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Botecar Rio 2025

Culture • November 07, 2025

Botecar Rio 2025: Rio bars celebrate the “art with their hands” in the new edition of the Festival

By Adriano Dias

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Photo: Fabio Rossi

The Rio Bohemian scene is at a party. The traditional snack contest "Botecar Rio" takes place between November 12th and December 14th with an inspiring theme: "art with your hands". There will be 40 bars throughout the city that will participate in the dispute, inviting the public to prove creations..

The Rio Bohemian scene is at a party. The traditional snack contest "Botecar Rio" takes place between November 12th and December 14th with an inspiring theme: "art with your hands". There will be 40 bars throughout the city that will participate in the dispute, inviting the public to prove unpublished creations and celebrate the culture of the botecos, so linked to the carioca identity.

Among the news this year are the Bar Brasil, on Lapa, and Bar Bracarense, in the Leblon, both recognized as Cultural Heritage Carioca. They also debut in the competition Café do Bom Cachaça Good at the Centre; February Two, led by chef João Diamante, in Health; and Baron, in Inhaúma. The winners Bar Botica, in Botafogo, and Fish in Brasa, in the Leblon, in addition to the newly inaugurated Download, Brisa, Canned vegetables and Bar Missing, complete the list of news. From Lapa, the already known Jurema and Suru Bafo They are also present.

The veterans remain firm in the dispute: Cuddle Carioca, Pepper Winery, Prainha breath, Peanut Bar, Front Bar, Stone Bar, Smelly Goat's Bar, Momo's bar (champion of 2024), among other classics of the Rio scene.

In all, there are 18 bars in the South Zone, 14 in the North Zone and 8 between the Lapa and the Port Zone, with 33 days of tasting and discovery. Each participant will create an unprecedented snack inspired by an artist, craftsman or work linked to the city of Rio. In some addresses, the public may even know and acquire the works of the honored.

A festival, many tributes

No Download it, in Copacabana, artist Gabriel Labarba will be the center of the homage — he is a customer of the house and even works as a waiter in a few days. No Filling Sausage In Grajaú, works by painter Nelson Polzin will be exhibited and for sale, including a watercolor of the facade of the bar. The Suru Bafo, in the Lapa, will display fashion jewelry and handcrafted pieces by artist Edwiges Pereira, made with shells and scales.

O Bar Brasil, also in the Lapa, will pay tribute to Chilean Jorge Selarón, author of the iconic staircase that became a postcard of the neighborhood. Other bars, such as Portuguese bar, Old Adonis, Prainha breath, Pepper Winery and Baron Chopp and Petiscos They will also have spaces dedicated to honored artists.

Two addresses celebrate the unmistakable trace of Jaguar, cartoonist and regular bargoers Peanuts In Mary of Grace, and Real Chopp In Copacabana.

How's the contest gonna work?

The contest maintains the popular vote and the technical jury as evaluation criteria, each with a weight of 50%. The notes go from 0 to 5 and take into account snacks, environment, service and temperature of the drink. The suggested value for competing dishes varies between R$ 20 and R$ 45.

Inspired by the festival created in Belo Horizonte in 2014, the Rio edition of Botecar reinforces the importance of bars as meeting spaces, memory and creativity — after all, in Rio, art is also done with hands, with flavor and with good stories.

Complete list of participants:

Cuddle Carioca

Plate: Shrimp Gui - shrimps with and without bark in garlic and oil, with mandiocinha puree and pulled into nutmeg.

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Inspiration: Guilherme Studart, one of the biggest connoisseurs of Brazilian food, especially botequim, enters the menu in a special edition for Botecar, served in handmade games from the São Joaquim fair in Bahia.

Address: Rua Baron de Iguatemi 245 - Praça da Bandeira.
Timetable: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 11:00; Sunday, 12am to 6pm
Social networks: @aconchegocarioj

Pepper Winery

Plate: Take the tram - Bean-white stew made with pig's knee and artisanal sausage of the farm to give that little kick between one stop and another.

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Inspiration: A tribute to all the artisans of the most artistic neighborhood in the city and who are always open doors for new talents. In addition to pieces mined by local artists over the course of 40 years, the hall is possible to see panels painted on the walls, accompany the go and come from artists selling their works and, perhaps, take one home.

Address: 296 Admiral Alexandrino Street - Santa Teresa.
Timetable: Monday to Friday, 12 to 10 pm, Saturday, 12 to 8 pm, Sunday, 12 to 6 pm.
Social networks: @adegadopimenta

Prainha breath

Plate: Inverted gale - roasted gallet in the breath and served in pieces to the bird with ribs of corn on the coal.

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Inspiration: a tribute to the 70 year old craftsman symbol of Santa Teresa, Getúlio Damaso. The artist's pieces will be exposed in the salon.

Address: Largo de San Francisco da Prainha 15 - Health.
Timetable: Monday and Tuesday, 4:00 to 11:00; Wednesday to Saturday, 12 to midnight; Sunday, 12:00 to 9:00.
Social networks: @bafodaprainha

Download

Plate: Roll tower - pork belly, seasoned and rolled

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Inspiration: The classic becomes unique with traditional spices and gains personality through seams and familiar hooks — in a bar led by women.

Address: Voluntary Street of the Homeland 1, Shop 1 - Botafogo.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to midnight.
Social networks: @down. botafogo

Download it

Plate: Game cracker - sauteed chicken liver with colorful peppers, onion, garlic and pepper-smelling pickles and a bun that cannot be missed.

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Inspiration: Gabriel Labarba plays at 11! He's a friend, a client, he makes extras at the bar, and he's the author of the universe of metaphors with surreal references on display at the bar. Works of the artist were set in a democratic way, so that not only the bargoers appreciate the work, but also those who pass on the street.

Address: Queen Elisabeth 85 - Copacabana.
Timetable: Monday and Tuesday, 12am to 10pm; Wednesday and Thursday, 8:00 to 10:00; Friday and Saturday, 8:00 to midnight; Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (breakfast and snacks from 11:30 a.m.).
Social networks: @basixela. river

Bar Bracarense

Plate: Polentarte - six mini geometric compositions of golden polenta with bovine tongue ragu and citric touch.

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Inspiration: Inspiration: the dear client, friend and plastic artist Walney de Almeida. He has a long career in the plastic arts and the greatest inspiration of the traditional bar of the Leblon were his works in geometric and abstract arts. A tribute to the art you eat with your eyes.

Address: Rua José Linhares 85 store B - Leblon.
Timetable: Monday, from 11am to 10pm; Tuesday and Wednesday, from 11am to 11pm; Thursday to Saturday, from 11am to midnight; Sunday, from 11am to 9pm.
Social networks: @bar bracarense

Bar Brasil

Plate: Flavor steps - layers of mad meat made of seasoned shredded chest and apim puree.

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Inspiration: The most emblematic work of Chilean artist Jorge Selarón has been transformed into a snack to honor one of his most regular and distinguished visitors. The painter is responsible for the creation of escadaria Selarón, which links Lapa to Santa Teresa. City postcard, with 215 steps, the staircase created by it is full of layers. The tile staircase, built for a lifetime, is just a few blocks away. And the barroom has original works of the master.

Address: Av. Mem de Sá, 90 – Lapa.
Timetable: Tuesday to Saturday, from 11:00 to midnight; Sunday, 11:00 to 4:00.
Social networks: @barbrasil

Peanut Bar

Plate: Jaguar Beans - bean broth with sausage crowned with the most famous onion-dried dried beef and fried garlic in the city and served with greaves and cabbage.

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Inspiration: One of the cartoonists with the largest mileage of bars in the country, Jaguar parked several times on the corner of the almond tree. Of course, there's one of his unmistakable drawings and a painting with a text from his column on the bar.

Address: Rua Conde de Azambuja 881 - Maria da Graça.
Timetable: Monday, 9:00 to 4:00. Tuesday and Wednesday, 8:00 to 10:00. Thursday, 9:00 to 2:00. Friday, 8:00 to 10:00. Saturday, 8:00 to 8:00. Sundays, December only, from 9:00 to 4:00.
Social networks: @bardaamendoeira01

Front Bar (Copacabana and Flag Square)

Plate: Little Flour My Pyrus First - radish, shredded radish and mini cress, served in the pottery made by the honored artisan: Ju Ayroso

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Inspiration: The designer and artist ceramist Ju Ayroso. After years of acting in different areas of design found in ceramic a field of creation where graphic thinking and manual making meet. Since 2019, he has developed copyrights in small prints, in which clay becomes a surface to experience compositions, rhythms and textures. His work starts from the look of design, but gains body in the making, touch and time of the process. Thus, each piece becomes a unique story, a conversation between the rigor of the project and the spontaneity of the hands.

Addresses: Rua Baron de Iguatemi 388 - Praça da Bandeira and Rua Almirante Gonçalves, 29B - Copacabana.
Timetable: Wednesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 10:00. Sunday, 12:00 to 5:00. (Place of the Flag); Every day from 11:00 to 11:00 (Copacabana).
Social networks: @bardafront

Portuguese bar

Plate: LaMaJu - Dondon’s unmistakable cod muffin trio, stuffed with whole shrimp and served with the house’s olive sauce.

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Inspiration: The interventions made by the matriarch's granddaughters Lara, Manu and Ju, who are all over the bar on permanent display. LaMaJu are the initials of their names.

Address: 155 Custódio Nunes, D-Ramos store.
Timetable: Tuesday to Friday, 5:00 to midnight; Saturday, from 11:00 to 6:00; Sunday, 11:00 to 5:00.
Social networks: Other Organiser

Momo's bar

Plate: From Carne-Dame to Notre-Dame de Paris - delicious beef-dried in the meat sauce, with kale vinaigrette and tangerine and pumpkin pickles, accompanies bread.

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Inspiration: Momo's dish, festival champion bar last year, is inspired by the craftsmen of the carnaval. You'll honor the great Magellan Rose and the Willow. The dish is inspired by the 1991 samba enredo of the Tijucana school, when Rosa Magalhães was the carnivalesca. The idea of the dish came from a conversation with historian Luiz Antonio Simas, friend and frequenter of the bar.

Address: Rua General Espírito Santo Cardoso, 50, shop A – Tijuca.
Timetable: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 12am to 10pm; Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00.
Social networks: @bardomomomofficial

Trotta bar

Plate: The Berg - gnocchi muffins stuffed with roast meat. Follow the sauce to get his fingers licked.

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Inspiration: A version to eat with the hands of Berg's favorite dish, friend and photographer of joy and treats. The tribute goes beyond taste. The snack is served with a newspaper, printed on the mimeographer, that His Adolfo would read himself. During the festival there will be an exhibition of the gastronomic photographs made by Berg in bars of the city.

Address: Rua Dona Zulmira, 109 – Maracanã.
Timetable: Tuesday to Friday, 5:00 to midnight; Saturday, 12 to midnight; Sunday, 12:00 to 10:00.
Social networks: @bardotrotta

Bar Madrid

Plate: Julio Iglesias Bico Grain - chickpea tap with spinach and fine sausage.

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Inspiration: In the late 1980s, the patron of the bar that names the snack inspired a series of tiles with its signature. Soon they gained status as a work of art. No wonder, one of the walls of the little piece of Spain in Tijuca has a web of blue and black ceramic plates.

Address: Almirante Gavião street number 11-F and G, Tijuca.
Timetable: Wednesday to Sunday, from 11:00 to 6:00.
Social networks:@barmadrid

Bar Missing

Plate: Only in the double knitting of cheese sticks with purple onions.

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Inspiration: That the bar is the perfect place to catch up, we have no doubt. And so our open pies represent the knitting done during the review, between a toast and another.

Address: 54 Street Matrix - Botafogo.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 to midnight.
Social networks: @obarsauty

Urca Bar

Plate: Trio is a tradition in the Urca mureta: three pairs of the most famous mini-balls in the bar: cod, champheus (chamber with catupiry) and terrinha (codfish cake stuffed with Portuguese cheese and sausage).

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Inspiration: Bruno de Souza's panel that is incorporated into the bar, one of the most traditional in the city, and can be enjoyed while eating the snack with an iced drink on the counter.

Address: Candido Gaffree 205 Street - Urca
Timetable: Daily, from 8:00 to 11:00
Social networks: @barurca

Smelly Goat's Bar

Plate: Gluing Memories - Mocoto broth with folding, spout of greaves and fried cabbage.

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Inspiration: The collages of historian and collagist artist Lili Rose Cruz Oliveira that stamp the wall of the bar, Cultural Heritage Carioca, which just turned 80. Lili created an exclusive art for the festival, with images that refer to the history of the chosen dish, the bar and the surroundings – like the Public Slaughterhouse that worked between 1853 and 1881, in the Praça da Bandeira, close by, and ended because it caused bad smell. A curiosity revealed by the artist is that the Praça da Bandeira has already been called Largo do Matadoro and its only vestige is the neoclassical portico, currently located next to the National School of Circus.

Address: Rue General Canabarro 218 - Maracanã.
Timetable: Tuesday to Saturday, from 11:30 to 10:30; Sunday, 11:00 to 6:00.
Social networks: @bardobodechoso

Baron Chopp and Petiscos

Plate: Porcelana Carioca: hidden from creamy aipim stuffed with smoked pork rib to the soft sauce of gorgonzola, finished with gratined mozzarella and pique pepper

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Inspiration: The snack is a tribute to the story of Lucimere David, an artisan born in the community of Jacarezinho, northern Rio, who, like many Rio women, raised his children with the income of cold porcelain, popularly known as biscuit. His work surprises with sensitivity and perfection in art form.

Address: Rua Padre Januário, 83 Loja B - Inhaúma.
Timetable: Tuesday to Friday, from 5:00 to 1:00; Saturday, from 12:00 to 1:00; Sunday, from 12:00 to 10:00.
Social networks: @baraochopppetis

Boteco Quinta Category

Plate: 5th - feijoada batucada dried with calabresa sausage, dried meat, loin, ear and pig’s foot, all at the right point. Accompanies the house's farofinha, orange, pepper-pie to warm and a dose of lemon from the house to get into rhythm.

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Inspiration: Heitor dos Prazeres was a carioca suburb craftsman, painting or musicing the city, samba, botequins and feijoadas. In his honor, the dish will be served in a tambourine.

Address: Rua Paulo Barreto 25 Loja C - Botafogo.
Timetable: Monday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 10:00; Sunday, from 12:00 to 9:00.
Social networks: @boteco5category

Bar Botica

Plate: Cod cake - potato and cod cake around egg with soft yolk and empanado in panko flour

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Inspiration: cartoonist Arnaldo Branco. Since the inauguration in 2022, Botica has held a series of cultural exhibitions and interventions. Arnaldo Branco's cartoons and cartoons, friend and client of the bar, have already been between the tables and walls of the house of Botafogo.

Address: Rua Fernandes Guimarães, 30 - Botafogo.
Timetable: Tuesday to Thursday, from 18h to 1h; Friday, from 18h to 2h; Saturday, from 14h to 2h; Sunday, from 14h to 23h.
Social networks: @obarbotica

Catete Brise

Plate: Heart with gizzard: heart and gizzard with farofa.

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Inspiration: The most visceral dish of Brazilian botequins is born of the power of a kitchen led by women — and it carries in each season the flavor that enriches the Rio cuisine and inspires new creations.

Address: Rua Artur Bernardes 24 - Catete.
Timetable: Tuesday, 5:00 to midnight. Wednesday to Friday, 12:00 to midnight. Saturday, 1:00 to midnight.
Social networks: @brisa. catete

Café do Bom Cachaça da Boa

Plate: Tareco - a mountain of cheese bread and parmesan toasts for you to ride as you wish.

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Inspiration: Between the floor gums, which have kept stories since 1905, and the crispy Tareco, there is something in common: time. Both are born of artisanal care. The molded floor piece by piece, the hand-made salty with strips of cheese bread and fresh parmesan. One is preserved memory, the other is created flavor. Together, they tell about the beauty of what is done slowly, with attention and soul.

Address: Carioca Street, 10 - Center
Timetable: Monday and Tuesday, 10:30 to 6:30; Wednesday to Friday, from 11:00 to 8:00; Saturday, 10:30 to 2:30
Social networks: ♪ Caffedo bom cachacaboa ♪

Capiau

Plate: Quermesse of the Master - sun meat matured with manibé, the black tucupi (indigenous shoyu made of cassava), sliced and served with crushed polenta fried and pork broth.

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Inspiration: Celebrating Master J. Borges, Chef Diogo Melão was inspired by the craze of the agreste de pernambuco depicted in his woodcuts.

Address: Rua Miguel Couto 124 A - Center (Esquina do Largo de Santa Rita -Beco das Sardines).
Timetable: Monday, 12am to 10pm; Tuesday and Wednesday, 12am to 6pm; Thursday and Friday, from 12:00 to 11:00; Saturday, noon to 6:00.
Social networks: @capiaubotequin

Port House

Plate: Liver frown with jiló - traditional dish that many first-travel sailors show their frown before tasting, but that the taste is a pier that leads us to the past: liver steak onions with fried jillo.

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Inspiration: The traditional frowns are sculptures of artisans, initially placed on the bow of boats of the São Francisco River to ward off evil spirits and protect travelers.

Address: Largo de San Francisco da Prainha, 4 - Soprado, Saúde.
Timetable: Tuesday and Wednesday, 12am to 10pm; Thursday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 11:00; Sunday, 12:00 to 9:00.
Social networks: @casaport. river

Canned vegetables

Plate: Mad Meat of the Peo - mad meat made with lizard cooked for six hours and preserved in mixture of olive oil, olives and spices, and grape pickles, to eat of toothpick.

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Inspiration: Peu Lima, graphic artist responsible for the art of the bar, created initially with toothpicks at a bar table. Several of its arts stamp the walls of houses of Rio and Brazil, as the flag “Only in Brazil”.

Address: 281 Prado Junior Avenue - Copacabana.
Timetable: Wednesday to Friday, from 18h to 1h; Saturday, from 12h to 1h; Sunday, from 12h to 9h.
Social networks: @conservebar

Stone Bar

Plate: Street Mixxxtura - Handmade sausage made with feijoada meats, orange vinaigrette and crispy cabbage farofa.

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Inspiration: the graffiti artists Marcelo Eco and Eduardo Fernandes, who dialogue with the places where they are inserted and the urban landscapes. The arts that decorate the walls of the bar are theirs.

Address: Rua Zulmira 134 - Maracanã.
Timetable: Tuesday to Thursday, from 5:00 to midnight; Friday and Saturday, 12:00 to midnight, Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00.
Social networks: @bardagema

February Two

Plate: Aunt Coxinha - Rio and Salvador join in the February Two with chef João Diamante's trio of pussy.

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Inspiration: a tribute to the Bahian master, artist and craftsman Tia Lúcia, cultural symbol of Little Africa.

Address: 79 Sacadura Cabral Street - Cheers.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:30 to 6 pm (kitchen until 5 pm).
Social networks: @two.de.February

Filling Sausage

Plate: Joelhó - Jiló tempura served with shredded pork knee and cheese cream.

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Inspiration:Homage to Nelson Polzin, great watercolor artist, friend of the house since the opening and, of course, passionate about jiló and knee. Nelson has already made the local meeting bar of painter artists and reference for some of his works.

Address: Av. Engineer Richard 2 - Grajaú.
Timetable: Monday to Thursday, 11:00 to midnight. Friday and Saturday, 11:00 to 1:00. Sunday, 11:00 to 9:00.
Social networks: @enchendolinguica

Jobá

Plate: Garlic Garments - Garments served with fried egg and potato house straw.

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Inspiration: Architect of the project that gave life to the younger brother of Jobi is also the author of the paintings that tempers the salon with lightness and brazil. The paintings are part of the fixed setting of the hall.

Address: Ataulfo de Paiva 1174, store A - Leblon.
Timetable: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 3:00.
Social networks: @joba.botecocarioca

Jobi

Plate: Michelangelo - Portuguese double sardines.

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Inspiration: Cultural heritage of the city, Jobi boasts a Nilton Bravo original, known as Michelangelo dos Botequins, in the lounge. The 1987 painting was restored in 2024 and is as traditional as Portuguese sardines in a bar of Portuguese origin.

Address: Ataulfo de Paiva 1166, store B - Leblon.
Timetable: Every day from 11:00 to 3:00.
Social networks: @bar jobi

Jurema

Plate: Sausage wrap – handmade sausage empanada on the rice leaf with green tomato preserve and spicy mayonnaise.

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Inspiration: interpretation of the classic sausage wrapper from the bakeries. With inspired phrases, João Cordel is the artist who paints the paintings and walls of Jurema, as he inspires the kitchen to create new authentic flavors, rereadings and copyright every day.

Address: 47 Morais and Vale Street - Lapa.
Timetable: Monday and Wednesday, from 17h to midnight; Thursday and Friday, from 17h to 2h (Tuesday closed); Saturday, from 12h to 2h; Sunday, from 12h to 20h.
Social networks: @jurema. bar

Kalango

Plate: Sertão hot dog - brioche bread, two sausages with curd cheese cream and curd cheese pipoquinha, served with maxix vinaigrette.

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Inspiration: Yang of Peace, sculptor of the Iron Island (Alagoas), which transforms branches and trunks into art. Son of master Petronium, it is the artist's lizard kalango in wood that prints the wall of the bar.

Address: 44 Arnaldo Quintela Street - Botafogo.
Timetable: Monday to Thursday, from 5:00 to 0.20; Friday and Saturday, 12h to 2h; Sunday, 12:00 to 10:00.
Social networks: @barkalango

Back at Rosi

Plate: Art in the Can: double cod popsicle with cod wanker, Paio cooked in red wine and black olive and lupins.

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Inspiration: Rogério Fonseca's virtue of transforming cans into art is the starting point of the snack designed by Rosi. The raw material is there, but who decides how the final work will be, it's you.

Address: Zombie Beach, kiosk 0, in front of number 75.
Timetable: Thursday to Saturday, 5:30 to 11:00; Sunday, 12 to 4:30.
Social networks: @lanarosibar

Black peacock

Plate: Beira peacock Sea - feijoada of seafood, made with the best of our coast and served with golden flake corn.

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Inspiration: Homage to the fishermen of Colony Z-13, who daily cast their nets with courage and tradition, daily. The real guardians of the flavor that comes to our table.

Address: Rua Barata Ribeiro 354, shop E - Copacabana.
Timetable: Every day from 12:00 to midnight (Saturday, until 12:30)
Social networks: @pavaoblackofficial

Fish in Brasa

Plate: Trio di Rocha - trio of tapioquinhas stuffed with shrimp with catupiry, pirarucu with jambu and crab with tucupi.

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Inspiration: The art of the Barro Company narrows the Rio-Belém connection, mixing traditions, innovative techniques and now flavor. It is the union of clay and gastronomy shaped with love, transformed into history, culture and feeling. The dish of cook Adriana Veloso, created exclusively for the festival, will be served in the ceramic pieces of the Company of Barro, the couple Josimar, carioca, and Rosiane, paraense.

Address: 97 João Lira Street - Leblon.
Timetable: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 to 11:00. Sunday, 11:00 to 6:00.
Social networks: @fished nabrasa

Petisqueira Martinho

Plate: Octopus in the burrow - hidden from baroa potato with nutmeg, with octopus filling with colored peppers, smoked paprika and pepper-pie.

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Inspiration: The nice little fish that looks like Petisqueira was hooked when the salon opened in 2007. The mascot, however, represents the generations of fishermen who have been supplying the place for more than 50 years, since it was only a fishmonger.

Address: Jequiá Beach 33 - Ribeira.
Timetable: Tuesday and Sunday, 11:30 to 5:00. Wednesday, 11:00 to 11:00.
Social networks: @petisqueiramartinho

Quitanda

Plate: Trio of smoked ribs with mayonnaise of cress.

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Inspiration: Tadeu Tenak. Created from São Salvador Square, he prints his characters through the city walls through the stencil. Players, personalities, from Nilton Santos to Loco Abreu, the fervent Botafoguense painted the constellation alvinegra on the walls of General Severiano and Engenhão and will be the tribute of Quitanda at the Festival Botecar. Loading the tradition of the bar, the snack chosen was the Coxinha Sem Massa that, this season, comes revisited of smoked beef rib and mayonnaise of cress referring to the plural taste of the artist and was already baptized from Madrinha in a long-lived mention of Beth Carvalho, already eternalized with a stencil on the wall of the bar.

Address: Rua Andrade Belongs, 42D - Catete.
Timetable: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from 3pm to 10pm; Saturday, from 1pm to 10pm; Sunday, from 1pm to 9pm.
Social networks: @quitandagastronomy

Real Chopp

Plate: Half by half a dose of dried meat and rib cakes stuffed with creamy cheese

Botecar Rio 2025: Rio bars celebrate the “art with their hands” in the new edition of the Festival
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Inspiration: It was Jaguar who renamed the bar. “Real Juices? I've never seen a juice come out here. From today, it is Real Chopp!”. In addition to being one of the best chops in the city, it is one of the few places in the Rio that serves dark or half-way.

Address: Rua Barata Ribeiro 319 - Copacabana
Timetable: Tuesday to Saturday, 8:00 to 1:00. Sunday, 9:00 to midnight.
Social networks: @realchopprj

Suru Bafo

Plate: Seajewels - double fish kibe and mussel pastel, accompanied by a garlic and mint sauce

Botecar Rio 2025: Rio bars celebrate the “art with their hands” in the new edition of the Festival
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Inspiration: Directly from Cabo Frio, artisan Edwiges Pereira, aunt of Suru Bafo's chef Yandara Karuna, turns the ocean into art and flavor. Her work begins at fishing itself: she herself collects fish, mussels and other seafood. The edible parts have become authentic recipes, which shine at gastronomic festivals in the region. But what many would rule out, like scales, shells and shells, Edwiges turns into beauty.

Address: 128 Lapa Street - Lapa.
Timetable: To have it, from 5:00 to 1:00, sex. and sat., from 12h to 1h; gift, from 12h to 20h
Social networks: @surubafo. rj

Old Adonis

Plate: Croquette St. Sebastian - octopus croquette with rice and panko parmesan, served with colored pepper vinaigrette.

Botecar Rio 2025: Rio bars celebrate the “art with their hands” in the new edition of the Festival
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Inspiration: St. George is the saint of the boats. But in Rio de Janeiro, there is nothing fairer than the patron saint of the city. In the Old Adonis, one of José Everaldo Ferreira da Silva's most beautiful pieces is featured in the salon. Popular craftsman, his art represents Ceará and has already arrived even in the hands of Pope Francis.

Address: Rua São Luiz Gonzaga 2156 - Benfica
Timetable: Tuesday to Thursday, 10:00 to 10:00. Friday and Saturday, 10:00 to 11:00. Sunday, 10:00 to 7:00.
Social networks: @oldadonis

Zuza Fish Bar

Plate: Shrimp banana - ground banana fried cake stuffed with shrimps and breaded in grated coconut

Botecar Rio 2025: Rio bars celebrate the “art with their hands” in the new edition of the Festival
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Inspiration: tribute to the People of Fiber project where artisans from the north of the state develop products with banana fiber.

Address: Marquis de Abrantes Street, 1 - store A - Flamengo
Timetable: Monday to Thursday, 4:00 to 11:00, Friday and Saturday, 12:00 to 11:00. Sunday, 12:00 to 5:00.
Social networks: @zuzafishbar

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