Duckbill - Cookies & Coffee — Restaurant in Região Geográfica Imediata do Rio de Janeiro

Back again with another professional review:

Se for brasileiro, essa é a avaliação única que você procura! :)

Quick version, this place is one of the best coffee shops in Rio for a variety of factors, but to keep it short quality of the cup of coffee, food, taste, and experience, and lastly, the outstanding service. I loved it!

Pros:

1: Price: Many other cafés here in RJ that will give you a cup of coffee with milk will typically charge you upwards of 18 sometimes 25 reais for a similar level of atmosphere and service. Here, the standard cup of coffee on average cost about 10 to 12 reais which is a much better deal.

2: Food: for my fellow Brazilians that love Pão de Queijo, you’ll be surprised to know that they make it pretty regularly here to where you can have it come right out the oven fresh and crispy. I was delightfully surprise when I came in my first time and they offered me fresh Pão de Queijo over that of the old stuff that typically tastes and feels like cardboard. The cookies here are to die for it as they are super soft full of wonderful flavor and priced very fairly!

Staff and atmosphere: I have been coming here for about a week every day in a row, simply because of the fact that the staff is super friendly and helpful, and will gladly have a conversation in both English in Portuguese, pending that you speak one or the other, and is more than happy to allow me to sit here for hours on end, reading, studying or doing whatever even after my part that I have purchased is long consumed.

Cons:

Slow service occasionally, not super common in my week of coming.

9/10 recommend you come here and try, I only don’t give it a ten simply because the service could be a...

What an awful experience for an average coffee..

Yesterday (7/06/25) I went to Duckbill and ordered a takeaway coffee. I got served it in this huge plastic cup which wasn’t ideal but at least I felt like a got my moneys worth. I’m not used to paying $R31 for a coffee!

Today I went back. This time I was greeted by a woman that starred at me as if I had insulted her on multiple occasions. I ordered the same drink as yesterday. She looked at me, then looked at her till and begun to press buttons and click the mouse. She then pushed the card terminal at me without saying anything. I asked how much it was and she showed me the screen. $R48!

I explained that yesterday I paid $R31 and she tried to explain that was for a large. She said she didn’t have any smaller cups. I asked for a small and she disappeared out the back without saying a word. Five minutes later she came back, said nothing and started making the coffee. She then poured the milk into the same size cup and dumped an espresso shot on top. The cup was half full.

She handed it to me and said nothing. I asked for her name but she wouldn’t give it to me. I get it, I’m a Gringo but cafes like this rely on tourists and digital nomads. If that’s how you treat people, I don’t imagine many...

I saw amazing reviews about their cookies so I got a traditional one! It was a bit too sweet for my taste but I can see why people love it

I ordered a cappuccino gelado and then a decaf cappuccino. The former had some sort of brown sugar crunch situation?? And that was delicious! The latter tasted a bit watery to me, but I’m not much of a coffee person

I came here to do work because my Airbnb WiFi was down, and I sat here for five hours having ordered the three times above and the person who seemed to be the owner or manager was extremely sweet about it! I left as soon as there was only one other open table to make space for other customers. The service can be quite slow, but that’s a pro if you’re trying to stay long (:

WiFi is fast and there are a few outlets...