If you're looking to buy freshly caught seafood, this is the place to come, just get here early!…read moreThe beachfront shop is petite but everything is totally fresh and you can often find multiple guys cleaning the day's catch. I recently came to buy shrimp and then asked them to clean them for me. While I waited, I headed to the nearby street market to load up on some vegetables for the day's lunch. 30 minutes later, my briny crustaceans were ready for pick up and lunch was on it's way. Colõnia also offers home delivery.

This is a unique place for you to visit and eat! 1st floor is filled with different stands where…read moreyou can buy fresh fish and seafood. You buy whatever you want and at this point you can go home and cook yourself or go upstairs and choose one of the restaurants to cook it for you the way you want!! They cook anything, from lobster to sea-bass. It's an amazing experience, very "dive bar" vibe and not turisty at all but I freaking love it!

Are you running out of herbs, sweets or spices or do you need an exotic one that is hard to find…read moreand can't leave the south zone of Rio? Casas Pedro offer you the perfect solution. All this for a very reasonable price, better than any possibility around this area and even competitive with regards to prices in suburban areas of Rio. I highly recommend this shop. They even offer a delivery service, although you need to buy more than 50 reais in Ipanema and 70 reais in Leblon to qualify for delivery. The box containing 67 peanut butter sweets (paçoca) is by far my favourite. I always need to have a one of those at home. They also sell the diet chocolate bar to make diet sweets, which costs a fortune elsewhere, even though it is not particularly cheap, it's definitely the cheapest in town.