The Places · Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Made By profiles 10 places in Rio de Janeiro, spanning modern french with brazilian ingredients, authentic italian trattoria, brazilian vanguard fine dining — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Modern Seafood Fine Dining
Oteque
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oteque places Rio’s contemporary dining conversation in a sharper register: tasting-menu discipline, seafood-led Modern Brazilian cooking, and international recognition without turning Botafogo into a stage set. Alberto Landgraf’s restaurant carries a Michelin star for 2025, La Liste points, and repeat appearances on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants extended list, making it a serious reference point for a high-budget Rio dinner.
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02.Innovative
Lasai
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lasai holds two Michelin stars, a place on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list, and the title of Best Restaurant in Brazil 2024. Chef Rafa Costa e Silva's 15-course tasting menu, fed by two private gardens, runs just 10 guests around a single L-shaped counter in Humaitá. This is Rio's most decorated modern restaurant, and one of the most precisely considered dining formats in South America.
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03.Brazilian Vanguard Fine Dining
Oro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oro brings two Michelin stars to Leblon's dining strip, where Felipe Bronze works a contemporary register that draws on Italian technique and Brazilian ingredients in equal measure. Consistently ranked among South America's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining and La Liste, it operates Tuesday through Saturday on Av. Gen. San Martin, a short walk from the beach, a longer commitment at the table.
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04.Modern French with Brazilian Ingredients
Oseille
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oseille holds a Michelin star (2025) and operates from a 16-seat counter in Ipanema, where Thomas Troisgros runs a tasting menu that draws on French classical training and Brazilian ingredient intelligence. The format is deliberately intimate, and a Google rating of 4.9 from 126 reviews reflects the kind of loyalty that small-counter restaurants earn only through consistent execution. Reservations require advance planning.
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05.Modern French with Brazilian Ingredients
Casa 201
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Casa 201 earned a Michelin star in 2025, placing it among Rio's most decorated French kitchens. Located on Rua Lopes Quintas in Jardim Botânico, the address signals something important: this is fine dining shaped by a residential, tree-lined neighbourhood rather than the hotel corridors or beachfront spectacle that anchor much of the city's top-end scene. Chef João Paulo Frankenfeld leads the kitchen at the $$$$ price point.
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06.Traditional Japanese Omakase
San Omakase
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro's only Michelin-starred Japanese counter, San Omakase holds back-to-back stars for 2024 and 2025 and sits at the sharp end of Leblon's fine-dining corridor. Chef Laurent Cherchi operates a format rooted in Japanese omakase discipline, placing the restaurant in a comparable set defined more by Tokyo's counter culture than by the city's broader Brazilian fine-dining scene.
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07.Modern Vegetarian & Vegan Sharing Plates
Brota
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brota is a vegetarian restaurant in Botafogo that has earned back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025, under the cooking of Chef Raphaël Fumio Kudaka. The menu is built around sharing plates, local produce, and combinations that treat vegetables as the structural backbone of each dish rather than a dietary concession. At the $$ price tier, it represents one of Rio's more serious plant-focused kitchens.
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08.Authentic Italian Trattoria
Pici Trattoria
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Among Ipanema's mid-range Italian options, Pici Trattoria earns its place at the top of the conversation through two consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards (2024 and 2025) and a 4.5 rating across more than 2,000 Google reviews. Chef Allan Hernandez runs a trattoria format on Rua Barão da Torre that delivers serious Italian cooking at accessible prices, making it one of the few Bib Gourmand holders in Rio's Zona Sul.
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09.French-Brazilian Fusion Comfort Food
Miam Miam
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient since 2025, Miam Miam has anchored Botafogo's neighbourhood dining scene since 2005 from a family property on Rua General Góis Monteiro. Chef Roberta Ciasca applies French technique to traditional Brazilian comfort food across a menu that balances long-standing classics with a rotating seasonal section and a midweek executive format. Google reviewers rate it 4.6 across nearly a thousand visits.
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10.Modern Seafood
OCYÁ Leblon
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OCYÁ Leblon is a Michelin Plate-recognised seafood restaurant on Rua Aristides Espínola in Rio's Leblon neighbourhood, led by Chef Gerônimo Athuel. Holding the Michelin Plate designation in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in the mid-price tier of Rio's serious seafood scene, accessible by the standards of the city's top dining, but precise in its execution and ambition.
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