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    Bip Bip

    4.2 (18 reviews)
    InexpensiveDive Bars
    Closed 7:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

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    Monica S.

    Bip Bip, one of Rio's oldest and most vibrant businesses, is where you head to find a crowd of samba lovers spilling onto the sidewalk, a diminutive interior just big enough to accommodate the table of musicians, and a set of refrigerators in the rear that offer self-service beers. The jovially crabby owner sits outside at a little desk with a makeshift method of keeping tabs (literally). His notebook is filled with names and tick marks representing the beers consumed by each patron. It would be easy to grab a can and slide away unnoticed, but that's not the style of people who frequent this spot. The trust system works and you just have to tell him your name once you get your beer. While the music plays, everyone tunes in and at the end of each song, fingers start snapping - clapping would mean waking up the upstairs residents. Everyone catches onto this almost immediately. There may not be a better spot to soak up the essence of Rio.

    Sunday nights are the busiest ones, but there's live music every day of the week.
    Gabriele J.

    Bip Bip is a bar for the romantic ones -- and I do not mean couples in love, by any means. This tiny little place hidden in the heart of Copacabana has been around for nearly five decades. Its owner, Alfredinho, is an incredibly unique man. Every single night, he sits in front of the bar, wine glass in hand, and watches as the musicians - an enjoyable mixture of old and new generations - play through the very best of samba. Every now and then, the short and bearded owner stops the music to shout at his audience, all curiously watching him from the sidewalk (there is no space for anyone inside but the musicians). He complains about the conversations ("an offense to the music") and even the perfume the customers are using ("too strong"). His crabby ways don't fool anyone for too long. Shortly after the reprehensions, Alfredinho starts to go on about all of the charity work he does with the donations his clients give him every night. It is easy to tell he is a man who truly cares about the others -- maybe even more than about himself. Don't expect him to serve you any food though (maybe some olives if he is in a good mood and you ask nicely) and if you want a beer or cachaça shots (the only two options available) you should go grab it yourself and make sure to let him know. He will ask for your name and write it on his incredibly unorganized book. It is almost impossible to believe that this old fragile-looking man can keep track of everyone on the busiest nights. But he always does. Locals, foreigners, young, old, rich, poor - you can find them all here, fascinated by this sort of dirty looking bar whose essence is in taking people back in time. This might be the 60's all over again and these people might be the ones who helped turn samba into the most famous music rhythm in Brazil. Bip bip is classic old-style Rio de Janeiro. You could call it many things. I would call it absolutely charming -- against all odds.

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    L P A.

    Exactly what I was hoping for! After reading reviews, I was looking forward to a good jam session and informal singing and music-making. The space is tiny: a couple of tables for the musicians/singers, the bar and fridge at the end, and the patrons standing mostly outside on the sidewalk singing along. The rules: Be quiet, snap your fingers (don't clap), get your beer from the fridge and pay the owner once your tab is done (he keeps records on his notepad). The owner will tell you if you are being too loud, as I recorded him doing when I went on July 13, the night of the 2014 World Cup final. (https://vimeo.com/lpansaldo) The Samba gave me just enough felicidade and saudade, and the locals were singing along. I danced a tiny bit in place.

    Joseph F.

    First, don't show up before 11 or midnight on Friday or Saturday. Artists show up when they feel like since the play for free. It's a dinky little place with a lot of heart that still attracts the old style Samba and Bosa Nova. Edson let's you pay at the end of your stay with out a credit card down...it's a really treat that takes you back in time when Rio was vibrant with young talent and music was everywhere. Lastly don't clap...snap your fingers

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    1 year ago

    If you are in the neighborhood and out late. We went too early. Stop in at tge rooftop bar at Selena across the street to kill time.

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    Ambiance was amazing and the music was great! And the place has an incredible community that is extremely welcoming.

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    Galeto Sat's - Pão de alho

    Galeto Sat's

    4.5(87 reviews)
    2.5 kmCopacabana
    $$

    My cousin and I decided to eat at Galeto Sat's because Anthony Bourdain highly recommended it. Long…read morestory short, totally worth it. If you're in Rio go get yourself some chicken. It is VERY popular and I'm sure being recommended by Bourdain has a lot to do with it. The first time we tried to eat there the wait was over an hour long. We went sometime after 1AM and there was still a decent wait, maybe close to 30 minutes. The place is pretty small and cramped, but that gives it some charm. Somehow that makes the food taste even better. We ordered a little bit of everything and it was all amazing. Chicken, steak, fries, garlic bread, polenta. It was all cooked and seasoned to perfection. Everything we ordered was delicious Service was fair and prices are reasonable. Do yourself a favor and visit Galeto Sat's!

    Anthony Bourdain has dined here for one of his shows. That along with a few food blogs from the…read moreStates and Brazil recommending it means it was on my list of places to eat at. It's a solid restaurant that serves up pretty good chicken. In fact I ate here twice in a week, the first time to try it out and the second time because it was late at night and they are open until 5AM. Both times I was here it was timed right and I didn't have to wait for a table. The employees were accommodating to a tourist like myself who has a limited Portuguese vocabulary. They also have English language menus although I do like to navigate a menu in another language just to see what I can recognize. Both times I had the chicken with the garlic and pepper sauce as well as pão de alho. The chicken was perfect, juicy and very flavorful. And plenty of garlic. The garlic bread was delicious and had plenty of garlic. I love garlic so it was great for me but I can see some people saying it may be too much garlic. Batatas fritas were good as well. There was more I wanted to try but I will definitely be back the next time I am in Rio de Janeiro. This place has been around for decades so it should still be around on my next visit.

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    Boteco Belmonte - Coconut creme with tapioca ice cream

    Boteco Belmonte

    4.1(53 reviews)
    0.5 kmCopacabana
    $$$

    Decent food, but very expensive for what it is. You can get a meal directly on the beach with a…read morebetter view for less

    Here you will have to get some street parking as there are not that many paid parking spots and I…read moredid not happen to see any lots around, I would say to just either walk here if you are around or take the term of bus. The place is pretty spacious and have a lot of sitting in a balcony style at the outer bother of the restaurant that they provide stools at the side walk. The place is very busy at night so some wait should be expected but we came at a Sunday night and it was just a 5 to 10 minutes wait nothing too crazy. Once we sat down the same old, not enough menus for the people on the table story. they gave all 3 of us 1 menu and the waiter came super fast to get drink orders.... I Never been here so I did not know what to order and just with one menu was extremely hard to get the orders so we asked him to come back in a bit and bring us more menus. He did the menus but once we were ready it took a long while to have him actually take the orders, as a matter of fact we just asked someone else for our food, but the guy was a buster lol so he had to cll the waiter who came a long time later and that when we realized that we still had not had our orders in the system yet, a mess really. Finally we got our drink orders in and we wee happy. I was planing on getting an adult beverage but it all took so long and the place has no A/C so I got super warm and decided to get a water instead, so here is a prime example that bad service caused me to spend less as a result and the worse was that is was just cause I was too hot and didn't have a proper menu count and a waiter portly taking orders to expedite the drinks. Here the Brazilian people make a salary and the service is automatically charged on the bill, here in this country is notoriously know for BAD SERVICE as regardless of the quality of service they will make the same amount of money so the wait staff could not care less. A interesting thing and very smart that I noticed here was the fact that they have some waiters walking around with trays of shots, or trays of small appetizers, they go from table to table to up- sell the items, this was genius cause if I am not intentionally looking for an appetizer and now it is so close and accessible I will probably get one, and that Is exactly what happened to us. I ordered a couple of appetizers, these people are geniuses. EMPADA DE CARNE SECA COM CATUPIRY- to me this was a disaster, it was super salty and incredibly odd, I based on this little appetizer would never eat carne sea again. BOLINHO DE CAMARAO COM CATUPIRY- this one was much better than the fist one I mentioned but still I was not very happy with the flavor. it did taste like the eat of the city had taken a toll on the flavor of this appetizer. LARGE PIZZA AMATRICIANA- we got the large, but if you are like me from America I must tell you that the large here is not the same as a large out there in the US. this large was finished by 3 people and with very little effort. however I must say that again this pizza just as the appetizers was a disappointment to me, the only positive I can say here on this pizza is the fact that I loved the oregano taste in it. this was a thin crust pizza with bacon in cubes, the cubes were too cooked and they felt almost like rubber, they supposedly had onions added to the pizza, I could not find not one onion on this pizza, this pizza was blend very blend. Over all in my opinion, I am not sure why this place is so busy. the service is nothing special, there is no wifi, they do not know how to count to give a proper amount of menus. the place has no A/C and the food is at best mediocre. I will not be back.

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    Joaquina - Tapioca ice cream

    Joaquina

    4.3(52 reviews)
    2.5 kmLeme
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    After looking for authentic Brazilian food we came across this place & decided to give it a try…read more Drinks we had Moscow & Caperita both good, nice taste & good on the alcohol. On the food we tried Cassava crisp , lord all mighty was this good, great combo w the meat & the cassava. Next the Joaquin's picadinho , really good as well great flavors, great taste to the meat & the shredded rib rice , it was very good nice taste to this dish. We managed to have room left for dessert & had the Tapioca ice cream, another yummm really good & just the right amount of sweetness. This place seems to be very popular, we tried to come back another day but the wait was too long & we just didn't have the time to spare otherwise we would have waited. Nice looking place inside, we sat outside where they have a nice set up service is great they are very attentive, prices are reasonable & the food was delicious for sure worth the try.

    Came here and had a great experience. Service was good. Servers were able to make us comfortable…read moreand speak English, which was nice. It's a cute chill spot for dinner and drinks. Honorable mentions: Shredded Beef Rice- was delicious. Rice cooked to perfection and the beef had amazing flavor. Joaquina's picadinho- beef was a salty for my taste but flavors were delicious. Tapioca Shrimp- these were sooo good appetizers. Good size shrimps and the flavors were delicious. Pasteis (shrimp)- delicious! Came with 2 smaller empanada-type pastries. We wanted to order Pork Rinds and Mini Shrimp Burgers but ran out early that day. We ate around 8 pm so go earlier if you want to try. Definitely a great culinary experience.

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    Joaquina - Veggie Stroganoff, Chef's Rice, Fish in Shrimp Sauce

    Veggie Stroganoff, Chef's Rice, Fish in Shrimp Sauce

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