'Ponto' as I like to call this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant is a major highlight in both Jen's and my diets. After hours of hard work windsurfing, we are usually very ravenous and need a quick fulfilling meal. Because of its inexpensiveness, quantity and quality Ponto has become our go to place. I'd call it equivalent to any fast food restaurants back home, except it's moderately healthy, only 100 meters away from our Pousada and it is delicious. If one of us gets off the water before the other and isn't in our room, it's a safe bet to guess we're at Ponto enjoying either a picadinho (an authentic Brazilian ground beef and vegetable stew, my favourite choice) or a molho do frango (marinated chicken, Jen's usual pick). Both meals are of course accompanied with the usual rice, beans, salad, spaghetti and hot sauce.
The amazing Ponto meals are cooked in a 10' x 5' box of a cooking area surrounded by fluorescent green walls. The tables are in the middle of the busiest alley, so there plenty of people watching and talking going on. You can't eat an entire meal without someone you know joining you for a bit. Jen and I had a shock the past week when Ponto suddenly and without warning was closed. Jen heard through the grapevine that it was closed for renovations, so we half thought we'd never eat there again. It took a whole week of trying to find a new favourite spot before Ponto re-opened for business! That was probably the best meal ever, and since the renos, we have eaten there every day.
Ponto also has the best, most refreshing maracujá juice for only R$1. In fact, writing this has made me rather hungry...
Happy birthday Grandma C!
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