The ultimate Brazilian dining experience. Located opposite the presidential palace (Palácio de Alvarado) but on the far side of the lake, the restaurant features an outdoor deck with stunning views and a sumptuous indoor dining room. Chefs here take traditional local ingredients and traditional Brazilian recipes, and tweak them slightly to bring them up to the level of haute cuisine.
Appetizers include delicacies such as skewers of capybara, boar, lamb, and baby buffalo with a spicy chocolate sauce, while mains include fresh sole roasted in banana leaf with mango chutney and coconut milk rice, or prawns flambéed in ginger liqueur with fresh fruit risotto. Wines are perhaps the only disappointment. Patu Anu’s wine list, while of respectable length and quality, is noticeably lacking in Brazilian vintages. Still, a dining experience not to be found anywhere else on earth.