Paletas, ice pops, ice cream, desserts and milkshakes on Pipa's main avenue. Opens at 1pm and closes on Wednesdays. Message them before you walk over.
At 758 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, on the village's main street, there's a counter built for walking on: paletas and ice pops, plus ice cream, desserts and milkshakes. Degusta is a Recife brand and this is its only unit outside Pernambuco. It opens at one in the afternoon and rests on Wednesdays — the two facts worth knowing before you cross the avenue.
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| Type | Ice cream shop · paletas, ice pops, ice cream, desserts and milkshakes |
|---|---|
| Area | Pipa centre, Av. Baía dos Golfinhos |
| Address | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 758, Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | Sunday to Tuesday and Thursday 13:00–23:00 · Friday and Saturday 13:00–00:00 · Closed Wednesday |
| Contact | +55 81 99133-3376 |
| Website | degustadeliciasgeladas.com.br |
These are the heart of the shop and the reason it works differently from the others in the village: a paleta and an ice pop are hand-held. You order at the counter, pay in thirty seconds and keep eating as you walk down the avenue, on the way to the sea or back from it. No sitting, no waiting, nothing to decide beyond the flavour.
On a beach day that has a concrete advantage: it's the dessert that doesn't make you stop walking. The house states that its products are made with fresh, carefully selected ingredients.
The line the shop is named after is a 330 ml cup built in layers, and the menu sorts them by combination: brownie with nutella, ninho with strawberry, ninho speculoos, banoffee gold, açaí cookie's cream and caramelised crunchy pistachio. Six of them, ordered at the counter and eaten with a spoon.
Read end to end, the list tells you what kind of ice cream shop this is: it doesn't trade in single scoops, it trades in built desserts, with biscuit, dulce de leche, cream and fruit inside the same cup. Two of the six use ninho milk as a base, one adds speculoos, another rests on caramelised pistachio, and the açaí one is where regional fruit enters the line. It's the order for anyone who wants dessert and ice cream in the same cup instead of choosing between them.
The dessert block is the part you sit down for: a croissant, plain or filled with ninho and nutella; petit gateau; brownie with ice cream; and waffles, with nutella or with pistachio. These come with a fork, and they change what the place is for: no longer the thirty-second stop on the way to the sea, but the table after dinner.
In the shop's own photos the waffle arrives with a scoop on top and a crunch over it, the brownie comes with the scoop alongside, and the pistachio croissant sits ready on the counter, to take away or to eat there with a coffee. The bowl of ice cream with red sauce on the wooden table is the short version of the same plan.
The shop runs five lines in total. Beyond the paletas, the pops and the cups there are ice cream and desserts, which is the side for staying put: the spoon dessert after dinner, when the avenue is full and the village kitchens have started to close.
The milkshakes are the longest line on the menu: eleven versions, 330 ml each. There are the cocoa-and-coffee ones — cappuccino, premium chocolate, ovomaltine, oreo — the sweet ones — dulce de leche, paçoca, ninho trufado, ninho speculoos — the fruit ones — strawberry and forest yoghurt — and pistachio, which comes back in the cups and in the waffles and works as the house signature.
In Pipa a milkshake solves one specific hour of the day: three in the afternoon in January, when it's too hot to eat and dinner is still a long way off. Order it at the same counter.
On the coffee side the menu lists espresso, café com leite and cappuccino. In the photos the espresso comes in the house cup with a scoop of gelato in a wafer basket beside it: both house products on one tray, and the mid-afternoon order for when the heat isn't quite up to a 330 ml cup. Water and soft drinks close the list.
The room is small and built from two materials: a green wall and a wooden ceiling. The house name appears twice — in neon on the wall and in relief on the render — and the counter sits at the back, lit, with the display case in view. There are wooden tables to sit at and eat a plated dessert.
This is not a room for a long dinner: it's a counter with tables, built for the short stretch — a dessert, a coffee, a milkshake — and for people coming and going. The house cups are assembled to walk out with: in the photos they stand in pairs, sealed and ready on the counter, while the plated dessert arrives on a tray with a house napkin.
The hours are the fact on this page that helps most, and they come in two parts.
First: it closes on Wednesdays. It's a fixed rest day, so write it down. If your dessert plan falls on a Wednesday, that's the day to go elsewhere.
Second: it opens at 1pm, not before. This is an afternoon and evening shop. Sunday to Tuesday and on Thursday it closes at 11pm; Friday and Saturday it stays open to midnight, which is when the avenue is still moving.
The brand itself asks you to message on WhatsApp to confirm hours and menu before heading over, and in a beach village with a high and a low season that's sound advice: one message and you know.
It sits at 758 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, the main avenue of central Pipa. It's the street everyone walks: you can reach it on foot from anywhere in the village and from the path down to Praia da Pipa, without leaving the main spine.
If you're arriving from Natal or the airport, look at the transfer options first.
For anyone walking back from the beach who wants something cold without breaking stride: a paleta or a pop, in hand, on the main avenue. It's the format the shop does best, and the reason the counter faces the street.
For the family heading out for a stroll after dinner and looking for a table for dessert: open until 11pm Sunday to Thursday and until midnight on Friday and Saturday, later than most village kitchens keep serving. Here the order is plated — waffle, petit gateau, brownie with ice cream — and you eat it sitting down.
For anyone who likes a built dessert, the natural audience for those 330 ml cups: six layered combinations with biscuit and cream inside, plus eleven milkshakes. If your thing is choosing between two scoops, this menu is proposing something else.
And for anyone who knows the brand from Recife, Porto de Galinhas or Tamandaré: this is its only unit outside Pernambuco.
No. Wednesday is its closing day. It opens the other six days of the week.
At 1pm. It closes at 11pm Sunday to Tuesday and on Thursday, and at midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Five lines: paletas, ice pops, ice cream, desserts and milkshakes. Within those, the menu lists the 330 ml Delícias Degusta cups, the plated desserts and a coffee bar with espresso, café com leite and cappuccino.
Six: brownie with nutella, ninho with strawberry, ninho speculoos, banoffee gold, açaí cookie's cream and caramelised crunchy pistachio.
Croissant, plain or with ninho and nutella; petit gateau; brownie with ice cream; and waffles, with nutella or with pistachio.
Eleven, 330 ml each: cappuccino, premium chocolate, dulce de leche, forest yoghurt, strawberry, ninho speculoos, ninho trufado, oreo, ovomaltine, paçoca and pistachio.
Yes. There is a room with wooden tables and the counter at the back, and that is where the plated desserts are eaten. Paletas and pops, on the other hand, you order and walk off with.
At 758 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, on the main avenue through central Pipa, in Tibau do Sul. The brand is from Pernambuco — Recife, Candeias, Caruaru, Porto de Galinhas and Tamandaré — and this is its only unit outside the state.
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