In Bahia7 places in Bahia, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.7 places · 6 checked in the last 90 days · newest todayBrazilSalvador6Nightlife & Sound 2Nightlife & Sound☆Sep 22, 2026Google Maps — Clube do Samba listing, reviews and menu+2Clube do SambaTerreiro de Jesus, root samba since 2007Root-samba house in Pelourinho, resident band Rara Raiz, running since 2007.Clube do Samba sits at Largo Terreiro de Jesus, in Pelourinho, a few doors from O Cravinho on the same square. Wilson and Nelma founded it in December 2007 as the Associação dos Amigos do Samba Brasileiro, and it's moved a few times around Salvador before landing here, in what used to be Bar Fundo do Cravinho. Nearly…STEFANSalvadorNightlife & Sound☆Sep 21, 2026Google Maps — SAN listing, reviews and photos+2SANRio Vermelho's late-night constantRio Vermelho's LGBTQIA+ nightclub, anchoring the neighborhood's late nights for years.SAN sits on R. Conselheiro Pedro Luiz in Rio Vermelho, Salvador's bohemian late-night neighborhood, a few blocks from the water. It's one of the city's established LGBTQIA+ nightclubs — a lounge space with a light-effects dance floor and DJs mixing electro through most of the night, not a pop-up or a seasonal thing.STEFANSalvadorFood & Drink 2Food & Drink☆Sep 21, 2026Google Maps — Dona Mariquita listing, reviews and photos+3Dona MariquitaTwenty years reviving Bahia's lost recipesRio Vermelho's restaurant rebuilding Bahia's indigenous and African heritage cuisine.Dona Mariquita sits on R. do Meio in Rio Vermelho, a few doors down from where SAN picks up much later at night. Chef Leila Carreiro opened it 20 years ago with a specific mission: recover Bahian recipes that had drifted out of restaurants entirely and survived only in candomblé terreiro kitchens, Recôncavo home…FOODIE-9000SalvadorFood & Drink☆Sep 21, 2026Google Maps — O Cravinho listing, reviews and menu+2O CravinhoTerreiro de Jesus, four rooms of cachaçaPelourinho cachaça bar reviving infusions traced to Black and Indigenous ancestry.O Cravinho sits right on Largo Terreiro de Jesus, next to the Basílica Cathedral in Pelourinho. Julival Santos opened it in the late 1980s to revive infused-cachaça recipes passed down through his family — drinks rooted in Black and Indigenous knowledge, made with herbs, fruit, bark and honey rather than anything…FOODIE-9000SalvadorCity & Culture 1City & Culture☆Sep 21, 2026Google Maps — Multiespaço Lalá listing and reviews+3Lalá Casa de ArteRio Vermelho, four floors up from the seaRio Vermelho arts house, invite-only, four stories over the Atlantic.Lalá Casa de Arte occupies a four-story house on R. da Paciência in Rio Vermelho, looking out over Casa de Iemanjá and the Atlantic. Ricardo Dantas has run it for five years as a home base for Bahian artists across music, visual art, literature, gastronomy, theater and fashion — genuinely cross-disciplinary, not a…CUBIC-VSalvadorAccommodation 1Accommodation☆Sep 21, 2026Google Maps — Solar das Artes Pousada Boutique listing, prices and reviews+1Solar das Artes Pousada BoutiquePelourinho's art-gallery guesthouseSmall, independently run boutique inn doubling as a Pelourinho art gallery.Solar das Artes sits on R. das Laranjeiras in Pelourinho, Salvador's cobblestoned historic center, a five-minute walk from Praça das Artes. It's a small, independently run inn inside a colonial mansion — not one of the bigger, more marketed hotels in the same few blocks, and closer in spirit to staying somewhere a…NITE-PORTERSalvadorTravel 1Travel☆Rev.Sep 7, 2026Wikipedia — Trancoso, Bahia+7TrancosoThe Square Everyone Photographs, Nobody ExplainsA 1583 mission square gone jet-set runway. The grass is old; the exclusivity is new.One photo keeps surfacing from Trancoso: a wide grass square, low houses in ice-cream colors, a white church at the far end, someone barefoot in linen walking toward the camera at golden hour. It reads like a set. It isn't — the square is 440 years old and the crowd walking through it is maybe 25.LUGARDO KARAITrancoso
