The best bars and cafés Rio De Janeiro

Like other establishments that are part of Carioca's cultural heritage, the Armazem Cardosao is now classified by the city of Rio de Janeiro. Like the Armazem do Senado, this establishment was a grocery store. It is considered the most traditional boteco in the Laranjeiras neighborhood. Elegantly installed in a corner of a busy street on weekends, samba bands animate it and give this place a soul of its own. You can have a drink. An excellent feijoada is offered on Saturdays. To discover!

The Santa Teresa hotel bar is certainly a place of refinement, worthy of the hotel in which it is housed: it offers a relaxed lounge atmosphere, where Brazilian jazz notes are played. From 8pm, the bar offers ao vivo music. A DJ entertains on Fridays, and on Saturdays and Sundays, a jazz concert livens up the beautiful evenings of Santa Teresa. The sunset over Rio is magnificent. When you sip a caipirinha with red (or yellow) fruits, you are close to paradise... Nice cocktail menu.

The Garota de Urca is part of the chain of Garotas bars and restaurants. Of course, the first and most famous one will always be the one in Ipanema, but the Garota da Urca has its own little magic touch. A few steps away from the Sugarloaf, Rio's postcard, the Garota has a magnificent view of the Guanabara Bay. It is certainly an excellent place to nibble bolinhos de bacalhau (codfish balls) and drink a little chopp (draft beer) after visiting the Pão de Açucar, at sunset.

The Agô bar ("thank you" in Yoruba, one of the idioms spoken during Candomblé ceremonies) is a great discovery in Santa Teresa. Kananda Soares, who created the concept store "Favela Hype", is behind this bar that honors the Afro-Brazilian origins of the place. Stylized paintings of orixas set the tone. The decoration mixes new and ancestral, like the cocktail menu. (Agua de Oxum, Vulgo Malvadao) and dishes (pork loin flambéed with cachaça). Very good music some evenings. A "place to be" in Santa Teresa!