Lovers of gastronomy will feel right at home in the Chapada Diamantina. With a unique local cuisine, the restaurants offer foods with ingredients like cactus (cortado de palma), green plantain bananas with sun-dried meat (godó de banana verde com carne de sol), green jack fruit stew in palm oil (moqueca de jaca verde), jerked beef (carne seca), country chicken (galinha caipira), diamond miner’s rice (arroz de garimpeiro), along with many choices of international cuisine. The main tourist cities like Andaraí, Iraquara, Lençóis, Mucugê and Capão Valley (Palmeiras) have a variety of charming restaurants, cafés, snack bars, taverns and bars. At the end of every year, a gastronomy festival brings together all the best recipes, allowing both the locals and visitors to savor the delights.