Carnival Day 4: A hard day's night deserves a day of rest

Posted by .murph.

I needed another day to reenergize again. I realized how important it is to plan carnival strategically. Decide on the blocos you really need to check out, decide when you'll get in some shut eye and figure out which healthy foods you plan to eat in order to counter act the beer and junk food you find at every bloco.

I spent the day with Mariana at the beach....it was sad to see the beach completely littered from carnival. Plastic cups and bottles, aluminium cans and glass beer bottles were everywhere....

That evening after our dispointment at being unable to purchase tickets for a Jorge Ben Jor concert, Mariana and I met back up with her friends and treated ourselves to a restaurant called 'Restaurante Broz':

The good: Pizza, Crepes and Sushi all under one roof. The pizza and crepes are served 'rodizio' style. This is pretty common in Brazil. If you've been to a Brazilian churrascaria...they are often in this style. Waiters continuously swing by your table and ask if you'd like a slice of a freshly baked pizza or crepe. The pizzas and crepes come out at random with different toppings/fillings. If you want a particular pizza, just ask the waiter and an order will be placed. Then there's dessert pizzas and crepes. Yum. Oh and there's a sushi buffet (pay by the kilo), just in case you're not feeling the pizza/crepe combo. And the pizza rodizio costs you only R$23 (dinner)...that's about $14CDN.

The bad: They didnt have my all-time favourite dessert crepe...doce de leite with coconut.

The ugly: with so many good options, and the fact that you don't even have to get up from your table to get your food...it just keeps coming....well I have to say its difficult not to surpass your limits. I defintely ate too much that night.