On the first day of the year, after enjoying that New Year’s party, there’s nothing better than starting the year with a strong coffee to recharge your energy. So, check out our tips for places to have breakfast and brunch on the 1st, both in Rio and São Paulo! Also, take the opportunity to read our tips on refreshing wines for summer.
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Places to have breakfast and brunch on the 1st
Rio de Janeiro
ASA Açaí
For a delicious breakfast on the first day of the year, ASA Açaí, which stands for Sustainable Amazon Action, offers healthy recipes made with ingredients grown and extracted directly from the Amazon. Among the suggestions, for example, are the crab tapioca with tamarind (R$ 23) and the açaí casadinho with cupuaçu (R$ 19.50 – 350g and R$ 26 – 500g). To drink, soursop juice (R$ 13 – 500ml) and Taperebá/cajá juice (R$ 13 – 500ml) and vegan vitamins made from cashew nut milk (R$ 12 – 300ml each).
End: Rua Jardim Botânico, 67 – Jardim Botânico. Av. das Américas, 8445 – Store 108A – Barra da Tijuca
Marinas Cafe
With a beautiful view of Marina da Glória, the Café opens on the first Saturday of the year from 10am. The breakfast menu is complete and can be ordered separately item by item. Among the options, for example, cheese bread (R$ 8 – 5 units), tapioca (R$ 18), cheese and ham omelet (R$ 18) and vitamins (R$ 15 – 330ml). Furthermore, another suggestion is the Complete Breakfast (R$54), with a basket of bread, fruit of the day, cold cuts, cake, tea or coffee or orange juice.
End: Av. Infante Dom Henrique, s/n – store 1 – Marina da Glória
Jardim Emporium
In fact, it couldn’t be missing from our list of places to have breakfast and brunch on the 1st. After all, Empório is considered one of the best places to have breakfast in Rio. There are more than 80 options, such as bread, sandwiches, cold cuts, fruit and eggs, which are available all day long. The system is a multiple choice card, and you choose your preferences. Moroccan eggs, as well as the famous Gruyére cheese bread are great options.
End: R. Visc. da Graça, 51 – Jardim Botânico. R. Maria Quitéria, 62 – Ipanema
The Troubleshooter
Mixed delicatessen, bakery and bistro, the stores in Botafogo and Largo do Machado will open on the first day of the year. The idea is to offer a special brunch to start 2022 with an invigorating breakfast. A good option is toasts, which can be on Petrópolis bread with butter, Minas cheese and bacon (R$ 29) or Avocado (R$ 25), with sourdough with seasoned avocado cream and fried egg. There are also classics, such as, for example, the bread basket (R$21) – with baguette, wholemeal, Australian and coffee bread with chocolate and scrambled eggs with cream cheese (R$11).
End: R. Voluntários da Pátria, 86 Loja A/B – Botafogo. Rua do Catete 288 – Catete
Seu Vidal
The restaurant in Barra da Tijuca opens its doors at 10 am for the first breakfast of 2022. Among the options, for example, are grilled bread (R$ 8), which can be in sliced bread, bread of cheese 160 or brioche bread, the Mixxto PDQ (R$ 28), hot mixed on cheese bread and the Creamy Egg Bowl (R$ 4). Meanwhile, to drink, Cappuccino (R$8), Chocolate caramel (R$8) or leche machiato (R$8) are some of the suggestions.
End: Avenida do Pepê, 700 – store 103, Jardim Oceânico – Barra da Tijuca – Telephone: 3259-7692
São Paulo
Advocate Toast
The house, dedicated to avocado, has several options for breakfast or brunch. Among them, for example, Gravlax (R$ 27), made with house-made avocado paste, radish pickles, thin slices of house-cured salmon, sour cream sprinkled with dill and chopped red onion, on natural fermentation bread toasted is a good option. The Shroomelo (R$ 25) has avocado paste, sautéed mushrooms with chives and Boursin goat cheese, served on toasted natural fermentation bread.
End: Rua Medeiros de Albuquerque, 141 – Beco do Batman
Le Blé Bread House
The bakery, inspired by bakeries French, opens from 11am on January 1st. Therefore, the restaurant offers delights for brunch at any time of the day. Sandwiches with naturally fermented bread, such as croque madame, on brioche, with Dijon mustard, Ementhal cheese, house-made ham royale and béchamel sauce, gratin with parmesan and fried egg (R$ 28). In addition, there are also pancakes made with levain and various toppings such as chocolate cream with hazelnuts (R$ 24). As for drinks, the highlight is the cappuccino with dulce de leche from Fazenda Atalaia, flavored with cardamom and lemon zest (R$ 14).
End: Rua Pará 252, Higienópolis (Tel: 3663-4626) and Rua Padre João Manuel, 968, Cerqueira César (Tel: 2645-4456).
Stella
The Canopy by Hilton restaurant will offer brunch from 12pm until 5pm. The buffet features breakfast items, an exclusive sweets table, as well as a la carte dishes that can be ordered to order, created by chef David Kasparian. The value of R$300 includes welcome drink, sparkling wine and beer as much as you want.
Reservations by email ((email protected)) and also by WhatsApp (11) 91119-4495, with payment in advance. Rua Saint Hilarie, 40 – Jardins.
By Duda Vétere.
Photos: Alex Woloch, Erik Barros, Disclosure, Vitor Faria, Ligia Skowronski
