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At number 731 on Av. Baía dos Golfinhos, the main street of Pipa, there is a house that has been making its own fresh pasta by hand since 2005. Ravioli is the dish Dall'Italiano puts first, and around it sit gnocchi, matagliati and bigoli, with sauces made fresh that day. It opens every evening at six and closes no day of the week.
| Type | Italian restaurant · hand-rolled pasta |
|---|---|
| Area | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos, Praia da Pipa |
| Address | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 731, Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | Sunday 18:00–00:00 · Monday to Thursday 18:00–23:30 · Friday and Saturday 18:00–00:00 |
| Open since | 2005 |
| Bookings | Takes reservations |
| Atmosphere | Cosy, casual, romantic and quiet · outdoor tables |
| To drink | Imported wines, cocktails, beer, spirits and coffee · happy hour |
| With kids | High chairs and a children's menu |
| Takeaway | Yes, with delivery and ordering through iFood |
| Contact | +55 84 99152-8651 |
| @dallitaliano.pipa |
It is made in house and rolled by hand, and the menu works several shapes rather than one. The one the house puts first is ravioli. Beside it sit gnocchi, matagliati and bigoli — the last two are long, wide shapes you rarely see outside Italy, let alone on a beach in north-eastern Brazil.
The pasta is paired with fresh sauces and with what the kitchen has in: cheeses, cured meats, meat, fish and seafood. A table of four can order four different things without leaving pasta behind.
The lasagne is the dish the house sets apart, because it is not cooked on the stove: it goes into the wood-fired oven, the same one as the pizza, and that is where the browned edge comes from. The pizza carries 100 % Italian mozzarella and has been on the menu from the start — the house is a ristorante and a pizzeria at once — and it is the obvious answer for the table where not everyone wants pasta.
They are made in house, and the one the kitchen puts forward is tiramisù. Leave room for it: hand-rolled pasta fills you differently from the dried kind.
The place declares three more things about its menu, and each one solves a particular table. There are vegetarian options, worth having in writing before you pick a restaurant for a group. There are organic dishes, declared by the house. And there are small plates, the way in for anyone who wants something before the pasta.
This is what sets Dall'Italiano apart from any other Italian kitchen in the village, and their own website spells it out: the raw materials are Italian with protected origin — DOC and DOP, the two marks Italy uses to certify where a cheese, a cured meat or a tomato actually comes from.
They come from small Italian producers through an artisanal process: the mozzarella on the pizza is Italian rather than domestic, and the cheeses and cured meats that go with the pasta have a declared origin.
The house has its own barman and a bar on site, and builds the cocktails on seasonal fruit, the same fruit that goes into the juices: the glass changes with the month, because whatever is ripe is what you get.
For the table there is a list of imported wines, put together to go with the dishes, and before the pasta there are aperitivi. If you arrive early and your table isn't ready, the bar is where you wait with a cocktail in hand — the house suggests it that way itself.
The list the place declares goes further than wine and cocktails: there's beer, spirits and coffee too. And there is a happy hour, which in a house that opens at six in the evening is the fact that counts: you arrive straight off the beach, order something at the bar, and dinner is still a while away.
The place describes itself in four words: cosy, casual, romantic and quiet. Casual and romantic at once means you can come in for dinner without dressing up and the table still feels laid; quiet, on the avenue the whole village walks down, is the fact that decides dinner for two. It is an evening dining room, with the wood oven working, the bar busy and table service. There's a bathroom on site.
There are also outdoor tables: dinner in the open on the avenue, watching the centre go past instead of the room. The house describes itself as set up for groups as well, which in a village of small tables counts for something: it works for the whole family and for the long weekend table.
It closes no day of the week, and in Pipa that is worth writing down: there is always pasta. It opens every evening at 18:00; Monday to Thursday it closes at 23:30, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday it runs to midnight.
There is no lunch service. This is a full-dinner house: if your plan is pasta in the middle of the day, this is not it. It pays to arrive between six and eight, as the room fills; after that, in high season, the house warns there may be a wait for a table — which is what the booking, the bar and the barman are for.
The other end of the day is covered too: the place declares late-night food, and that gets used in the last stretch of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when the room runs to midnight and the centre is still moving.
Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 731, on the village's main street, the same avenue that runs through Pipa's village centre and the one that organises the way down to Praia da Pipa: dinner is on your way.
Parking is the part to settle before you set off: the place declares paid on-street parking and warns that spaces are hard to find. This is the main avenue at dinner time, so the practical move is to leave the car and walk, or to arrive in the happy-hour stretch.
If you are still working out how to get there, from Natal or another city, sort transfers first: number 731 is within reach of any guesthouse in the centre.
This is the part the place declares in most detail, and the part that decides a family trip. Dall'Italiano is good for children, has high chairs and has a children's menu. All three together are rare in the village: the high chair solves the table with a baby, and the children's menu solves the argument about what to order for a five-year-old when the menu is ravioli and bigoli.
The hours help: opening at 18:00, dinner with children finishes at a reasonable hour.
The house advertises takeaway on its own website, the place declares delivery, and orders also go through iFood: the same pasta and the same wood-fired pizza, at your own table. It is worth asking on WhatsApp which pasta travels best, because not all of them do.
For anyone who wants real pasta. If the difference between hand-rolled and packaged pasta matters to you, this is the address: the house rolls its own, names its shapes and buys raw material with protected origin.
For an unhurried dinner for two. The place describes itself as romantic and quiet, takes reservations and does dinner only: there is no lunch turnover pushing you out.
For the table with children and for the big table. High chairs and a children's menu on one side; on the other, a house set up for groups, with a bar for the wait and a menu covering pasta, pizza, sea and land in one place.
No: it opens in the evening only, all seven days at 18:00. It closes at 23:30 from Monday to Thursday; Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at midnight.
Ravioli, gnocchi, matagliati and bigoli, all made in house and rolled by hand, plus lasagne from the wood oven. Ravioli is the one the house puts first.
Yes, in the wood-fired oven and with 100 % Italian mozzarella. The house is a restaurant and a pizzeria at the same time.
The place takes reservations, and it's worth using them: the house warns that in high season there can be a wait. You book on WhatsApp, at +55 84 99152-8651.
Yes, and high chairs too. The place lists itself as good for children.
Yes, and organic dishes as well. Both are declared by the place.
Yes. The place declares outdoor tables alongside the dining room.
It's paid on-street, and the place itself warns that spaces are hard to find. The practical move is to arrive on foot.
Yes: takeaway, delivery and ordering through iFood.
Since 2005, in Praia da Pipa. The house also describes itself as set up for groups.
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