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| - On a very cold snowy evening in January we entered into this house on Larchmere. And during our entire stay for my wife and I it remained too cold inside for us. We started with the shrimp malagueta appetizer: it looked red hot and spicy but was actually mild and delicious, a good start. Our Bossa Nova salads I thought were limp with a too mild not very tasty citrus like dressing with tasteless, probably not fresh, very hard pistachios. The soup of the day, chicken with rice, was also mild, not a standout for flavor, nothing unusual, and could have been hotter. I had the Bobo shrimp special: a delicious rice dish strong on coconut milk. My wife had a scrumptious vegetarian dish, the vegetarian feijoada which was said to contain smoked tofu; we found 1 cube of tofu! Yes it had beans and rice but a bit more tofu would have been nice. The dining area and the bar are contiguous. Service was good. This is a casual dining establishment, no tablecloths. We'll be back, perhaps in the spring or summer. In the meantime, they might consider a space heater on those cold winter days or perhaps turn on the gas fireplace. But maybe those steps would violate code.
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