Francesinha
📍 Porto
Porto's decadent layered sandwich in spicy beer-tomato sauce.
About Francesinha
A toasted sandwich stacked with cured meats and steak is blanketed in melted cheese and drenched in a spicy tomato-and-beer sauce, often crowned with a fried egg. It is gloriously excessive and pure Porto.
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