The best restaurants Paraná

This superb hotel-restaurant, which overlooks the river of the same name, offers the typical barreado, a regional dish from the cuisine of the herdsmen who regularly crossed the region. You can also eat good fish dishes (Milanese style fish). Ideally located 600 metres from the bus station and 200 metres from the Serra verde train station, the restaurant is an ideal "stopover" during a visit to Morretes.

Founded in 1958, Curitiba's central market is certainly the most pleasant place to shop like a true curitibense. The "belly of Curitiba" is certainly not very big, but there is a good coffee shop (with several national varieties to taste or take away), stalls and a few restaurants on site. You can buy wine, cheese, "ethnic" products and medicinal herbs. On the first floor is the organic products area, with a restaurant. It is the meeting place for people from all walks of life in the city.

Mar & sol is a restaurant now established as a benchmark on the island. It is reached on foot from the das conchas lighthouse. The place is simple and pleasant. The menu is quite varied, but the main attraction is the fish specialties, especially the moquecas, and the seafood, especially the casquinha de siri. The moqueca de camarao, as good as in Bahia, is more than enough for two guests. During the high season, the Mar & Sol is a victim of its own success, and you sometimes have to wait a little before being served. Expensive but good.

The most famous of the city's churrascarias is also the most touristy. We come to see a kitsch but very Brazilian show: groups of Latin American singers and dancers follow one another during the dinner-show. The service is well run. The plate delights the palate: you can choose between 12 meats, 8 typical hot dishes, salads, 10 desserts, ice-cream... grilled picanha with peppers, onions ideally spiced. The foams are excellent. On the other hand, in this room of 3,000 people, all groups travelling to Iguaçu disembark.

Since 1953, the Ile de France restaurant has been a delight for guests, offering French cuisine in a charming setting. Fish to grapes, Coquilles shells, snails. A little expensive, but it is justified.

Designated by Quatro Guide guide as the best German restaurant in the city. Very good sauerkraut and German specialities. The price is very good.

For who hungry pizza or pasta, a restaurant well, but without a lot of culinary imagination. On the other hand, the place - an old, charming local manor - is a picturesque building, musical animation is of good quality and dining very frequented by female gente, especially on Sunday evening. You can try the fondue.

The jardim da Cerveja is another classic address of Foz de Iguaçu, both bar and restaurant. In a rustic decor, we discover a good table with a varied menu. As in other establishments of this type, the establishment offers a vast terrace to take the freshness while savouring a beer in moderation and listening to Brazilian music. The tilapia fillets, accompanied by a good beer, as the name of the establishment encourages, are one of the pleasures offered by the menu. The service is professional and fast.

Definitely one of the best churrascarias in Foz. If the establishment does not offer a spectacular setting, question table is luxury: hearts of palm, asparagus heads, broccoli, tabbouleh, and all the hot sauces in the world. Then the boys offer you their skewers, sausages and hot pineapples for a rodizio show, where the bovines take the lead. You can try Rhenish wines or a Brazilian Cabernet Sauvignon. Among the desserts, you can melt for a maracuja mousse or creams studded with gelatin cubes.

The decor is Bavarian, but the kitchen is Italian. In the midst of ancient objects you can eat excellent pasta, pizza and meat. This award has been continuously acclaimed since its opening. Certainly a good address.

Well, we're not quite in the sand, but we're close. The restaurant "Barranco Bar" is located at the edge of the beach of Fora, with a beautiful sight on the lighthouse. The service is professional, fast and pleasant. The prices are correct for Ilha do Mel, where they are usually a bit more expensive than on the mainland. Simple and pleasant, you can have a snack during the day (snacks, salads, fish) and dinner in the evening. Music sometimes on weekends.

The Terra Nossa restaurant offers a varied menu in a beautiful setting and at affordable prices. One can taste the pirao de barreado, the typical dish of this coastal region made of beef simmered for 20 hours, rice, cassava flour, banana and orange (R$38). You can also eat good pizzas (only in the evening). The pizza menu is quite complete (calzones and sweet banana or pineapple pizzas). A lot of fish also à la carte from R$ 38. Shrimps from R$ 89.

Its blend of French, Italian and Brazilian cuisines and its creativity make it one of the best restaurants in the city. Good wine card.

This restaurant was built in the walls of an old mansion of 1919. Try to try the regional kitchen. Typical dishes of Curitiba and its region, of good quality and not too expensive. On Sunday, make two stones and see the Feira de artesanato also.

In this beautiful historic house in the heart of Curitiba, you can enjoy excellent gourmet pizzas and pastas to the sound of a piano playing jazz or barcarolles. Fine dough, noble ingredients, wood-fired cooking... The pizzaiolos work hard to make pizzas the Italian way... or the paulista way. The buffet of salads, antipasti and pasta at lunchtime on weekdays really honours the cuisine of the boot. You can find grilled meat (filet mignon), fish (salmon à la mode du chef). A good address.

For almost 40 years, the Swiss chalet has been offering its refined cuisine in Curitiba. French and Swiss influenced cuisine in a pleasant setting. You can enjoy snails with butter and parmesan cheese au gratin! The best fondue in the city according to the gastronome Béa de la Vacquerie. The rodizio Boa Lembraça is a Brazilian all-you-can-eat fondue formula that allows you to try everything. Well, it's not very new cuisine, but who cares, it's good. The price is high, it's true, but when you like it...

In a very cosy setting, this international restaurant is regularly honored as one of the best tables of Slavic cuisine in all of Brazil. The restaurant serves very good cuisine based on recipes from Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Try borscht as a starter (beetroot soup with pork chops), then platzki (potato pancakes). The Slavic banquet (R$ 120) gives a gastronomic insight into Slavic cuisine (plaztki, holopti, filet mignon, Russian salad... of course). A good overview of the diversity of Curitiba.

Chef Flavio Frenkel offers creative cuisine in a "bistro" setting. Foie gras, wild boar filet with fig risotto. Excellent.

Good restaurant with regional cuisine. You can enjoy the traditional barreado in a pleasant setting: tables in the garden and on the terrace, surrounded by trees. The library in the dining room of the restaurant reminds us that we are in the owner's house. The atmosphere is familiar, as are the dishes served at the table, but the service is very professional. While barreado is popular in the region and beyond, those who wish to enjoy fish or seafood in the caiçara style will not be outdone. Excellent maracujá desserts.

Chief Pedro Pedro has been in the piano of his Italian restaurant for 18 years in a slightly rustic setting. The thematic map (Arabic, Japanese, Italian) varies daily. Live music on weekends. Good and cheap. You can even take cooking courses there.