Cantinho De Ipanema - Guaratiba

Speedy service, good food, friendly staff and good drinks. Empanadas are tasty, steak with mustard sauce is good but comes medium rare to rare so be sure to specify if you like a different cook. Be careful at the end especially, they bring a dessert claiming it's free and then charge you for it which is why I'm taking off a star.

Great staff, good food. I only give it 4 stars because I was there for Carnaval and the team seemed exhausted during dinner service, kept different sending people and forgetting things. Would've been cool to experience the Dante (NYC) partnership. We were not told that bar closed exactly when our dinner reservation began. Beautiful location in general.

Great location next to the beach. My meals was good fried shrimp and cheese with vegetables Brice and fries. My wife had a spinach and cheese omlet that was ok at best. The the Cheese empanadas the others I would pass on. Service here was a little slow and the security guard checks you receipt to make sure you paid before they let you out. If I was close to the beach again this place would be on my list.

Spotted this place while walking down Av. Vieira Souto after sunset. It was pretty busy but there were some open tables. The #1 thing I would have loved to try was Oxtails with polenta. Love love oxtails....but it 's served on Fridays. Had a hard time deciding so I went with Spicy shrimp risotto. It wasn 't spicy AT ALL. It tasted ok. Nothing to rave about. It was cheesy. The shrimp did not have a rubbery or fishy taste, so that 's good. Later on I ordered brigadeiro no pote , which I thought might be presented as a truffle ball but it was not. I had no access to the internet so I could not figure out what no pote means. Tasted like a small bowl of thick, smooth chocolate pudding. Rich taste. None of the waiters could speak or understand English completely. My friend and I were confused by the bill because there was no mention of the 10% tipping. After my friend paid her meal, the waiter showed me the remaining amount to pay on a calculator, which was higher than what was shown on the bill. It wasn 't until a few days later that we discovered that the extra amount was tips and not service tax. It would help if they display tip/gratuity on the bill for better clarification.

Fun restaurant to visit not a foodie place however a fun place with live music and decent bar food! ended up meeting fun Americans and what was supposed to be a stopover for a pint resulted into several hours of fun. Will be stopping by again.