Guidebook for Salvador

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Guidebook for Salvador

Food Scene

Gourmet restaurant (modern Brazilian) and bar, with a terrace with a beautiful view over the Bay and a sophisticated dining-room
Pereira Bar e Restaurante
Gourmet restaurant (modern Brazilian) and bar, with a terrace with a beautiful view over the Bay and a sophisticated dining-room
Good seafood restaurant, all tables on covered terrace looking on to street, lively, informal. Has reduced prices for certain items at lunch-time and before 7 PM. Moderate.
25 recommandé par les habitants
Caranguejo de Sergipe
Avenida Oceânica
25 recommandé par les habitants
Good seafood restaurant, all tables on covered terrace looking on to street, lively, informal. Has reduced prices for certain items at lunch-time and before 7 PM. Moderate.
Gourmet pizza in a spectacularly modernized old Barra house
22 recommandé par les habitants
Quattro Amici Pizzeria
35 R. Dom Marcos Teixeira
22 recommandé par les habitants
Gourmet pizza in a spectacularly modernized old Barra house
Gourmet restaurant owned by famous Bahian chef, Beto Pimentel. Bahian cuisine using fresh ingredients from his on-site garden. 50 reais taxi-ride from Barra, but worth the journey. Open lunch, dinner.
29 recommandé par les habitants
Paraíso Tropical
98 - B Rua Edgard Loureiro
29 recommandé par les habitants
Gourmet restaurant owned by famous Bahian chef, Beto Pimentel. Bahian cuisine using fresh ingredients from his on-site garden. 50 reais taxi-ride from Barra, but worth the journey. Open lunch, dinner.
Cheap and cheerful, food is value not gourmet. All-you-can-eat for 25 reais, includes salad bar, cooked foods (including Bahian specialties), churrasco and fruit for desert. Lunch only, closes at 5PM.
Restaurante Brasil Legal
110 R. Dias d'Ávila
Cheap and cheerful, food is value not gourmet. All-you-can-eat for 25 reais, includes salad bar, cooked foods (including Bahian specialties), churrasco and fruit for desert. Lunch only, closes at 5PM.
Best restaurant on the Porto da Barra beach, Brazilian, moderate prices.
9 recommandé par les habitants
Restaurante Portal do Mar
510 Av. Sete de Setembro
9 recommandé par les habitants
Best restaurant on the Porto da Barra beach, Brazilian, moderate prices.
International and Brazilian cooking in a beautiful courtyard in the Pelô. Moderate to expensive. Nearby is L'Arcangelo, 17 Rua das Laranjeiras, highly-recommended Italian, try any seafood risotto!
17 recommandé par les habitants
Restaurante Maria Mata Mouro
08 Rua da Ordem Terceira
17 recommandé par les habitants
International and Brazilian cooking in a beautiful courtyard in the Pelô. Moderate to expensive. Nearby is L'Arcangelo, 17 Rua das Laranjeiras, highly-recommended Italian, try any seafood risotto!
Gourmet food, set price 2-3 course lunch for R$40-50, dinner more expensive, located opposite apartment, #1 or 2 in Salvador on TripAdvisor.
12 recommandé par les habitants
Du Chef Arte e Gastronomia By Lucius Gaudenzi
351 R. Dom Marcos Teixeira
12 recommandé par les habitants
Gourmet food, set price 2-3 course lunch for R$40-50, dinner more expensive, located opposite apartment, #1 or 2 in Salvador on TripAdvisor.
Gourmet Galician food, open for dinner only, located 2 blocks from apartment, #1 or 2 in Salvador on TripAdvisor.
19 recommandé par les habitants
A Casa Vidal
417 Alameda das Cajazeiras
19 recommandé par les habitants
Gourmet Galician food, open for dinner only, located 2 blocks from apartment, #1 or 2 in Salvador on TripAdvisor.
Interesting restaurant in restored historic house in Santo Antônio. Serves excellent authentic Bahian country cooking (try the galinha caipira!). Moderate prices. No sign with name so note number! Music some nights, call first.
28 recommandé par les habitants
Espaço Cultural D'Venetta
28 recommandé par les habitants
Interesting restaurant in restored historic house in Santo Antônio. Serves excellent authentic Bahian country cooking (try the galinha caipira!). Moderate prices. No sign with name so note number! Music some nights, call first.

Drinks & Nightlife

Popular bar, sometimes with samba band at week-ends. Bar food.
9 recommandé par les habitants
Bar Habeas Copos
172 Av. Almirante Marques de Leão
9 recommandé par les habitants
Popular bar, sometimes with samba band at week-ends. Bar food.

Shopping

African inspired clothing combined with modern Brazilian design. For women and men. African and Bahian art. Location: corner of Praça da Sé, opposite Cruz Caída (Fallen Cross) monument.
6 recommandé par les habitants
Katuka Africanidades
01 Praça da Sé
6 recommandé par les habitants
African inspired clothing combined with modern Brazilian design. For women and men. African and Bahian art. Location: corner of Praça da Sé, opposite Cruz Caída (Fallen Cross) monument.
Very good for artisan-produced artworks and souvenirs. Guarantees fair market prices to suppliers, however remains very good value and more individualistic than products in Mercado Modelo.
10 recommandé par les habitants
Instituto Mauá
10 recommandé par les habitants
Very good for artisan-produced artworks and souvenirs. Guarantees fair market prices to suppliers, however remains very good value and more individualistic than products in Mercado Modelo.