The Kitchen
Every day, until 1am — 2am on Friday and Saturday
Feijoada, moqueca, picanha, long-fermented pizza and house-blend burgers. Classic Rio bar food and contemporary cooking on the same table.
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Bar and restaurant in Barra da Tijuca, in Jardim Oceânico — the neighbourhood's main dining strip, minutes from the beach. Lunch, after the beach, happy hour and dinner, Tuesday to Sunday.
Bar and restaurant
Every day, until 1am — 2am on Friday and Saturday
Feijoada, moqueca, picanha, long-fermented pizza and house-blend burgers. Classic Rio bar food and contemporary cooking on the same table.
See the menu
Every day we open — Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30am–8pm
Brahma draft at R$ 7.90, a stein at R$ 9.90 and serious cocktails from R$ 17.90. Every day — no fixed day to be happy.
Except public holidays, holiday eves and special dates — please check availability. Happy hour is dynamic and may change or end without prior notice.
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The official home of the draft
After a lot of testing, we got the pour exactly right. The tap was developed exclusively for Barel: the right temperature, real creaminess and three fingers of pure foam for anyone who knows the difference.
Full kitchen until 1am — and until 2am on Friday and Saturday
Classic Rio bar food and contemporary cooking on the same table. Every price on the menu, no surprises on the bill.
Executive lunch
Starter, main course and dessert for the price of the main. Build your own grill or pick a house classic. From R$ 22.
Serious cocktails
Proper cocktails in a sidewalk bar. At happy hour, the signatures are R$ 22.90.
The house
Every day has a reason
Celebrations
An everyday table needs no booking — just walk in. Booking is for birthdays and for private events with the whole place to yourselves.
Birthdays get a perk at Barel
Want to book a special spot to celebrate your birthday with the people you love? We organise it with you — and the birthday guest gets a perk.
Private events
You can have Barel closed exclusively for your event. 110 seats, with a full feijoada buffet or roaming service of bar snacks and drinks — and we build the quote together with you.
Getting here
Av. Olegário Maciel, 231 — Lojas F e G
Jardim Oceânico · Barra da Tijuca
Rio de Janeiro — RJ, 22621-200
Since December 2022
Barel opened in December 2022 on Avenida Olegário Maciel in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro — in Jardim Oceânico, the neighbourhood’s main dining strip, minutes from Barra beach and Praia do Pepê, and a short walk from the metro station. The idea was an old and simple one: a proper street bar, with a well-poured draft, honest Brazilian cooking and tables on the sidewalk, in a neighbourhood with plenty of restaurants and few bars.
It caught on fast. Within a year the place was in the city guides: VEJA RIO wrote about the “well-poured drafts” and the playful takes on classic bar food, and O Globo listed Barel among the new additions to Rio’s bar circuit. The space was designed by André Rodrigues Arquitetura with Hot Branding: 150 m² of exposed brick, a living plant wall, the bar at the back and a long veranda that became the house signature. It seats 110.
Barra da Tijuca is one of Rio’s postcards: one of the city’s most desirable neighbourhoods, wrapped in nature, with miles of beach, serious food, bars and a nightlife that doesn’t stop. Jardim Oceânico is one of the most celebrated dining strips in the city — and Barel sits right in the middle of it. It’s where people who live in Barra turn up in flip-flops after the beach, meet for Friday happy hour, bring the family for Sunday lunch and celebrate birthdays. Visitors sit on the same sidewalk.
In the kitchen, chefs Fabiano Dias and Paulo Vieira Junior cook real Brazilian food: feijoada served every day, baião de dois, seafood moqueca, picanha, the house pastel, classic bar snacks, oven pizzas, burgers and sandwiches, and desserts worth staying for. At the bar, the list is by mixologist Alex Miranda — the fitz barel, which put the house among the six bars in Rio picked by VEJA RIO, the carajillo guests call the best in town, caipirinhas, wine, and the best-poured draft in Rio that brings most people through the door the first time.
Barel works as a neighbourhood bar and as a destination. It’s executive lunch Tuesday to Friday, it’s after the beach, it’s happy hour, it’s dinner that turns into a night out, it’s where you watch the football, it’s Sunday lunch with the family, and it’s where much of Barra celebrates birthdays and year-end parties. Tuesday to Sunday, from noon to 2am.
What they said about us
Before you come
No. Just walk in. Booking is only for birthdays and for private events with the whole place to yourselves, arranged in advance.
Av. Olegário Maciel, 231 — Lojas F and G, Jardim Oceânico, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Minutes from Barra beach and the Jardim Oceânico metro station.
Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30am to 2am. Friday and Saturday until 3am. The kitchen runs until 1am — 2am on Friday and Saturday.
Yes, Tuesday to Friday, 11:30am to 3pm. Starter, main course and dessert for the price of the main, from R$ 22.
Every day we open: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30am to 8pm. Brahma draft at R$ 7.90, a stein at R$ 9.90 and signature cocktails from R$ 17.90. Except public holidays, holiday eves and special dates — please check availability. Happy hour is dynamic and may change or end without prior notice.
We have no car park of our own. There is street parking on the block.
Yes, Barel is dog friendly. The veranda and the sidewalk tables are their favourite spot.
Yes. We have TVs showing the football, indoors and on the veranda — and the night usually carries on after the final whistle.
Yes, free Wi-Fi for guests.
Yes, the carioca feijoada is served every day — as a single portion or to share.
Yes. Up to 110 seats, with a full feijoada buffet or roaming service of bar snacks and drinks, from 50 guests. Message us on WhatsApp and we will put a quote together.
Yes. From 8 guests the birthday guest gets a welcome drink; from 15, a welcome drink and a bottle of sparkling wine; from 25, a welcome drink and two. No booking fee, no deposit and no minimum spend, and you can bring your own cake and sweets.
Meal vouchers and chip-enabled credit and debit cards. We do not accept cheques or cards without a chip.