Dona Lucinha II - Rua Sergipe, 811 - (31) 3261-5930 (dl2@uol.com.br). Mo-Fri 12-3pm and 8pm-midnight. Sat 12-5pm and 8pm-midnight. Sun 12-5pm. R$ 19-27.

If your food tastes lean toward brown rice and tofu, try Bem Natural. This is both a snack bar with tuna and chicken sandwiches on whole wheat, and a por quilo buffet with stuffed tomatoes, vegetarian feijoada, and brown rice. There are four locations in BH:

Av. Afonso Pena 941, Centro - (31) 3224-1385
Augusto de Lima 1652, Barro Preto - (31) 3295-2325
Bernardo Guimarães 166, Funcionários - (31) 3284-6680
Tomé de Souza 947, Savassi - (31) 3261-5676, open weekends and holidays too

Drink

People from BH are famous for their love of bars. The central Savassi neighborhood, also known as Funcionarios (Sergipe, Antônio de Albuquerque and Pernambuco streets) has dozens of bars.Also,at São Lucas neighborhood, at Contorno Avenue, you will find "Sociedad Pub", the best Pub in town (Contorno Av.,n.3849).Actually, the city is widely known (although without any confirmation) as the city with most bars per capita in the world.

You may know it only as an ingredient in vitamin pills, but here you can get fresh acerola puree in orange juice squeezed before your eyes. This is called a vitamina with good reason. The fruit is perishable and is stored on ice. Other fruits prepared the same way are abacaxi (pineapple), açaí, banana, and mamão (papaya).