At Ocyá (@ocya.rio), the “catch of the day” isn’t just talk. Working with always-fresh ingredients requires plenty of creativity and a strong partnership with the fishermen, as Gerônimo Athuel (@geronimoathuel) explains.

A dinner with strangers at the table, a set menu, a scheduled time, and a reservation required. Nothing could be more contemporary, one might say. But there is a delicious historical detail: the scene described took place in Rio de Janeiro in the early nineteenth century.

Falamos da boa e tradicional carne assada preparada com o peito bovino. É assim que o padeiro Rafa Brito (@theslowbaker) faz a sua suculenta homenagem aos assados que remetem à influência inglesa no Rio, na primeira metade do século XIX - usualmente preparados em fornos profissionais de padaria ante

Also known as piraúna or "crooked-mouthed corvina," the perumbeba has white, firm flesh and a well-defined fillet with few bones. Because it feeds on crabs, shrimp, and blue crabs at the bottom of the lagoon, it has an intense flavor and aroma.

Bacupari, grumixama, or araçá-pera? Even in cities like Rio, surrounded by beaches and shaped by a tropical climate and landscape, gelaterias have largely followed Italian traditions centered on milk and cream.

Cultivated by Indigenous peoples and once part of Brazil’s colonial cuisine, mangarito returns to Angá Ateliê Culinário (@angaatelieculinario) every winter to celebrate the backyard cooking that defines this Petrópolis restaurant. This is the season when the ingredient reaches its peak, as the cold