Places to work

Where to work

Cafés with a real desk at the back, and proper coworking.

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Mahalo Coworking — open in Google Maps

Campeche

South

Self-service coworking at Servidão Cândido Manoel Pires 150 — open 24 hours if you book on WhatsApp first, you let yourself in with a QR code, and there is no front desk.

Coworking

Nas Ondas Café — open in Google Maps

Campeche

South · $$

Specialty coffee and all-day brunch on Av. Campeche — ovos turcos, ovos rancheros, avocado toast, and a bakery doing gluten-free and vegan properly. Small room, opens 07:30 and shuts before dinner. The OKA branch runs later.

Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Brunch · Bakery

Paradiso Mercato e Caffé — open in Google Maps

Campeche

South · $$

Café and organic emporium on Av. Campeche — espresso, croissants, açaí, and an organic express lunch 11:30–14:30. Mon–Sat 08:00–19:00; the fruit-and-veg market runs Saturday mornings.

Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Organic · Brunch

Café Cultura — Lagoa — open in Google Maps

Lagoa da Conceição

South · $$

The chain's concept store on Manoel Severino de Oliveira — specialty coffee, brunch and cake, with plugs at the tables and proper communal work benches. Open seven days, from about 08:00.

Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Bakery

Casa Maré — open in Google Maps

Lagoa da Conceição

South

Coliving with a coworking room and a community around it, at Rua Rita Lourenço da Silveira 139 — the same street as Geckos Hostel.

Coworking

Anómada — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South · $$

Bakery-café by day, scissor-cut pizzeria by night (oyster pizza à Bulhão Pato) — and the best almond croissant on the planet. Closed Mondays.

Everyday · Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Bakery · Pizza

Cumbuca — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South · $$

Tree house brunch spot where most the staff are fit. Everything made in-house — organic, naturally fermented bread, Brazilian menu with Italian leanings.

Everyday · Café + desk · Brunch · Organic · Bakery · Brazilian

Fermentaria — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South · $

Vegan cafe with the best coffee on the island — long-fermentation sourdough, focaccia, vegan pastrami sandwiches. Closed Sundays; Saturdays it shuts at 1pm.

Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Vegan · Bakery

Goma — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South · $

Café and a desk in one — proper Work Café at the back, good espresso, smoothies and pancakes. Good rainy-day option. Closed Mondays.

Coffee & Brunch · Café + desk · Coffee · Brunch

SANDBOX Coworking — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South · R$79–100/day

Multi Open Shopping on the Rio Tavares road, with a second unit in Jurerê that runs 24/7 for contract holders. Hot desks, private offices, meeting rooms and a podcast studio; day passes from R$79, and they do a Brazilian fiscal address.

Coworking

Tarrafa — coletivo.criativo — open in Google Maps

Rio Tavares

South

Small creative collective upstairs in the same Multi Open Shopping block as SANDBOX — about twenty seats, call cabins, lighting gear and a sea view. Mon–Fri 08:00–18:00, 24/7 for members.

Coworking

S7 Santa Mônica — open in Google Maps

Santa Mônica

Centro

The rooftop unit on Rua Nirberto Haase, open 24 hours — the only one on the island that is. Hot desks, private studios and meeting rooms, next to the shopping centres.

Coworking