Canoa Quebrada has a tempting choice of restaurants which rustle up local delights. For sea food lovers, lunch main courses include fresh lobster, oysters, shrimps, crabs and fish. There are many types of delicious broths simmering in the pots, waiting to be served. Apart from sea food, there is a vast array of roasted meats that will simply melt in your mouth. Apart from coastal cuisine, restaurants in Canoa Quebrada serve a variety of cuisines ranging from Italian and French to Chinese. The beach food stalls primarily serve sea food, though.

The most favoured house trio is a more than generous serving of lobster, shrimp and fish, which is enough to feed three people.

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You are sure to love the delicious local food and cuisine in Canoa Quebrada, and our Canoa Quebrada restaurant guide below tells you where to find the best restaurants and what to eat. We also have some general information and suggestions on eating out in Brazil. So after a fun filled day of sightseeing and shopping in Canoa Quebrada, kick back and enjoy the wonderful local food and cuisine of Canoa Quebrada.

Food & Cuisine in Canoa Quebrada

The Broadway is also known as the Sea Dragon Street - some call it the sidewalk Centre Canoe. This is where the majority of restaurants and bars are located, which open their doors every afternoon welcoming guests warmly. During the day time, the beach food stalls do brisk business and you can enjoy traditional barbeque, fish and beans along with regional dishes of beef, tapioca, macaxeira and local fruit.

The main culinary focus of the Canoa Quebrada beach, and in fact the entire coastal area of Ceará, is seafood. You wouldn't find fresher lobsters, prawns and crabs than the ones caught and served here. All bars and restaurants in the area are guaranteed to serve fresh sea produce.

The range of food is not limited to local cuisine in Canoa Quebrada. There are many regional varieties on offer alongside Spanish cuisine. You must try a speciality dish made of succulent seafood called the caldinho or savour the delicacy of a French crepe at any of the restaurants in Canoa Quebrada.

Canoa Quebrada Beach Tents

If you want to enjoy great food with great views, you can stroll down the Canoa Quebrada beach. Apart from tents, you will also find rustic restaurants over two floors, with hundreds of tables and chairs on the beach with parasols, serving excellent food and beverages.

You can also rent a hospitality tent at the beach and savour local delights all day long. Wash down delicious lobsters, fish, shrimp and more with a good quantity of Caipirinhas. Some larger stalls offer tourists refreshing fresh water showers, a convenience shop and a safe for keeping valuables.

If you are interested in basic tents, you can hire small ones which do not offer the same level of service but are comfortable nonetheless.

Tent Lazy Days is the ultimate in luxury tents in Canoa Quebrada. It is tastefully decorated and reflects good taste. With relaxing sofas and great views of the natural pools of Stephen, you can gaze out at the sea or play games at the tables, enjoy good music and get pampered in style. With prompt and courteous service, chilled beer is always at hand.

To enjoy the best view of the Canoa Quebrada beach, go for Tent Antônio Coco. You couldn't be any nearer the waves than here. Its kitchen has a very good reputation of pleasing even the most demanding of palates. Along with great food, it serves a wide selection of fine wines, cocktails and soft drinks.

One of the most traditional tents here is the Tent of Paulinho. It is simple and elegant and people come here for a very special experience. The owner, Paulinho welcomes everyone with coconut water and lemonade and is very welcoming. Despite new and fashionable tents coming up in the area, Paulinho continues to maintain the Canoa Quebrada tradition.

If you are looking for somewhere plush with ultimate quality, book the Tent Chega Mais. It is the only tent with ten stamps of quality from SEBRAE. With liveried staff, you will find impeccable standards reflected in its ambience and food. The tent is known for its fine cuisine, and both sea food and meats are served on neat tables laid on the sand. If you want to dine out with your family, you could choose the main hall, which has some wonderful views of the sea.

The Freedom Bar tent is known for its reggae music. It has many live music sessions or ‘luais' and is open from Tuesday to Sunday morning. Its most enjoyable music sessions take place on Fridays, Sundays and full moon nights. With a warm bonfire and reggae music, the ambience does not fall short of any Hollywood setting.

Restaurants List

Natural Bistrô

This is a charming place with rustic, fine furniture, divine food, great wines, customized service, beautiful people and ... even a cosy WC! Cassia, the Natural Bistrô owner, is one of the most interesting people in Canoa Quebrada, meeting her is a must!

Type : Creative Cooking

Address : Broadway, right hand, immediately before the restaurant Pizza Nostra, in front of the Library (Biblioteca) Square.

Phone : +88 8811 6910

Opening hours : 19:00 to to 23:00

Regart

This is a traditional meeting point in Canoa Quebrada, where you can find a good choice of drinks, wonderful music and lovely people. There are three different sites: ground floor bar with charming tables on the sidewalk and some great TVs inside, where people love to watch the most important football matches; upstairs there is another separate bar with two snookers and a balcony from where you can spy on people walking on Broadway and where every Friday night you can enjoy live music; on the ground floor, there is also the little Pizzaria Regart, which is the last option available to eat something tasty every night just to three o'clock or even later. Emma, the owner, is a fantastic painter: her pictures decorate the downstairs and upstairs areas, but you have to see the greatest one on the first floor, named "What a Wonderful World," a beautiful and rare example of Pop Art.

Type : Bar & Pizzaria

Address : At the corner between Broadway and Rua José Melancia

Phone : 88 3421 7432

Email : regart_emmacanoa@hotmail.com

Opening hours : 13:00

Costa Brava

Spectacular paella, lobsters and shrimp, with excellent desserts, among many other delicacies, are the specialties you will experience in this little restaurant. This place is full of atmosphere, in which the Spanish Chef Manoel will receive and enchant you; don't miss Costa Brava in your next visit at Canoa Quebrada, the most charming beach of Ceará State, Brazil's Northeast.

Type : Spanish Cuisine

Address : On your right hand on the Broadway, less than 100 meters after the beginning of the sidewalk.

Opening hours : 19:00

Café Habana

Café Habana Restaurant, Canoa Quebrada, Ceará, Brasil This is one of the few options for lunch in Canoa Quebrada. At night, this good restaurant resembles the atmosphere of a Cuban Café. Generous portions of seafood, meat and even pasta at fair prices are the main feature of Café Habana, whose owner is a Cuban entrepreneur, Armando, and lives in Canoa Quebrada and has loved it from a long time. On Saturday night you can appreciate good, live music while you are dining at Café Habana.

Type : Seafood, Meat and Pasta

Address : Café Habana is the first Restaurant you find in the beginning of Broadway sidewalk, at your right hand

Phone : 88 3421 7375

Opening hours : 12:00

Luz Azul

Luz Azul (Blue Light in English) is a good option in Canoa Quebrada to listen to a different kind of music every night, you will meet very interesting people and not only tourists that choose Canoa Quebrada for a unique holiday, but one will also find a fantastic melting pot represented by the Canoa Quebrada residents. Friends and partners, Ana and Caco, came from Chile to live in Canoa Quebrada at the end of 2008, and are now conducting this rustic but special place. The style of this establishment is a perfect fit with the Canoa Quebrada atmosphere. Sometimes it is possible to appreciate the music of the DJ André of Canoa at Luz Azul. Luz Azul is open until sunrise.