Vegetarian restaurants in Brazil
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Fontes
Hidden in a nondescript shopping plaza, this tiny, low-key restaurant is worth seeking out if you’re after a decent vegetarian meal. The menu changes daily but features shiitake-filled manioc pastries, green salads, roasted eggplant and the like. On Saturday, the rich, smoked-tofu feijoada always draws a crowd.
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Vegetariano Social Club
On Saturday vegetarians can sample Brazil’s signature dish at this Zenlike spot when tofu feijoada is served. At other times, VSC serves a small (10-dish) lunch buffet, while the more elaborate evening à la carte menu features risottos, yakisoba, heart-of-palm stroganoff and other inventive dishes.
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Tempeh
Don’t be intimidated by the new-age music. This is one of Centro’s best vegetarian restaurants, serving a wide assortment of flavorful dishes, including soups, pastas, veggie burgers, tabouli, fried yucca, soba noodles, vegan sushi and desserts. The old colonial walls add to the charm.
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Universo Orgânico
In the back of a small shopping gallery, Universo Orgânico whips up delicious fruit and veggie shakes – such as the carrot, ginger, apple and linseed combo – plus veggie burgers and savory nonmeat salgados (snacks).
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Sattva
Claiming to be Brazil's first veggie restaurant, Sattva still serves up decent meat-free fare, plus live music most Sundays, in a ramshackle but pleasant series of rooms. Try the two-course weekday lunch with drink for R$10.
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Restaurante Naturaleve
Set just off Rua Miguel Lemos, this tidy health-conscious restaurant cooks up a reasonably priced lunch buffet, with vegetarian black beans, moqueca with salmon, grilled tofu, various baked dishes and fresh salads.
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Filosóphicus
Vegetarians should head to this small upstairs restaurant, serving a creative, genuinely meat-free lunch buffet. A bit hard to find, and not exactly bursting with atmosphere, but worth the effort all the same.
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Ponto de Encontro Arte & Culinária
Filled with vibrant paintings, sculpture and tilework, this inspired eatery serves eclectic dishes, including vegetarian options – try the baked stuffed eggplant or the chocolate-covered pears.
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Canto da Duca
Duca is a local artist who's skilled at creating art-naïf works from her small studio-home; she also whips up enormous vegetarian prato feito lunch plates.
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New Natural
Featuring an excellent lunch buffet with many vegetarian options, the New Natural has fresh pots of soup, rice, veggies and beans.
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Vida Restaurante Natural
This all-vegetarian joint offers an appetizing buffet in a handsome, colonial-style home.
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