary, beautiful cheeses, olives and of course olive oil. They also offer a Portuguese hamper which would make a lovely gift for your Portuguese friends who live in England.
This is an excellent new site and I imagine they will have more to offer in the future. Note that they also supply wholesale to the restuarant trade as well.
Staying in the UK for the moment, there is also a company called Shop From Portugal which has it’s own site as well as an Ebay store. They sell a range of products including foods although the Ebay store doesn’t hold as many products as their own site does. Their own website has a rather distrating animated background, but if you can get past that, they do have quite a few interesting products for sale including the lovely queijadas from Sintra.
Moving on to those in the States now, there is a great website called Portuguese Food.com which has a vast range of products to choose from. If you are missing sweet bread or pasteis de nata, this is where to come. As well as stocking meats, cheeses and condiments, this company also stocks a large variety of products which would be found ‘back home’. You can also find hampers and a few kitchen items such as crockery made in traditional Portuguese style. A nice touch to this site is that they also provide a section of Portuguese recipes.
Surprisingly Amazon.com have a big range of Portuguese foods on offer from a variety of suppliers. I’ve already done the hard work for you by scouring the site and creating a Portuguese Food section in the Store here at In Love With Lisbon. You can wander through the virtual aisles by clicking here and then selecting ‘Gourmet Food’. 
Talking of Gourmet Food, that is the title of the next online store I have as a recommendation to you. Whilst not specificallly Portuguese, Gourmet Food do stock a small range of Portuguese products. Those of you who have tried chocolame or salame de chocolate (a fabulous Portuguese chocolate cake that looks like salami) will be delighted to discover you can buy it from here!
Last but not least is a site called Alcofa.com. The name comes from the old Portuguese word for a shopping basket. Currently the site is down for maintainance but I’m including it here in the hope that it will be back up and running soon. I’ll update this post when it does.
I hope you have enjoyed my round-up of Portuguese food retailers online. If you know of any others then please feel free to leave a comment.
Azulejos from a photo by averiguare on Flickr
Queijadas from a photo by lieneuh on Flickr
Such a beautiful blog…makes me want to travel…
For all those like me who love Portuguese food there’s a great new Portuguese family run business that has recently started up called Gourmet Portugal (www.gourmetportugal.pt). They offer a fantastic range of Portuguese food sourced from all over the country – everything from wines selected from the vineyards from Ribatejo to cheeses, honey and my personal favourite, the delicious fruit jams. They sell individual products as well as hampers that make great gifts and can be sent anywhere in Europe. I bought a hamper online to send back to family in the UK recently and it went down a treat. I certainly recommend anyone in Portugal or the UK to check out what they have to offer! Gourmet Portugal hampers can be ordered online at http://www.gourmetportugal.pt or by phone on (00351) 93 965 5123 or (00351) 93 404 4085.
Hi Anna
Thanks for your comment! I’ve just visited the site and it looks great. I encourage my visitors here to go and take a look too. Personally I must have to order some quinze jam. I haven’t had this for years! Obrigada x
Lucky me I’m portuguese and had the opportunity to taste everything for 25 years!
p But now that I moved to the other side of the world (Seattle) I find it very hard to get portuguese food. There is only one store in downtown Seattle called The Spanish Table (www.spanishtable.com), and yes it’s almost everything from Spain but they have some portuguese products and they sell online too… Other than that I have to go to Vancouver B.C. to actually find a restaurant and some wholesale stores or a bakery!
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Thank you so much for your research, and I hope you can get to know Porto, where I was born, i don’t think you’ve been there yet otherwise your website would be called In Love With Oporto… (there has always been a lot of rivalry between Oporto and Lisbon…)
Hi Monica
Theres not many places where I live in the UK either to buy Portuguese food – just a little shop in the local market that sells Bacalhau. I hope to go to Porto too – it does look very beautiful as well
hi!
whilst searching online for portuguese food for this christmas (to be spent in the UK), i came across a website called fishfanatics.co.uk where you can order bacalhau (salt cod) from. It isn’t cheap, but as this is apparently an endangered species and actually quite expensive in Portugal too, seems like a good option.
there is also an info hotline info@fishfanatics.co.uk or 0870 7444110.
I’m ordering mine today and will let you know how good it is.
Excellent site by the way
Good luck on your exams!
x
Hi Patricia
Thanks for sharing the link. I’m sure that will be useful for others as well who want to buy bacalhau.
I passed by exams – thankyou
If you are in the U.S. and / or California there is a store in Artesia, California that has a little of everything and baked goods.
http://www.portugalimports.com – they even ship for only $10
Bacalhau, Quiejo Topo, linguica, Chourico, Portuguese Sardines, Azeite Portugues.. and much more.
Interested in finding the nearest place to buy samp and linguica & chourica in the seattle area. I usually buy gaspar linguica from mass. Too expensive. the sausage usually isn’t too difficult to get but the samp is. Pike market has the bacalhau.
Anita
Thanks for the beautiful blog and links – I’ll check it out. I also buy Portuguese Products at:
http://astore.amazon.com/portugueseproducts-20
Hi Sheryl
Thanks for commenting and also for your suggested link x
Anyone that can help me to get a hold of portogise chocolate 70%, also condenced milk, minced meat and lovely yummy portoguise cheese mmmmm
also the portoguise chocolate moose is so much better than the norwegian one so what kind of chocloate do you use and what is it that makes it more sticky rather than so airy?
Hi Nina
I’m not sure which country you are in but Portuguesefood.co.uk sells Portuguese cheeses.
Mmm chocolate mouse is lovely!
http://food.iafrica.com/recipes/desserts/769424.htm
http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateMousse.html
There’s lots of recipes on the net but they are all very similar.
If you understand Portuguese, there’s a video on this page
http://www.foodtube.net/video/907384:Video:24719
Im in NORWAY
do u know where i can get proper portogise 70% cooking choc?
Portuguesefood.co.uk sell chocolate 70% http://www.portuguesefood.co.uk/black-chocolate-0085kg-p-67.html
I’m not sure if they ship to Norway but maybe if you ask them they will.
Hi Could anyone help me buy a bottle of Ginja de Portugal (cherry licor) I am in the UK
Many thanks
Rebecca
Hi Rebecca
I haven’t bought Ginjinha in the UK. Where in the UK are you? There’s a Portuguese shop in Manchester where I am. Next time I go, I can check and I’ll also ask some Portuguese people I know. For the time being I found a company called Portugalia Wines online which sells Ginjinha. I haven’t used them myself however. It’s a lovely drink though!