The Best Seafood in Rio de Janeiro, by the Record

A seafood restaurant near the botanical garden where the fish arrives straight from local fishermen and you choose how you want it cooked: grilled, baked, or poached. The sea bass with champagne sauce is a regular on the menu, and on Fridays the kitchen turns out a seafood feijoada worth planning around. Two floors, muted colors, the kind of relaxed room that doesn't feel the need to announce itself.

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Getting here requires a boat, which is either a selling point or a dealbreaker, and the outdoor wooden deck on Ilha Primeira makes a strong case for the former. This is a seafood restaurant where the chef ages some of the catch in a dedicated chamber on-site before it hits the open grill. Sunsets arrive whether you ordered them or not, and the whole unhurried setup makes the city feel considerably farther away than it is.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A glass aging chamber greets you at the entrance, which tells you everything about what kind of seafood restaurant this is. The chef is a fisherman and diver who champions whole-fish cooking and artisanal sourcing, which means the menu runs to ocean charcuterie and aged fish alongside grilled and raw preparations. The Leblon space is airy and modern, a step up in polish from the original island location.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant