Píri Píri

A landmark in Maputo, Piri Piri has been offering the city’s iconic grilled piri-piri chicken for decades, including during the country’s civil war. The juicy chicken is grilled to perfection and the piri piri sauce is excellent in its simplicity. Always busy, the restaurant is unpretentious and great value for money.

If it's that iconic grilled chicken you're after, head for the aptly named Piri Piri (Avenida 24 de Julho), an unpretentious restaurant off Avenida Julius Nyerere, which has simple metal tables and chairs on the pavement and a charming atmosphere inside. Or try Escorpião (Recinto de Feira Popular), a shabby, colourful and charming restaurant inside the old feira popular (fun fair). Escorpião is one of the oldest restaurants in the city, and long, lazy, late-night dinners can be rounded off with some good cheer at one of the local shebeens inside the feira.

Peri Peri is one of the most historic restaurants in Maputo, having been established more than 50 years ago and so it’s no surprise that one of its iconic dishes is the Frango a Piri-Piri, surely a must for meat eaters who visit here. Inside the vibrant atmosphere of a basic interior, there’s a host of choices to order from including a vast array of seafood dishes and popular chicken or prawn curries. With a wide choice of quality beers, it’s also a perfect choice for watching the world pass by from the seating on the street too.

If you need a break from grilled prawns and chicken, try Bel Piatto, an Italian restaurant that has homemade pastas as good as any you’d have in Italy, as well as an extensive, well-selected wine list. Choose from creamy risottos, ravioli or gnocchi and traditional Italian sauces, some with local ingredients, such as panzerotti with Parmesan and cashew nut sauce, and Portuguese-inspired twists such as inspired “pecador do Diabo” – tomato, garlic, onion, bacon, cream and spicy piri piri.

Un jalon à Maputo,  href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Piri-Piri/140496502671998?fref=ps_result" a offert pendant des décennies l’emblématique poulet grillé de la ville, y compris pendant la guerre civile du pays. Le poulet juteux est grillé à la perfection et la sauce accompagnée-émeute est excellente dans sa simplicité. Toujours occupé, le restaurant est un peu prétentieux et une grande valeur pour l'argent.

Piri Piri provides its diners with delicious food, good service and affordability, all of which ensure a memorable dining experience. Like its name suggests, this well-priced Portuguese restaurant is famed across the board in Maputo for its sinfully good piri piri chicken. It’s also the perfect spot for locals and tourists to mingle as they enjoy good food together.

Serving Maputo’s best iconic grilled peri-peri chicken for decades, since during the country’s vicious civil war. The juicy chicken is grilled to perfection and the peri-peri sauce is excellent in its simplicity. Always busy, the restaurant is unpretentious and great value for money.

It is known for its grilled chicken christened ‘piri piri’ chicken. You can also try seafood such as Crab matapa prepared at this restaurant opened during the colonial era.

Enjoy breakfast at Piri Piri before joining this tour that covers significant historic sites in Maputo along with tasting some local beers.

Famous, and in a posh location; the chicken also costs twice as much as it would from a takeout joint.