Casa Porto ★ 3.9
Casa Porto serves petiscos and a daily plate on the upper floor of a sobrado at Largo da Prainha in Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, with a picadinho carioca at R$48.
OrderPicadinho carioca, the plate of the day
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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