Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Salvador from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Salvador
These restaurants pair tasting menus or classic French service with wine lists in our guide.
Origem is listed in the residential neighbourhood and serves a tasting menu with an extensive wine list. The 15-course menu moves through Bahia’s five biomes with fine-dining technique. Its awards include World's 50 Best Latin America's Best Restaurants #52 (2025) and The Best Chef Two Knives (2025).
Manga is a Rio Vermelho tasting-menu restaurant with a wine list, and it also serves à la carte. Husband-and-wife chefs Dante and Katrin Bassi work in an intimate three-floor townhouse with ocean views, building playful, avant-garde menus around local ingredients and showing modern Brazilian cooking with German influences.
Restaurante Chez Bernard is a Dois de Julho classic French fine-dining restaurant with an extensive wine list. It serves à la carte and is Salvador’s oldest French restaurant, dating to 1963.
These rooms show how Salvador’s seafood, local ingredients, and contemporary cooking come together.
Amado is a Comércio contemporary Brazilian seafood restaurant with an extensive wine list. The terrace looks over the Bay of All Saints, and the kitchen draws on Bahian seafood and the city’s African-rooted pantry. It serves regional cooking in a waterfront room.
Restaurante Casa de Tereza is a Rio Vermelho authentic Bahian seafood restaurant in a restored colonial house. It serves à la carte and focuses on dishes such as moqueca, with art and cultural references shaping the room around the meal. The kitchen draws on Bahian culinary lineage.
Restaurante Mistura Contorno is a Dois de Julho Bahian seafood fusion restaurant with an extensive wine list. It pairs Bahian seafood with Mediterranean flavours and looks out over the marina. The room combines waterfront views with a contemporary seafood menu.
Rio Vermelho carries the most venues in our guide, with 5. The list there includes Manga, Casa Castanho, Restaurante Casa de Tereza, and Acarajé da Dinha. Dois de Julho follows with 2 venues, and the other neighbourhoods each appear once.
Salvador has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Origem serves a tasting menu of modern Bahian fine dining with an extensive wine list. Its awards include The Best Chef Two Knives (2025).
Origem has an extensive wine list. Restaurante Chez Bernard and Restaurante Mistura Contorno in Dois de Julho, Amado in Comércio, and Alfredo'Ro in Ondina also have extensive wine lists. Each has a wine list. Origem serves a tasting menu, while Restaurante Chez Bernard serves classic French cooking à la carte.
Purgatório in Pituba stands out for drinks. It is a speakeasy-style bar with craft cocktails and classic cocktails, and it appears in Top 500 Bars at #476 in 2025 and #435 in 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Salvador.
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Origem's 15-course tasting menu moves through Bahia's five distinct biomes, translating the state's forests, coastline, and sertão into technique-driven plates by chef Fabrício Lemos and pâtissier Lisiane Arouca. Situated in Pituba, Salvador, it occupies a serious position in Brazil's contemporary fine dining conversation, regional in conviction, precise in execution.
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In Rio Vermelho, one of Salvador's most characterful neighbourhoods, Manga operates as a serious tasting-menu address where Bahian terroir meets globally informed technique. Chefs Katrin and Dante Bassi build seasonal menus around local ingredients, placing the restaurant in a small but growing tier of creative Brazilian fine dining that connects Salvador's larder to contemporary cooking.
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Positioned in the Barra district of Salvador, Alfredo'Ro operates in one of Brazil's most ingredient-rich coastal cities, where the Atlantic and the sertão together define what ends up on the plate. Salvador's dining scene has moved steadily toward source-conscious cooking over the past decade, and Alfredo'Ro sits within that current, a restaurant worth tracking for anyone serious about Bahian food in its Atlantic Tower context.
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Amado sits along Salvador's Comércio waterfront, placing Bahian culinary tradition inside a setting that reads more cosmopolitan port than neighbourhood dining room. The kitchen draws on the African-rooted pantry that defines the city's food culture, from dendê oil and vatapá to fresh seafood pulled from the Baía de Todos os Santos. For visitors mapping premium dining in Salvador, it belongs in the same conversation as Manga and Casa Castanho.
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Boi Preto Prime: Brazilian churrascaria with Japanese influences, serving picanha and costelas de boi alongside craft cocktails in an upscale casual, lively room.
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Casa Castanho occupies a prominent address on Avenida Princesa Isabel in Barra, one of Salvador's most storied beachside neighbourhoods. It operates within a local dining scene shaped by Bahia's deep Afro-Brazilian culinary traditions, positioning it alongside a tier of Salvador restaurants where provenance and place matter as much as technique. For visitors mapping the city's table, it warrants attention in the same conversation as Amado and Manga.
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Restaurante Casa de Tereza sits in Rio Vermelho, Salvador's most culturally dense neighborhood, serving as a reference point for Bahian cuisine in a city where that tradition runs deep. The kitchen draws on the African-Brazilian culinary lineage that defines the region, placing it in conversation with the broader movement to formalize and preserve Bahian cooking at a serious table-service level.
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In Salvador's Centro Histórico, Restaurante Chez Bernard occupies a French-inflected register that sits apart from the city's dominant Afro-Bahian kitchen. The address on Rua Gamboa de Cima places it close to the colonial streetscape of Pelourinho, where European culinary references have filtered through Brazilian ingredients for decades. For visitors mapping Salvador's dining range, it offers a counterpoint worth understanding.
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Positioned in the Dois de Julho neighbourhood within the Cloc Marina Residence complex, Restaurante Mistura Contorno sits at the intersection of Salvador's waterfront urban fabric and its evolving contemporary dining scene. The address on Ladeira do Gabriel places it among a tier of Salvador restaurants where location does significant editorial work, framing the meal within the city's layered geography before a dish arrives.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Salvador.
Salvador, Brazil
Fasano Salvador holds a Michelin Key distinction for 2025, placing it at the summit of Salvador's recognised hotel tier. Located on Praça Castro Alves in the historic Centro, the property brings the Fasano group's established design discipline to Bahia's most architecturally layered city. For travellers with an interest in both urban heritage and considered hospitality, it occupies a distinct position in Brazil's northeast.
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Salvador's Centro Histórico has few addresses that carry genuine historical weight alongside contemporary comfort. The Fera Palace Hotel, a 1934 Art Deco property across 81 rooms, has hosted figures from Carmen Miranda to Orson Welles and continues to position itself as the neighbourhood's most architecturally coherent luxury option, with rates from $370 per night and a rooftop pool deck facing Todos os Santos Bay.
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Aram Yami Hotel occupies a historic address in Salvador's Santo Antônio district, earning MICHELIN Selected recognition in the 2025 hotel guide. The property sits within the colonial fabric of one of Brazil's oldest neighbourhoods, where the architecture and the pace of the street are as much a part of the stay as the rooms themselves. For travellers who read Salvador as more than a beach stop, this is a useful base.
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A Michelin Selected boutique hotel on Salvador's historic Barra waterfront, Zank by Toque Hotel positions itself in the smaller, design-conscious tier of Bahian accommodation. The address on Rua Almirante Barroso places guests within reach of the city's colonial centre and Atlantic-facing promenade, with a culinary programme that connects to the broader Toque hospitality brand.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Salvador.
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Ranked #476 in the 2025 Top 500 Bars, Purgatório operates in Salvador's Pituba neighbourhood as one of the few Brazilian bars outside São Paulo or Rio to reach international recognition at this level. The name nods at something between arrival and anticipation, and the atmosphere carries that tension through its design and programming. A reference point for serious drinking in Bahia.
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On the edge of Rio Vermelho in Salvador, Acarajé da Dinha is among the more referenced stops for Bahian street food in the city. The acarajé tradition it represents, rooted in Candomblé ritual and West African culinary inheritance, sits at the centre of Salvador's food identity. Come for the fried bean fritters, stay for what they say about the culture around them.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Salvador.
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