Originally Posted by
hardiwv
CO10T3 gave an excellent list of restaurants above, which is really from an insider and could not be better. I will even copy it for me. However, I particularly dont like restaurants inside hotels. If you are a local okay, but if you are a tourist staying in a hotel you want to go out...
Thank you! Your was also very good. I didn't repeat any one the ones you suggested, because of I thought mine as a complement to yours.
About the restaurants in hotels, you could say that partly about Cipriani, but not about Le Pré Catelan. Le Pré Catelan is really great. If you haven't tried it, you really should.
Originally Posted by
hardiwv
I have many Spanish (Catalan) friends who have been to Rio with me, one of them now travels on business to Rio almost every month. They all approved a great Spanish/Catalan restaurant not to be missed:
Eñe Restaurante
http://www.enerestaurante.com.br/
Av. Prefeito Mendes de Moraes, 222 (São Conrado)
(they also have excellent fish options, I recommend the "agulhão" or swordfish)
Haha! That's in a hotel ironically, at the Intecontinental Hotel.
Avoid the Paellas at all cost though.