Boteco Belmonte - Rio de Janeiro

They service was amazing and the atmosphere was comfortable with an open restaurant space with great air conditioning and food was great. Dessert was delicious!

This was one of our best experiences in Brazil. The food was delicious and it was a lot of food. The setting was super nice, we had a table up on the top floor overlooking Ipanema beach. The waiters were attentive and I can't say enough nice things about it!

Here you will have to get some street parking as there are not that many paid parking spots and I did not happen to see any lots around, I would say to just either walk here if you are around or take the term of bus. The place is pretty spacious and have a lot of sitting in a balcony style at the outer bother of the restaurant that they provide stools at the side walk. The place is very busy at night so some wait should be expected but we came at a Sunday night and it was just a 5 to 10 minutes wait nothing too crazy. Once we sat down the same old, not enough menus for the people on the table story. they gave all 3 of us 1 menu and the waiter came super fast to get drink orders.... I Never been here so I did not know what to order and just with one menu was extremely hard to get the orders so we asked him to come back in a bit and bring us more menus. He did the menus but once we were ready it took a long while to have him actually take the orders, as a matter of fact we just asked someone else for our food, but the guy was a buster lol so he had to cll the waiter who came a long time later and that when we realized that we still had not had our orders in the system yet, a mess really. Finally we got our drink orders in and we wee happy. I was planing on getting an adult beverage but it all took so long and the place has no A/C so I got super warm and decided to get a water instead, so here is a prime example that bad service caused me to spend less as a result and the worse was that is was just cause I was too hot and didn't have a proper menu count and a waiter portly taking orders to expedite the drinks. Here the Brazilian people make a salary and the service is automatically charged on the bill, here in this country is notoriously know for BAD SERVICE as regardless of the quality of service they will make the same amount of money so the wait staff could not care less. A interesting thing and very smart that I noticed here was the fact that they have some waiters walking around with trays of shots, or trays of small appetizers, they go from table to table to up- sell the items, this was genius cause if I am not intentionally looking for an appetizer and now it is so close and accessible I will probably get one, and that Is exactly what happened to us. I ordered a couple of appetizers, these people are geniuses. EMPADA DE CARNE SECA COM CATUPIRY- to me this was a disaster, it was super salty and incredibly odd, I based on this little appetizer would never eat carne sea again. BOLINHO DE CAMARAO COM CATUPIRY- this one was much better than the fist one I mentioned but still I was not very happy with the flavor. it did taste like the eat of the city had taken a toll on the flavor of this appetizer. LARGE PIZZA AMATRICIANA- we got the large, but if you are like me from America I must tell you that the large here is not the same as a large out there in the US. this large was finished by 3 people and with very little effort. however I must say that again this pizza just as the appetizers was a disappointment to me, the only positive I can say here on this pizza is the fact that I loved the oregano taste in it. this was a thin crust pizza with bacon in cubes, the cubes were too cooked and they felt almost like rubber, they supposedly had onions added to the pizza, I could not find not one onion on this pizza, this pizza was blend very blend. Over all in my opinion, I am not sure why this place is so busy. the service is nothing special, there is no wifi, they do not know how to count to give a proper amount of menus. the place has no A/C and the food is at best mediocre. I will not be back.

Excellent service and food I had the moqueca and it was fantastic The preparation and precise serving of the dish was very impressive for what looks like a very down home sort of place

So it was my last meal in Rio, and there were two things I wanted to eat before leaving picanha and Bolinhos de bacalhau. My awesome local friend immediately said ok and brought me here. I had no idea it had multiple locations until just now. Makes sense cuz everything we ordered was quite tasty. The spot is very cool, located on a street corner. It was open air with tables on the inside and outside of the restaurant along the divider. We didn't order that many things. Just steak, fish balls and we also got these other balls which were basically fejoida in ball form. I was surprised to actually like it cuz I generally find fejoida kinda mediocre. Prob only cuz I'm not huge on beans and I haven't had a super good fej yet. The bacalhau was alright. I def had better at that famous bar/restaurant near urca with the view of the bay. But It did the job and satisfied my craving somewhat. Now the main event, the picanha. So so good. Cooked perfectly, salted just enough (not too salty like msot Brazilian dishes) and was already sliced too (nice touch that I appreciated cuz it saves me work). The fat cap on the picanha cut gives the meat great juicy flavor. There isn't much to say. Just look at the picture. It's art. It's lust. It's pure irresistibleness. Unless ure vegan. Then I'm sure it's probably disgusting and I feel bad for you cuz ure missing out big time. All in, the bill came out to like 30 something usd. Strong dollar paying dividends. The picanha was like 99brl. I'd do it again in a ****, mooing heartbeat. I mightve given this place 4 stars if I tried more things on the menu. One really really good dish didn't warrant it. I'd def be back to try other things enxt time. The seafood pasta looked very delicious and smelled very tempting (table nearby). My friend also said they're known for their seafood too. Until next time Rio.