Favela in Rio de Janeiro in the focus of the public, but this time not because of poverty or crime, excellent gastronomy.
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
Just a few years ago it was unthinkable that the favela open bar. However, they now "popping up" all over the place.
What has changed this region famed Rio's five-year plan "pacification" which aims to create a more stable and safe, environment before the World Cup in soccer scheduled for next year and the Olympics 2016th
Favela now attracting a multitude of foreign visitors, almost as much as the famous statue of Christ the Savior.
Besides the "exotic" aura, this unusual way of life, tourists are drawn to the gastronomy of these settlements.
What has changed this region famed Rio's five-year plan "pacification" which aims to create a more stable and safe, environment before the World Cup in soccer scheduled for next year and the Olympics 2016th
Favela now attracting a multitude of foreign visitors, almost as much as the famous statue of Christ the Savior.
Besides the "exotic" aura, this unusual way of life, tourists are drawn to the gastronomy of these settlements.
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
So Rio issued and guide in Portuguese language called "Gastronomic Guide to Rio's favelas" in which he presented variety.
"Food is the perfect weapon to combat prejudice," says the editor of the guide Serđo Bloh.
"For people who care about the security at these places, the food is excellent excuse to finally visit favelas".
Bloh with three researchers visited 97 shops in 11 favelas and examination of their appearance, the food they serve, service and prices.
Unlike the authors of the famous Michelin guide, the team met with a very unusual situations.
"Food is the perfect weapon to combat prejudice," says the editor of the guide Serđo Bloh.
"For people who care about the security at these places, the food is excellent excuse to finally visit favelas".
Bloh with three researchers visited 97 shops in 11 favelas and examination of their appearance, the food they serve, service and prices.
Unlike the authors of the famous Michelin guide, the team met with a very unusual situations.
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
"We went to the place where the food was excellent, but it was an unpleasant smell from a nearby landfill seemed inedible," says Bloh for Restaurante 48 in Tabaharas favela center situated close to Copacabana.
"We used to have problems with odors from drains, because many favelas have open septic tank."
Despite such problems, most favela offers wonderful views of the ocean and exclusive resorts.
Twenty-two restaurants in the barracks matured in the guide.
Among them are restaurants serving the famous Brazilian beefsteaks and soup of beans and meat (feijoada) and by specialties such as pizza and sushi.
Guide also presents a hot dog stalls and sellers empanada "loaders".
"We used to have problems with odors from drains, because many favelas have open septic tank."
Despite such problems, most favela offers wonderful views of the ocean and exclusive resorts.
Twenty-two restaurants in the barracks matured in the guide.
Among them are restaurants serving the famous Brazilian beefsteaks and soup of beans and meat (feijoada) and by specialties such as pizza and sushi.
Guide also presents a hot dog stalls and sellers empanada "loaders".
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
Overlooking the blue Atlantic Bar Lacubaco in Vidigal favela could that be achieved by many well-known restaurants in Rio.
In the city in which the martini can cost up to $ 35 a meal for two to 200, Lacubaco offers entrees for only five to seven U.S. dollars per person.
Owner Fabio Freire says his status favela allows to keep prices low, despite a great location.
"I'm buying meat from the same suppliers as 'restaurants asphalt,'" says the 38-year-old.
"But I do not pay electricity, gas, property taxes, so that at the same time saving and my guests."
Otherwise, people in the slums are mostly illegally connected to the power grid.
In the city in which the martini can cost up to $ 35 a meal for two to 200, Lacubaco offers entrees for only five to seven U.S. dollars per person.
Owner Fabio Freire says his status favela allows to keep prices low, despite a great location.
"I'm buying meat from the same suppliers as 'restaurants asphalt,'" says the 38-year-old.
"But I do not pay electricity, gas, property taxes, so that at the same time saving and my guests."
Otherwise, people in the slums are mostly illegally connected to the power grid.
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
Lacubaco is located on the main street Vidigala, but some of the restaurants that were places in the new guide are a bit farther.
They can be reached only by stairs, and the owners say that because they have the most problems.
To reach the D & C Lanches the complex to the Alemao favela, you have to go by tram to the cable car which has become an attraction.
Rio's O Globo newspaper recently published a story on how to lift the Alemao now has more users on weekends, but cable car that drives tourists to the famous Sugar Loaf.
D & C Lanches actually stand next to whom you can sit on plastic chairs on the sidewalk.
Dimas de Lemos, his wife, three children and a host of relatives that serve juice Asai berry that are full of vitamins and antioxidants.
"Before we came only people in the neighborhood," said the 37-year-old. "Now our guests are only 60 percent locals and 40 percent of the people 'outside', including many foreigners."
They can be reached only by stairs, and the owners say that because they have the most problems.
To reach the D & C Lanches the complex to the Alemao favela, you have to go by tram to the cable car which has become an attraction.
Rio's O Globo newspaper recently published a story on how to lift the Alemao now has more users on weekends, but cable car that drives tourists to the famous Sugar Loaf.
D & C Lanches actually stand next to whom you can sit on plastic chairs on the sidewalk.
Dimas de Lemos, his wife, three children and a host of relatives that serve juice Asai berry that are full of vitamins and antioxidants.
"Before we came only people in the neighborhood," said the 37-year-old. "Now our guests are only 60 percent locals and 40 percent of the people 'outside', including many foreigners."
Beta / AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano
Americans, Germans, Japanese and British were among najbrojnimim tourists who go to favelas.
De Lemosov most important foreign guest so far was Britain's Prince Harry, who last year visited the village of Rio.
"Foreigners are open and curious, but our people with asphalt that have prejudices," says editor Bloh.
"Maybe it's because foreigners are not for decades been exposed to frightening news about violence in the favelas, so come with an open heart."
He says he hears from šponekad Karioka (the word used by the inhabitants of the better parts of Rio quoted) that they want to try a traditional soup of shrimp known as vatapa with Barraca das Baianas stand in Rosina favela, but "they want me to guarantee that they would not be happen. "
"Of course I think it will be safe, but who can give such a guarantee anywhere in the world?" Says Bloh.
Security is still the subject of the pacified favelas. Several public schools from the complex de Alemaoa closed recently due to the pressures of the gang enraged because he killed one of its members.
For many, however, it is not a problem, judging by the crowds of visitors, young and old, eager to taste the specialties of favelas.
De Lemosov most important foreign guest so far was Britain's Prince Harry, who last year visited the village of Rio.
"Foreigners are open and curious, but our people with asphalt that have prejudices," says editor Bloh.
"Maybe it's because foreigners are not for decades been exposed to frightening news about violence in the favelas, so come with an open heart."
He says he hears from šponekad Karioka (the word used by the inhabitants of the better parts of Rio quoted) that they want to try a traditional soup of shrimp known as vatapa with Barraca das Baianas stand in Rosina favela, but "they want me to guarantee that they would not be happen. "
"Of course I think it will be safe, but who can give such a guarantee anywhere in the world?" Says Bloh.
Security is still the subject of the pacified favelas. Several public schools from the complex de Alemaoa closed recently due to the pressures of the gang enraged because he killed one of its members.
For many, however, it is not a problem, judging by the crowds of visitors, young and old, eager to taste the specialties of favelas.
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