Casa da Feijoada

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• Brazilian tradition dictates that the full-on feijoada meal is only served on Saturdays, leaving you high and dry bean-wise the other 6 days of the week. That's where the Casa da Feijoada comes to the rescue. There may be restaurants with better feijoada in town -- there are certainly better-decorated ones -- but what they can't offer you is feijoada when you want it. At the Casa any old day of the week you can experience Brazil's national dish with all the trimmings. To get off to a good start try the caldo de feijão (bean soup), washed down with a batida de limão (lime cocktail) to line your stomach, as the Brazilians would say. Now you are ready to bring on the actual bean stew, served in a clay pot with whatever meat you've a hankering for, be it sausage, bacon, carne seca (dried meat, highly recommended), pork loin, and other more obscure cuts. Side dishes include white rice, stir-fried cabbage, farofa (roasted manioc flour), and orange slices. If you like it spicy, ask for some pimenta, and they will bring you oil-soaked malagueta peppers to drizzle on the beans. Have another lime cocktail standing by in case you underestimate the heat.

• © Frommer's 2012

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Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010