Conceicao 35

Conceicao 35 is one of the small, friendly gay bars that give Porto's Vitoria quarter its late-night character, tucked on Rua da Conceicao a couple of blocks from the Candido dos Reis strip. It is a bar-first kind of place -- a narrow room, a well-priced bar, music that leans pop and Portuguese, and a mixed crowd of locals and visitors who drift in before moving on to the bigger clubs nearby. Open since the mid-2010s, it has settled in as a dependable warm-up spot on the Baixa circuit, busiest Thursday to Saturday when the surrounding streets fill up. Unpretentious, chatty and central, it is the sort of neighbourhood gay bar that rewards regulars and makes newcomers feel at home rather than on show.