Culinary Chaos: Eating in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dear fellow traveler, this is not your typical Rio de Janeiro restaurant guide. The recommendations contained herein are born of my own experiences, though on certain miserable occasions where I could not visit a restaurant myself, I have relied on the accounts of experts - people whose professional lives are spent in the pursuit of a decent crust of bread.

I must warn you: despite the sometimes gloomy tone of my writing, the dishes and establishments mentioned are, regrettably, quite real and currently serving the public. So if you have landed on this page in the hope of finding a simple, cheerful guide to Rio de Janeiro food and restaurants, I must, with a grim sigh and the sound of distant samba music, inform you that you have made a terrible miscalculation.

Hope, as any experienced traveler knows, is a flimsy currency in the face of true Brazilian gastronomy. To eat here is not a casual indulgence; it is a dizzying, relentless ordeal of texture, flavor, and sheer, catastrophic volume. This guide is not a menu of delights, but a warning - a long list of the inevitable dangers that await a delicate palate. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).