I was the given the recommendation to check out this place called
Rio Scenarium, in the centro area not far from Lapa. The guy who was describing it said they had live samba, good food so I'm like
cool gonna check this out. Its 4 of us, we get there and of course we the only people of color in the joint, then they stuck us at a table in the back where we could see nothing. Needless to say we bounced right out of there and just grabbed a bite to eat at a place nearby.
I dont recall the name but there was a pretty nice bar in Copacabana we went to one night. The night life stuff was pretty much hit or miss and like I said thats why I wished I was plugged in with some of the Black folks down there so I could experience some real culture I dont like that uppity stuff
edit: last night there I was in Botafogo which was kind of popping. Rio dont ever sleep