Majestic Cafe Review

Superb, 1st Porto coffee.
To have

Great place to have coffe and snacs. Too crowded but nice

Good service, nice coffee and pastries. Beautiful pottery and place. The prices are relatively high but the experience is worth it.

Classic coffee, very beautiful I really liked the iced lemon tea. It has a beautiful syrup piano, I only went once but it will remain in my memory, much more elegant than the famous confectionery Colombo.

One of the 10 most beautiful coffees in the world. The main course is the french toast.

a must for anyone who goes through Porto. We were lucky we were able to return without waiting too long because there is usually a lot of waiting ...

worth for the architectural beauty, quality of food and service. Go unhurriedly, especially in a late afternoon. best half of milk and ate the best toast in the world!

Was really disappointing for it's price and experience as a whole. Building was beautiful, service was nice. But the food wasn't very good and the coffee was poor. Didn't live up to the hype.

It is an institution a work of art but .... 2 coffees and a cake divided in half 17 euros to see once in a lifetime

Extremely expensive
Very tourism oriented

I really wanted to love this place. We came a long way to see it, expecting it to be one of the highlights of our trip to Porto but it was a bit disappointing. We had hoped to have breakfast but it was 30 each and we just couldn't spend so much. So we just had a simple coffee which alone was still 6 each. The most expensive coffee I have ever had. The inside IS nice, and if the place was quieter and more affordable we would have enjoyed it more and had more time to soak up the atmosphere, but because it's so very busy it feels like there is pressure to drink up and move on and give other people a chance to come in. I left wishing I was rich and could have enjoyed the breakfast.

Classy place, but tables are too close together. Service is OK, though servers are rushed.

When you go in majestic cafe it's like you go back in time .
The place is very classy & old fashion there is a piano in there and sometimes some one is playing on it so it's make your experience more enjoyable.
You can go in and just have coffee or tea and some cake with a glass of port (vinho do Porto ), or have a meal there.
The food there is wonderful and you won't regret your decision.
The best thing in majestic cafe is the deserts with a glass of port that they recommend with the dessert you choose, so you should try this experience.

Must visit Beautiful cafe ... Something expensive 9 euros 2 coffees.

The place is idyllic, it is always full but the service speeds up the queues. Variety of coffees, teas and cakes of great quality although it is not economical.

I'm from Porto and just went there for the first time to try it. The place is very beautiful indeed, but it's not worth the price you pay considering so many other amazing places the city has to offer. Too expensive for the service and the menu is too expensive for the kind of dishes available. I wouldn't recommend it.

Ofcourse it's expensive however I feel it's something "to be done"

Very impressive, the queues were not as big as we were led to believe. Beautiful interior from a bygone era, lovely to sit and take it all in. The food was great, my wife and I shared a tapas. A must visit if you are in Porto.

The decoration is very elegant, the coffee is average, about 4-7 euros, you can use 4 o'clock in the afternoon to eat less people, the leather chair cushions are very special, and the furniture is also worth seeing.

Historic 1923 coffee you have to go. It's beautiful but the food is average and pricey. The service is friendly.

So we went to this cafe recently as its almost like a tourist attraction in Porto and we could see this when we were there, lot of tourists visited the cafe (including us! ). Some wise ones just took photos from outside :P
Anyways, we decided to go in, it was full, luckily we didn't had to wait but there was a short waiting time for most of the other people. The cafe is really beautiful from inside and waiters are dressed fancily giving a royal like feel to the customers. This was the good part.
We had the coffee and the famous 'pestal da nata', both were good but nothing special and of course the price tags are on the higher side.
So, being a famous spot, its ok for a visit, but not a place where I would like to go back eagerly.

Nice place with good looking old charm. But that's it.

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I have to lower the rating at 1 star. Every staff member comes from minute to minute and checks the table to see if you have finished. A disgrace.

Incredibly beautiful location true to its roots. Oldest cake shop in Porto.
Incredibly busy, you have to wait in line to get inside.
Nowadays it looks like only tourists come here, everything moves as quickly as possible to get the others inside.

Prices are high and surprisingly enough, servers don t seem to speak english, or understand simple orders. Probably because they have so many things to care about with all the people coming amd going.

Overall, beautiful building, overpriced and overvalued products.

Decorating to attract attention ... ideal place for a meeting of friends and for a good chat ....

Overpriced tourist cash grab with sub par service. Plenty of better cafes around.

Nice building, very touristic prices. You might have to wait to get a table.

Definitely a place to visit, the service is excellent the place and worthy of being seen. The owner has a gold mine in the center of Porto because the prices charged are absolutely exaggerated maybe so I had to queue at the door :-) recognizing what quality should be paid and who only enters who wants. I'll be back soon with friends to know what's good

Honestly we expected a lot more from the place, it's beautiful, cozy, it has a good service, however the prices are very high for what it offers. A medium food without much flavor.

Superb decor. A must in Porto if you have time. But overpriced: 3 euros for tight coffee! ...

Exorbitant prices. Coffee for 4 euros. A tiny cup.
I ordered an apple tart (5.5 ). But it was more sugar than apple.
Slow service.
What paid off: the beauty of the place.

The quality, beauty and service of this Porto coffee is indescribable. Fantastic!

Of the best in the downtown of Porto, excellent service

Emblematic place to go once to have a coffee, the or whatever it takes for its peculiar decoration. They say it is the cafeteria where the writer of Harry Potter began writing the first chapters of her saga. It is expensive, very expensive .... But once in a lifetime, it does not hurt.

Nice coffee, but for the rest, I think there's no need to try.

Very Beautiful!
Very OVERPRICED!

Historical luxury coffee. Regarding the value of money it's expensive because of that I give it 4 stars

If necessary? Very old, beautiful and expensive. At 4x - less than 40 euros will not be

Coffee with beautiful architecture, but the prices leave a little to be desired as well as the WC

Three stars only because we had good service. Coffee 5 in 1/3 cup, dry and bad french toast. As for the custard tart, it really wasn't the best I tasted, though, it was the most expensive.

Beautiful architecture, must-see place in Porto. By cons a lot of people and very expensive.

Every Harry Potter fan must drink at least coffee here. Very good anyway :) Beautiful and romantic inside. The interior is a real work of art in which you can feel the story.

Incredibly expensive coffee, but sometimes worth going to, very nicely decorated, the outdoor area is beautiful! You pay 6 euros for a cappuccino.

It's expensive, busy and I'm pretty sure you can get better somewhere else. However, nothing beats the old looking charm of this place. There's something special about it, and about sitting inside enjoying your coffee.

Very good. Old confectionery Excellent attention. It is worth knowing. It is not cheap.

If you pass by, but not worth the detour specially ...
Noisy and always full.
1 coffee 5 , 1 chocolate or tea 7 .
Chocolate is tasty ...
Friendly and fast service, people don't really settle in, a visit just to see, so it gets around pretty quickly.

Here the espresso price is 5 euros. Porto basic coffee price less than 1 euro. It is famous, and it is recommended to go to the cafe where locals go.

Nice historic place. Probably way too expensive for a city like Porto, but is anyway worth the try to get the local Franzesinha.

The price is very high, the decoration is beautiful, it is an old shop.
The queue will not be long, and there are piano performances on site.

We went to majestic cafe and really enjoyed our meal. We got the French toast which was delicious and served in a creamy sauce which tasted similar to the famous Portuguese nata. The facility is beautiful and well maintained. The only caveat that I would put in is that we visited in the winter so there was no wait and the place, while being busy, was not unmanageably full. If we had been forced to wait it may not have been worth it because the prices for everything were also quite high.

I would advise people to look at the prices, look at the wait time and then make an informed decision if sitting in the same cafe as a writer that you like is worth it to you.

There is no line, so I entered the road passing by, but the interior is hot and there are a lot of people.

I was surprised that the price was expensive compared to other places
Americano. cappuccino. I ate French toast.
The taste was okay.
(Americano is delicious)

I've been coming to Porto for five years.
Prices continue to be expensive without reason.
Employee is Majestic and guest is slave
Different flavors every day
Foods that are increasingly unhealthy
A new concept serving throwing a fork

Now is the time to fall. Where to never go

Tourist and overpriced. Food okay but too expensive

Porto Tourist Point, for the architecture of the building, and for its interior, its decoration, furniture. Very cute. The empanadas were delicious.

Excellent. There are no places like this left by Portugal. You have to visit it.

It's nothing like that ... coffee 4.50 .
Very out of the Portuguese reality ... only for tourists ...

Spectacular, but to see it from the door. A coffee and a beer, 9

I think this is a tourist trap! The cafe was alright...not particularly beautiful or anything. Didn t have to queue for long...thank god! I had their French toast. It was below average for the price you are paying. I definitely wouldn t go again!

Known as one of the top ten most beautiful cafes in the world, the Majestic Cafe is a pleasure to sit in.

Elegant, personally I loved the place and despite the line that there was, a table was left free of two and we entered before anyone else ... Totally recommended, especially if the pianist is playing live

Popular for tourist. Nata and French toast were excellent. Long line but got a table in less than 5 minutes.

The space is beautiful, but the price too high. And the coffee is very bad.

No need to say that Majestic cafe is the one of the oldest ones in town. Try their French toast!

Skip the Majestic Cafe. It's overrated and over priced. The decor needs an uplift. The price of a hot drink is 4-5 euros, tables are squashed and the service is just average. They didn't even bother giving back our 0.50cents change which is a bit presumptuous.

Oki, the place is nice but their breakfast doesn't worth the money... Breakfast menu could be improved

Architecturally beautiful. Friendly waiter. But how can a cappuccino cost 6.50?

You need to visit to experience it. It's quite magical and ofcourse majestic :)

Very nice site with an attention from the employees I recommend it