GOOD JAPANESE FOOD & REASONABLE PRICES

If you are in Rio south zone with an urge to eat Japanese food but traveling with a budget, I recomend the RIO SUSHI restaurant at RIO SUL shopping mall (Shopping RioSul - Rua Lauro Müller, 116 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22290-160 - tel: (21) 2542-7590). The food is good and the prices do not sting like too much wasaby in your mouth. Their stuffed calamari is great, the Lemon Salmon Sushi too. 

In the other hand I do not recomend MANEKINEKO restaurant at Cobal. The place is expensive, pretentious and the food not very good. And they charge 15% service fee when you are no obliged to pay even 10% in Rio's restaurants.

But if you are in Leblon and have some extra cash go to SUSHI NORI at the Leblon Shopping Mall (Avenida Afrânio de Melo Franco, 290 - Leblon - 4th Floor - tel: (021) 2540-5082) the fish taste wonderful and the place is great.

ARAB FAST FOOD IN RIO

To eat good and reasonably priced Arab fast food you have to go to Balbek an Arab small store in Copacabana's Gallery Menescal, at Ave. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana between streets Santa Clara and Figueiredo de Magalhães. They have the best Kibbeh and the best Sfiha in Rio de Janeiro, and for just R$ 5,00 (Five Reais). They only accept money and there are not many places to sit, it is allways crowded, but the food is fresh an it taste great. Don't miss it.

Address: Av. N. S. de Copacabana, 664 (Galeria Menescal) - tel: 2255-4574

DON´T GO WALTZING MATILDA OVER THERE…

If you are an Aussie in Rio de Janeiro feeling homesick don’t make the mistake of going to the OUTBACK restaurants to eat. You will hate the experience. The food is lousy and the prices outrageous. They promise you real Australian food, but it seems the cook came from Bahia or Thailand, because de quantity of pepper they put in the food is unbelievable.  I went to the RIO SUL OUTBACK with my wife and son. We had to wait for one hour just to sit and we end up spending almost R$ 200 (two hundred reais) to eat bad spicy food. I do not recommend at all! Please make a note of it. I would rather eat a Vegemite sandwich at home...

The onions were oily and not tasty, they would crumble in our hands

 A weird spicy pasta with burned bread