Francesinha

Francesinha is Porto's monument to excess: a layered meat sandwich of ham, linguica, and steak encased in bread, blanketed in melted cheese, and drowned in a beer-and-tomato sauce spiked with piri piri. The fat load is enormous, the sauce is simultaneously acidic, spicy, and umami-rich, and the whole construction demands a wine with serious structural backbone. Delicate wines dissolve entirely.