Panadero

the bread here is real, and if you're passing through copacabana without stopping for something from the pastry side of the menu, you're probably doing it wrong. panadero sits on rua souza lima, which puts it in one of the more lived-in stretches of the neighborhood, the kind of street where people actually go about their day rather than perform it. the coffee is taken seriously without being made into a ceremony. locals have settled on this place with the kind of quiet loyalty that tends to mean something. if you go once, you'll probably work out your own order by the second visit. start with an espresso, stay for whatever's baked that morning.