While researching Rio, I came across two interesting food tours. Both run about five hours, keep group sizes small, and combine food with local culture and history. One is Eat Rio Food Tours, and the other is Culinary Backstreets, which I believe is the company that @DaveCook guides for.
edit: apologies, this was meant as a general reply, not in response to your specific post.
After sending an inquiry to Eat Rio Food Tours, they directed me to their list of curated restaurants. Yhey offer the following proviso, which, after doing a fair amount of research, seems accurate:
“The food scene in Rio can be tricky, especially for visitors – there are a lot of decidedly mediocre establishments serving up barely passable food at painfully high prices. Frustratingly, the transient tourist trade is so strong that this strategy continues to be a very successful.”
here is the eat rio food tour curated list of places to eat feijoada:
dont know if you noticed but a Time Out best pizza in the world piece just posted listed a pizzeria in BA, with a link to a collection of pizzerie there https://www.timeout.com/buenos-aires/pizza-places-buenos-aires
Particularly interesting to me because a group of them serve faina (farinata) which is a ligurian chickpea flour “bread” (its soft, traditionally cooked quickly in a fireplace) along with the pizza. THAT whole phenomenon might be worth checking out. Many ligurians emigrated to Argentina (its a poor area), including the faily of the late Pope Francis ,but thats not a about food, Im starting to feel sorry I did not spend any time at all researching food for my two nights in BA (but I would have had to extend the trip and it was alredy more than 3 weeks.
thanks jen, good stuff!
We just booked the same Peru destinations for September. Following…
Gotta admit I’m not a big fan of feijoada, though the often accompanying farofa is delicious! I’d be eating by weight in pao de queijo, various fried things (croquetas / coxinha, pasteles, carajes, etc), bolinhos, and brigadeiros. And moqueca, which is always lovely and a bit fish curry-like. Oh and tapioca fries / Mandioca Frita - yum!
A family friend’s Brazilian wife makes amazing desserts – I think Pave is one of her signatures, most easily described as a tiramisu-like layered dessert. (Dinner preceding is always hunka hunka MEAT!)
@Ziggy take note:
Lima tasting menu price inflation over the last 8 months:
MAIDO
Old: ~559 PEN (~$150)
New: ~1295 PEN (~$350)
CENTRAL
Old: ~1045–1200 PEN (~$280–320)
New: ~1600–1800 PEN (~$430–480)
KJOLLE
Old: ~750–850 PEN (~$200–230)
New: ~1100–1200 PEN (~$300–325)
ASTRID Y GASTÓN
Old: ~650–750 PEN (~$175–200)
New: ~900–1050 PEN (~$240–280)
MAYTA
Old: ~550–650 PEN (~$150–180)
New: ~850–950 PEN (~$230–255)
Noted, thanks. Its like when your mother in law asking you to explain Bitcoin, you know its time to sell. I feel like Peru is very popular right now so not shocked. We may have missed the boat
