Travel Reference
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EATING AND DRINKING
The days of kitsch German restaurants are long gone in Joinville, with a growing range of
international bars and
restaurants
designed to appeal to its upwardly mobile citizens and the hordes of Brazilian conference attendees. The
best
food court
is in the Shopping Mueller mall at Rua Senador Felipe Schmidt 235 (shops: Mon-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun
2-8pm; food court Tues-Sun 10am-10pm;
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muellerjoinville.com.br); it's clean and relatively good value, with plenty of
Asian and Brazilian food and the usual fast-food options.
9
Churrascaria Chimarrão
Rua Visconde de Taunay 343
T
47 3027 7632,
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chimarraochurrascaria.com.br.
Cosy
Brazilian steakhouse offering all the usual barbecue cuts
and meats, as well as a buffet (around R$50) of pastas and
salads, and a range of wines.
Tues-Sat 11.30am-2.30pm
& 7-10.30pm, Sun 7-10.30pm.
★
a
uent ladies, but the cakes and coffee are top-notch at
any time.
Mon-Sat 8am-8pm.
Doceria São José
Av Getúlio Vargas 328
T
47 3433
2626,
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doceriasaojose.com.br.
Local bakery and café
established in 1984, which is popular for coffee and cakes
(from 85¢). Another branch at Vargas 378 offers an excellent
café colonial
(Wed-Sun 3.30-9pm), and there is also a
branch at 1/F Shopping Mueller (see above).
Mon-Fri
6am-10pm, Sat 7am-8.30pm, Sun 7am-9pm.
Zum Schlauch
Rua Visconde de Taunay 555
T
47 3422
2909.
Fun German-themed restaurant, with good draught
beer and a hearty buffet R$26.90 (à la carte mains
R$35-45) plus live music in the evenings (local pop, rock
and folk).
Daily 11am-12.30am.
Delicatesse Viktoria
Rua Felipe Schmidt 400
T
47 3422 0570,
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delicatesseviktoria.com.br.
This
small café is a real treat, operated by an Austro-Brazilian
family since 1990 (the friendly Viktoria herself was born in
Salzburg), and maintaining the city's Germanic traditions.
The main event here is
café colonial
(an afternoon tea
buffet of glorious cakes, savoury pies, tea, juice and coffee;
3.30-5.30pm R$31.50), regularly attracting the city's most
Ilha de São Francisco
Just 45km east of Joinville lies the
Ilha de São Francisco
, a low-lying island separated
from the mainland by a narrow strait spanned by a causeway. As Joinville's port and the
site of a major Petrobras oil refinery, São Francisco may seem like a place to avoid, but
both the port and refinery keep a discreet distance from the old colonial town of
São
Francisco do Sul
, and the island's enticing beaches. French sailors first visited the island
as early as 1504, though the town wasn't established by the Portuguese until the middle
of the following century.
São Francisco do Sul
One of the oldest settlements in the south, the gorgeous
centro histórico
of
SÃO
FRANCISCO DO SUL
(aka "São Chico") is separated from the main commercial part
of town by a ring of small hills, giving it a relaxed, languid air unusual in this part of
Brazil - it's also one of the few places in Santa Catarina where a concentration of
colonial and nineteenth-century buildings survives. Though it's certainly geared up for
tourists (and, increasingly, cruise-ship day-trippers), it retains an authentic, old-world
feel. Dominating the city's skyline is the huge yellow-and-white
Igreja Matriz Nossa
Senhora da Graça
, the main church, originally built in 1699 by indigenous slaves, but
completely reconstructed in 1926.
The waterfront
The São Francisco
waterfront
(Rua Babitonga) is quite short and lined by colourful
colonial buildings; the tiny
Mercado Municipal
, opened in 1900, is an odd sort of place,
with a couple of stalls, a café and a handful of ageing domino players inside. Don't miss
the Art Deco
Texaco petrol station
(Rua Almirante Moraes Rego 1), built in 1937 and
still operating today.
Museu Nacional do Mar
Rua Manoel Lourenço de Andrade • Tues-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat & Sun 10am-6pm • R$5 •
T
47 3481 2155,
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museunacionaldomar.com.br
São Francisco's pride and joy is the
Museu Nacional do Mar
, dedicated to the history of
ocean travel and the people who make their living from the sea, with an emphasis on
