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Where to eat in Recife.

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3 places in Recife.

Recife · PE

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Recife · PE

Restaurante Leite

A restaurant founded in 1882 on Praça Joaquim Nabuco, in the Santo Antônio neighborhood, considered the oldest still operating in Brazil, with a white-tablecloth dining room and a grand piano. The cuisine is Portuguese, with codfish and codfish fritters, and the most popular dessert is the cartola (banana and cheese dessert); it serves lunch to people visiting the historic center.

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Recife · PE

Parraxaxá

A regional restaurant on Avenida Fernando Simões Barbosa, in Boa Viagem, with sertão-inspired decor and waiters dressed as Lampião and Maria Bonita (legendary backcountry outlaws). The buffet has galinha à cabidela (chicken in blood sauce), dried beef, jerked-beef fritters, queijo coalho, tapioca and sweets such as bolo de rolo (rolled cake) and cocada (coconut candy), and suits those who want to try many Northeastern dishes at once.

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Recife · PE

Bode do Nô

A Northeastern restaurant founded in 1991 by the couple Evangelista Lima, known as seu Nô, and Maria Gomes, which now has branches in Afogados, Boa Viagem and other cities. Its specialty is goat, served as buchada (stuffed tripe) or grilled ribs, alongside carne de sol, queijo coalho (grilled cheese), cassava and butter farofa, for those who want hearty Northeastern food.