Local pick
Local favourites
How to recognise the neighbourhood food experiences Salvador residents use themselves, with current venue recommendations kept in one central guide.
Editorial team
Local does not mean hidden, fashionable or difficult to reach. It can be a neighbourhood market, a square full of food kiosks, ice cream in Ribeira or a place residents return to because it fits ordinary life. We keep the named recommendations themselves in Where to Eat so this page can explain the idea without maintaining a second, inevitably stale copy of the same list.
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