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Picadinho carioca is beef cut into small pieces and stewed with tomato, served with rice, farofa and an egg; Casa Porto in Saúde lists it as a plate of the day; in Brazil we have verified places to eat it in Rio de Janeiro. Start with where to eat Picadinho carioca in Rio de Janeiro.
Picadinho carioca is beef cut into small pieces and stewed with tomato, served with rice, farofa and an egg; Casa Porto in Saúde lists it as a plate of the day.
Two accounts place the picadinho's rise in the Rio night. One says it fed artists and journalists in the all-night restaurants of Lapa. The other, from Ruy Castro's book A noite do meu bem (2015), says the Austrian Max von Stuckart put it on the menu of the Meia-Noite nightclub near the Copacabana Palace, where the French chef Paul Ruffin used filet mignon tips, butter, tomato and herbs, served with rice, watercress, farinha and a poached egg. Sources date this to the 1940s or the 1950s.
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