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Local favourites

How to recognise the neighbourhood food experiences Salvador residents use themselves, with current venue recommendations kept in one central guide.

Editorial team
A clay pot of Bahian moqueca with rice and farofa on a wooden table.

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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