Founded in 1939 and still run by the same family, Bar Urca is a carioca ritual. Buy an ice-cold beer and a plate of fried sardines or pasteis at the little bar, then cross the road and perch on the “mureta” — the low sea wall along Guanabara Bay — where locals gather at golden hour beneath Sugarloaf. The food is honest and cheap, the view is unbeatable, and the sunset crowd is pure Rio. A recognised Carioca cultural heritage.
Book it: the Sugarloaf Mountain cable car rises right above the bar.
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R. Cândido Gaffree 205, Urca · 1939 bar · cold beer, fried sardines, sea-wall (mureta) drinking with Sugarloaf & bay views