We offer breakfast, cafeteria and ice cream.
At 654 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, on the main street through the centre of Pipa, there's a counter built around fruit from a different Brazilian biome: the cerrado of Goiás. Pequi, cagaita, buriti, baru. The house is a Goiás brand with outlets in every state in the country, and here the flavours follow each fruit's season, so today's counter isn't next week's.
| Type | Ice cream shop · ice cream, paletas and açaí |
|---|---|
| Area | Pipa centre, Av. Baía dos Golfinhos |
| Address | Av. Baía dos Golfinhos 654, Praia da Pipa, Tibau do Sul (RN) |
| Hours | Monday to Thursday 10:00–23:30 · Friday to Sunday 10:00–00:00 |
| Contact | +55 84 98172-1010 |
| Website | frutosdegoias.com.br |
The cerrado is the point of this shop, and not as decoration: it's where the fruit comes from. It's the savanna biome of central Brazil, with a pantry of its own that you won't find in other regions of the country. That's where pequi comes from, intense and unmistakable; buriti, which makes a soft, creamy ice cream; cagaita; and baru, a nut that yields an ice cream high in protein and healthy fats.
If you've flown in from Europe or from Buenos Aires, this is the interesting part: these are fruits not found in other regions of Brazil, and they aren't the coastal ones either. The cerrado flavours rotate with each fruit's season, so what's in the tubs depends on when you walk in. Which is exactly what's worth asking before you do.
The house works three product families: ice cream by the cup and the sundae, paletas on a stick, and açaí. Across the three, the brand lists more than 150 product variations — a high number, and the reason the counter looks different from one visit to the next: fruit flavours, cream classics and house combinations all share the same display.
This is the line worth knowing about if you eat around restrictions. The Zero Added Sugar line runs six flavours: Ninho Trufado, Belgian Chocolate, Lattissimo, strawberry, cajá-manga and grape. Three of them — strawberry, cajá-manga and grape — are Triple Zero: no added sugar, no fat, no lactose. That combination is uncommon in a beach ice cream shop, where the usual choice is between skipping dessert and having it anyway.
The line is served a specific way: you serve yourself and build your own cup. It isn't a fixed menu, it's a counter you combine from.
The brand also runs a protein paleta line with 8 grams of protein per stick and no added sugar, in three flavours: Cookies'n Cream, Belgian Chocolate and strawberry with fruit pieces. It works for anyone coming out of the water hungry who doesn't want dessert to become the meal.
The shop's own menu sorts ice cream by number of flavours: you order one, two or three to eat in, and four or six in the tubs to take away. That is the family format, the one that goes up to the apartment or the guesthouse for after dinner.
The ice pops have a breakdown of their own: traditional, premium, no added sugar, paletas and a kids line. Of the flavours visible in the house display case, pistachio, açaí, coffee, cupuaçu, ninho with plum and plain cream are confirmed.
Beyond the ice cream there is a block of plated desserts. The banana split is the biggest — it arrives with whipped cream, sauce and a cherry on top — and beside it sit the petit gateau and the brownie gateau, both with ice cream or without, as you prefer. This is the part of the menu for a table that stays a while, not for the cone you walk off with.
The açaí comes with toppings of your choosing — granola, honey, powdered milk and others — so it works equally as a dessert or as the plate that stands in for lunch on a hot day.
The house keeps a small, clearly defined coffee bar, all of it alcohol-free: coffee frappuccino, coffee frappomenta — the mint version — affogato and super mocha. The affogato is the one that explains the place best: espresso taken with the ice cream in it, and the answer to mid-afternoon when it is too hot for a straight coffee.
The milkshakes come in two sizes, 300 and 500 ml. On an avenue you walk end to end, the large one lasts the whole way back; the small one is for sitting down with a dessert.
The shopfront is built from wooden logs with the house logo lit above it, which is what you see from the avenue once the sun has gone. Inside, the display case with the tubs is in full view: you choose the day's flavours by looking at them rather than reading a list, and that is part of how the place works when the menu turns with the fruit.
There are wooden tables to sit at, with the house napkin holder on the top, and the cone comes out in a paper sleeve with the brand printed on it. This is an avenue shop: you come in, choose and move on, or take a table for a short while.
It opens at 10am, seven days a week, which covers a slot almost nothing in Pipa does: a midday paleta before heading down to the sand is possible here and in few other places. Monday to Thursday it closes at 23:30; Friday, Saturday and Sunday it stays open to midnight.
The practical fact is that it doesn't close on any day of the week. In the village plenty of kitchens rest one or two days, and anyone arriving on a Monday or a Wednesday meets shutters. Not here. The other good moment is the walk back from the beach at dusk, when the avenue fills up and the day's flavours are already set out.
It sits at 654 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, the main avenue of central Pipa. It's the street everyone walks, so there's no detour involved: you can reach it on foot from anywhere in the village and from the path down to Praia da Pipa.
On foot it's a natural stop on the way back from the sea into the centre. If you're arriving from Natal or the airport, look at the transfer options first.
For the curious traveller who wants to taste Brazilian fruit they've never had: pequi, buriti and baru belong to the cerrado, not the coast, and this is the counter where they show up.
For anyone eating without sugar or without lactose: the Zero line carries six flavours and three of them are Triple Zero — no added sugar, no fat, no lactose.
And for the family walking back from the beach mid-afternoon who needs something quick on the main avenue, with the shop open from 10am and until midnight at weekends.
Yes. Seven days a week from 10:00. It closes at 23:30 Monday to Thursday and at midnight on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Its raw material. The ice cream and paletas are made with selected cerrado fruit: pequi, cagaita, buriti and baru, which aren't found in other regions of Brazil.
Yes. The Zero Added Sugar line has six flavours: Ninho Trufado, Belgian Chocolate, Lattissimo, strawberry, cajá-manga and grape.
Yes. Strawberry, cajá-manga and grape are Triple Zero: no added sugar, no fat and no lactose.
Yes. Açaí is one of the house's three product families, alongside ice cream and paletas, and it is served with toppings of your choosing: granola, honey, powdered milk and others.
Yes: 8 grams of protein per stick and no added sugar, in Cookies'n Cream, Belgian Chocolate and strawberry with fruit pieces.
The brand lists more than 150 product variations across ice cream, paletas and açaí. The cerrado flavours rotate with each fruit's season, so it's worth asking what's on today. Ice cream is ordered as one, two or three flavours to eat in, and as four or six in the takeaway tubs.
At 654 Avenida Baía dos Golfinhos, on the main avenue through central Pipa, in Tibau do Sul.
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