People love to celebrate Mother’s Day with lunches, dinners, outings, visits to museums, concerts and other attractions that appeal to women in general. O Townhouse, a restaurant that operates in a historic mansion on the famous Rua do Rosário, has prepared a program that should please moms who are lovers of history, gastronomy, sacred music and 19th century churches. The Café Histórico promoted by the beautiful restaurant in the Praca XV region where the Brasserie Rosario for many years. The event, which has been repeated on weekend mornings in the Arco do Teles and Paço Imperial region, has been receiving, in addition to national and foreign tourists, more and more Cariocas who have been flocking to the region. It’s another attraction there, where there are a lot of cultural centers, almost untouched historical architecture, churches that are the envy of Europe, bohemia, a huge antiques fair, lots of new things and with a lot of policing and movement of people. This weekend (11 and 12/5) the event that ends in a Solemn Mass with Choir and Grand Orchestra will honor all mothers.
Recently a video from the channel Treasures of Brazil went viral, with images of the beautiful churches in the Paço Imperial region, receiving almost a million spectators interested in the beauty of the region where Dom João VI and Dona Carlota Joaquina arrived, to inaugurate Brazil as it is today.
“I remember when I was 12 years old and I made a list of things that I thought my mother would love to receive as gifts. I prepared several envelopes and asked her to choose one. She happily asked: in which envelope is the hug that is all I want as a gift? I was very excited at the time and prepared a sequence of hugs that I would give her on Sunday that would be all hers. Today I wonder if she had known about the Historic Event of the Town Hall, maybe she wouldn’t have chosen just the hug”, it says Carla Teixeira, one of the partners of the trendy restaurant with brick walls and whale oil. It really is a special event, which leaves many people teary-eyed at the end of the fully sung Mass that closes the event. “Handel’s Alleluia sung by the Choir is chilling. And Juliana Sucupira’s voice singing Gounod’s Ave Maria is almost a divine breath”states Lourdes Padilhawho was at the event at the beginning of the year, and should now return with his son.
“We want Mother’s Day here at Sobrado to go down in history and we have prepared a radiant moment to be experienced in the Historic Event“, says Carla, proud of the idea that helped transform the region’s frequency on weekends. The historian Nathalia Vivaqua will lead the entire experience, explaining the gastronomy and habits of the late 19th century, both during the meal and banquet and also on a walk through the beautiful region where Dom Pedro II, Machado de Assis and Luiz Gama traveled.
“In addition to the special menu, we will offer sparkling wine so that the toast elevates the love we feel for the extraordinary women who are always with us in the best moments”, score.
The program – a true historical experience – goes far beyond the act of having breakfast in a beautiful and safe area of our Historic Center: a true 19th century banquet – with recipes from the time and even crockery and cutlery from that time – is explained , tim-tim by tim-tim, by the experienced Nathalia. The use of each ingredient becomes understood, as well as how to serve it, and the reason for each thing. We learned, for example, why sweets at the time had so much sugar. It is an opportunity to have contact with foods and juices that are no longer so common today, but were the most common in the last days of the empire.
The event, which has been taking place on selected weekends in the morning since June 2023, now gains a special outfit for moms, both this Saturday and Sunday. The surprise for diners is that the award-winning sparkling wine Alud during the great feast of delicacies 150 years ago, bringing extra glamor to the experience that the restaurant promotes and which has attracted tourists from all over the world for a multifaceted tour that mixes history, religion, gastronomy and tourism.
“The highlight of this café, besides the Mass which is the most beautiful I have ever attended, is the incredible French toast with Port Wine reduction! I have gluten intolerance, I’m not celiac, that is, I can eat it, but I should avoid it. But the smell was already delicious and I, who am not even a big fan of French toast, fell in line. It looked like pudding inside, and the sauce was divine.”celebrates the journalist Quintino Gomes, who has already been to the event twice. Here’s a tip.
The historical experiment promoted by the restaurant does not stop at eating or champagne flutes. After the meal, a one-hour walk through the region called “little Lisbon” reveals many stories about the region. At the end of the tour, with the delicacies already digested, the group arrives at the recently restored Church of Our Lady of Lapa dos Mercadores where, to the sound of the tolling of its bronze giants, you are treated to the best quality classical music, in a spectacular performance by the Coral Astorga and Grand Orchestra, while a Solemn Mass is prayed in Latin with a procession, altar boys, natural flowers decorating the beautiful 18th century altars and lots of sacred silverware and incense. The small church, nicknamed “jewelry box”is always decorated with flowers and is a special case: built in 1750, in the Baroque style, it is one of the most beautiful in the country.
Saturdays and Sundays in the region have been busy due to the great demand from people from all over the country who are interested in hearing the Solemn Mass beautifully sung and which becomes an immersive, historical and faith-filled experience, especially for Catholics. Groups from parishes in the South and North Zones are already in the habit of attending on both Saturday and Sunday mornings. The priest Victor Hugo Nascimento, who celebrates on Sundays, is a born singer – even the normally spoken part of the celebration is sung by him – the priest approves the treats. “I always receive a lunch box with the sweets, which are divine. It is a joy for me to celebrate Mass for people who are so passionate about the beauty of our Church, who have filled our celebrations with great faith.“, it says. “It is very beautiful to see this entire region being reborn; Our Lady of Lapa dos Mercadoree, pray for us”, complete. His sermons have attracted Catholics to the Center on Sundays. And the Catholic catechism is clear: from one hour after the delicious cupcake, it is allowed to take communion.
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Address: Restaurant Townhouse – Rua do Rosário 34 – Center – Rio de Janeiro
Price per person: R$ 300.00* By pix or credit card. (Cariocas with proof of residence pay R$ 250.00)
Advance booking and payment.
Maximum 48 participants per day*
Information and reservations via WhatsApp: 21 97978 4353
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