Grilled meats, hamburgers and pizzas
Rua das Gameleiras begins at number 25 with a grill: the round Porca Vaca sign sits on the roof, the front is open and you can see the tables from the pavement. The house calls itself a steakhouse and a ristobar, and it delivers on both: 250-gram individual cuts, sharing boards, and the coals working from six in the evening until midnight.
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| Area | Rua das Gameleiras, Praia da Pipa |
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| Address | R. das Gameleiras 25, Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Opening hours | Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6pm–midnight · closed Tuesday |
| Kitchen | Grill, with pizza and fried plates on the same menu |
| Meals | Dinner and dessert |
| Service | Dining room with waiter service; takeaway and delivery |
| Atmosphere | Casual, lively and relaxed |
| Facilities | Bathroom and bar on site |
| Bookings | Accepted |
| With children | Good for kids, with high chairs |
| Accessibility | Wheelchair-accessible bathroom and parking |
| Delivery | Own page on iFood |
| Contact | +55 11 99944-5474 · @porcavacasteakhouse |
There are seven, and they all follow one rule the menu prints above the list: a plate for one person, 250 grams, and every board and individual cut comes with rice, farofa, vinaigrette and chimichurri. That takes the arithmetic out of the side dishes: the cut arrives complete.
The list moves from beef to pork without apology: filet mignon, picanha, bife ancho, and on the pork side costela suína and picanha suína, the cut that supplies half the name of the house. Boned chicken thigh and carne de sol with boiled cassava round it off, the latter being the regional plate on the menu.
The house's own menu adds fraldinha among its top sellers, and sharing boards are the other way to order: in the house photos a round griddle arrives at the table with sliced meat, potato, grilled pineapple, tomato and onion.
Two salads: Caesar, with chicken, lettuce, tomato, grated parmesan and crisp croutons, and a mixed one with lettuce, tomato, carrot and onion. Sides on their own are rice, fries, garlic bread, cassava and beans, to add to a board being split between several people.
The menu keeps a section of its own: grelhados veggie, a mix of grilled vegetables. It is a plate rather than a garnish, which lets you seat someone who came for the meat and someone who does not eat it at the same table.
The house is a ristobar as well as a steakhouse, and the menu opens out: there is pizza — the photos show one with pepperoni, shredded chicken and catupiry — burgers served on a round board with a basket of fries, ebi furai (breaded prawns) and fries as a starter. It is the list that settles a table where not everyone wants 250 grams of beef.
There is a bar on site, and cocktails are part of the table: the caipirinha sits among the top sellers on the house menu, and the photos show it served with a slice of lime beside the house logo stuck to the table. Around it, alcoholic drinks, spirits, beer, cocktails and wine.
Wine by the glass is the natural partner for a thick cut, and beer for a shared board. Coffee is on the menu too, and dessert to close.
Since the kitchen runs until midnight, last orders come late: this is one of the houses in Pipa that keeps a long table going.
The house calls itself casual, lively and relaxed. The dining room is wide and sits under an exposed tiled roof, with a lit Porca Vaca sign over the kitchen pass, blackboards on the walls, wooden tables and high stools. It is a grill room: you eat with your hands busy and the table organises itself around the board.
From the street, your landmark is the round sign with the pig and the cow on the roof, with the front open to Rua das Gameleiras. The same logo turns up on the flags stuck into the burgers and on the stickers on the table.
There is a bathroom and a bar on site, with waiter service at the tables.
Porca Vaca opens six days a week, always 6pm to midnight: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tuesday it is closed, and that is the fact to write down before planning a week.
There is no lunch here. The coals start at six in the evening, so this house belongs to the night. If you come off the beach hungry at midday, this is not the answer.
The easiest window for a table runs from 6 to 7.30pm: the grill has just found its rhythm and the room is loose. From 8 to 10pm is the peak, and that is when a booking earns its keep, especially for a group ordering a board. After 10pm the pace drops and the room opens up again.
And the fact that sets it apart from the other meat houses in the village: the kitchen runs to midnight. For a late dinner after a long day out, or for a table that only sets off at eleven, food is still being served.
The house sits at Rua das Gameleiras 25, metres from central Pipa and a few minutes on foot from the path down to Praia da Pipa. The whole village is walkable, so staying centrally means you will not need transport.
If you drive, know that spaces are scarce in this stretch: wheelchair-accessible parking is declared, but the street fills in high season and the sensible move is to leave the car a couple of blocks back. Arriving from Natal, look at the transfer options.
One detail that avoids confusion: the same house keeps a second address, Porca Vaca Beach, at Largo São Sebastião 13, on the same phone number and a different timetable. This page is the Gameleiras 25 one, the evening grill. When you book, say which of the two you mean.
The house is listed as good for kids and has high chairs. The menu helps more than you would expect from a grill: pizza, burgers, fries and garlic bread all work on their own for a table with children, and the cuts are shared.
On accessibility, a wheelchair-accessible bathroom and parking are declared. An accessible entrance and accessible seating are not, so it is worth mentioning when you book so they can seat you where it works best.
The table that came for meat and wants the plate settled: 250 grams a head, with rice, farofa, vinaigrette and chimichurri included, and no side dishes to assemble separately.
The group that orders a board and divides it: the round griddle reaches the table with the meat already sliced and everyone eats from the same place.
The mixed table, where somebody is not eating meat: grilled vegetables, pizza, ebi furai and burgers all live on the same menu.
And anyone who eats late: the kitchen runs to midnight on all six days it opens.
No. Tuesday is its closing day. It opens the other six — Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday — from 6pm to midnight.
6pm to midnight on the six days it opens. The kitchen does not serve lunch.
The menu prints it above the list: every board and every individual cut comes with rice, farofa, vinaigrette and chimichurri. An individual cut is 250 grams and is built for one person.
Yes. The menu keeps a vegetarian section with grelhados veggie, a mix of grilled vegetables, and there are also pizza, ebi furai, salads and side dishes.
The house takes bookings and they are worth using between 8 and 10pm, when it fills. Arrange it on WhatsApp at +55 11 99944-5474.
There are two addresses belonging to the same house: this one, at Rua das Gameleiras 25, and Porca Vaca Beach at Largo São Sebastião 13, on the same phone number and a different timetable. Say which one you mean when you book.
Yes, it is listed as good for kids and has high chairs, a bathroom and waiter service at the tables.
Yes: takeaway, delivery and its own page on iFood.
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