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.

In that valley, life was made of the ups and downs of ox carts bordering the river.  The history of the street is inseparable from the Carioca River—the city's main source of fresh water until the end of the Empire—since the street's design was sculpted by the trails and paths that bordered its...