Sardine in olive oil
4,90 €/ 120 g tin
purse seine · Deus Dará · Matosinhos
Whole, skin and bone on — as it should be.
Artisan fish conservas · Matosinhos
Good fishmakes no apologies.
Short-run conservas, sealed on the day of the fish auction. Every tin states the boat, the auction house and the canning date — those with nothing to hide, print it.
BOAT · AUCTION · DATE — ON EVERY TIN
Shipping included on boxes · Sealed on the day of the catch · Matosinhos market on Saturdays, stall 12
The shelf
The tins
Eight short-run conservas, 120 g each. Prices are per tin; the box works out better — and we do the maths in front of you.
Spiced sardine
5,20 €/ 120 g tin
purse seine · Boa Nova · Matosinhos
Piri-piri from the back garden. Burns in the right place.
Mackerel fillets
5,50 €/ 120 g tin
purse seine · Rosa dos Ventos · Peniche
Hand-filleted, one by one, no hurry.
Mackerel with lemon
5,80 €/ 120 g tin
purse seine · Rosa dos Ventos · Peniche
Lemon peel and one bay leaf per tin.
Tuna steak
7,50 €/ 120 g tin
pole & line · Mar de Prata · Sesimbra
One whole steak per tin. No flakes, no excuses.
Tuna escabeche
6,90 €/ 120 g tin
pole & line · Menina do Mar · Sesimbra
Onion, carrot and wine vinegar — Zé’s grandmother’s recipe.
Octopus with garlic
7,20 €/ 120 g tin
clay pots · Estrela da Manhã · Sesimbra
Pot-caught octopus, golden garlic, black pepper.
sold out · back in October
The pot-caught octopus ran out in May. It returns with the season, in October — leave your email and be first to know.
Cod in olive oil
6,50 €/ 120 g tin
longline · Hafdís RE-24 · Icelandic waters
Salt-cured, soaked for 72 hours, whole flakes.
Build yours, tin by tin
The box
Pick a size and fill it your way: double sardines, spicy next to tuna steak, all mixed up. The box is yours — we just close the ribbon.
Every tin tells
Where it came from
Pick a tin and read its life: the boat, the fishing art, the auction, the day. If the story does not add up, we refund you — it has not happened yet.
Tin dossier
Sardine in olive oil
SEALED ON THE DAY OF THE CATCH
- Species
- Sardine
- Fishing art
- purse seine
- Boat
- Deus Dará M-1214-C
- Fish auction
- Matosinhos
- Catch → sealing
- 03.07.2026 → 03.07.2026
- Olive oil
- extra virgin from Trás-os-Montes
- Seasoning
- Aveiro salt, nothing else
Fat July sardine from the morning seine. In the tin seven hours after leaving the water.
The sea’s calendar
Season
Out of season, we do not can — you buy what the sea gives, when it gives it. That is why a tin sometimes sells out: it happened to the octopus, back in October.
Sardine Jun – Oct
Mackerel Feb – May
Tuna May – Sep
Octopus Oct – Decsold out · back in October
Cod cured — year round
catch season off season cured — year round ▍now — August
The marked column is the month you are reading this in. Each tin’s stock is whatever the last season gave — when it runs out, it is out.
The factory
How it is made
- 01
Auction at 7 am
Zé picks the fish at the Matosinhos auction before seven. What is not good enough stays there — and that is most of it.
- 02
Filleted by hand
Fourteen people, sharp knives, zero hurry. A torn fillet never enters a tin — it becomes lunch.
- 03
Sealing and cooking
The tin is sealed the same day and the fish cooks inside it: 118 °C, 55 minutes. That is what makes a conserva last for years.
- 04
Labelled by hand
Every label is folded and glued by hand by Dona Alice. If one is crooked, it was not her — she does not miss.
For companies
Boxes with your brand on
From 20 boxes up: your logo on the postcard, your message, a proper VAT invoice and delivery on the date you pick. Christmas has been ours since 2022 — December orders close on 14 November.
- From 20 boxes
- Logo and message on the postcard
- VAT invoice, delivery on the right date
Opened and approved
Word of mouth
«I sent a box to my brother in Zurich. He opened the sardines on a Sunday and said it cured a homesickness he did not know he had.»
«The box of 12 vanished at a dinner for six. My fault, I admit — I started it.»
«We gave them to clients at Christmas. By September they were already asking if we would repeat it.»
Where we are
Sold here
The factory
Rua Heróis de França 217, Matosinhos. Shop at the factory door, Fridays 3–7 pm — you taste before you buy.
Matosinhos market
Saturdays, 8 am – 1 pm, stall 12. The fresh fish is next door; we are the part that lasts.
Grocers with taste
- Mercearia Aurora — Porto
- Balcão do Sal — Lisbon
- Ultramarina — Aveiro
- Tenda do Largo — Braga