Chez Pastis (Sal)
Cape Verde
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Chez Pastis is a charming gem of a restaurant, offering Italian cuisine, Brazilian meat, and local fish and seafood. The flavours are simply exquisite, and the setting, a vine-covered courtyard, completes the unique dining experience. Although slightly higher in price, every bite justifies the cost. Given the limited number of tables, making a reservation in advance is highly advisable.
Useful Information
- Address: Rua Amilcar Cabral 5, Santa Maria
- Email: booking@chezpastis.com
- Phone: +238 984 36 96
- More Info: www.chezpastis.com
- Opening House: Daily 6:30pm–11pm
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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