“The ladies would pass by my grocery store in the Market, giving me angry looks, because I demeaned the white color.”  The restaurant that was the first hot spot of Copacabana, opened in 1902, it was right in front of where today is the Z-13 fishing colony, on the corner of the current Francisco Ot

The trend of picnic banquets in the Botanical Garden was no joke: The menu of the Chinese commission (1885) included cold cuts, preserves, butter and sardines, omelette with truffles, fish with lobster, stuffed shrimp, filet with mushrooms, curry rice, lobster mayonnaise, Brazilian turkey, York...