Restaurants in The Amazon
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Kamadac
This tour operator runs a delicious pizza parlor with a huge choice of toppings.
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Churrascaria Triângulo
True, the ambience here is quite lacking – it’s a hotel restaurant – but if you’re famished and in the mood for meat, you are sure to get your fill here. The rodízio is sort of an all-you-can-eat meat buffet: waiters pass by your table with long skewers of fresh-grilled meats that you can sample as long as your stomach and chair hold up. It also includes all the self-serve side dishes you like, as if you’ll have room.
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Pizzaria Tribos
One of a handful of kiosks in a small park a block off the main plaza, Tribos serves up tasty pizzas at small outdoor tables and gets kudos for playing something other than forró or Brazilian pop (or simply blasting the TV). Select from one of the dozen or so usual suspects – shredded chicken, prosciutto, tuna, palm hearts – while head-bobbing to Maria Rita, Natiruts or some good ol’ U2.
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Recanto das Tulipas
A Dutch-Brazilian team holds down this fort, a colorful and discerning restaurant decked out to the sounds of MPB and the tulip paintings of the co-owner. Seafood is the specialty but the menu is well-rounded otherwise. Try the Jorge Amado caipirinha, a lime and passion-fruit cocktail made with cinnamon and clove-infused cachaça (sugarcane alcohol) from Paraty.
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AFA Bistrô D’amazônia
The name has changed but this unassuming bistro remains one of the best per-kilo lunch spots you’ll find in the Amazonia. The city’s professional classes pack in for fresh and original salad combinations, tender meat and fish dishes, and irresistible desserts. Sundays feature frutas do mar (seafood) and the price jumps to a hefty R$40 per kilo.
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Saborella
Daily specials make ordering easy at this small restaurant, one of few genuinely agreeable places in town. Options are same-old, same-old – chicken, beef, sometimes fish, served with rice and beans – but are well prepared and usually served with a smile. Half-a-block from the bus station, and about 300m from the internet café.
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Trattoria Toscana
The gnocchi, ravioli and lasagna are all made in-house, and served in hefty portions. The spaghetti and linguini use store-bought noodles, but the sauces – salmon, puttanesca, and others – are excellent. For dessert, splurge on the divine petit gateau di cioccolato (petite chocolate cake; R$10).
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Pizzería Paço do Pão
The pizza menu at this popular eatery between Ruas NO-02 and NO-04 runs into the dozens, with a house special that comes loaded with three types of meat, corn, heart of palm, olives and a thick layer of cheese. Outdoor seating makes it a great place for lingering over a pie and a Skol (or two).
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Stylos
The most reliable eatery in the center, with hefty, well-prepared dishes served at outdoor tables right on the street corner. The menu includes all the standard fish, meat and chicken dishes, plus a few less-common ones, such as huge portions of lingua na brasa (grilled tongue).
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Restaurante Seara
Between Av NS-02 & Rua NE-02, this large bustling per-kilo place is popular with workers at nearby government offices. It has two banks of prepared food and friendly service, and better still, it’s open until 3pm, when every other self-service restaurant is dead and gone by 2pm.
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Petisco
A popular hang-out spot at night, when they set up tables on the sidewalk facing the plaza. The per-kilo lunch spread is simple and reliable, and includes an ice cream bar. You can also order grilled beef kebabs with rice, or big cheap prato feito (plate of the day).
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Café do Theatro
Part of the Memorial dos Autonomistas, this low-key café serves great coffee and light meals, including sandwiches and quiche. Daily specials (R$10 to R$18) are more substantial, and there’s an extensive wine and cocktail menu. Under renovation at the time of research.
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ServeKilo Nova Opção
You’ll think you’re back in Brazil at this popular lunch spot. The large spread includes dishes from both sides of the border, including grilled meats and a few vegetarian options. When the heat drives you to drink, revitalize with a freshly blended juice.
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Pousada Kakurí
The dining area consists of a few tables set up on the porch, but that’s all you need to enjoy the kitchen’s tasty creations – mostly fresh fish, grilled or fried, with veggies and rice – and a couple cold beers. Usually has great music playing, to boot.
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Restaurant Nova Opção
A budget self-service Brazilian restaurant with buffet food by weight. Most of the entrees are heavy meat and potato dishes, but it sometimes has a few tasty vegetarian options. When the heat drives you to drink, revitalize with an enormous fresh juice.
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Restaurante Mandala
Restaurante Mandala is right around the corner from the plaza, on the road toward Fazenda Encantada. The fixed-plate lunch comes with pasta, rice, beans, salad, farofa (manioc flour sautéed with butter) and a choice of meat.
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Churrascaria Tia Helena
Waiters bring skewered meats directly from the grill and carve it at the table in classic churrascaria fashion. Decor is austere (think cement floors and fluorescent lights) but the food is good and the ambience cheerful.
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Jardim do Eden Restaurant
Tasty creative meals, including plenty of vegetarian options, are served on the hotel's 2nd-floor deck, with great sea views and breezes. Canoes are available to cross the channel day and night, so don't worry about staying late.
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Restaurante Oásis
This longtime favorite in Guajará-Mirim can be counted on for a tasty, well-prepared lunch buffet, including fresh grilled meats. The airy dining area gets some street noise, but is still a pleasant place for a midday break.
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Inversiones Lakshmy
A small health-food store and bakery with fabulous vegan (can you believe it?) empanadas (around US$1), dried fruit and bags of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) that vegetarians covet on Roraima treks.
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Rivas Manrique Carnecería
Looking for a fabulous cachapa? Scoop up a perfect savory corn pancake - with or without a mountain of shredded cheese, chicken or pork - from the doorway stand at the Rivas Manrique carnecería .
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Restaurant Lili
Lunch is by weight (per kilo R$19), while dinner is R$7 per plate at the same self-serve buffet – a chance to hone your stacking skills. Pickings are reliable, if uninspired. Located near the tourist office.
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Trapiche
- Tefé, Brazil
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A short moto-taxi ride from the center will get you to this small pizza joint and bar, where the service is slow but the pizza is worth the wait. Cold beer and cool music help the wait go faster.
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Alfredo’s Restaurant
A place that looks far better inside than out, Alfredo’s is the best restaurant in town. There’s a lengthy menu and a dish of tortellini with ricotta and spinach that melts in your mouth.
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Alfredo’s Restaurant
One of the best restaurants in town, Alfredo’s has a lengthy menu, gourmet meals and tortellini with ricotta and spinach that melts in your mouth. The filling lunch special is a bargain.
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