Pizzaria Caravelle — Restaurant in Região Geográfica Imediata do Rio de Janeiro

All the food we tried so far after 5 days in Brazil was excellent, maybe I had very high expectations, but this place was not as good as the other restaurants we visited. It was very odd that they took a long time to serve us since usually all restaurants in Brazil took 10 or 15 min to have our meals ready. I'm talking about 10 to 15 to get a lemonade and they were not busy at all. We noticed that they were bringing the food from some other restaurant or kitchen either across the street or the restaurant next door maybe that's why they took longer. The food...

Okay pizza. Thin crust (which I like) but not crunchy. It came out so fast I think they have the pizzas pre-cooked and just heat them up with whatever you want added as toppings. Cheese quality was fine, but sausage greasy and not very good.

Decided to have dessert, so the waiter gave me the dessert menu. Everything I asked for he said they didn't have. Finally asked if they had anything, and he confessed they have no desserts.

For the...

I was amazed at how good the pizza was, even for the already very high Brazilian standards for pizza. The best "salty" pizza was the Frango com Catupiry. Meanwhile, the sweet pizza was fantastic with Romeo and Juliet being the best. Server kept pizza in an oven so it wouldn't get cool and promptly served again as soon as our plates were empty. 5-star service and affordable prices at this...