Restaurants in Rio de Janeiro

We have collected a list of the best restaurants in Rio de Janeiro, and are sorted by neighborhood.

Restaurants in Copacabana

Amir

Site: www.amirrestaurante.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Ronald de Carvalho ,55 - loja C
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22021-020
Phone: 2275-5596 and (21) 2275-4488
Open Hours: 12h/0h

The mysterious smells that comes from the kitchen fill the room, where Persians rugs, candles and narguiles make an universe full of the Arabian exotism in the heart of Copacabana. The dishes created by Nicolas and Ingrid Habre are yummy, with accessible prices and great flavour. The combined menu has “pasta de grão-de-bico” tempered with parsley and chives, coalhada seca, tabule or fatuche salads, miniquibe, miniesfiha, faláfel, charuto de folha de uva with rice and lamb meat, Rice with lentil, meat or chawarma cafta.” This last recipe is a special dish from the place. Kind of a barbecue made by the Arabians with cattle and lamb meat, cooked in flames for hours. Then it’s chopped into meat cubes. On Sundays and Saturdays, there´s a “cuscuz marroquino” that is also pretty good. The secret is in the cooking, with the meat’s broth. It appears in nine versions, one of them with lamb rib cuts.

Siri Mole

Site: www.sirimole.com.br
Price: $$$$ - acima de R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Francisco Otaviano ,50 
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22080-040
Phone: 2267-0894
Open Hours:12h/0h (seg. a partir das 19h)

The colored salmon has “fitinhas do Nosso Senhor do Bonfim” as decoration. They serve tipically “baiano” dishes. It starts with “acaraje” (R$ 9,56) or “caldo de sururu” (R$ 10,80). For the main meal, there are many options, but the bobó de camarão (R$ 80,00) is great. Another good one is moqueca de crab mole (R$ 82,45). On Saturdays, until 5 pm, there’s a buffet with many dishes like acarajé, caruru, vatapá, xinxim de galinha, fritada de codfish e moqueca de peixe (R$ 53,55). To start, try the cocadas (R$ 16,50).

Azul Marinho

Site: www.cozinhatipica.com.br
Price: $$ - de R$ 41,00 a R$ 60,00
Address: Avenida Francisco Bhering ,s/nº - (Hotel Arpoador Inn)
Neighborhood: Arpoador
Zip: 22080-050
Phone: 2513-5014
Open Hours:12h/0h (dom. até 23h)

With tables on Arpoador sidewalk, it’s the perfect place to watch the sunset. The moqueca can be made in four ways: à baiana (cilantro, coconut milk and dende oil), à capixaba (cilantro, urucum and olive oil), à moda do Pará (olive oil anddende oil) e à carioca (olive oil and banana), com shrimp and fish or shrimp, lobster, fish, octopus and squid. It’s served with rice, pirão and manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil. Try the shrimp with cheese, bacon and honey of engenho.

Copa Café

Price: $$$ - de R$ 61 a R$ 100,00
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,3056 - loja B
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22070-000
Phone: 2235-2947
Lugares:70
Open Hours:19h/2h

The environment with half light, decorated with old photos and old lamps, has distinct spaces for those who want a drink or to explore the paulistano menu from Cássio Machado. Modern recipes with classic bases and creative bossas are the strong point of the chef, that even beign in Sao Paulo, keeps the quality of the dishes. Don’t forget to try the lamb mini-hambúrguer with wine sauce and mint jam and the great steak tartare, served as canapés. The hadoque with butter sauce of turmeric and white wine with potato and lime is also part of the show, followed by tenras and smooth lamb rib cuts with cuscuz marroquino, grão-de-bico and star anise.

Le Pré Catelan

Price: $$$$ - acima de R$ 100,00
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,4240 - nível E, (Hotel Sofitel)
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22070-900
Phone: 2525-1160
Open Hours:19h30/23h30

The main door of Brazilian high gastronomy, the restaurant has the year’s chef in its kitchen. For ten years in the country, Roland Villard leads a great team which doesn’t make any mistake, starting from the cabbagert and passing through the coffee, a time when the costumers receive a tip of macarons to take home. The reception of the customers is in charge of the maitre Jean Pierre, in a room with modern decoration and a view to Copacabana beach. The tambaqui rib cuts grilled is perfect and it’s followed by a smooth pure, which seems more with a musse made of potato with thyme sauce, one of the best things ever made in the city. To finish the night in a best way, some snacks made by the great chef Dominique Guerín, can be tasted in a small board with delicious things that may be eaten for free.

Cipriani

Site: www.copacabanapalace.com.br
Price: $$$$ - acima de R$ 100,00
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,1702 - (Hotel Copacabana Palace)
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22021-001
Phone: 2545-8747
Open Hours:12h30/15h e 19h/0h (sex. e sáb. jantar até 1h; fecha dom.).

The alluring flowers in the entrace are a tip of what’s ahead. Among Italian silver silverware, crystal cups, linho towels and Dominique Jardy’s pictures, which shows the old Rio, the menu has the following sentence: “Please, we ask you not to use your mobiles inside the restaurant”. Classics brought from the main place, like carpaccio of meat and green fettuccine with ham are part of the dishes with other recipes made by the chef Francesco Carli. For example, the turnedô of filé mignon with black bean, manioc and jaboticaba sauce.

Capricciosa

Site: www.capricciosa.com.br
Price: $$ - de R$ 41,00 a R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Domingos Ferreira ,187
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22050-010
Phone: 2255-2598 and (21) 2255-1626
Open Hours:18h/2h (dom. a partir das 17h)

The secret is in the quality of the ingredients, imported from Italy: flour of seeds, made in special for the made of pizzas, no acid presence in the sauce, made with natural tomatoes, and mussarela de bufala, made in Sao Paulo’s countryside by an immigrant family with more than one century of experience in it. After passing the wood oven warmed up at 400 degrees, the pizzas disc with thin pasta are served with the most varied covers. They start at the classic margherita gourmet; the most wanted, with mussarela de búfala, tomatoes, pieces of parmigiano reggiano and basil, à imperiale, that joins burrata’s kind of mussarela with fresh mushrooms, parsley and garlic. The menu also has salads, focaccias, bruschettas, massas and an antipastos table where you can try mushrooms, big olives, egg-plant carpaccio and other great options from the best kitchens in the city.

Azumi

Price: $$$ - de R$ 61 a R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Ministro Viveiros de Castro ,127
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22021-010
Phone: 2541-4294
Open Hours:19h/0h (sex. e sáb. até 1h; fecha seg.)

The beautiful outside hides one of the best restaurants from this genre in the city. In conversations heard about employees and on TVs, the official language is Japanese. In the middle of this environment, the customer may find tradicional gastronomy suggestions. The sushis may have less usual fishes or sea food, like ovas de ouriço and cooked minioctopuss with sauce. Look for a place at the balcony in front of Jack Ueda. With a special view, enjoy his ability on preparing the kanitama (omelet of crab with sauce) and the yamaimo bainiku (cará minced with japonese plum ). For dessert, sweet beans.

Café e Bar Pavão Azul

Price: -
Address: Rua Hilário de Gouveia ,71 - lojas A e B
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22040-020
Phone: 2236-2381
Open Hours:12h/0h (sex. até 2h; dom. até 20h)

Located in a safe address, in front of the 12th police department, it has been first noticed in journalist Antonio Maria (1921-1964) chronicles. After sisters Bete and Vera Afonso became responsible for the family business, in 2002, it went back again to the news report. It deserves. With clean bathrooms, thanks to women presence in society, it offers delicious appetizers, among them the divines “pataniscas de codfish” (per unit). The fish dishes are pretty yummy too. The portions are for two people, and they can be shrimp risotto, octopus rice and sole fillet with fries and rice. Rounds of Brahma’s draft beer (draft beer glass) or Original’s beer (600 ml bottle) completes the great program.

Allegro Bistrô Musical

Site: www.modernsound.com.br/bistro.asp
Price: -
Address: Rua Barata Ribeiro ,502 - loja D
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22040-002
Phone: 2548-5005
Open Hours:12h/21h (sáb. até 20h; fecha dom.)

The right address of good music in a smooth environment with a neat acoustic. On the small stage, which gained life itself in the back of the Modern Sound store, have passed plenty of important names, among another, Maria Rita, Ana Carolina, Lenine and Ivan Lins. On big presentation days you need to get early to catch one of the few places. There are plenty of snacks. You can order the portion of “bolinho de grão de bico” (ten units), ordered with a cream of “grão de bico”, pickles and Arabian bread, or crabs. To drink, one hint is “Amigo allegro” (imported vodka, pineapple juice, mint licor and sugar). There are also beers: long neck, Bohemia, Heineken and Cerpa.

Adega Pérola

Price: - 

Address: Rua Siqueira Campos ,138 - loja A
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22031-070
Phone: 2255-9425
Open Hours:10h/0h (fecha dom.)

First opened by the Portuguese from Ilha da Madeira, it makes a lot of success with many appetizers since the times from Teatro Opinião, by the 60s, across the street. It doesn’t have appetizers like “testiculos de boi” and “joelho de porco” anymore, but still has a huge list of “salt“options. According to the employees there are seventy options. There’re not used to be cheap, but they’re worth the price. One of the place’s classics is the “rolmop”, the popular “Portuguese sushi”, twisted “sardinha marinada”. The octopus salad with vinaigrette and the “egg-plant calabresa” are also delicious. To drink, a Brahma draft beer.

Horse's Neck

Price: - 
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,4240 - nível E (Hotel Sofitel Rio)
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22070-900
Phone: 2525-1232
Open Hours:12h/2h

With a view to the beach and great live music, it’s also opened to people who are not registered in the hotel. Roland Villard, French chef of the well-known Le Pré Catelan, Sofitel restaurant, signs the menu. He created the “tapas (o trio)” with flavors that change day to day, board of cheese and the “surprise bread” with salad, fish and “poché” egg. The draft beer is Lokal (300 ml). Don’t forget to check the drinks menu. Two suggestions are the fresh kilimanjaro, two colored drink with vodka, peach liquor, orange juice, pineapple juice and grenadine, and the Brazilian horse’s neck, a mixture of Bourbon, guarana and lemon cover.

Clandestino Bar

Site: www.clandestinobar.com.br
Price: - 
Address: Rua Barata Ribeiro ,111 
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22011-001
Phone: 3209-0348
Open Hours:22h30/5h (fecha de dom. a ter.)

Foreigners, especially backpackers that are in the Stone of a Beach Hostel, which the place is next to, go there all the time, but nowadays 70% of the customers are “cariocas”. On the parties, the music is made by a DJ and goes from hip hop to rock. Among one set and another, you can drink a long neck beer from Itaipava Premium, Heineken, Sol and Stella Artois brands. When you come to choose your appetizer, you may consider ordering a nachos portion, with chilli beans, guacamole and parsley, and the mango chicken sandwich, with some fries.

Atlântico

Price: -
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,3880
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22070-001
Phone: 2513-2485
Open Hours:19h/4h

Since it opened its doors in 2007, it became one great option of program in front of the beach – this year, according to the votes of Veja Rio magazine, it almost surprised the big champion Bar Urca. It has a filled agenda with events and an interactive menu, made by Chef Cassio Machado, the same from Copa Café. Right at the door, a waiter presents you one of the place’s specials: fresh oysters (unity). The others are the champagnes that can be consumed with mollusk. There are seven labels from different countries. From Chandon Reserve Brut, you can order a bottle or a cup. Another interesting appetizer is “ovos de codorna poché”, with “ovas de peixe” and “olive oil trufado”, served on a spoon (five units), and the “palito de octopus”. 

Bar Luiz

Site: www.barluiz.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Atlântica ,s/nº - quiosque 10 (altura do Copacabana Palace)
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22021-000
Phone: 8226-4836
Open Hours:10h/0h

The draft beer at the beach filial is still Brahma. With a generous quantity, it costs R$ 5,00 (400 ml) and R$ 2,50 (200 ml). To start, you can order a portion of “bolinho de codfish” (R$ 28,00 with ten units). From the German recipes, you can choose between the kassler snack or the “joelho de porco” cooked or fried. Each one of them costs R$ 30,00 and, with more R$ 10,00 it can be with potato salad or fries.

Cervantes

Site: www.restaurantecervantes.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Prado Júnior ,335 - loja B
Neighborhood: Copacabana
Zip: 22011-040
Phone: 2275-6147 e (21) 2542-9287
Open Hours:12h/4h (sex. e sáb. até 6h; dom. até 3h; fecha seg.)

A right address to eat at night. The famous and big sandwiches are celebrated by the cariocas since when the place was a simple store, 53 years ago. It’s sold about 1.000 units a day on the three stores. The secret is the old home bread recipe that is only finished baking when it goes to the board. The most wanted ones are steak with cheese and pineaple and the tradicional mutton with pineapple. The main unit, at Copacaban, is closed for some changes but will be open again by the end of October.

 

Restaurants in Ipanema

Artigiano

Site: www.restauranteartigiano.com.br
Address: Avenida Epitácio Pessoa ,204
Phone: 2512-6107 and (21) 2512-3099
Open Hours:18h30/0h (Friday. and Saturday. to 1h; Sunday from 12h).

Soft sauces and flavors are the ingredients for the pasta, main atraction and the most delicious of this pleasant place lead by the brothers Anna Lúcia e João Carlos Aleixo. Among the other cares taken by them it’s the preparation of fresh pasta, only when it’s going to the tables. The long list has 35 options like pansotti, kind of a tipic ravióli from Riviera Italiana, full of an harmonious combination of fig, Parma’s ham and smoked ricotta. The zucchine with mussarela and anchoviess with caper sauce are a good option with the hot breads of the cabbagert.

Market

Site: www.marketipanema.com.br
Price: $$ - de R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Visconde de Pirajá ,499
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-003
Phone: 3283-1438
Open Hours:8h/0h (Sunday to qua to 17h)

After a long aisle, you get to a pleasant place, with trees, vases with peppers and herbs. It’s possible to choose tables outside or, it the weather isn’t good, enjoy the big room, where the TV shows some Charles Chaplin’s movies. They serve pretty recipes, starting with the gzpacho trilogy, the cold soup that comes from Andaluzia, the Spanish region. They’re three plates in the tomatoes version, zucchine com pesto e yogurt with herbs. As the main dish, there’s the delicious salmon with dill and wild rice with coconut grated. To drink, many suggestions of juices and smoothies – kind of a milk shake with yogurt ice cream as base. One of them, the melon cantaloupe with banana, is delicious.

Casa da Feijoada

Site: www.cozinhatipica.com.br
Price: $$ - de R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Prudente de Moraes ,10
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22420-040
Phone: 2247-2776
Open Hours:12h/0h

For all people that enjoy a good feijoada, in this place they can be sure they’ll find a delicious  black bean boiled and pork meats. What makes this place different from others is the possibility of the customer to choose what he wants on his table: jerked beef, pork rib cuts, sausage, smoked tongue, bacon. The tradicional followings are there too: white rice, cabbage à mineira, pork, fried cassava, manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil and orange. Before the dish is served, you can get beans’soup and sausage as appetizer with lemon or passion fruit spirits  Aren’t you satisfied? It also includes the dessert, homemade candies with banana or pumpkin with coconut.

Brasileirinho

Site: www.cozinhatipica.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Jangadeiros ,10 - Store A
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22420-010
Phone: 2513-5184
Open Hours:12h/0h

When crossing the wooden door, the customer sees a place with many sweets, sauces, cachaças, pans and workmanship from many states. It’s one reflection from the menu, that passes through many recipes from the Northeast. Try the jerked beef à nossa moda, with baião-de-dois with rice, bean and cheese and the picanha do fazendeiro, with bean, lingüiça, cabbage and pork. From the same owners from Casa da Feijoada, it also has a great feijoada. The condensed candy brought from Viçosa, Minas Gerais, is a must.

Esplanada Grill

Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Barão da Torre 600
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22411-002
Phone: 2512-2970 e 2239-6028
Open Hours:12h/16h and 19h/0h

People who know this place don’t dismiss the – expensive – cabbagert, which many times can be the following of the main dishes. It starts with the little basket of hot breads, including the pão de queijo made with the same recipe for 20 years, and it goes with a lettuce salad, rucola, palm and tomatoe with mustard sauce. Go slow in the beginning so you won’t lose the great attraction: first line meats, with the mark of the tray on its surface. From Argentina there are the customers’ favorite meats, picanha e o bife ancho, very soft. In third place there’s the lamb, imported form New Zealand, which may be done in five ways: homemade sausage made there and rib cuts, picanha, loin cuts and paleta. The last one is grilled with salt and comes with a soft meat and delicious out of the bone. They serve the most varied dishes, like codfish à gomes de sá or a complete feijoada.

Gula Gula

Site: www.gulagula.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Alexandre Ferreira 220 - store A
Neighborhood: Jardim Botânico
ZIP: 22470-220
Phone: 2537-8906
Open Hours:12h/0h (Friday and Saturday to 1h)

When we talk about salads and healthy food this place is a Carioca reference. It’s with a list of dishes based on autumm. There’re always nice surprises like, o tabule de quinoa, cevadinha, chestnut and lentil, with tofu sauce (R$ 23,90), and the crepe integral de linseed with chicken and green salad with curry  sauce (R$ 28,30). For dessert, fruit salads with lemon and honey and musseline de mascarpone (R$ 12,50).

Frontera

Site: www.frontera.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Visconde de Pirajá 128
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-000
Phone: 3289-2350
Open Hours:11h/0h (Sunday to 23h)

The most beautiful business from the partners of Kilograma’s network, Frontera is in a new address. After Ipanema and Barra, it’s now located at Jardim Botanico where once worked the Japanese Nakombi. Huge, the space of 750 squaremeters and the two floors don’t remind us at the atmosphere other weight restaurants have. Its walls have bricks, the brightness is made due to the tipic snooker lamps and the open ceiling to let the place with fresh air and prettier at night. Some posters brought from different places on the world can be linked with the kitchen: explore recipes from different nacionalities. With a high rotative system, they sold more than 40 dishes a day. Only the ones who sell the most usually reapper in the buffet in less than two months.  Like the pato confit with molasses and shoyu, that can be ordered on weekends. All this plenty has on its way counters full of pastas, appetizers and salads, japonese food, hot recipes, barbecue and grilleds. In a Sunday lunch, lobster, salad and mushrooms, pork rib cuts with barbecue sauce and potato and salmon with caper sauce appeared with the same dose of flavor. On the weight system, you pay R$ 41,30 from Mondays to Fridays and R$ 44,90 on Saturdays and Sundays – the prices are also available for desserts, like Doceria di Norma’s pies and Häagen-Dazs’s ice creams.

Delírio Tropical

Site: www.deliriotropical.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Garcia d'Ávila 48
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22421-010
Phone: 3624-8164
Open Hours:10h/22h (Friday and Saturday to 23h; Sunday 12h/19h)

Just by entering the queue you discover the possibility to choose among 15 daily flavors of salad in the buffet. The version with thin potato, carrot, corn, pea and chicken, and caesar salad are the main options. The price changes according to the quantity. Following this you may find the hot options, like dried truta filet with herbs sauce or the quinoa’s hamburguer with teriyaki sauce, besides the salt pies and sandwiches.

Forneria

Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Aníbal de Mendonça 112
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-050
Phone: 2540-8045
Open Hours:12h/1h (Friday and Saturday to 2h)

Among Italian movies posters, old wood tables and the apparently kitchen along the room, it’s possible to try great sandwiches with the most unusual Italian roots. From the first list, try the milanês, with veal, rucola and tomatoe on ciabatta bread. Salads, carpaccios, massas, risottos and meats are part of the second one. Other tip, the tagliata takes to the table some thin pieces of tenderloin mignon with sliced rucola and cheese with vinagre balsâmico’s sauce. Keep some for the dessert: the baked bananas on the wood oven with cream ice cream are both delicious. For lunch from Mondays to Fridays, the executive menu with entrance, dish and dessert.

Bazzar Café

Site: www.bazzar.com.br
Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Visconde de Pirajá 572
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-002
Phone: 2249-4977
Open Hours: 9h/23h (Sunday from 12h)

There’s no lack of creativity on the recipes served in the coffee houses that work on Livraria da Travessa’s branchs. The portions of mixed bruschetta in the flavors brie with damask’s jam, musshrooms with cheese and tomatoes with zucchine, the salad with rucola and mushrooms and the chicken with curry’s risotto, bananas and almonds. The tarte tatin with cinnamom ice cream steals the scene among other desserts. The coffee menu with ten options of drinks, plus the classic versions, and breakfast until 11:30 am, with bread and butter, honey, cream cheese, fruit salads, jam and hot drinks.

Via Sete

Site: www.viasete.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Garcia de Avila 125
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22421-010
Phone: 2221-8020

The place is one of the few in the city that offers organic red meat, prepared by the Swiss chef Felix Opitz. The recipes of cold watermelon soup  with crab meat (R$ 14,00), the big grilleds shrimp withtamarind’s sauce and lemon (R$ 55,00) and the tupiniquim version of the British fish and chips - with manjubinha and fried cassava (R$ 27,00), are also its recipes. Another good hint is the carpaccio of tenderloin mignon organic with capers sauce and lemon (R$ 40,00).

Líquido

Price: $ - to R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Barão da Torre 398-A
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22411-000
Phone: 2267-6519
Open Hours: 9h/23h.

Healthy recipes based on fruits and vegetables – don’t confuse it with the raw food, vegan or any other from this genre – are the speciallity of the place in front of Nossa Senhora da Paz Square. The dosas, tipic from the Indian gastronomy, are great options. It’s kind of a crepe made with rice flour basmati and lentil, with chicken and curry sauce with spinach and chutney of guava with white raisinss or grilled tuna covered with chestnut, pieces of avocado and mexican parsley. Juices and smoothies make a partnership for a light meal. Forget the calories and enjoy the carrot muffin with chocolate cover. To make you less guilty, the quitute of gostinho caseiro is made from rice flour.

Terzetto

Site: www.terzetto.com.br
Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Jangadeiros ,28
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22420-010
Phone: 2247-6797
Open Hours: 18h/1h (Wednesday to Sunday from 12h)

The last six months, the sommelier João de Souza packed six times. His trips took him to countries like Argentina, Chile, Italy and Portugal and also to the south in Brazil. All these trips had one reason: discover winegrowings and search for labels with good costs for Terzetto adega. In Portugal, in the Concelho do Crato’s region, Joãozinho – as he’s called by the customers – found a small winegrowing from Alentejo and got impressed with the production from Gonçalo de Sá da Bandeira. Imported from there the Herdade do Gamito 2005, made with as syrah grapes, merlot and aragonês, that stays for 8 months in French oak. In his trip through Serra Gaucha, he got excited with Bettú’s wine production, which millenar production process makes about 5.000 bottles a year. In the menu there’s the label 2005 made with 100% marcelan grapes. Since the beginning of this year, Joaozinho belives that his list just went bigger in 150 labels, that already had 500 types of wine divided by geographic regions from the main wine capitals, including chapter dedicated even to labels from Greece, Switzerland, Israel and Liban.

Osteria Dell'Angolo

Site: www.osteriadellangolo.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Paul Redfern 40
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-080
Phone: 2259-3148
Open Hours:12h/16h and 18h/2h (Saturday and Sunday without interval)

Don’t dismiss the antepasto: a delicious and huge dish that may have slices of grilled zucchine al dente, white bean mixed with pieces of tuna and sweet onion, polenta with spicy sausage, breads from an own production and thin and crack toasts. In charge of this kitchen, with an alluring quality, is Alessandro Cucco a Venezuelan chef specialist in recipes from the north of his country. With smoothness in the right point, the risotto of lobster and asparaguss divides the attention with the baked fish with a huge cover of salt and the  lamb rib cuts with potato ao rosmarino. The tiramisu of strawberry with cassis liquor is right in the expectations about the delicious recipe.

Gero

Site: www.fasano.com.br
Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Aníbal de Mendonça ,157
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-050
Phone: 2239-8158
Open Hours:12h/16h e 19h/1h (Friday lunch to 16h30 and dinner to 2h; Saturday without interval to 2h; Sunday without interval to 0h)

Only after the order gets to the kitchen the cookers start making it. Made right on time, they’re 12 options of fresh pasta on the menu of the first place of Fasano’s group in Rio, the beautiful stage where dishes follow the style of classic Italy without concessions to that time’s fashion. It’s the case of the ravióli de pato that puts harmony between the combinations of meat and orange sauce. And the shrimp risotto with pumpkin, that shows the perfection of the recipe made al dente. The smooth ham with white wine sauce comes with a soft polenta and is another example of what the great kitchen team lead by the Pernambucano chef Januário Andrade, or Badaró.  Among a beautiful decoration the maîtres, sommeliers and waiters’ service is also excellent.

Satyricon

Site: www.satyricon.com.br
Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Barão da Torre ,192
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22411-000
Phone: 2521-0627
Open Hours:12h/1h (Sunday to 0h)

Right at the entrance you can forsee what’s about to come. In a counter covered with pieces of ice lay some fishes and seafoods from the most different species. There you can find cherne, olho-de-boi, pargo, robalo, vermelho, among others fished from an open sea on the fluminense coast by the boats of the Italian family from Miro and Marly Leopardi. Still in the hallway that leads to the big restaurant rooms, there’s a beautiful aquarium with a wide variety of aquaticspecies, that begin allied to the certain measure of mediteran sauces, seduced even Madonna – in her last visit in Brazil she tried the pargo with salt. The fish, has about 700 or 800 pounds, is baked with a big cover of salt and is served with the customer choice: lemon rice, baked potato, spinach cream, vegetables. With olive oil, lemon and salt, it is prepared the marenostrum, a big combination of raw dishes with carpaccios, tartares and delicious bitoks (kind of a grilled tartare).

Fasano Al Mare

Site: www.fasano.com.br
Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Avenida Vieira Souto 80
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22420-000
Phone: 3202-4000
Open Hours:12h/15h30 and 19h/1h (Saturday 12h30/1h30; Sunday 12h30/0h).

Realization of an old dream from the paulista businessman and restaurateur Rogério Fasano, that for years wanted to open a place specialized in sea food at the sea shore. The kitchen is in charge of the Italian Luca Gozzani, one of the chefs from Enoteca Pinchiorri, three stars on Guia Michelin. The palce is very beautiful, with designed furniture and murano lamps. A little more informal is the balcony, with a cover and a different illumination. Among the delicious entrances there’re polenta with fresh mushroom and asparaguss cream and caviar. For the main dishes, seafood lasanha,  turmeric risotto and grilled shrimps with fresh mushroom and herbs. It has an executive lunch with antepasto, main dish and dessert.

Alessandro e Frederico Pizzaria D.O.C.G.

Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Garcia D'Ávila 151
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22421-010
Phone: 2522-5414
Open Hours: 18h/1h.

The abbreviation D.O.C (stands for controlled denomination) has earned the G complement, to guarantee it, put by the place’s owner, the Italian Fabrizio Giuliadore. It’s a way to valorize the individual pizzas with a thin pasta, thick border and delicious insides, made with noble ingredients. The pata negra has, besides the famous Spanish ham, mussarela de búfala, fresh tomatoes, rucola and fresh artichoke, black trufas, mushroom and olive oil. The cheapest are margherita and four cheese.

Nik Sushi

Site: www.niksushi.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Garcia d'Ávila ,83
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22421-010
Phone: 2512-6446 and (21) 2512-6456
Open Hours: 11h30/0h (Friday and Saturday to 1h; Sunday 13h/23h; closed on Monday)

At lunch time, until 3:30 pm, it’s crowed with customers into the buffet with a big variety of sushis, sashimis, yakisoba and hot dishes. Made with the same dedication, the rationing, in the evening brings original itens like ceviche of white fish, tartare of tempered tuna,  grilled sashimi tuna, ipanema salmon (grilled sushi, with  teriyaki sauce and manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil of peanuts) and hot nik roll (rice, salmon and cream cheese fried on harumaki pasta). Like a carpaccio in Japanese way, the ussuzukuri inspires delicious recipes made with thin slices of hadoque, octopus and tuna with palm.

Baretto-Londra

Site: www.hotelfasano.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Vieira Souto ,80 - (Hotel Fasano)
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22420-000 Phone: 3202-4000
Open Hours: 19h/1h (Thursday to Saturday to 2h30; closed Sunday)

One week after opened its doors, the place was already famous – all VIP people. Everything there is very beautiful. The shiny floor in the aisle takes people to a room with walls made by bricks and confortables leather armchairs. There are also two England flags with the colors from Italy and a beautiful bar. Once you’re there, make yourself ready for a menu where there’s Cerpa or Bohemia’s long neck. In the well made drink’s menu, a good option is the sour apple matini, with vodka, “xarope de maça verde” and soure mix. Try the club sandwich (bread, chicken, tomatoes, lettuce and eggs) or one of the bruschettas. The one with black olive grabs, asparaguss, raw ham and brie. After 9 pm a DJ cheers up the place.

Armazém do Café

Site: www.armazemdocafe.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Visconde de Pirajá ,595 - loja 111
Neighborhood: Ipanema
Phone: 2540-8331
Open Hours: 9h/21h (closed Sundays)

The first one to adopt the gourmet coffee houses concept in city, offers four types of expressos like armazen, made with grains from Mina’s south and from Alta Mogiana Paulista, and 30 combinations based on drinks. Condensaccino has espresso armazém, condensed milk and milk. Try brownie with almonds, ice cream with chocolate cover. There’re still eight types of grains, made right in time and sold in packages starting with 250 pounds, from extra-suave conga (cerrado baiano) to extraforte rumba (cerrado mineiro).

Colher de Pau

Price: -  Address: Rua Farme de Amoedo ,39  Neighborhood: Ipanema ZIP: 22420-020 Phone: 2523-3018 Open Hours:10h/20h The brigadeiro, which melts in your mounth due to its softness, is one of many delicious recipes from Gimol Kaner, who opened the place 30 years ago. The most famous sweet from the place is a base for the mil-folhas and for the bomba. Gimol’s sons, Lucy and Otávio Kaner, keep making appetizers like chocolate rocambole with baba-de-moça and a cover of brigadeiro and a toalha felpuda, de pão-de-ló with coconut cream and merengue and grated coconu .The snacks are also very delicious, like the chicken coxinhas with catupiry and the shrimp or palm empadas.

Chaika

Site: www.chaika.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Visconde de Pirajá ,321 - loja A
Neighborhood: Ipanema
ZIP: 22410-000
Phone: 2267-3838 and (21) 2287-8776
Open Hours: 9h/1h

Take some time to glance the menu and choose among 700 itens. Besides the sundaes and own made ice creams, the counter has variety of pies and candies. The temptation, made with chocolate pão-de-ló, with coconut cream and strawberry with chantilly, covered with merengue and chocolate (piece or the whole one), and a musse of bombom are some of the sweet attractions. From the 100 sandwiches, the onion burger is a hamburger with golden onion and barbecue sauce, served with fries. The waffles with many followings are also pretty good, like chocolate with strawberries and Chantilly.

 

Restaurants in Leblon

Galeto do Leblon

Price: $ - from R$ 40,00
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,154
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2294-3997
Open Hours:11h/2h

This place with a simple environment and pretty confortable has as its speciallity the galeto. The bird weights 400 or 500 pounds and by the 21th day is sacrificed and grilled on the fire, slowly, so the meat won’t loss the softness. The simple dish, with the bird cut in French style. The version followed by fries, white rice, manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil and campanha sauce, serves two people. It’s as popular as the grilled picanha that is chopped with rice, manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil and fries. On Saturdays there’s feijoada.

Giuseppe Grill

Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Avenida Bartolomeu Mitre ,370
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-000
Phone: 2249-3055
Open Hours: 12h/16h and 19h/0h (sex. e sáb. sem intervalo até 1h; dom. sem intervalo até 23h)

Lead by Marcelo Torres, the best restaurateur this year according to Veja Rio, the brand has two addresses: the matrix downtown and the branch, opened at Leblon in 2007. In the grill some first line cuts are made like bombom of picanha and baby beef. For barbecue there’re two speciallities: maminha and stracotto toscano, meat grilled slowly for 8 hours. The orders allow a following that may be spinach cream, manioc flour toasted in butter or baked potato with olive oil and rosemary. Among the desserts, there’re classics from the recipes of Torres’mother, like quindim and pudim de leite. At lunch time from Mondays to Fridays at Zona Sul there’s the option of an exec menu with cabbagert, salad, main dish and dessert.

Pizzaria Guanabara

Site: www.pizzariaguanabara.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,1228
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-035
Phone: 2294-0797
Open Hours:9h/7h

Even with the tendencies of thin pizzas, Guanabara doesn’t lose the majesty. It sells great pizzas for the old and new customers, it can be on the counter or on the tables, starting at night until dawn . Leblon’s unit is only closed for a couple of hours a day, from 7 to 9, and it has became a crowded point at the Baixo Leblon. It´s not difficult to find artists and other stars around the place. The combination of draft beer (draft beer glasses) and slices of pizza can be ordered at the counter. There’re four flavors: mussarela, margherita, calabresa and portuguesa.

Rota 66

Site: www.restauranterota66.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Conde Bernadotte ,26
Neighborhood: Leblon
Phone: 2512-5961
Open Hours: 11h/2h (sex. e sáb. até 3h30)

It opened its second store at the Corte Bernadotte, Leblon. The pepper, as in the Mexican culture, is even in the drinks. It’s the case of TPM (tequila para macho) where the drink gains a spicy taste of the tabasco. In the kitchen, the most wanted is the Texas picanha – two steaks of 180 grs cuted in thin slices with onions and shoyu, with barbecue sauce and toasts – and the super combo max. They’re two “tortilhas de milho recheadas de carne and four of trigo”, beans cream and meat, plus five portions of sauce. To refresh your tongue there’s draft beer in glasses and draft beer tower from 2,5 to 3,5 L.

Bar D'Hôtel

Price: -
Address: Avenida Delfim Moreira ,696 - 2º andar (Hotel Marina All Suites)
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22441-000
Phone: 2172-1100
Open Hours: 18h/2h

With a view to the sea and a retro visual, the place is decorated with old objects. Opened in 1999, this modern place became a safe spot to people who cares for some tranquility. Among the drinks, the caipirubi (vodka, red fruits sugar and ice) is classic. From the most recent suggestions in the menu, you can try the refreshing aurora, with strawberries, ginger, vodka, sugar, ice and maracuja). Another great hint are the mini lamb hamburgers with foie gras and teriyaki of red fruits and the  “burrito de avestruz” with jam pepper and guacamole. The mixed portion of bruschettas (queijo brie with pasta de abricó, shiitake with rosemary e parmesão, queijo de cabra with raw ham, mussarela de búfala and tomate seco and mint) are also pretty good.

Quiosque do Português

Price: -
Address: Avenida Delfim Moreira - quiosque 5 (em frente à Rua José Linhares)
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22441-000
Phone: 8308-1373
Open Hours: 8h/20h (sex. e sáb. até 22h)

Lead by Manoel Alves and his son Carlos, the point, next Jose Linhares Street, has earned fame with its caipivodcas. The cooler recently bought for wine shows that they’re willing to change the drink's menu commonly served in this kind of establishment at the sea shore. The drinks can be made with national or imported  vodka and are always made with a station fruit - not using its cover. In summer, one of the best selling is serigüela , that, besides of Absolut, can be made with the American Sky, the French Belvedere and Grey Groose and the polish Wyborowa and Danska. To eat, the request is the delicious shrimp with catupiry (portion of fifteen units). Besides the “caipiras”, there are cans of beers  (Skol) and long neck (Bohemia e Stella Artois).

Jobi

Price: -
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,1166 - loja B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-035
Phone: 2274-0547
Open Hours: 9h/4h (sex. e sáb. até 5h)

The waiters had been working there for a long time. They call the customers by their names and know each one favourite drink. And they still offer a good and a lot of food. The love story about Jobi and the cariocas is so serious that no one cares in taking the queue outside to wait for a table on the balcony or in the small room inside, which has a wall painted by Nilton Bravo. Decorated by the architet Chico Gouvea, the pub from the brothers Manuel and Narciso Rocha, that already was one place for shooting the soap opera from Manoel Carlos, has won in the category the best pub for the sixth time in a row. Opened in the 50s, it was bought in 1961 by the Portuguese Adelino da Rocha, father of the actual partners. Among the appetizers, portions of carne-seca with cassava or with manioc flour toasted in butter or olive oil are unstopable. “we choose some pieces of lagarto, that have few fat chip and are easier to handle”, says Manoel. Lobster’s pieces with tartare sauce and octopus with vinaigrette are also excellent. To drink, Brahma’s draft beer (300 ml) and strawberry, pineapple or kiwi caipissaquê.

Bracarense

Price: -
Address: Rua José Linhares ,85 - loja B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-220
Phone: 2294-3549
Open Hours: 7h/0h (sáb. a partir das 8h; dom. 9h30/22h)

One of the greatest successes in the city. Famous for its snacks, delicious draft beer, it’s a famous point for beautiful people after beach and from tradicional bohemians, the Braca – as it’s known by old customers – has now conquered a new kind of customers: people that get out from work and want to relax before going home. Reasons for the success are many. The snacks and the draft beer are the same, but it’s easier to find a place to sit – it’s not so crowded. Another good reason: the service is better. There’re so many advantages that they may last a little. The movement at this time is getting bigger. Among the recipes briught by the mineira Alaíde Carneiro there’s the shrimp bobozinho (R$ 3,20). “This one always ends”, says Carlos Eduardo Tomé, from the third generation of the pub owners (created by his grandfather Arnaldo Tomé). Other delicious itens are the bolinho de cassava with shrimp and catupiry and one open fried empada, known by the customers as delicia de carne seca. Everything goes with the Brahma’s draft beer (300 ml). “Then, you just need to sit around the tables on the sidewalk and enjoy the starting of the evening, in one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Rio”, says Paulo Thiago de Mello.

Torta & Cia

Site: www.tortaecia.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Gilberto Cardoso ,s/nº - lojas 15 e 16 (Cobal do Leblon)
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-070
Phone: 2511- 5141
Open Hours: 9h/22h

Try the soft nata pie, made with chocolate pasta and chantilly inside (a slice or the whole piece, with 20 slices), or the brigadeiro one, pão-de-ló pasta with chocolate covered by chestnut (slice or the whole piece). The pies are made in small versions, in flavors like codfish, shrimp and chicken. At Leblon there’re three options for breakfast.

Aquim

Site: www.aquimgastronomia.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,1321
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-034
Phone: 2274-1001
Open Hours: 10h/20h (fecha dom.)

Placed like jewels in the stands, the delicated candies created by the chef Samantha Aquim are happiness for the customers – and for the tongue. The chocolates, the chef’s big passion, who studied in the French gastronomy school Lenôtre, are made in collections each season. The actual one has chocolate bombons: milky or bitter ones, with the insides with caramel, cappuccino and crisp with hazelnut that can be made by a high concentration of cocoa. The box with 8 macarrons, in the flavors: almond, passion fruit, lavender, pistachio nut and raspberry. To receive some friends the canapés, hot or cold, are perfect. The box with 25 units may have five types, like croquete de pato with orange sauce, cone de foie gras and pineapple in spices.

Bibi Sucos

Site: www.bibisucos.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Ataulfo de Paiva ,591-A
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-032
Phone: 2259-4298
Open Hours: 8h/2h (sex. e sáb. até 3h)

It offers more than 50 types of juice, made with ingredients that come daily from Ceasa, in Irajá. The favorite mixes are the watermelon with ginger, fig, with coconut water, and red fruits (strawberry, raspberry and blueberry), with 300 ml. The brand sells about 20 tons per month of açai (220 mL or 550 mL). It may be mixed with rice, honey or tapioca. The light sandwiches are made by the customer. The one made with turkey dry with cheese and eggs.

Universo Orgânico

Site: www.universoorganico.com
Price: -
Address: Rua Conde de Bernadotte ,26 - lojas 105 e 106
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-200
Phone: 3874-0186 and (21) 2274-8983
Open Hours: 8h/21h30 (seg. até 19h; dom. 11h/20h30)

At first sight, many people may don’t like the idea of the suco de luz, that gained fans like Camila Pitanga and Marisa Monte. But the result is tasty. The luz do sol has cabbage, cucumber, apple, carrot, mint, lemon  and ginger. The list includes recipes inspired in colors, like the blue (blueberry com tangerine). There’re also shakes, made with chestnut milk and seaweeds, like the one with blueberry, strawberry and mint. Adept of the raw food or cooked food at 40 degrees, the chef Tiana Rodrigues serves crackers of linseed with spread of nuts with rosemary.

Envidia

Site: www.envidia.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,106 - loja A
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2512-1313
Open Hours: 11h40/20h

Beside the counter, the machine that makes chocolates and ice creams from the famous store calls attention of the people passing by on the street and awakes the children – and adults – desire. Inside, with a romantic decoration with old furniture, the temptation becames reality. Made with Belgium chocolates callebaut, there’re more than 50 varieties of trufas, lollipops and chocolate – for example, the one that has the place’s name, made with orange ganache and pepper – it’s followed by the new chocolate slices. The Caribbean Grenade, with 60% of cocoa, shows strong taste while the Java, from Indonesia, with 32,9% of cocoa, has a taste similar to caramolasses milk. All the other candies, like the new caramel chocolate with cinnamon and cappuccino, the strong with coffee and cardamom with caramel cover or the brigadeiros, success among the kids. The materials used are still good to make ice creams, pure ones or with mint and foundues with fruits and cake on cold days.

Kurt

Site: www.confeitariakurt.com.br
Price: -
Address: Rua General Urquiza ,117 - loja B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-040
Phone: 2294-0599 and (21) 2512-4943
Open Hours: 8h/19h (sáb. até 17h; fecha dom.)

It’s hard to take a quick decision in front of a place full of candies, based on recipes brought by the german Kurt Deichman. Known by picada de abelha, the bienenstich is a big candy with vanilla cream, covered with honey and nuts, which makes everybody want to try it – specially the kids. The damask pie is made with pão-de-ló and creates a delicious “fight” with the fruit jelly and the unstopable chantilly. With praline inside, caramel almonds get mixed with the pasta and pieces of nuts. It’s a hard choice. There’re 50 options of baked pies made dialy according to the European recipes. Do you want more? There’re also 30 types of cookies that goes perfect with the coffee. The almond financer and the palmier with sugar and cinnamon are divine.

Mirante do Leblon

Price: -
Address: Av. Niemeyer ,s/nº - quiosques 1 e 2
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22450-220
Phone: 2530-5801
Open Hours:24 horas

The overview from Ipanema and Leblon’s seashore and the waves movement are perfect for lovers, tourists or people searching for some peace of mind at the Mirante do Lebon, where there are two places with a modest menu. Is anything else necessary? The customers enjoy the view a lot. The first place has a big can of Skol and cans of Antartica. To eat, the options are limited to fries or some fish fillet. In the second one, known as Tia Sonia’s, there is “bolinho de codfish” (portion with ten), shrimp on the board, and fish bait with rosé sauce.

Diagonal

Price: -
Address: Rua Aristides Espínola ,88 - loja B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-050
Phone: 2259-0888
Open Hours:11h/3h30 (sex. e sáb. até 4h30)

Next to the crowded Bar Jobi and Pizzaria Guanabara, the Diagonal also has its loyal customers. The place has pictures from the French cartoonist Jean Le Guay, the Jano. Good options are the pizzas in 30 flavors, the most wanted pepperoni and margherita. If you just want to eat anything, order pastel. The one of meat, cheese, palm and shrimp, dried meat with catupiry and crab are great with Brahma’s draft beer.

Bar da Praia

Price: -
Address: Rua João Lira ,5 - (Hotel Marina Palace)
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-210
Phone: 2172-1000
Open Hours: 20h/1h (qua. até 2h; qui. até 3h; sex. e sáb. 18h/5h; dom. a partir de 16h)

Because of its proximity with the beach and its great options of appetizers and caipirinhas, this bar became a Young point. The dishes are under chef Felipe Bronze’s lead. Among his creations the most wanted are the “folhado de camarão com alho-poró” (portion with 6) and the “minibruschettas no pão ciabata”, with dried tomato and mussarela de búfala (portion with 12). The most sold caipirinhas are strawberries and litchi and the price changes according to the vodka used, can be Smirnoff, added with the French Grey Goose or Ciroc.

Sawasdee Bistrô

Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,571 - loja A
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2511-0057
Open Hours: 19h/0h (sex. até 2h; sáb. 13h/2h; dom. 13h/22h)

The gourmets are based on the Asiatic continent, when it’s about exploring new flavors and different tastes. The fusion of the salt and the sweet, the spicy and the acid is the specialty of Marcos Sodré and his son, the young chef Thiago, that use the recipes and techniques of the Thai kitchen to create a lab full of new experiments along the beach. With common resources to conteporean kitchen, like the beautiful presentation of the place and valorization of national products, they landed in Rio with their woks – and the most varied types of curry – after ten years in Buzios. Reading the menu is like having a trip, with undecipherable signs like the krathong thong: small baskets full of chicken, corn, carrots, peanuts and curry, or pla saowarot, delicious speciallity from the chef that comes with a grilled tenderloin of cherne with risotto of shiitake with rice and spicy curry. The drink’s menu is similar: the mixed mojito with dedo de moça pepper awakes the taste in a spicy mix.

Nam Thai

Site: www.namthai.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Rainha Guilhermina ,95 - loja A e B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22441-120
Phone: 2259-2962 and (21) 2259-3172
Open Hours:12h/16h e 19h/0h (seg. só jantar; sáb. 12h/1h; dom. 12h/23h)

It was love at first bite, like the former cardiologist and chef, nowadays, David Zisman says. The passion for the exotic and hot thai sauces can be translated in the excellency kitchen that makes along the beach. The dim sun chapter, pasteizinhos of soft pasta in different shapes, can be explored in the entrance. Try the version of shrimp with shittake and pork. The corajous can try the spicy chopped tenderloin mignon with coconutnut milk and peanuts with curry and anise and cinnamon. To more sensitive people to spicy effects is recommended the pad thai (talharim of fried rice with shrimp,tamarind, peanuts and spice). For lunch, on executive menu with entrance, main dish and dessert with a good price.

Sushi Leblon

Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,256
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2512-7830
Open Hours:12h/16h and 19h/1h30 (sáb. sem intervalo; dom. 13h/0h)

It’s used to have a big queue in the entrance. At the counter you can order greats combinations, like the ovas de arenque (R$ 9,00), ouriço (R$ 9,00) and vieiras (R$ 10,00). In the sushi bar is made the ussuzukuri, a japanese carpaccio, made with white fish and black olive grabs (R$ 13,00). Among the news there’s the twisted salmon with goat’s cheese, radish seed and capuchunha flower, with salt, shoyu and vanilla’s olive oil (R$ 19,00), with six units; and the shrimp sushi, cream cheese, carrots and teriyaki (R$ 19,00, com seis unidades). The desserts are far away from the oriental style, but they’re great. Try the chocolate petit gateau with nuts and candy milk covered with quinoa and ice cream (R$ 16,00).

Degrau

Site: www.restaurantedegrau.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,517
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-032
Phone: 2259-3648
Open Hours:11h/2h

A tradicional address in the neighborhood, it has classic and strong dishes, most of them for two people, in a place with two environments. The pastel of shrimp is a great dish. The fish seccion, a huge one, has codfish à degrau (grilled with garlic, broccoli rice and Portuguese potatoes) and the linguado or badejo à belle meunière (grilled on butter sauce, capers, mushrooms, shrimp, with broccoli rice and cooked potato). On Saturdays, feijoada and on Sundays, boiled food. 

Antiquarius

Site: www.antiquarius.com.br
Price: $$$$ - above R$ 100,00
Address: Rua Aristides Espínola ,19
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-050
Phone: 2294-1049
Open Hours: 11h/2h.

Among the specialties from this tradicional lusitan food place, the duck rice à moda da casa (R$ 75,00) is one of the most wanted dishes. The classic list continues with recipes like shrimp à antiquarius, with curry sauce, cilantro, oregano and almonds rice (R$ 117,00), and the codfish are never enought (R$ 89,00), with onions, ham, egg and fries.

Garcia & Rodrigues

Site: www.garciaerodrigues.com.br
Price: $$$ - from R$ 61 to R$ 100,00
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,1251
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-034
Phone: 3206-4100 and 3206-4115
Open Hours: 8h/0h (ter. a qui. até 0h30; sex. e sáb. até 1h)

The restaurant lead by the French chef Christophe Lidy is ideal for all kinds of hunger. In the bakery they make lots of breads that become great sandwiches and are the main stars from breakfast. In the rotisserie, salads, appetizers and divine terrines like the spread of campagne. Fresh fruits, cream and the best financier from the city are made there. In the bistro menu, more elaborated recipes like the dry tomatoes duo and parma’s ham with yogurt ice cream and  baked cherne on potatoes with herbs are a good choice with the daily dishes – on Sundays the  gâteau de rabada with white creamy polenta is superb – and the executive menu is offered at lunch time.

Ráscal

Site: www.rascal.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Afrânio de Melo Franco ,290 - loja 406 A e B (Shopping Leblon)
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-060
Phone: 3138-8503
Open Hours: 12h/15h30 and 19h/23h (sex. jantar até 0h; sáb sem intervalo até 0h; dom. sem intervalo).

The paulista group that arrived in Rio 3 years ago opened the third store, at Casa Shopping. The decoration follows the patern of the other two addresses, with a counter with 40 daily options: salads, bruschettas, pizzas, snacks, breads, cheeses and cold recipes like the vegetable cuscuz marroquino, the salmon’s tartare, tuna on teriyaki and the grilled asparaguss. In other counter there are homemade pastas and other options, for example the meat polpettone with bufala cheese and oven lamb. The buffet service costs R$ 45,00.

Celeiro

Site: www.celeiroculinaria.com.br
Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,199
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2274-7843
Open Hours:10h/18h (fecha dom.)

The most expensive buffet in the city. Even so the place is always crowed with different people. All this success is due to the kitchen led by Rosa Herz and her daughters Lúcia and Bia. In there salads full of bossa are made, with organic food. Chicken with curry, almond and mango chutney, egg-plant baked with onion, garlic and olive, wheat with apple and celery with yogurt sauce are classics that go with the buffet and delicious sauces, quiches and more two hot dishes. Don’t dimiss the desserts. The white chocolate mousse with passion fruit, and the sagu cream with banana ice cream and cinnamon are divine.

Juice Co.

Price: $$ - from R$ 41,00 to R$ 60,00
Address: Avenida General San Martin ,889
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22441-015
Phone: 2294-0048
Open Hours:18h/0h (qui. a sáb. 12h/1h; dom. a partir das 12h; fecha seg.)

The juice place started at Barra and has grown up and appeared for other people. To follow the creative mix of fruits, there’re some conteporean recipes. The tuna is one of the best examples: it has four small portions of fish’s tartare with decorated palm with seeds, ceviche with avocado and purple onion, light grilled tomatoes chutney seaweeddo and, at last, the carpaccio brulé, one thin slice of fish with foie gras inside. The sandwiches are also great. The lamb hamburger with fine herbs, goat cheese and grilled bell pepper and egg-plant, is a good example.

Talho Capixaba

Site: www.talhocapixaba.com.br
Price: -
Address: Avenida Ataulfo de Paiva ,1022 - loja A e B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22440-034
Phone: 2512-8760
Open Hours:7h/22h (dom. até 21h)

The first step is to decide which one will be the bread. There’re more than 40 types, including big success like, baguette de leite, ciabatta, croissant, special French, Italian and the batard, tipically French new made with integral wheat and natural fermentation. Next, pastas are combined with cheese. It’s possible to choose among queijo brie and mussarela de búfala, mortadella bologna and Parma’s ham chooped very thin, dry salmon and grilled egg-plant and anything else the customer wants to try from the colored counter. Made according to the customer, the sandwiches go to the scale. A mix of bakery, candy shop and delicatessen, the crowded address has a lot to offer. There’re great candies, like chocolate with mousse and nut pie, homemade cookies, empadihas, pastinhas and quiches to take home.

Bracarense

Price: -
Address: Rua José Linhares ,85 - loja B
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22430-220
Phone: 2294-3549
Open Hours: 7h/0h (sáb. a partir das 8h; dom. 9h30/22h)

It’s in the New York Times: the Bracarense – or just Braca, as it’s called by the old customers – is one of the favorite cariocas’ pub, that on weekends put lots of beach chairs on the sidewalk to enjoy the evening. The cold draft beer and the kitchen where wonderful dishes come from, are the ingredients responsible for the movement in the place, from Mondays to Mondays. The chef mineira  Alaíde Carneiro is aa expert at the stove and at the oven, makes snacks full of bossa, much higher than the usual chicken coxinhas or meat croquetes that can be found everywhere. There’re 700 units of more than ten aZipipes sold per day. All of them are only fried at the moment of the order. The most popular is the bolinho of cassava with shrimp and catupiry inside, always hot, with a smooth pasta. The shrimp bobozinho, something like an open empada with bobó inside, and the dried meat with catupiry empada are other delicious food made by Alaide commands.

PopFish

Price: -
Address: Rua Dias Ferreira ,45
Neighborhood: Leblon
Zip: 22431-050
Phone: 2512-5888
Open Hours:12h/1h (ter. e qua. até 0h30; fecha seg.)

With drawings inspired on Japanese art impress on the walls and modern soundtracks, it is lead by the owners of Zuka and the Sushi Leblon. Presents a young version and informal of japanese culinary,where the stars are the temakis, that can only come with nothing inside, without rice and without extra price .Thats 15 options, like spicy tuna, shrimps with cucumber e ovas de arenque.  Yakipop are yakisobas served inside a little box, such as baits of tenderloin mignon with cheese sauce. Beyond the sushis,  combos and spits, the menu closes with a sweet chapter, another great option is the  melon ice cream, imported from Japan.