Bar Tropikal (Maio)

Cape Verde

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Bar Tropikal (Maio)

Bar Tropikal serves authentic Cape Verdean cuisine right on the beautiful Bitxe Rotxa beach on Maio, specialising in raw fish, carpaccio and pizza. Tropikal even has its own ecological farm which supplies the restaurant with the freshest vegetables. Visit in the evening and enjoy the beautiful Maio sunset with one of their specialty caipirinhas.

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' (pictured above), a filling mix of maize, beans, sweet potato and chicken 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. Here are the top places to eat while in Cape Verde: