Guidebook for Rio de Janeiro

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Guidebook for Rio de Janeiro

Food Scene

Excellent French place, serving mostly crepes. Best all-around place to eat nearby.
169 locals recommend
Le Blé Noir
19 - A R. Xavier da Silveira
169 locals recommend
Excellent French place, serving mostly crepes. Best all-around place to eat nearby.
Great lunch-counter-style restaurant serving traditional Brazilian fare. A local favorite.
50 locals recommend
Braseiro
214 R. Domingos Ferreira
50 locals recommend
Great lunch-counter-style restaurant serving traditional Brazilian fare. A local favorite.
Pretty standard Italian in a great location, popular with local theater scene.
196 locals recommend
La Fiorentina
458 A Av. Atlântica
196 locals recommend
Pretty standard Italian in a great location, popular with local theater scene.
Passable pizza, a little pricey.
116 locals recommend
Capricciosa
187 R. Domingos Ferreira
116 locals recommend
Passable pizza, a little pricey.
OK brunch place, where you can sit outside on the street. Tends to fill up quickly.
355 locals recommend
Café Cardin
327 Rua Carlos Góis
355 locals recommend
OK brunch place, where you can sit outside on the street. Tends to fill up quickly.
Expensive, but one of the only places to get passable French pastry.
14 locals recommend
Guerin Padaria & Confeitaria de Paris
920 Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana
14 locals recommend
Expensive, but one of the only places to get passable French pastry.
Best gelato nearby. Really excellent.
Av. Nossa Sra. de Copacabana, 861
861 Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana
Best gelato nearby. Really excellent.
Best a kilo restaurant nearby. Formerly known as Caçarola de Barro.
R. Constante Ramos, 35
Best a kilo restaurant nearby. Formerly known as Caçarola de Barro.
Closest vegetarian cafe with OK food.
R. Gustavo Sampaio, 323
323 Rua Gustavo Sampaio
Closest vegetarian cafe with OK food.
Nearby vegetarian restaurant. Food feels like 1970's hippy fare: more morally correct than delicious.
Rua Xavier da Silveira, 28
Nearby vegetarian restaurant. Food feels like 1970's hippy fare: more morally correct than delicious.

Arts & Culture

Good standard cinema nearby.
355 locals recommend
Kinoplex Roxy
355 locals recommend
Good standard cinema nearby.

Everything Else

Saturdays 7:30 - 13:30. Fantastic selection of organic fruits and vegetables, local cheese, raw milk, honey, grains, flowers, etc.
21 locals recommend
Praça Edmundo Bitencourt
Praça Edmundo Bitencourt
21 locals recommend
Saturdays 7:30 - 13:30. Fantastic selection of organic fruits and vegetables, local cheese, raw milk, honey, grains, flowers, etc.
Good bike shop. Repairs and rentals possible.
R. Barata Ribeiro, 752
Good bike shop. Repairs and rentals possible.
Private post office branch. Tends to be much faster and less frustrating than its government-run counterpart at Rua Dias da Rocha, 55.
R. Raimundo Corrêa, 10
Private post office branch. Tends to be much faster and less frustrating than its government-run counterpart at Rua Dias da Rocha, 55.

Shopping

Macaroons, chocolates and other French delicacies.
Av. Nossa Sra. de Copacabana, 776
Macaroons, chocolates and other French delicacies.