The best restaurants Brasilia & Goias

A high-quality and well reputed churrascaria. The servers dressed in trajes from Rio Grande do Sul, gaucho country, offer you 17 types of barbecue cooked meats only with large salt. In the central buffet there are many salad options and hot dishes. To accompany the meal you can take a chimarrão (maté), served at the table (included in the price). 

Traditional house specialized in the delicacies of Minas Gerais. Large buffet with will or a kilo.

A sophisticated and contemporary restaurant whose gastronomic basis is the typical Peruvian cuisine. Precisely prepared fish, duck leg with rice cooked in beer and of course different kinds of ceviches. The menu served at lunchtime during the week allows you to choose from the menu starter, main course and dessert. The pescado al azafrán, grilled fish with rocoto sauce, is one of the most popular dishes. A mix of desserts, Crocante de Banana or the Dulce Brasil, a maracuja cream with a cold mango soup. To know!

Here, the focus is on organic food. A mini-buffet of Brazilian cuisine, healthy and natural, served in a warm wooden décor. A large terrace with plenty of wooden tables surrounds the restaurant, inviting you to sample local specialties, soups and salads, as well as meat and fish dishes for non-vegetarians. There are also around twenty fruit cocktails and just a few desserts (we recommend the maracuja mousse). Best visited for lunch, as it's a bit empty in the evening. Vegan and gluten-free.

The name of Mangai restaurant will not be unknown to travellers who have been to the Nordeste. And for good reason! This small chain of restaurants was born in João Pessoa and has built up a solid reputation. It has managed to conquer Brasilia. Its "by the kilo" buffet offers good, rich and varied Nordeste cuisine. The great classics of Sertaneja cuisine are presented here in versions that are both tasty and original. The setting is spacious and the terrace with a view of the lake and the JK bridge is equipped with several hammocks.

At the edge of the lake, in a pleasant setting. The Bargaço is a restaurant of seafood and traditional bahianaise cuisine in Brasília, but at high prices.

The Piquiras brand of restaurants and grocery stores now offers two addresses in the city, Bougainville and Flamboyant. The "historic" address is Rua 9, in the Bougainville shopping area in the Marista district. It's the city's flagship restaurant. City officials and tourists in search of contemporary, quality cuisine mingle here. Frango (chicken) at La Kiev,paella at Piquiras garnished with fish and seafood... It's also a very good delicatessen.

Chao Nativo is another address in Goiânia that is worth a visit. In this simple and pleasant restaurant, where the "fazenda" atmosphere has been reproduced with a decoration of old rural objects, they propose a typical Goiás cuisine. At noon, there is a buffet of regional cuisine with about fifty hot dishes (including the classic rice with pequi, galinhada in the peasant style or "caipira"), about twenty salads and a dozen desserts. You can also try many tropical fruits. The classic churrasco and feijoada on Saturday are not forgotten.

In this house at the corner of the square, the best empadões (kind of pie) are eaten. The atmosphere is particularly pleasant and romantic in the evening, washed by the MPB and the breeze from the Serra Dourada.

Varied kitchen, from 40 R $

Good. of galetos at correct prices. You can also eat à la carte (closed on Tuesday).

Boca do Forno is a welcoming, rustic establishment, with its cob walls and brick arches. Combining a pleasant setting with affordable prices, this pizzeria offers good value for money. The menu offers a wide variety of pizzas, from the classic tomato mozzarella basil to the more local chicken with pequi (a typical local fruit). Shiitake, pepperone, garlic, tuna, eggplant and sweet banana and goiabada (guava) pizzas are also on the menu. Professional family welcome. Super pizzas.

It was also opened in 2007 and honours the gaucho country and its churrasco. Superb wooden décor, magnificent buffet, meat of great nobility, all served by boys by tenue gaucha. Count $ 96.

Sandwiches from 15 R $, but the chain also offers very sophisticated dishes (pirarucu, paca) up to one of the best wine cards in the city.

One of the most popular places in Brasília to eat an excellent feijoada ($ 30 R) and a good risotto ($ 40 R).

A superb setting with views of Lago do Paranoã, romantic atmosphere and varied creative and refined cuisine based on the country's ingredients. Taste shrimps flambées in the ginger liquor with a risotto de and seasonal fruit with cassis cream.

Antiques highlighted as sacred pieces, to the image of the products used by the owner Maria Christina Brochado. Chant chant in mood music and servers dressed in brothers'clothes. Kitchen in Minas Gerais and international cuisine. Very land fun.

Located in one of the most elegant residences in the capital. Good cuisine: lamb with crème, balsamic vinegar and port wine with mushroom risotto.

Good French table in a window with view of the garden and the open kitchen. A very popular restaurant, quite rightly. A lot of time to park, go by taxi.

Marietta's light sandwiches - known as "natural" - are the most traditional in Brasília. The house was inaugurated in 1982 and today has several branches in the city, proof of its success. The secret is the good ingredients and the original mixtures that fill the three slices of bread cut in a triangle. The ricotta rosette is a classic. Other more elaborate options in the ciabatta bread. You should also take one of the delicious fresh fruit juices. The apple, pineapple, lime and beetroot works very well!