Pinhais Cannery & Co.

Great tour! I like mild fish so was looking forward to learning about the business more than the tasting. I loved going through the office space and learning about the company’s history. The factory tour was excellent. Explaining every step of the process and seeing all the equipment. Unfortunately it was a weekend so they were not processing fish, but we were able to walk the floor. And the tasting was great. I won’t be a regular sardine eater, but it was a great experience “when in Rome”. I highly recommend this to anyone in the Porto area!

We just a tour with Francesco and we loved it, very good explanations and with a hint of fun. We got to wrap our own tins and taste them as well. We loved the can-tin! And you can tell in every detail that a lot of love is put into the place. 10/10 we would recommend.

Great visit to Pinhais canning factory! This tour is well worth doing if you're visiting Porto and want to learn more about sardine canning in Matosinhos. Known for it's excellent seafood and historic fishing industry, Matosinhos is within easy reach of Porto. The tour included time on the factory floor watching work in progress, learning historic context, watching some great videos, a hands-on experience wrapping our own sardine cans, and a sardine tasting at the end in their lovely restaurant. The tour lasted around 45 minutes, and the tasting was an additional 30 min, and we could stay as long as we wished. Enjoyed this so much! Highly recommend!

Excellent tour! Highly recommend! Very informative and tour guide was very knowledgeable about the history of the cannery. You can purchase ticket online on the Pinhais Cannery website. Get the full experience and take home a can of sardines personalized with your name and that you wrapped.

I‘ve done so many factory tours in my life but this was probably the best one ever. How can every part of the tour be so perfectly seamless and beautiful?? The staff are all so kind and friendly too. From now on my favorite sardines are Nuri! ❤️

I very much enjoyed the tour. We were shown all the different areas of the floor and the processing area and taking through several historic rooms in the building afterwards we had a tasting. I definitely recommend doing this tour.

I'm not a fan of fish, but it was a great tour. We had the tour, sardine and wine tasting. Definitely worth it. It took about 90 minutes. They provide you with an ear phone so you can hear the guide when it gets loud. Make sure to reserve so you can listen in your language.

We can't recommend going there on weekends: the hall is completely empty, no people, no sardines. The price of the tour is the same however (which I simply can't understand). It's definetely NOT worth the time and money to walk thorugh an empty hall. You even get the same amount of sardines as the people who booked the tour during the week (1 can per person). The can wrapping is also a joke: you wrap it, but don't get to keep the can, what's the point then? Tour on weekends is maybe worth 10 EUR and should be called sardine tasting or something kike that. PS: the tours during the weeks were sold out, we had to take the Sunday tour.