Friday night belgium culinary and other impressions from Ipanema

We had a lovely night out last night with friends in Ipanema.

We took the metro to Ipanema and I came across this wonderful initiative Rio metro is offering anybody in need of assistance when using the metro:

Posso ajudar – or can I help you staff are standing in strategic locations to help with information but as well with carrying prams, heavy bags or lending a hand to the elderly. What a service!

Arriving in Ipanema we headed for the beach to have a sundowner in one of the beach huts – great way to start the weekend:

Afterwards off to meet our friends at Le Vin restaurant (www.levin.com.br), located in a charming old house serving french bistro fare. As there was a Belgium among us he recommended the Moules et Frites, the belgium classic of mussels in a white wine broth served with french fries – absolutely delicious. Only a Belgium learns to stack the empty shells this way though:

As the night was still rather young and the motto somehow had turned out to have a belgium touch, we headed to Delirium Cafe offering hundreds of different beers from all around the world and yes as well lots of them from Belgium.

The trend of drinking speciality beers from anywhere and everywhere is a real big one in Rio and people are willing to pay more than 20 EUR for a speciality beer! German exporters rejoice!