Your ruff guide to Rio de Janeiro (thanks to Tunde)
Essentials:
- cabrito com arroz de brocolis from Nova Capela (that's goat meat with rice and broccoli from a classic Brazilian restaurant, in Lapa, where all of the malandros - think dandy gangsters - used to hang out)
- nighttime sambas at Bip-Bip, a tiny botequin just off of Copacabana beach (don't let Copa's current reputation for cheesiness fool you into thinking that this is anything but the real thing...at the same time, do be careful in this neighborhood)
- Corcovado (and get the mixed fruit juice at the bar near the top; I downed about four of these in approximately one half-hour upon my most recent visit) or Sugarloaf; you should make your way up at least one of these...I think Corcovado is the hit, articularly given the train ride to the top of the mountain
- Posto 9 - where all of the cool kids go on Ipanema beach; quite the hang, quite the hang (Copacabana beach is cool and all, too - my former neighborhood, in fact - but tourists can be targets there)
- Arpoador (this can easily be combined with a hang at Posto 9 - just walk east along the beach for about a half mile...big rock...can't miss it)
- you must ride the bonde from the center of town, across the Arcos de Lapa, and through Santa Teresa- Bar do Mineiro in Santa Teresa; great vibe - young, gifted cariocas just chilling out, drinking chopps, doing their thing
- açai!
- the most generous people on this earth
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