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It's a Brazilian cafe and bakery, and if you judge the authenticity of the cuisine of a restaurant by the people who patronize it, this place is great, since we appeared to be the only non-Brazilians there. (One person out of the two working there only spoke Portuguese, so I had to muddle through with my 'Sportuguese' (mostly Spanish with a few known words of Portuguese thrown in; believe it or not, it works pretty well since the two languages are quite similar.) Mind you, though, that not all of what they serve is Brazilian: there are also bakery items typical to all bakeries: tarts, pastries, etc. Anyway, what we had was some breakfast sandwiches, a couple of empanadas, and drinks. The sandwiches were great, as were the empanadas. The Brazilian coffee was quite good (though having been to Brazil only once in my life, I am hardly qualified to judge its authenticity; I just really enjoyed it, authenticity aside). The hot chocolate we got for our son was not so great, but I don't think one goes to a Brazilian bakery for its hot chocolate anyway. The show-stealer was the AMAZING fresh orange juice. They use a machine just like the ones I used to see when I lived in Spain: you load in actual, fresh oranges and you watch as the wheels carry each one down to the juicer, where all the juice is extracted. Amazingly good!
Great place, friendly staff, good food, GREAT juice. Stop by!
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