olympe is a place, where the expertly prepared lamb tenderloin with açai crust is not a compromise between two opposing culinary ethics, but instead bears the hallmark of a new cuisine, in which the charm of the disparate roots is multiplied by their interaction.

the phrase 'melting pot' is overused to the point of being hackneyed, but its combinatory ethos is truly at the heart of the food of rio de janeiro, and brazil at large. her food, like the rest of her, is drawn from a bounty both natural and cultural, and like the players in a roda or on a football pitch, each part contributes its unique character, its jeito particular, to the full arrangement.