Rio Official Guide - Restaurants

Restaurants

00 Zero Zero

A hybrid project that combines a garden in open air with a restaurant offering contemporary cuisine and a modern dance floor.

The restaurant serves lavish and traditional dishes of Brazilian cuisine. Meals range from codfish to tenderloin steak, and, depending on the day of the week, they also serve dobradinha (a kind of beef sausage).

4 Estações

Each season there are new recipes on the menu, such as casquinha de camarão (shrimp on a shell), moqueca à moda alagoana (fish stew), made with coconut milk and azeite-de-dendê (dende oil).

476

The restaurant is specialized in seafood, ideal for going after a day on the beach. A former fisherman house remodeled with demolition pieces, it offers a spectacular view.

66 Bistrô

The place is following the idea of a typically Parisian bistro. The tradition and aromas of the land harmonize in a stylish and charming manner at 66 Bistrô, a restaurant owned by chef Claude Troisgros, and run by his son Thomas, the fourth generation of masters in cooking.

A Marisqueira

Venue: Rua Barata Ribeiro, 232 - Copacabana
Tels. 2547-3920 / 2236-2062
All C.C.

À Mineira

Buffet with more than 50 dishes of typical food from the State of Minas Gerais in a pleasant ambiance.

A Polonesa

The only place serving Polish cuisine in the city. Soups are a good choice.

Academia da Cachaça

The branch in Barra da Tijuca of the famous Academia da Cachaça is housing, at the museum called Canto de Jeribita, a collection with over two thousand bottles of cachaça produced in Brazil since 1870.

Adega da Velha

The main dishes are carne-de-sol com baião-de-dois (sun-dried meat with rice and beans), aipim frito (fried manioc) and queijo de coalho (type of cheese) and pork ribs roasted with white rice, tutu de feijão (beans) and couve à mineira (collard greens).

Adega do Cesare

Adega do Cesare is a typically Carioca spot, where one can drink one of the best cups of draft beer in Rio and also other drinks, such as caipirinha, caipivodka and whisky.

Adega do Pimenta

The menu has 21 types of sausages, as well as eisbein chez pfeffer (smoked pork knees) and kassler (cooked and smoked pork ribs) with potato salad.

Adega do Porto

Venue: Rua Maria Angélica 57, Jardim Botânico
Phone: 21 2527-0476
C.C. C. e M.

Adega Flor de Coimbra

The main star on the menu, the codfish appears on dumplings and in more substantial dishes. Another suggestion, one of the favorites of a former client, painter Candido Portinari (1903-1962), is sopa à lisboeta (soup), with feijão-manteiga beans.

Adega Pérola

This small pub serves over 70 tidbits, such as: manjubinha (tiny fish) with fried manioc and lemon sauce. The highlights are grilled shrimp with fine herbs.

Adega Timão

Tidbits and several kinds of beer.

Adegão Português

The kitchen produces lavish and hearty dishes, always in portions that serve two people, such as roasted goat shoulder with rice with broccoli.

Adonis

Their well drafted beer with plenty of foam and pressure is considered one of the best in the city. Their codfish dumplings are the house’s specialty.

Agraz

The restaurant’s proposal is to harmonize classical French cooking with the easygoing mood of Rio de Janeiro, such as in its duck confit with manioc puree, and roti sauce.

Al Farabi

Al-Farabi is located in a centennial manor house, from 1865, within the Cultural Corridor in Downtown Rio de Janeiro. The restaurant serves lunch from Mondays to Saturdays and has happy-hour from Tuesdays to Fridays.

Al Khayam

This Arab food restaurant serves creamy chick-pea, eggplant and dry yoghurt pastes. You must not miss savoring grilled lamb chops with mint sauce, rice with lentils and fattoush salad.

Al Kwait

Arab food restaurant famous for its huge and well made kebbeh, as well as its dips, breads and rolls that parade on the waiters’ trays and appeal to customers’ tastes.