Best-of list
The 10 best after work bars in Rio de Janeiro, from Bar Urca on the seawall to Cervantes, Bracarense and Jobi. Cold chopp, ranked. Updated 2026.
The short answer
10 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Rio drinks after work in the street. The boteco is the format, a counter that pours cold chopp into small glasses and pushes salgados across the bar, and the crowd spills onto the pavement with the beer. We judged these on the draft and the welcome, not the decor.
Ten made the list. They run from Leblon and Ipanema to Centro, Urca and Santa Teresa. Our full Rio after work bars money list and the wider after work bars worldwide guide go deeper, and the Rio de Janeiro bar guide covers the rest of the city.