Taste of Brazil

Taste of Brazil is Marco Rabello and Cristian Maciel’s Brazilian restaurant and bar at 21 E 3rd St in the City Market, River Market. Both owners are from São Paulo; the restaurant was established in 2013 on their mothers’ recipes. Baguette sandwiches (carne louca, chicken doido), prato feito platters, coxinha and pão de queijo, açaí bowls, and a full bar of caipirinhas and Brazilian beer. Also runs a food truck and a catering line, and opened a quick-serve kiosk, Taste of Brazil Express, at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park in 2025.

Description

Taste of Brazil is a Brazilian restaurant and bar at 21 East 3rd Street inside Kansas City’s historic City Market, in the River Market. It was established in 2013 by Marco Rabello and Cristian Maciel, both originally from São Paulo, who built the menu from their mothers’ recipes. The City Market’s own merchant listing describes the business as locally owned and names both founders.¹

The kitchen’s anchors are hot sandwiches served on a French baguette with cheese, chimichurri and fries — the Carne Louca da Odete (shredded beef pot roast with garlic, onions, green olives and bell peppers), the Chicken Doido (marinated shredded chicken breast), the Alcatra da Cleuza (sliced sirloin) and the Porcão (mild Brazilian pork sausage). Alongside them are the Prato Feito platter of rice, beans, farofa, vinaigrette and a choice of meat; a family-recipe Brazilian lasagna; salgados including coxinha and risole; gluten-free pão de queijo and mandioca frita; an açaí bowl; and Brazilian desserts — brigadeiro, beijinho, churro and pudim de leite. Frozen cheese bread and bottled chimichurri are sold to take home. The bar runs caipirinhas, caipiroskas, caipifrutas, batidas and a house São Jorge cachaça drink alongside local, Brazilian and imported beer.²

Beyond the City Market storefront, the owners run a Taste of Brazil food truck and a catering operation with online ordering.² In September 2025 KCUR reported that Rabello and Maciel were opening Taste of Brazil Express, a quick-serve kiosk with a limited menu of Brazilian street snacks — coxinhas, açaí bowls, pão de queijo, Brazilian sodas and tropical juices — in the Oak Park Mall food court at 11149 W 95th Street in Overland Park, on a five-year lease with four staff, targeting a late-September 2025 opening.³ That article did not address the City Market location’s status; the City Market listing and the operator’s own site both showed the City Market restaurant active on 2026-08-13.²¹

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: tasteofbrazilkc.com/menu (first-party)² · menu_status: verified · Confidence: High — prices published first-party on the operator’s own site. No aggregator was used.

Main courses and sides

• Prato Feito platter (GF) — starting at $16.75 — rice, beans, farofa, chimichurri, vinaigrette, choice of grilled chicken breast, shredded pot roast “carne louca”, or mild grilled Brazilian pork sausage²
• with grilled “picanha” 8 oz prime top sirloin — $19.95²
• Alcatra da Cleuza — $12.95 — sliced sirloin steak on a French baguette, cheese, chimichurri, fries²
• Carne Louca da Odete — $12.95 — shredded beef pot roast with garlic, onions, green olives, bell peppers on a baguette, cheese, chimichurri, fries²
• Chicken Doido — $12.75 — marinated shredded chicken breast on a baguette, cheese, chimichurri, fries²
• Porcão — $12.95 — grilled mild Brazilian pork sausage on a baguette, cheese, chimichurri, fries²
• Picanha na Chapa — $14.75 — grilled 8 oz prime top sirloin, chimichurri, slices of French bread²
• Lasagna da Odete — $14.75 — Brazilian-style family recipe: ham, mozzarella and provolone, ground beef, tomato and cream sauce²
• Coxinha — $8.95 — two breaded fried dough parcels filled with shredded chicken and cream cheese, chimichurri²
• Risole — $8.95 — two breaded fried dough parcels filled with ham, provolone and mozzarella, chimichurri²
• Pão de Queijo (cheese bread) — $6.95 — baked gluten-free, 5 pieces²
• Mandioca Frita (GF) — $10.25 — fried yucca root with chimichurri²
• Taste of Brazil salad — starting at $9.95 — spring mix, tomato, asparagus, onions, fresh mozzarella, chimichurri, cashews; add carne louca +$5.95, chicken doido / pork sausage / grilled chicken +$5.25²
• Brazilian-style cheeseburgers — starting at $12.75 — half-pound Angus with chimichurri, in X-Burger, X-Bacon, X-Egg, X-Salad and X-Tudo builds; bacon +$1.50, egg +$1.25, salad/tomato/onions +$1.25²
• Açaí na Tigela — $13.95 — blended açaí topped with granola, condensed milk, leite ninho, peanut butter, banana and strawberry²

Desserts

• Brigadeiro — $3.95²
• Churro — $3.75 — with doce de leite²
• Beijinho — $3.95 — coconut truffle²
• Pudim de Leite (flan) — $7.50²

At home

• Frozen cheese bread (GF) — $10.95 — 24 pieces²
• Chimichurri (GF) — $9.95 — 16 oz²

Bar

• Long Islands — $13.50 each: Molly’s Original, Watermelon, Paradise, Raspberry²
• Sangria — $13.50 · Bloody Mary — $13.50 · Wine slushie — $12.50²
• Caipirinha — $14 — cachaça and lime muddled with sugar²
• Caipiroska — $14 — vodka and lime muddled with sugar²
• Caipifruta — $15 — cachaça or vodka with coconut, strawberry or passion fruit²
• Batida — $15 — cachaça or vodka with sweetened condensed milk and fruit²
• São Jorge — $16 — cachaça, sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, chocolate, guaraná powder²
• Beers — local $4.50; Brazilian $5.50; imported $5.50²

Priced items recorded: 36 (plus per-item add-ons and protein upcharges).

Sources

Links

• Website: https://www.tasteofbrazilkc.com/
• Menu: https://www.tasteofbrazilkc.com/menu/
• City Market listing: https://thecitymarketkc.org/merchants/taste-of-brazil/

Footnotes

1. The City Market — official merchant listing, “Taste of Brazil | Brazilian Restaurant | Kansas City” — asserts: active City Market merchant as of 2026-08-13, listed under both Restaurants and Specialty Grocers; “a locally owned restaurant and bar”; founded by Marco Rabello and Cristian Maciel, both originally from São Paulo; established 2013; recipes inspired by their mothers; 21 E 3rd St, Kansas City, MO 64106, map location 3; phone (816) 527-0400; venue-published hours Mon and Wed–Fri 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Tue closed, Sat–Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; food truck and catering; a small selection of Brazilian grocery items. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩²

2. Taste of Brazil — official site, home and menu pages and tasteofbrazilkc.com — asserts: 21 E 3rd St, Kansas City, MO 64106; phone (816) 527-0400; food truck (816) 739-9175; contact@tasteofbrazilkc.com; hours Mon closed, Tue–Fri 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Sat–Sun 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; owners Marco Rabello and Cristian Maciel, both from São Paulo, and the “over a decade” in the City Market; the complete restaurant, dessert, at-home and bar price lists reproduced above; the food truck and catering lines; site footer ”© 2026 All Rights Reserved | Taste of Brazil”. Both pages returned HTTP 200 on 2026-08-13. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³

3. KCUR — “City Market favorite Taste of Brazil opening inside Oak Park Mall” (September 13, 2025) — asserts: owners Marco Rabello and Cristian Maciel; the original City Market location founded 2013; Taste of Brazil Express, a quick-serve kiosk with a limited menu of Brazilian street snacks (coxinhas, açaí bowls, pão de queijo, Brazilian sodas, tropical juices), opening in the Oak Park Mall food court at 11149 W 95th St, Overland Park, near Macy’s, targeted for late September 2025, on a five-year lease with four staff. The article does not state anything about the City Market location closing. ↩