Kebra Cabana (Santiago)

Cape Verde

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Kebra Cabana (Santiago)

Kebra Cabana is one of the coolest restaurant-bars in Praia, with a prime location by the beach and great food. Young, fashionable people wearing their finest threads gather at Kebra Cabana in droves to groove to the weekly live music.

Dining

Seafood abounds in Cape Verde, with delicacies like grilled lobster, tuna, and octopus featuring on most menus, as well as Creole and Portuguese specialities. The most representative typical dish is the 'cachupa' (pictured above), a filling mix of maize, beans, sweet potato and chicken or meat. The larger towns offer an increasingly wide variety of restaurants and cuisines, but on smaller islands, many places will be limited to the lunch of the day ('prato do dia'), which usually includes the freshest catches. Here are the top places to eat while in Cape Verde: