Casa Café Mindelo (São Vicente)
Cape Verde
Copyright: Rui Ornelas/CC BY 2.0/FlickrCasa Café Mindelo (São Vicente)
Casa Café Mindelo is a small guesthouse, restaurant, café and bar, located in a beautifully restored colonial building from 1870 in the heart of Mindelo, overlooking the Porto Grande bay. A central meeting point in the city's daily life, Casa Café Mindelo is open from early in the morning to late in the evening. Drop by any time of day for some tasty home-cooked meals, hot coffee, or a refreshing drink in the evening, accompanied by live music.
Useful Information
- Address: Rua Governador Calheiros 6, Mindelo
- Email: casacafemindelo@gmail.com
- Phone: +238 231 37 35
- Opening House: www.instagram.com/casa_cafe_mindelo
- Opening House: Daily 7am–midnight
- More Info: https://www.facebook.com/CasaCafeMindelo/
Dining
Seafood abounds in Cape Verde, with delicacies like grilled lobster, tuna, and octopus featuring on most menus, as well as Creole and Portuguese specialities. The most representative typical dish is the 'cachupa', a filling slow-cooked stew of corn, beans, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat. The larger towns offer an increasingly wide variety of restaurants and cuisines, but on smaller islands, many places will be limited to the lunch of the day ('prato do dia'), which usually includes the freshest catches.

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