Sud, o pássaro verde Café

One of my FAVORITE meals in Rio and also in my entire visit to Brazil! This place is 100% worth your stop and your attention. While sitting at the table, I told my company, “My favorite places are ones like this, regardless of simplicity or luxury. You can feel the love and the passion that is put into the food you’re eating, the ambiance and service you’re receiving. And that is the most beautiful thing.”nnAll of our appetizers and meals tried were delicious. I think out of our meals, the chicken (pictured below) was my favorite. You have perfectly cooked chicken with a crispy, flavorful outside, accompanied by roasted vegetables and creamy burrata, that’s just barely melted into your food. My least favorite was the bolinho de chuva to be honest, but I think part of that is a preconceived notion on my part. I’ve had “mom’s” home cooked bolinho de chuva and that’s hard to beat. The difference of it being corn was not my favorite. It seemed to make it a bit too dry, even accompanied by the doce de leite. Regardless, food was spot on delicious and I would return again and again to try other dishes here.nnThank you for a beautiful meal and experience here. We appreciated every moment of it.nn#sudopassaroverde #frango #burrata #bolinhodechuva #caipirinha #madewithloveandpassion

Everything was delicious, the atmosphere is great. There is no sign outside, just find the house with number 35 and enter. Average price per dish around 60 reals

Too expensive for a very average food and service. Fancy but not good.

As a former winner of Latin America’s Best Female Chef Award by S. Pellegrino Roberta Sudbrack had nothing further to prove in fine dining, so two years after closing her eponymous Restaurant it is at Sud – o Pássaro Verde Café (The Green Bird Café) that the Chef explores a more rustic style of cooking featuring wood ovens and market fresh Ingredients amidst casual environs near Rio’s Jardim Botânico.nnRecently celebrating one year at Rua Visconde de Carandai 35, a nondescript white building without street side signage playing host to a Chef whose accolades continue to draw a steady crowd from 12h00 until 22h00 Tuesday through Sunday, it is upon entry that guests find themselves amidst quaint environs, the staff only fluent in Portuguese nonetheless helpful even to an American while complimentary WiFi assists with menu translation.nnFocused on a more casual way of cooking, several of Chef Sudbrack’s current plates prepared in the restaurant’s wood-oven, it is only after lengthy deliberation that decisions of what *reads* best are made, Sud’s house Pâté starting things off with significant funkiness that with excite many but dissuade others, the Gougeres to follow nowhere near as polarizing thanks to dainty Choux that crackles to deliver a Soufflé of Cheese inside.nnWalk-in only and without a Wine List, just twelve tables suited for thirty-two guests spread across wood and tile floors, it was next on items designated “Classico do Sud!” that focused was placed, R$34 for three Eggs cooked in Butter and Bottarga absolutely delicious, though some Bread to soak up the residual Yolk would have been nice.nnTruly impressive for such an unassuming concept, Chef Sudbrack’s assertion that she believes more in “content” than “form” visible across dishes served to other diners from crocks and cast-iron, it was part gluttony and part indecision that necessitated two Desserts to finish, each large enough for two or more and the opinion of which was *best* still undecided as the Pancake bubbling with salted Caramel was a revelation thanks to crisp edges and a soft center while the Clafoutis was charred, buttery and blissful with soft Custard supporting thin slices of Fruit.

Restaurant is beautiful, but unfortunately food did not met my expectations. I have been a fan of Roberta, but I think she did not do her best on menu creativity. Hope it gets better. Price is also too high.