$ (<20)
Super local restaurant
Specialty: Brazilian cuisine
Pro tip: Fully recommended, really local with good vibe
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Copacabana
★★★
Botafogo
★★★
Botafogo
★★★
Center
★★★
Copacabana
★★★
Ipanema
★★★
Center
★★★
Ipanema
★★★
Copacabana
★★
Copacabana
★★
Ipanema
★★
Copacabana
★★
Botafogo
★★
Ipanema
★★
Ipanema
★★
Botafogo
★★
Copacabana
★★
Ipanema
★★
Center
★
Botafogo
★
Center
★
Center
★
Copacabana
★
Botafogo
★
🍽️ Guide
The best restaurants in Rio Janeiro
24 hand-picked places in Rio Janeiro, spread across 4 neighbourhoods. 8 of them three-star.
No chains, nothing sponsored. The rating is Google's on the day it was checked.
Copacabana 7 Botafogo 6 Ipanema 6 Center 5
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$ (<30)
Modern French restaurant
Specialty: Europeand food in Brazilian style. Risotto and caprese quiche
Pro tip: Have lunch in the terrace. Good quality/price
Terraza
$ (<30)
Classic Italian restaurant
Specialty: Really good pizzas. The burrata also great
Pro tip: Good atmosphere in that area, try to have dinner outside
$ (<30)
Modern but classic surprising restaurant
Specialty: New fusion Brazilian food
Pro tip: If you are in the center try to go there. Everything in the menu is great, specially oysters. If you go at night use taxi
$ (<30)
Modern ocean style restaurant
Specialty: Oysters and pasta
Pro tip: Good option to eat some oysters with a great cocktail
Ipanema
★★★
$ (<30)
Cozy modern restaurant
Specialty: Italian cuisine
Pro tip: Fully recommended if you are in Rio. The burrata and the osobuco lasagna
$ (<30)
Classic restaurant
Specialty: Peruvian food, ceviche,
Pro tip: Good option if you are partying in Lapa before the nightlife. If you go at night use taxi but you can walk to main bars (really close)
$ (<30)
Local classic restaurant
Specialty: Brazilian seafood cuisine
Pro tip: Good option if you are in the Leme Mirante. Sardinha and bacalhau
$ (<30)
Classic Brazilian Northeast food restaurant
Specialty: Moqueca (seafood stew) with rice and picanha
Pro tip: Nice atmosphere with typical Brazilian food and live music
$ (<15)
Classic Brazilian restaurant
Specialty: Good meat with a geleada (beer)
Pro tip: Good cheap option in Copacabana. Also available in Botafogo
$ (<20)
Classic Mexican restaurant
Specialty: Mexican cuisine mixed with Brazilian
Pro tip: Maybe best Mexican in Rio. Good atmosphere
$ (<30)
Modern open restaurant
Specialty: Typical Brazilian food well presented
Pro tip: The fillet mignon and moqueca (seafood stew) with rice. Great place (terrace) to meal
Terraza
$ (<30)
Classic Brazilian local restaurant
Specialty: Traditional Brazilian food (mix of international + brazilian style)
Pro tip: Bobó de camarão (shrimps) and risotto camarão (shrimps)
$ (<30)
Cozy Brazilian restaurant. Michelin guide
Specialty: Modern brazilian cuisine
Pro tip: Try to get place in the terrace. Octopus, ceviche and cocktails
Terraza
Ipanema
★★
$ (<20)
Classic Brazilian restaurant. There is another one in Botafogo
Specialty: Beer and good meat
Pro tip: Really good price. Picanha and linguica
$ (<30)
Local restaurant
Specialty: Acai and casquinha de caranguejo
Pro tip: Try de Acai bowl
$ (<30)
Modern open kitchen restaurant
Specialty: Typical Brazilian food well presented
Pro tip: Brazilian classics picanha with farofa and moqueca (seafood stew) with rice
Ipanema
★★
$$ (~R$100-155 per person)
Eclectic century-old mansion, candlelit, bohemian and tropical
Specialty: Brazilian fusion with Asian & Moroccan — moqueca, curry, gyoza amazônica
Pro tip: Book ahead — fills up fast. Try the organic chicken curry or squid moqueca to share
Recommended by Dnymtz24
$ (<30)
Classic restaurant with good terrace
Specialty: Traditional Brazilian food
Pro tip: Good option if you are walking around Sta. Teresa. Have lunch in the terrace
Terraza
$ (<30)
Classic Peruvian restaurant
Specialty: Any ceviche and the tiradito
Pro tip: Try the pisco sour (always great option everywhere)
$ (<30)
Classic cozy restaurant
Specialty: Traditional Italian food, pasta and meat
Pro tip: Good option if you are walking around St. Teresa. The tiramisu is great
$ (<30)
Classic Brazilian buffet restaurant
Specialty: Typical in Brazil
Pro tip: Good option in the center with a good price. If you go at night use taxi
$ (<20)
Classic Italian restaurant
Specialty: Typical Italian dishes, focaccias and ñoquis the best
Pro tip: It is a small place but fully recommended
$ (<30)
Classic small Italian restaurant
Specialty: The lasaña and the piracucu (fish)
Pro tip: It is a small place so to avoid queue, go early if possible
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