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Surreal Lunch: every day, from noon to 4pm
The same original kitchen behind the evening menu, served at lunchtime, in a Botafogo townhouse that at this hour is calm. Prices, dishes, rooms and how to book.
The Surreal team
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August 2026
The same kitchen as the evening, at the hour the house is quiet.
Hours
Noon to 4pm
Every day, Sundays included.
From
R$ 39
Salad with protein. Individual dishes from R$ 49.
Full menu
+ R$ 30
Add a starter and a dessert or coffee.
Most people know Surreal for the night: original cocktails, live music, a full house. Almost nobody knows it for lunch.
That is exactly the advantage. From noon to 4pm, Monday to Sunday, the same kitchen behind the evening menu serves the Surreal Lunch in a townhouse that at this hour is calm. You can talk, you can work, you can take your time.
The window until 4pm exists precisely for anyone who can only leave the office after two. And opening on Sundays puts the house on the route of people who would rather not cook at the weekend.
How the menu works
There are two routes, and the choice depends on how much time you have.
An individual dish, from R$ 49. Dishes served straight away. Salads with protein start at R$ 39. It is the format for anyone with an hour who has to get back.
The full menu, R$ 30 more. Add a starter and a dessert or coffee to your dish. For the lunch that is also a conversation, a meeting or a Sunday.
Full menu + 30
Add a starter and a dessert or coffee for R$ 30.
Starters
Salad of the day or Steak Tartare
Desserts
Dessert of the day
Panko-Crusted Chicken Milanese
With creamy lime rice and rustic potatoes. R$ 49, also available as a salad with protein for the same price.
Filet Mignon
Served with piedmontese rice with shiitake, rôti sauce and rustic potatoes. R$ 89. The order for anyone who wants to turn lunch into an occasion.
Also on the menu
The lunch menu is short on purpose: five individual dishes, four salad-and-protein combinations and the option of completing any of them with a starter and a dessert.
Individual dishes
Prawns with Black Rice
89
Black rice, grilled prawns, confit tomato and truffled parsley.
Served with piedmontese rice with shiitake, rôti sauce and rustic potatoes.
Black Rice with Shiitake
69
Black rice, sautéed shiitake, confit tomato and truffled parsley.
Bife de Chorizo with a Fried Egg
59
With white rice, carioca beans, farofa and chips.
Panko-Crusted Chicken Milanese
49
With creamy lime rice and rustic potatoes.
Salad + protein
All with mixed leaves, confit tomato, mixed nuts, honey-mustard dressing, croutons and parmesan. Choose your protein.
Panko-Crusted Chicken Milanese
49
The lunch menu changes through the season. The current version is always at surrealrio.com/almoco.
The cocktails stay on at lunchtime
This is the detail that separates Surreal from almost every set lunch in the city: the original cocktails are still available at lunchtime.
It is not the reduced midday list with two obvious options. They are the same original drinks as the evening, with unexpected ingredients, foams and considered presentation. And the alcohol-free list is built in its own right, with real drinks, not a soft drink served in a nice glass.
Alcohol-free drinks
Mint, lime, almond syrup and sparkling water.
Coconut water, blueberry purée and coconut foam.
Hibiscus tea, cinnamon syrup, cranberry juice and lime.
Soft drinks
House refreshments to go alongside.
Lime · passion fruit · orange.
Natural · lime · passion fruit.
Coke · Coke Zero · Guaraná · Guaraná Zero.
The portrait wall in the main room, curated by hand.
Three rooms, three kinds of lunch
The house occupies a townhouse with three spaces of their own character, and at lunchtime that becomes a practical choice.
Main room
Exposed brick, a Chesterfield sofa and the pop-art portrait wall. It is the room for a lunch with movement.
Mezzanine
A view over the main room and a more reserved mood. The best place for a work conversation that needs quiet.
Veranda
An open area with a Renaissance-inspired mural. At lunchtime, it is the brightest part.
What kind of day it suits
01
A working lunch in a rush
An individual dish from R$ 39 and a kitchen open until 4pm. If you can only leave after two, there is still time.
02
A meeting or lunch with a client
The Mezzanine for the conversation that needs quiet, the full menu for the table that cannot look rushed. The room makes half the argument.
03
A Sunday without cooking
The house serves lunch on Sundays too, from noon onwards. Full menu, an original cocktail and no washing up.
04
The office group
For tables over six people, bookings go through WhatsApp. It is worth letting us know in advance: at lunchtime, the three rooms allow the group to be seated away from the movement.
How to book
The mechanics are simple and change with the size of the table and the hour.
Up to 6 people, before 7pm: straight through the website, no waiting.
More than 6 people, before 7pm: on WhatsApp (21) 96894-6337. Bookings are handled by message only.
After 7pm: first come, first served, no bookings.
Details
Address: Rua Paulo Barreto, 102, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
Lunch: every day, noon to 4pm
Evening: Monday to Thursday, 6pm to midnight · Friday, 6pm to 1am · Saturday, noon to 1am, without a break · Sunday, noon to midnight
Lunch menu: surrealrio.com/almoco
Instagram: @surrealrio
The most surreal lunch in Botafogo opens every day at noon. All that's missing is you.
Surreal Lunch · noon to 4pm
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place at the table
Rua Paulo Barreto, 102, in Botafogo. Individual dishes from R$ 49, salads from R$ 39, full menu for R$ 30 more. Groups over six people on WhatsApp (21) 96894-6337.
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Lado S, Botafogo
Rua Paulo Barreto, 102, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro / RJ · 22280-010
