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“I love Santa Teresa neighborhood's Portuguese-colonial architecture and low-key restaurants and bars.”
“I would spend hours wandering through the center's crazy quilt of streets, meeting friends for a cold beer at the cavernous Bar Luiz on Rua da Carioca, or slipping into used-book stores, taking my discoveries to the Real Gabinete Portugués de Leiture, the ornate but almost always empty public reading room on Rua Luis de Camões. Thankfully, as I walked these streets now, I found many of my old haunts surviving as if frozen in time.”
“A top-flight meal with high-end service can be an elusive combination in Rio. Eureka! Térèze, within the steeply sloped grounds of the Hotel Santa Teresa. The elegant dining room offers peek-a-boo glimpses of the twinkling city, and the cuisine is international but laced with Brazilian touches. ... Dinner with drinks is about 250 reais a person.”
“Vehicles are banned on Ilha Grande, a Robinson Crusoe-style island that's home to Praia de Lopes Mendes, a prized two-mile swath of deserted shore. Hitch a ride in a fishing boat or hike a forest trail, ravines, and serrated peaks to get there (it's worth it).”
