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    Carretão

    4.0 (57 reviews)
    Open 12:00 pm - 11:30 PM

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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Dani J.

    Great experience. I Highly recommend this restaurant. They are attentive to customers' needs and the food is good.

    Absolutely amazing. Great good. Great value. The staff really went out of their way to help us tired Americans.

    Great good. Amazing value. The staff really went out of their way to help us tired Americans.

    Patterson's C.

    This was an amazing restaurant to dine at. We were willing to walk from Copacabana to Panema just experience authentic Brazilian cuisine and dining. All of the food, served and buffet, was fresh. Thank you, Claudio, for making sure we had a great time. Este foi um restaurante incrível para jantar. Nós estávamos dispostos a caminhar de Copacabana para Panema apenas experimentar a autêntica cozinha brasileira e jantar. Toda a comida, servido e buffet, estava fresco. Obrigado, Claudio, por nos certificarmos de que nos divertimos muito. #AuthenticDining #Groupon #BestRestaurants #DiningInBrazil

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    Victoria B.

    I'm giving this place 4 for the food, not the service. When in Rio I definitely recommend trying a Churrascaria at least once and this place is very well known. Make sure you warm up your stomach and don't snack too much before visiting this place because you will eat a LOT. Basically the idea is you sit down and they give you a little card that says 'yes' or 'no'. Yes being 'please give me more delicious meat' and no meaning 'i just had to undo the top button on my pants, I can't eat anymore'. You leave it on the table whichever way up you feel. Waiters come round with all sorts of delicious cuts of meat and carve it right onto your plate. They keep coming...and coming...it's never ending. You get your money's worth! There's a salad bar which is really fresh and delicious but don't fill up to much on the salad- leave room for the meat! They also bring you an assortment of things for the table- mainly carbs because boy do Brazilians love their carbs! Potatoes, rice, caramelised plantains etc. Can't fault the food and went here twice in Copcabana. However the second time one of the waiters was incredibly rude and since we couldn't understand Portuguese we just couldn't understand why. Basically we kept refusing the meat coming round and then he would get really upset- he might have been implying we ate too much salad? I don't know. It was all very odd but he seemed quite angry and it made the experience seem very uncomfortable. All the other waiters were fine.

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    One of the best churros arias and reasonable in price. Would recommend--a little light on seafood..but you're in Brazil!!!

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    Decent. Overbearing staff. Good food though. Was overwhelmed by the frequency of the rodizio.

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    Come hungry as there is a never ending supply of various delicious meats to try as well as the buffet style sides.

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    Frontera

    3.3(20 reviews)
    2.2 kmIpanema
    $$$

    Before checking out Ipanema Beach for the first time, my buddy and I checked out Frontera for…read morelunch. This Brazilian restaurant was recommended in my guidebook for its buffet so we decided to give things a try. Upon walking in, I was impressed with the aesthetics of this restaurant. It's a large restaurant with nice, wooden booths and the decor is similarly impressive. The World Cup was going on while we were there and they had the game playing on a projector. Now let's get to the good stuff. This is a large buffet with a ton of options. We're talking all different types of meats, sides, appetizers, desserts . . . I would guess that there were at least 100 items to choose from. For someone who loves variety, I was in heaven. With the variety, the quality was there too. One of my favorites was the churrascaria-style meats that are carved in front of you at the buffet. To wash it all down, I ordered two fresh juices. This is truly a feast and one of my favorite dining experiences I had in Brazil.

    Buffets are super popular in Brazil. We came to this one in Ipanema for lunch. Given Rio's…read moreperpetual sunniness this is probably not a place I'd choose again for a daytime meal given how dark the interior was. Food-wise there was a lot of selection ranging from rice and beans to many types of meat, salads and sushi. You can pay by weight or choose the all you can eat option for a flat rate.

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