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Hotels in Rio de Janeiro |
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As one of the world's most exotic tourist resorts and with (for Brazil) a relatively large middle-class population, Rio is well served by restaurants offering a wide variety of cuisines - from traditional Brazilian to French and Japanese. In general, eating out in Rio is not cheap - and it can be very expensive - but there's no shortage of low-priced places to grab a lunchtime meal, or just a snack and a drink: at a
galeto,
where you eat, diner-style, at the counter; or at a
lanchonete,
the ubiquitous Brazilian café, which serves very cheap combined plates of meat, beans and rice, as well as other snacks.
Cariocas
dine late, and restaurants don't start to fill up until after 9pm. Generally, last orders will be taken around midnight in most places, but there are others where you can get a meal well after 2am.
A note on drinking
The lists we've given are for both eating and drinking. Many bars serve food and lots of restaurants allow a night's drinking, too, so you should be able to find somewhere that suits you. In most regions of Brazil,
beer
comes to your table in...
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Fast food, snacks, cakes and ice cream
There's no shortage of
hamburger
joints in Rio, though it's worth bearing in mind that there's a good chance that the ground beef used comes from the Amazon, where immense ranches are displacing Indians, peasants and trees at a criminal rate....
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Vegetarian food
Vegetarians won't have any serious problems in Rio. While beans and rice are always available for basic sustenance, don't be shy of asking the waiter in any restaurant to have the kitchen prepare something a little more tasty: if nothing else, you'll get...
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Churrascarias
A number of Rio's
churrascarias
(barbecue houses) serve their meats
rodízio
style. For a set price (approximately $10), a selection of salads, beans and potatoes is laid out before you, followed by the repeated arrival of the...
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Restaurants
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