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restaurant serving beautifully presented and often
deliciously spicy dishes such as crab in coconut milk and
palm oil (R$168) and prawn
bobó
(with manioc, nuts and
coconut oil; R$110). The restaurant is quite formal, but
there are also a few tables outside where you can munch on
acarajé
and other Bahian snacks.
Daily noon-11pm.
La Trattoria
Rua Fernando Mendes 7, Copacabana
T
21 2255 0781;
M
Cardial Arcoverde; map p.81.
Moderately priced premises serving the best Italian food
in the
bairro
. Among the excellent range of pasta dishes,
the
penne ai quattro formaggi
costs R$35.50, or there
are
pp.76-77.
Does inexpensive dishes made with only
natural ingredients, including several veg options. There's
gnocchi made with manioc (R$11.45), and at weekends,
a hearty
feijoada
is served - R$12 for the vegetable
option, R$24 with meat.
Mon-Sat 11am-9.45pm, Sun
noon-8pm.
Garota de Ipanema
Rua Vinícius de Morais 49
T
21 2522 0340;
M
Ipanema/General Osório; map
pp.76-77.
Always busy, this bar entered the folk annals of
Rio de Janeiro when the song
The Girl from Ipanema
was
written here one night by the composer Tom Jobim. While
certainly touristy (with unexceptional food), there are few
better places in Ipanema for a beer (R$6 for a 350ml
chopp
).
Daily 11am-2am.
★
prawn-stuffed
cannelloni
for
R$37.80.
Daily
11.30am-midnight.
Gula Gula
Rua Henrique Dumont 57
T
21 2259
3084,
W
gulagula.com.br; map pp.76-77.
A good choice
of reasonably priced and very tasty salads and grilled
dishes (such as Angus steak at R$59) makes this an
Ipanema favourite - and in fourteen other spots around
the city. The set menu is R$30.
Daily noon-midnight.
★
IPANEMA
Bazzar
Rua Barão da Torre 538
T
21 3202 2884,
W
bazzar.com.br; map pp.76-77.
A super-cool, very
modern restaurant, with elegantly functional, almost
Japanese-style decor. House specialities include palm
hearts and plantain in coconut milk (R$41.30) or
Búzios shark in manioc purée (R$45.99).
Mon-Sat
noon-midnight.
Bazzar Lado B
Livraria da Travessa bookshop, Rua
Visconde de Pirajá 572
T
21 2249 4977,
W
bazzar.com
.br; map pp.76-77.
Rio's best bookshop also has a snacky
café branch of
Bazzar
, which is super-cool and modern in
style - a perfect spot for a break from Ipanema's main
shopping area, with coffee and light meals such as
spaghetti in tomato sauce for R$30, or
alla carbonara
for
R$33.
Mon-Sat 10am-11pm, Sun noon-11pm.
Casa da Feijoada
Rua Prudente de Morais 10
T
21 2247 2776,
W
cozinhatipica.com.br;
M
Ipanema/General Osório; map pp.76-77.
Usually
served only on Saturdays,
feijoada
is offered seven days
a week here (R$78), along with other traditional,
moderately priced and extremely filling Brazilian dishes.
Daily noon-midnight.
Delirio Tropical
Rua Garcia d'Àvila 48
T
21 3624 8164,
W
delirio.com.br; map pp.76-77.
A compromise, they
say, between a restaurant and a fast-food joint, the food
here is fast, but healthy, with lots of veg options such as
salads (R$11.20-16.30) and vegetarian burgers (R$7.50),
as well as light fish or meat options. In fact it's part of a
chain, with other branches around town.
Mon-Sat
11am-4pm, Sun in winter 11am-7pm, Sun in summer
noon-8pm.
Felice Caffé
Rua Gomes Carneiro 30, Ipanema
T
21
2522 7749,
W
www.felice.com.br;
M
Ipanema/General
Osório; map pp.76-77.
Excellent café and ice-cream
parlour, where a one-scoop cornet will cost you R$8, and
two scoops is R$15.50.
Daily noon-1.30pm.
Fontes
Galeria Astor, Rua Visconde de Pirajá 605
T
21 2512 5900,
W
fontesipanema.com.br; map
Mil Frutas Café
Rua Garcia d'Ávila 134a, Ipanema
T
21 2521 1384,
W
milfrutas.com.br; map pp.76-77.
Ice-cream parlour boasting dozens of flavours - including
exotic Brazilian fruit such as
pitanga
and
jaboticaba
- that
vary according to the season, at R$10 for one scoop, R$18
for two. There are other branches around town.
Mon-Fri
10am-midnight, Sat & Sun 9.30am-midnight.
Porcão Ipanema
Rua Barão da Torre 218
T
21 3521
2880,
W
porcao.com.br;
M
Ipanema/General Osório;
map pp.76-77.
Part of a reliable chain of
churrascarias
(there's a branch by Flamengo beach), this huge restaurant
serves a
rodizio
of high-quality cuts of meat (R$112),
including choices from the
mediterrâneo
salad bar.
Mon-Thurs noon-midnight, Fri & Sat noon-12.30am,
Sun noon-10pm.
Satyricon
Rua Barão de Torre 192
T
21 2521 0627,
W
satyricon.com.br;
M
Ipanema/General Osório; map
pp.76-77.
Mediterranean seafood dishes are the house
speciality (fish baked in rock salt, for example, at R$97),
though there's also a range of interesting pasta choices,
too. The ingredients are as fresh as can be and the dishes
beautifully presented, but it's just a touch too formal.
Daily
noon-midnight.
★
Zazá Bistrô Tropical
Rua Joana Angélica 40
T
21 2247 9101,
W
zazabistro.com.br;
M
Ipanema/
General Osório; map pp.76-77.
Light-hearted,
imaginative fusion cuisine, colourful decor and a terrace
with a street-life view make this a popular spot
with tourists and trendy locals alike. There's a lunch menu
for R$39, and à la carte dishes such as chicken curry in
coconut milk for R$49 or flambéed scampi for R$65.
Mon &
Tues 7.30pm-midnight, Wed-Sun noon-6pm &
7.30pm-midnight.
