A thatched terrace on the bluff over Baía dos Golfinhos. Sea and meat boards for two or four. Open from 11:30am on Saturday and Sunday.
Shikoba sits on the edge of the bluff along Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, in an open room with a thatched roof and a wooden railing that looks straight out over the water. From the table you can see the fishing boats moored below and, if you're lucky, the marmosets that cross the handrail looking for shade. The kitchen does seafood and griddled meat, and the place is built for sharing: the boards come for two or for four.
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| Type | Restaurant · seafood and grilled meat |
|---|---|
| Area | Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, Praia da Pipa |
| Address | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 585, Loja 2 — Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | Monday to Friday 5pm–midnight · Saturday and Sunday 11:30am–midnight |
| Seating | Covered terrace up on the bluff, above the sea |
| Service | Dine in · takeaway · curbside pickup |
| On the menu | Sharing boards · fish · prawns · griddled meat · pasta · vegetarian options |
| To drink | Bar on site · beer · cocktails · spirits · coffee |
| Crowd | Good for groups · stated safe space for transgender people · LGBTQ+ friendly house |
| Payment | Debit card · contactless from your phone |
| Contact | +55 84 99192-5167 |
This is a sit-down restaurant with waiters: you walk in, you are seated, you order from the menu. The house states seating and table service, and there is a bar on site, so the wait happens at the counter when the terrace is full.
The way of ordering that defines the house is the board. There are boards for two and boards for four, and all of them arrive with the same full set of sides: farofa, fries, aioli, vinaigrette and rice. The sea board carries mussels, shell-on prawns, squid rings and tuna; the meat board, sirloin, toscana sausage, chicken breast and pork picanha; the mixed one crosses the two. For four there is a sea board with octopus, squid, mussels, sautéed prawns and tuna, and a land board with Argentine picanha and pork picanha.
That tells you how to show up: the menu rewards a table of several people. Two order one board and split it; four order the big one and nothing else is needed. If you come alone or as a pair and don't want all that, the house states small plates, and the starters do the job: garlic prawns, panko-breaded prawns, fried squid rings, Galician-style octopus with sautéed potatoes, tuna strips in gorgonzola sauce, fries with cheddar and bacon.
The fish section turns around the catch of the day, served whole, fried or grilled, with rice, farofa, vinaigrette and fries. Beside it there is salmon in passion-fruit sauce, salmon ceviche with sweet potato chips, and prawns served inside a pineapple, gratinated with cheese and served with pumpkin purée and rice with cashew nuts.
And there is moqueca, cooked here in a clay pot with dendê oil and coconut milk, served with rice and pirão. There is a fish one, a prawn one and a mixed one. It is the dish that repeats most across the house's own photographs and the one that best explains the kitchen: north-eastern, pot-based, meant to be shared from the middle of the table.
The meat comes off the griddle: Argentine picanha, bife de chorizo, bife ancho, sirloin in a four-cheese sauce. There is breaded steak and breaded chicken with tomato and melted cheese, grilled chicken and chicken milanesa. The pasta is penne, fettuccine and spaghetti, with prawn sauce, gorgonzola, white, red or mixed, plus carbonara, bolognese and lasagne.
The house states vegetarian options and writes them as a section of their own: a veggie moqueca of plantain and hearts of palm cooked in the clay pot, a vegetable lasagne with aubergine, courgette and shiitake, a gratinated stuffed aubergine, a salad of rocket, mint, hearts of palm, watermelon and cashews, and a Mediterranean one with black olives, mozzarella and confit tomato. A mixed table has nothing to negotiate.
There is a bar on site and the drinks list is stated in full: cocktails, beer, spirits and coffee. On a terrace facing the sea, the late-afternoon drink is half the reason to come: you order something, you wait for the sun to drop over the water, and only then do you order food.
The terrace is wooden, with a thatched roof held up by tree trunks and woven fibre lamps hanging from the eaves. The railing looks over the bluff, and below it is the beach with the fishing boats at anchor. Tables are laid with an oil cruet and a toothpick holder, and the vegetation comes in from the sides: this is an open room, not a closed dining hall with windows.
The house describes itself as quiet, and the attributes it states say something uncommon that is worth knowing in advance: it presents itself as a business that welcomes the LGBTQ+ community and as a safe space for transgender people. It also states that it is good for groups, which fits a menu built on sharing boards.
Monday to Friday it opens at 5pm; Saturday and Sunday at 11:30am. It closes at midnight every day. That difference decides a lot: on weekdays this is a late-afternoon and evening house, and the weekend holds the only window to have lunch there with the sea in view and high light on the water.
If you want to see the sea and the boats, you need to arrive in daylight. If dinner is the plan, the kitchen runs until midnight and the terrace turns into an open-air night, with the sound of the water below and the lamps lit over the table. Between the two sits the last hour of sun, which on this railing is the best of the day.
It is at Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos 585, Loja 2, on the main street of Praia da Pipa. You can walk there from the centre along the avenue itself, no detour, and the room sits above beach level, which is what gives it the view.
From Praia da Pipa you walk back up the same avenue, so it falls naturally on the way home from the water. If you are arriving from Natal, from the airport or from another beach along the coast, look at the transfer options to cover the stretch into the village and then get around on foot.
Besides the terrace, the house works takeaway and curbside pickup: you order, you swing by, you eat at the apartment. It does not deliver, so if the plan is not to go out, someone has to collect it.
For the table of four or six that wants seafood without arguing over what each person orders: one board in the middle and done.
For the couple that wants dinner with the sea below and the room open, with cocktails and a kitchen that does not close before midnight.
And for the weekend when what you want is lunch facing the water: Saturday and Sunday it opens at 11:30am, and that is the only moment of the week when this terrace gets used in full sun.
On Saturday and Sunday, yes, from 11:30am. Monday to Friday it opens at 5pm.
Until midnight, seven days a week.
You can. The terrace is up on the bluff and the railing looks over the beach and the moored boats.
Yes, with a section of their own on the menu: veggie moqueca, vegetable lasagne, gratinated aubergine and two salads.
No. They do takeaway and curbside pickup, on top of service on the terrace.
Yes, by debit card, and also contactless from your phone.
It does, and that is what the house states; the menu confirms it, with boards built for two and for four people.
For sunset hour and for the tables along the railing, it is worth a message beforehand on WhatsApp at +55 84 99192-5167.
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