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Restaurants -
restaurantes - are ubiquitous, portions are very large and prices
are extremely reasonable. A prato comercial is around $3, while a
good full meal can usually be had for about $10, even in
expensive-looking restaurants. Cheaper restaurants, though, tend
only to be open for lunch. One of the best options offered by many
restaurants, typically at lunchtime only, is self-service comida por
kilo, where a wide choice of food is priced according to the weight
of the food on your plate. Specialist restaurants to look out for
include a rodízio , where you pay a fixed charge and eat as much as
you want; most churrascarias - restaurants specializing in
charcoal-grilled meat of all kinds, especially beef - operate this
system, too, bringing a constant supply of meat on huge spits to the
tables.
In many restaurants you will be presented with unsolicited food the
moment you sit down. This is the couvert, which can consist of
anything from a couple of bits of raw carrot and an olive to quite
an elaborate and substantial plate. Although the price is generally
modest, it still has to be paid for. If you don't want it, ask the
waiter to take it away.
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Brazil also has a large variety of ethnic restaurants , thanks to
the generations of Portuguese, Arabs, Italians and Japanese who have
made the country their home. The widest selection is in São Paulo,
with the best Italian, Arab and Japanese food in Brazil, but
anywhere of any size will have good ethnic restaurants, often in
surprising places: Belém, for example, has several excellent
Japanese restaurants, thanks to a Japanese colony founded fifty
years ago in the interior. Ethnic food may be marginally more
expensive than Brazilian, but it's rarely exorbitant.
The bill normally comes with a ten percent service charge, but you
should still tip, as waiters rely more on tips than on their very
low wages
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