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On Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, at number 708, a lit sign shows a drawn brick oven, and beneath it a dining room opens onto the street: an exposed tiled roof over dark beams, geometric lamps hanging down, small framed pictures on the walls and the pizza counter at the back. The front tables look straight onto the cobbles that the whole village walks along. The house makes pizza, crêpes and pasta and opens in the evening, with a single closing day in the week.
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| Type | Pizzeria · crêpes and pasta |
|---|---|
| Area | Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, central Praia da Pipa |
| Address | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 708-714, Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | 6pm–11.30pm · closed on Wednesdays |
| Seating | Dining room open onto the avenue |
| Reservations | Yes, accepted |
| Service | Dine-in · takeaway · delivery |
| On the menu | Pizza · crêpes · pasta · small plates · dessert |
| To drink | Bar on site · wine · beer · cocktails · spirits |
| With children | Welcome · high chairs |
| Facilities | Toilet · bar on site |
| Payment | Credit · debit · contactless |
| @pizzariadapipa |
The full name of the house, the one printed on its own menu, is Pizzaria da Pipa — Crepes & Massas, and those three words explain the kitchen better than any description: thin-crust pizza, savoury crêpes and pasta, all three in the same room.
It is thin-crust, with a narrow rim and an even bake, served whole on a wooden board or a pizza plate. The photographs show calabresa sausage with green olives and grated cheese, shrimp with threads of catupiry cheese across the surface, shredded carne de sol finished with crisp potato straws, a margherita with sliced tomato and basil, and one with rocket and sun-dried tomato that arrives with the raw leaves laid on as it leaves the oven. Each pizza is cut in eight and shared.
The house also works with savoury crêpes — among them the crepe nordestino — and knife-and-fork plates such as beef stroganoff and shrimp in pesto. To start there are petiscos: a shrimp salad with mango, tomato and olives, arranged on a rectangular plate. The house also lists small plates and quick bites, so a table can be settled with two light things instead of a whole pizza. And there is dessert to close.
That is what makes it useful: this is the kitchen for a table where not everyone wants the same thing. While one side shares a pizza, the other orders a crêpe or a plate of their own, and nobody waits too long.
There is a bar on site and the list is stated in full: wine, beer, cocktails and spirits. The house's own photographs show the caipirinha in a tall glass and a jug of fresh fruit juice, which is the answer for a table that is not drinking and for one that came with children. With the kitchen open until half past eleven, there is no rush to leave after dessert.
The house describes itself with three words: casual, quiet and trendy. It is a pizzeria with waiters and laid tables, open to the street and without pretension.
The dining room has an exposed tiled roof over dark wooden beams, with geometric wire lamps hanging from it in warm light. The walls are yellow, with small framed pictures and a wall fan; at the back is the counter where the pizzas are built. The pale wooden tables run parallel to the rail facing the avenue, so from almost any chair you can watch people pass on the cobbles — and at night the lit sign sits directly above.
The audience the house lists is groups and tourists, and the layout agrees: long tables, street noise and a room that does not ask anyone to lower their voice.
It opens every day from 6pm to 11.30pm, except Wednesdays, when it closes. That is the most useful fact on this page: if you are walking along the avenue on a Wednesday night, look elsewhere.
There is no lunch. The kitchen starts at six in the evening, which in Pipa is exactly when people come back from the beach and start moving along the avenue. For an early dinner with children, half past six is the hour: the room is still empty and the pizza comes out quickly.
Later the mood changes. Between nine and eleven the avenue is at its busiest, and a room that opens onto the street is part of that. The house takes reservations, so for a table on the rail in high season it is worth calling ahead.
It sits on Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, between numbers 708 and 714, on the busiest pedestrian stretch of the centre. There is no detour: you can walk there from anywhere in the village, and the lit sign is visible from a distance.
From Baía dos Golfinhos you walk up the same avenue, so it falls on the way back from the beach with no diversion at all. If you are coming from Natal, from the airport or from another beach along the coast, look at the transfer options for the stretch into the village and then move around on foot.
The house states that it is good for children and that it has high chairs. With a 6pm opening, a family can eat early and walk back while the street is still busy. Thin-crust pizza and crêpes settle what a child will eat without an argument, and the small plates work for anyone who only picks.
A table that cannot agree: pizza, crêpes, pasta and individual plates on the same menu.
A group who want to eat watching the avenue, with a bar on site and a kitchen running until half past eleven.
And a family eating early: a six o'clock opening, high chairs and food that arrives fast.
No. That is its only closing day. The rest of the week it opens 6pm to 11.30pm.
No. The kitchen only opens at 6pm.
Savoury crêpes and pasta, plates such as beef stroganoff and shrimp in pesto, petiscos and dessert.
It takes reservations, and it is worth calling ahead for a table facing the avenue in high season.
Yes, and they also do takeaway and pre-orders.
Yes. It lists high chairs and states that it is good for children.
On Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, between 708 and 714, in the centre of Praia da Pipa.
Credit, debit and contactless payment from a phone.
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