Bairro Alto: Buy a Drink and Step Outside

Bairro Alto: Buy a Drink and Step Outside

Every other door is a bar. The crowd overflows onto cobblestones. The tradition: buy a drink, carry it outside, join a conversation, move to the next bar. Ginjinha (sour cherry liqueur) is the signature drink and the social lubricant. Bairro Alto starts at 11 PM and closes at 3, when the crowd migrates to Pink Street in Cais do Sodre until 6.