Rio Gastronomy Show Award 2024

The newspaper Globo announces annually the winners of the Rio Gastronomy Show Award 2024, which celebrates the restaurants and chefs that stood out in the last year. Check out below, with Globo review:

Best Chef: John Paul Frankenfeld (House 201)

The site is very discreet, almost profile of a secret restaurant, of those that good fame runs to the small mouth (but greedy). Not by chance: House 201, in the Jardim Botânico, is a unique space, from the beautiful salon to the nearness of the service, but mainly by the quality of the kitchen of João Paulo Frankenfeld, perhaps one of the most complete chefs in the city. Practically all the ingredients used to prepare the dishes are made right there on the second floor. Cheeses, sausages, mustards, breads, chocolates, ice cream: everything comes out of the hands of this 40-year-old carioca, who as a young man wanted to be a basketball player. He ended up trading the ball for the pots and going to study at the Paul Bocuse Institute in France. Then he stayed for ten years in star cuisines in Paris, Lyon, Versailles... Upon returning to Rio, he continued in French territory: he took over as head chef of cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu school. In a master move, he decided to bet on the solo flight.

The appetizers that open the work on the winter menu give an overview of what is to come: mussel tartellette with oyster emulsion and crispy bourguignon. Then surprises such as beet gnocchi with smoked duck, macadamia and goat cheese sauce; and crispy pork belly with smoked corn, peas, potatoes and honey sauce with cocoa. The guava entremet with cheese and pistachio and the petit four trio close the Babette-worthy party. It's a big deal.

Addresses: Rua Lopes Quintas 201, Jardim Botânico

Timetable: Have the sat at 8:00.

Tel.: 96707-0201

Social network: Instagram

Chef Revelation: Vanessa Rocha (Maria and Boi)

Vanessa Rocha is from Guaratiba, daughter and granddaughter of fisherman and mother of the good. It turned out: early in the morning he enjoyed the kitchen, the recipes, the research. For 13 years he has been half a mother of the quartet Erik Nako, Luiz “Petit” Santos, Cristiano Lanna and André Korenblum, who play together Pabu, Baduk, Ko Ba and Maria and Boi. When it opened, the latter was “the meat house” of the group, but ended up turning towards Brazilian cuisine when Vanessa took the reins. “Mamuska always surprises us. Day of these included in the menu the damorida, a type of fish moqueca with typical tucupi of Roraima that we had never heard of ", says Luiz Santos.

In Maria and Boi, which is indicated by Bib Gourmand Michelin, it is possible to take a walk without turbulence through the Brazilian table, with accurate rereadings.

Addresses: Rua Maria Quitéria 111, Ipanema

Timetable: We'll take it from 12:00 to 11:00. Sex and sat, 12 to 11:30. Dom, 12 to 10.

Telephone: 3502-4634

Social network: Instagram

Special Prize 100 years: Columbus Confectionery

At the beginning of the last century, the chickens used in the filling of the thigh cream, absolute success among the Colombo chips, were delivered alive in the city center. No problem: the imposing building, a symbol of Belle Époque carioca, had a henhouse in the penthouse to accommodate the galinaceous, which (before entering the knife) were treated there to lo bread. This, by the way, was one of the favorite sweets of the writer Machado de Assis, one of the distinguished frequenters. Snack? I liked the cheese and ham. Olav Bilac was fed up with the stuffed shrimps.

A hundred and thirty years later, to be completed in September, the attractions follow online, and the Colombo Confectionery, in great shape. In July alone there were 2,000 people a day, says Rodolfo Assis, current manager of the house. A classic, like the house.

Addresses: Rua Gonçalves Dias 32, Centro

Timetable: From 11:00 to 6:00.

Tel.: 99609-7780

Social network: Website

Best Benefit Cost: Toto

It is the first solo and authorial restaurant of Thomas Troisgros, who, not by chance, was baptized with the affectionate nickname given by his grandfather Pierre Troisgros, the patriarch of this clan of great cooks. With a few months of operation and many accumulating compliments, Toto has inventive and quality preparations served in a simple environment with inviting prices. The menu brings affective recipes not only from family, but also from friends and things the chef ate and liked around the world.

Up a floor, where Thomas also commands Oseille, the thing changes figure: there he receives with menu tasting of copyright recipes with techniques of high gastronomy... French, bien sur.

Address: Rua Joana Angélica 155, Ipanema

Timetable: Daily, from noon to midnight

Telephone: 97621-4097

Social network: Instagram

Best Contemporary: Lasai

Best French: Didier

Best Portuguese: ♪ Gold Man ♪

Best Asian: Si-Chou

Best Brazilian: Sofia

Best Japanese: San Omasake

Best Italian: Cipriani

Best Meat: Giuseppe Grill