The best restaurants Natal

Self-service restaurant for vegetarians. The framework is New Roman: veranda, small columns. You can type in cabbage, drink, and in complete rice. No sauce, you're punished. Beans, soy, ginger chunks, full pie, sort of tasteless pâte dough. The bosses are vegetarians but they are heads of lard! After that, you can go to a real restaurant eating something tasty.

Good food does not only mean great restaurants. The Mangai offers a superb self-service buffet of regional cuisine. The original and tasty recipes delight the guests in a wonderful, streamlined setting. It's so good that there are even hammocks to digest after the meal.

The breads served in the restaurant have been so successful that the owners have opened a bakery, Fabricca Mangai, with more than 50 types of bread. The cassava and coconut bread is the house specialty.

A good fish restaurant with a nice view.

Still in the series "a transalpine culinary presence is a guarantee of quality", Piazzale Italia will not belie this maxim. The former "Mama Italia", under the direction of the renowned chef Thiago Gomes, is a very nice and good Italian house that offers a large number of Italian dishes. On the menu are pizzas, pastas (including vongole), risottos, fish dishes and more. Veja magazine has awarded the restaurant several times as the best Italian restaurant in the city and chef Gomes as chef of the year. A pleasant address

You have understood, the camarão (shrimp) is the king of the place which counts among the best tables of Natal. In fact, there are now several "Camaroes" restaurants that honor the seafood. The dishes are varied, original and make much success among the natalenses and tourists of passage. The restaurant of Ponta Negra is a modern and warm establishment with its structure of wood and earth. A pleasant covered terrace is a great place to eat in the evening. Meat and seafood complete the menu.

Like the hotel of the same name, the Manary Gastronomia & Arte restaurant is a fine dining experience. It offers refined cuisine in a superb setting overlooking the sea. The chef offers dishes based on carefully selected local ingredients: shrimp, lobster, fish, pumpkin, quiabo and even da terra (earth) butter. Desserts are just as good. One of our favorite addresses in Ponta Negra.

We'll make a momentary infidelity to the North-Eastern cuisine by going to Mina d'Agua. It is a restaurant of specialities from Minas Gerais (the chef is from there), everything is presented in the form of a self-service buffet. It is a return to a very Brazilian tradition. Here, the food is weighed and paid for by the kilo. Everything is very good, main dishes as well as side dishes, and the proposals change every day. Excellent desserts. A good address.

On the beach of Pirangi do Norte, the paçoca de pilao is a good restaurant of regional cuisine, which is worth the trip. The dishes are prepared with care and the menu is diverse. Try the dish that gave the restaurant its name: pacoça, a delicious mixture of carne-do-sol and cassava flour accompanied by green beans, cassava, banana and rice. For those who don't like the traditional carne do sol, you can try the very good shrimps in the Paçoca de pilao, the vatapà, traditional Bahian dish. A good address.

Whether in Olinda, Aracaju or Natal, our culinary knowledge will not be complete if we do not try the traditional tapiocas. A very nice option to taste tapiocas. Several colorful tables, a cheerful decoration and the smiling tapioqueiras (the women who prepare tapiocas) provide the atmosphere. There are more than 40 options on the menu, ranging from the traditional to the very creative. We recommend the carne seca com nata (dried meat with cream) or the one with cheese, dried tomatoes and basil.