Gerônimo Athuel (@geronimoathuel), from Ocyá (@ocya.rio), explains - in the most delightful way - how to improve the consumer’s relationship with everything that comes from the sea.

At Ocyá, the aging process for fish intensifies the flavor and enhances species from the Rio de Janeiro coast that are little known on the city's tables.

The Ocyá experience begins on the way to the restaurant, accessible only by the bucolic comings and goings of the boatmen who serve the residents of the Gigóia archipelago, Barra da Tijuca. A short ten-minute trip across the waters of the Marapendi Lagoon, leads to a blue-painted house with a bamboo

Why is it important for a restaurant to work with specialty coffee? In addition to selective harvesting, using only ripe beans, the flavor is evaluated and classified taking into account the absence of defects, sweetness, acidity, and body. This step results in a score from 0 to 100.

Around November, the topic of French toast used to dominate Rio de Janeiro newspapers, always associated with other Christmas dishes that had nothing to do with turkey. Turkey was an English thing, then an American one.

In the last century, in the 1970s, the so-called "natural" food movement in Rio and vegetarianism had a lot of overlap. Not surprisingly, the natural sandwich, a staple of the health-conscious generation's diet, became associated with the culture of outdoor sports, such as hang gliding and, especial