A delicatessan with tables on the pavement and very nice sandwiches and expresso. Often there is a queue for tables but that is because is is worth the wait.
JOBI
The best bar to have a choppe in Leblon. Odd mix of people that is reminiscent of the Coach and Horses in Soho
Gets incredibly noisy after about 8.30.
LIVRAIRIA LETRAS & EXPRESSOES Av. Ataulfo de Paiva 1292
All night bookshop with a very nice tiny cafe on the balcony at the back.CAFE VENANCIA Rua General Venancio Flores
Ok coffee and sandwich . Sat and watched a women with no legs, take her wheelchair up to every car at the traffic lights for an hour and not sell a single thing from her tray.
FELLINI R. General Urquisa and R. Professor Artur Rovos
This is the best quality pay by weight buffet restaurant that I have been to in Brazil. Pricey but really nice food. (R$4.19/100gm)
BALADA SUMOS Av Ataulfo de Paiva 620
Nice cheap sandwich place on the high street with a couple of benches outside for a good value fruit juice and a sandwich.
GEORGIOS
A complete contrast next door the the Balada Sumos. This is the classiest restaurant I think I have ever been in with incredible individual décor. A very posh bar in the front and a small restaurant at the back with traditional white linen incredible high ceiling and loads of waiters around attending to your every need. I had a fabulous musroom risotto and best Martini I've tasted
BAR BRACARENSE off the high street on R. Jose Linhares
Great place to go if you fancy an early beer. Interesting range of clientell similar to the Jobi but the intensity of the noise gets too an incredible level. As most of the tables are on the pavement I imagine the neighbours must all have the airconditioning on and the windows closed.
ALAVARO'S Avenida de Paiva 500 (on the corner with R. Cupertino Durao)
Very traditional Portuguese style restaurant with waiers who look like they have been there for ever. Apparently this is the sort of restaurant that locals remember coming to with their parents and then bring their own children)
BELMONTE LEBLONOn Rua dias Ferreira.
Very nice place for a few beers, they come round with nice snacks. Do some very nice fish meals as well. Noise level lower than Jobi.
ZONA SUL On the corner of Ferreira and Rua General Artiga.
It is a fancy delicatessan version of the common supermarket chain. But they have a dozen tables and serve very nice pizzas. You help yourself to booze off the shelves and then have the empties scanned while you leave. Even more enjoyable than the pizza is the idea of a supermarket meal sitting shoulder to shoulder with the wealthy of Leblon. (it doesn't happen in Tesco at Winnal)
ARGOMENTO Rua Dias Ferreira 417, Leblon
Bookshop with a superior sort of cafe that do a stunning breakfast buffet and nice expresso.
IN SHOPPING LEBLON THE ATTRACTIONS ARE
Comfortable seats on 1o Piso with holders for laptops and free fast wireless broadband.
On the 2o Piso there is a great bookshop with a bar, restaurant on a balcony that seems to be floating above the bookshelves. Good for a expresso, beer or beer and Tapas. (or palmito soup)
On the 4o Piso there are 2 attractions,
Ta Facchia who do nice italian filled breads.
The Cinema Bar. Good in the day for an expresso, use the internet and views over the Lagoa. And better in the evening for a couple of beers. They serve their choppies in proper sized half pint glasses. (If you are hungry the smell of popcorn from the cinema is pretty distracting.)
Further afield in IPANEMA we have;
YOGOBERRY
It is hard to believe that something as delicious as a frozen natural yoghurt can really be that delicious and healthy. (if it isn't really that healthy then don't tell me)
??? Opposite Praca Nossa Senhora de Paz on R. Barao de Torre
They do the most fabulous healthy juices and snacks on a semi-open platform overlooking the park. A great place on a sunday afternoon unless you are feeling too insecure to cope with being completely surrounded by confident young beautiful successful people.
And in the other direction in GAVEA is
BRASEIRO DA GAVEA Pca Santos Dumont 11, Baixo, Gavea
A pretty traditional restaurant doing straighforward food but very nice.
Good place to go after a shopping trip to buy underwear and t-shirts in the Taco shop in Shopping Gavea.
In the centre of town near URUGUIANIA
Restaurant Lebanon.
Good range of arab food. Good place to have a snack of humus and arab bread to escape the shopping in
Sahara.
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