From old-school botequins and lively samba clubs to neighborhood institutions serving ice-cold beer and hearty Brazilian food, explore our favorite places to eat, drink, and linger in Rio de Janeiro.

Every Sunday, Praça Paris fills with cooks and communities whose food reflects a far broader Rio than the formal European plaza was built to represent.

At Gebar, four cousins honor their grandmother’s Lebanese cooking with kafta, tabbouleh, kibbeh, hummus with beef and baru nuts, and a Lebanese-inflected prato feito inside Rio’s São José Market.