Café and bistro at Rua das Pedrinhas 3: breakfast from 9am, croissants, toasts, pasta and cakes, with a plant wall and neon sign. Message Aloha.
On Rua das Pedrinhas, number 3, there is a café and bistro with a wall covered in plants, a neon sign and a pale wood counter along the window. Aloha Pipa Coffee and Bistro opens at nine in the morning and serves breakfast, coffee, filled croissants, toasts, pasta, cakes and hot chocolate, Monday to Saturday. You eat inside, with waiters, and on Sundays it is closed.
| Type | Café and bistro |
|---|---|
| Area | Rua das Pedrinhas, Tibau do Sul |
| Address | R. das Pedrinhas 3, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | Monday to Thursday, 9am–8pm · Friday and Saturday, 9am–9pm · closed Sundays |
| Service | Dine-in, with waiters |
| On the menu | Breakfast · coffee · croissants · toasts · pasta · cakes and desserts · hot chocolate · cold drinks |
| Atmosphere | Cosy · casual · quiet |
| Crowd | Groups and tourists |
| With kids | Good for children |
| Payment | Credit and debit cards · contactless |
| Contact | +55 84 98741-3682 |
The venue lists breakfast and dessert among its meals, and quick meals among its menu options, and what the photos show bears it out. There is a croissant filled with cured ham, cheese and pesto, with tomato, served on a grey plate; a toast with cured ham, a poached egg and yellow sauce, from the Eggs Benedict family; and a strawberry tartlet beside a fried snack in a white bowl.
The pesto turns up in more than one dish, and that gives the menu a character of its own: the house's morning includes, besides bread and jam, savoury plates with an Italian influence.
The name says "bistro", and the pasta confirms it: in the photos there is a plate of fettuccine with pesto, meat sauce and grated cheese, served on a green woven placemat. It is the main dish the images let you see, for anyone who wants something hot after the beach.
On the sweet side two cakes appear. One is a chocolate cake with strawberries, covered in ganache with rosettes around the edge, with a slice already cut to show the dark sponge inside. The other has ganache dripping down the side, chocolate sprinkles below and a ring of strawberries and white and dark truffles on top. And there is a cookie filled with red jam, broken in half on a grey plate, with the plant wall behind it.
The venue lists coffee among its menu options. In the photos there is a hot chocolate with whipped cream served in a glass cup on a grey plate, and a tall glass of creamy layered drink with a chocolate-coated rim. They are drinks for a long break, the kind you order alongside a dessert.
A morning at Aloha can be put together in three steps. First, something savoury: the croissant with ham and pesto or the toast with poached egg. Then the drink: a coffee, or the hot chocolate with cream for anyone who prefers something sweet. And to finish, a cookie or a slice of cake, which works as the dessert of the breakfast or as a snack for later. With that plan you cover a good part of the menu the photos show, without leaving what the house lists: breakfast, dessert and coffee.
A few words deserve a translation. The croissant is the crescent-shaped puff-pastry roll, which at Aloha comes filled. Pesto is the green Italian sauce, which here appears on the croissant and on the pasta. A poached egg is an egg cooked without its shell in water. Ganache is the chocolate-and-cream coating on the cakes. And the brigadeiro is the Brazilian chocolate truffle made with condensed milk.
The venue describes itself as cosy, casual and quiet, and says it welcomes groups and tourists. The photo of the room shows it well: a long pale wood counter along the window, green openwork chairs, purple shelves with a fridge at the back and, over the plant wall, an orange neon sign in cursive. The green wall is what organises the room: leaves in different greens that match the pastel green of the chairs and the pale wood of the counter.
The same green backdrop appears in the photos of the plates, with the croissant and the cookie in front of that wall. The result is an atmosphere you recognise from the first plate, and one that speaks to the name, Aloha.
It opens Monday to Thursday from 9am to 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays from 9am to 9pm, and closes on Sundays. The closed Sunday is the detail worth keeping in mind: that is the day to pick another table. From Monday to Saturday there is breakfast from nine, and on Fridays and Saturdays the house stays open an hour longer, until nine at night.
The morning slot suits the format: croissant, egg toast and coffee before heading to the beach. The rest of the day works for dessert, hot chocolate and pasta, with the whole afternoon until eight.
The full week, day by day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9am to 8pm; Friday and Saturday from 9am to 9pm; Sunday closed. That is six days of service, with eleven or twelve hours in a row depending on the day.
Aloha Pipa is at Rua das Pedrinhas 3, in Tibau do Sul (RN). The general reference for finding your way is Praia da Pipa, and the street number is what you type into the map. If you are arriving from Natal, from the airport or from another beach on the coast, look at the transfer options for the long stretch.
The venue says it is good for going with children. For a family with an early breakfast, the croissant, the jam cookie and the hot chocolate are things a child recognises at first sight.
For anyone who wants breakfast out before the beach: it opens at nine, with coffee, croissants and toasts.
For the group looking for a long break: cakes, cookies, hot chocolate and a pasta for whoever is hungry, in a cosy, quiet room.
For anyone who wants a dessert break in the middle of the afternoon: cakes, cookie and hot chocolate, with the house open until eight at night, or until nine on Fridays and Saturdays.
And for the traveller on their own: the venue lists itself as good for breakfast and for eating alone.
It closes on Sundays. Monday to Thursday it opens from 9am to 8pm, and Fridays and Saturdays from 9am to 9pm.
At 9am, Monday to Saturday.
Yes. The venue lists breakfast among the meals it serves, with coffee, croissants, toasts and poached egg in the house photos.
Yes: in the photos there is a plate of fettuccine with pesto, meat sauce and grated cheese.
Yes: the house photos show the croissant with cured ham, cheese and pesto, the toast with poached egg and the fettuccine.
The photos show a tall glass of layered creamy drink with a chocolate-coated rim.
In the house photos, cured ham, cheese and pesto, with tomato.
An egg cooked without its shell in water. In the house photos it sits on a toast with cured ham and yellow sauce.
Yes. The venue lists dessert among its meals, and in the photos there is a chocolate cake with strawberries, another with ganache and truffles, and a cookie filled with jam.
Yes, with whipped cream, served in a glass cup, according to the house photos.
Yes, from 9am to 9pm.
Yes, coffee is among the menu options.
Yes. The venue says it is good for going with children.
Yes, credit and debit cards, and contactless payment too.
The venue describes itself as cosy, casual and quiet, with a plant wall and a counter along the window.
Yes. The venue says it welcomes groups and tourists, and the room has a long counter and green chairs to sit on.
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