Interview
Saraga, House Music’s Coolest Name, on His Brazil Run
The Brooklyn-bred DJ on Carnival, reading a room and the night that changed his career.
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Rio de Janeiro
People, places and ideas.
A wider point of view.
Dining / Reportage
LUMIO: Nello Cassese’s Italian kitchen after a decade in Rio
Scheduled for November 2026 at Copacabana Palace, the tasting-menu restaurant brings Cassese’s southern Italian roots into dialogue with Brazilian ingredients, art and architecture.
Dining / Reportage
Madame Olympe: five ingredients, several generations
Claude Troisgros' Leblon restaurant places a family reference inside a deliberately concise kitchen.
Culture / Reportage
Rio and Amsterdam, beyond the dance floor
Hot Beats' May 2026 programme placed professional exchange beside performances.
Style / Reportage
Rio Fashion Week: the waterfront as a setting
The inaugural programme’s preview connected clothing with the city’s reused cultural spaces.
Culture / Reportage
CarnaRARA: electronic music takes Carnival into the city
Two dance floors connected an international line-up with a central Rio square.
Culture / Reportage
Room Service: an after-party inside the Museum of Tomorrow
The museum atrium gave electronic music and hospitality a distinctive architectural frame.
Dining / Reportage
UMAI Omakase: the Rio coast at the counter
Menandro Rodrigues’s small Copacabana counter joined Japanese technique to fish selected along the Brazilian coast.
Dining / Interview
Alberto Landgraf: a Brazilian kitchen, on its own terms
At Oteque, the chef places growers, the working rhythm of his team and the needs of the guest at the centre of the table.
Culture / Reportage
Bruno Astuto: Rio de Janeiro between two covers
An Assouline volume brings the city's landscapes, cultural life and social history to an international bookshelf.
Design / Reportage
Mata Maravilha: a proposed landscape for Rio’s port
The April 2025 proposal linked the Moinho Fluminense with planting and a mixed urban programme.
Travel / Reportage
Fairmont Rio: Copacabana enters the interior
Patrícia Anastassiadis’s design translated sea, hillside and mid-century references into the hotel’s rooms.