Things to do in Campo Grande
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Museu das Culturas Dom Bosco
The Museu das Culturas Dom Bosco has undergone a R$2 million relocation to a new building designed by Italian architect Massimo Chiappetta a few kilometers from its old city-center location. The new space, a 3400-sq-meter expansion houses an excellent collection of over 10,000 insects. There is a beautiful new exhibit of indigenous Bororo headdresses and other artifacts from the indigenous Moro, Karajá and Xavante groups.
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Cachaçaria Brasil
Samba, over 100 kinds of cachaça (sugarcane alcohol) and live futebol make this Campo Grande’s new in place for a crowd of all ages. With a bamboo beach-bar atmosphere, gigantic menu of food and drink, pool tables and live music every night, there is a little bit of something for everybody here.
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Fogo Caipira
The best dishes at this regional institution require an advance order, such as the galinhada (chicken stew, six hours) or pacu recheado (a tasty fish stuffed with manioc and spices, three hours). It’s pricey, but as the only restaurant in the city with culinary stars, it’s worth it.
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Feira Central
A great market worth a stroll is the Feira Central, a massive open-air food and shopping court lined with Japanese sobá-noodle joints and other food and merchandise stalls. It’s packed with revelers on weekends.
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Barbaquá
A beautiful candlelit bar in a restored house, full of local art. The intimate space attracts an artistic crowd, which comes for the live jazz and MPB nightly and upscale tereré.
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O Galpão
If you like the all-you-can-eat experience but don’t have a wallet as big as your stomach, then give this central cheapie a go. It has the added bonus of being open on a Sunday, too.
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Ceará
One of the city’s best peixarias (fish restaurants). The pintado in a tomato stew with banana mandioca (cassava) incites tears of culinary joy.
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R & J Café
A swanky bistro that inexplicably charges corner-café prices for inventive, top-drawer, lunchtime meals. There is a fantastic variety of desserts on offer, too.
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Casa Colonial
The walk-in wine cellar is the first thing that catches your eye when you enter this sophisticated bar, which oozes medieval romance.
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Café Mostarda
The rich and beautiful practically trip over themselves onto Av Afonso Pena at this trendy outdoor café with live music nightly.
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Centro de Artesão
Centro de Artesão sells colorful indigenous ceramics, wooden crafts, sacred art and locally brewed liquor.
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City Bus Tour
A City Bus Tour visits 42 sites of local interest and departs regularly from in front of the CAT office.
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Comitiva Pantaneira
A massive per-kilo swarming with locals digging into seriously good Pantaneira cowboy cuisine.
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