This family-owned and run restaurant in João Pessoa is in my opinion the best Italian restaurant in…read morethe Northeast of Brazil. It might also be the best restaurant in the city. I've eaten here several times and I have never been disappointed. All of the pastas here are homemade and they're all great. The sauces are varied and not just typical southern Italian red sauce. The service is also very good & the décor is also very tasteful. They also have a decent wine list with wines at reasonable prices. If you're here for dinner, they make pizzas in a brick oven (unfortunately, you can only get pizzas at dinnertime--not at lunch). At lunch, they also have a buffet and a lunch menu (I prefer to order from the regular menu); they also have valet parking. Oh yeah, the items on the regular menu serve 2, but even with help, two of us have never been able to finish the main course (which is just fine, cuz you get to have the doggy bag later).

This is my favorite restaurant in Joao Pessoa. On many nights there is live piano or accordian…read moremusic and sometimes some of the customers join in singing. The food is consistently good, especially the risotto's and the pasta, though I haven't had anything bad here. On Monday nights they have a pizza festival which is an all-you-can-eat deal where instead of going to a bar area and picking slices, the waiters walk around with pizzas fresh out of the oven and offer you a slice. I had been working at the Fiat Goiana plant which is an hour out of town, so often we wouldn't get back to Joao Pessoa until 9 or 10pm. Luckily they stay open 'till midnight, and even arriving at 10:00, there were plenty of other patrons.

These poor guys are doing whatever they can to stay in business. How hard is it for an…read more"all-you-can-eat" restaurant to survive with only take-out? I hope they pull through this.

Hey, it's Pizza Hut...wysiwyg. Located inside the Manaira Shopping Mall, this Pizza Hut is not…read moreoutstanding in any way except that it's here. If you like the stuff they serve, then you'll be happy with their fare, but if you're looking for pizza, this isn't really close. They put so little cheese on their pizzas that its shocking.

We came to eat lunch here after not having been here for a long time and I was a bit disappointed…read more Dona Branca used to be a great restaurant with a very large cachaça menu, various infused cachaças, live music on the weekends & a cool vibe, but now it's become just another buffet restaurant. The very large cachaça menu is gone and the décor has a cafeteria feel to it now. Instead of being a unique place, they've changed to a mediocre place to eat. Maybe they'll make more money, but for me, it's lost its charm and is no longer a destination I'd go out of my way to eat at.

Nice big lively place to be on a Saturday evening. They have music, sports on big screen TV's and…read morehappy hour until 7:30 everyday. Can't remember what time it starts, I think 3:30. Food is pretty good. We had appetizers and drinks first, then finished off with a large pizza. One of the better pizzas I've tasted while here in Brazil. Brush upon your Portuguese because no one spoke English here. Lucky for us, we speak Spanish, so we can get by a little, plus we learned a little bit of Portuguese. Makes it easier if you learn and understand the basics to get around, plus I think it shows respect when you at least try. All in all, this is a good place to be while in João Passoa. Lots of beautiful women here, so if single, you're in heaven. Again, Portuguese will help. Only negative if you even want to think of it as a negative, this place is a little pricey. Especially when they automatically charge a fee for the entertainment and factor in the tip. To us it was okay, we paid extra for a great time. O Brasil é muito bonito, eu quero voltar um dia. Obrigado aos nossos amigos da América do Sul em João Passoa Brasil, tivemos um grande momento.

Here it is!!! The worst excuse for pizza I've ever had the bad luck to have eaten. We ate lunch…read morehere, & while the restaurant had 4 tables, the service was still only mediocre at best. The food--now that was special (but not in a good way). We started with shiitake & shimeji mushroom bruschetta. Absolutely without seasoning; I am sure the mushrooms were from a jar, because they had that metallic flavor. We ordered pizza for our main course. I have had thin crust pizza, but this was ridiculous. The crust was thinner than a cracker. The toppings & cheese were so oily that it was dripping; the pepperoni was awful, the pesto was even worse (I had to scrape it off before I could even tolerate it). There was no sauce on the pizza, but no surprise because the cracker dough would have dissolved. I would never eat here again and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who likes Italian food or pizza. You'd be better off eating a frozen supermarket pizza.