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
Gourmet pizza in a spectacularly modernized old Barra house
22 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Quattro Amici Pizzeria
35 R. Dom Marcos Teixeira
22 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
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 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Paraíso Tropical
98 - B Rua Edgard Loureiro
29 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
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 near the Porto da Barra beach, Brazilian, moderate.
9 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Restaurante Portal do Mar
510 Av. Sete de Setembro
9 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Best restaurant near the Porto da Barra beach, Brazilian, moderate.
Interesting restaurant in restored historic house in São Antônio. Serves excellent authentic Bahian country cooking (try the galinha caipira!). Moderate prices. No sign with name so note number!
28 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Espaço Cultural D'Venetta
28 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Interesting restaurant in restored historic house in São Antônio. Serves excellent authentic Bahian country cooking (try the galinha caipira!). Moderate prices. No sign with name so note number!
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 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Restaurante Maria Mata Mouro
08 Rua da Ordem Terceira
17 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
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!

Drinks & Nightlife

Popular bar, sometimes with samba band at week-ends. Bar food.
9 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Bar Habeas Copos
172 Av. Almirante Marques de Leão
9 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Popular bar, sometimes with samba band at week-ends. Bar food.

Shopping

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 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Instituto Mauá
10 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
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.
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 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
Katuka Africanidades
01 Praça da Sé
6 lokal ang nagrerekomenda
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.