The usual eateries

My coworkers and I have settled into a selection of about three
restaurants around town that we frequent when we go out to eat:

Suysei: An all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant run by an elderly
Japanese couple, and their well-mannered cat Goro. We always get there
before 7:15pm and someone turns on the TV, which is set to the Japanese
channel, NHK, to watch a 15-minute television show about some girl with
a radio show (I don't know the show very well, but the theme song gets
stuck in my head, annoyingly). The food at Suysei is amazing, with a
large selection of sashimi, always some pickled veggies like cucumber
and daikon radish, of course rice and miso soup, often a burdock root
salad, and then a rotating selection of tempura, grilled fish, Chinese
dumplings, and once in a while a Japanese brown curry.

Gaucho's Churrascaria: The Brazilian bbq place of choice, mainly because
it is not too far from our hotel and they have shuttle service. It's
kind of fun getting shuttled in to stuff yourself with fine cuts of
meat, from filet mignon to picanha to cow tongue and more, until you
just can't eat anymore... and then getting shuttled back to your hotel
room and bed. Gaucho's gets most of its customers later around 9pm, but
we get there around 7:30 and order a round of Bohemia beers, then hit
the salad bar for some token veggies. Minutes later we have toasted our
glasses of beer and are inundated by a seemingly endless stream of
waiters out of the kitchen with big cuts of meat on skewers. This place
is also all-you-can-eat and you can select anything you want. They also
get creative with things like sausage wrapped in bacon, chicken chunks
covered in cheese, garlic covered picanha rumpsteak, and grilled
pineapple, not to mention ox tail, bull back hump, and other cuts I
didn't even know exist.

"The fish restaurant": A place just a short walk from the hotel, and one
of the only eateries near the hotel. They always have friendly service,
sitting outside at tables on a patio (well, the sidewalk, really), and
we usually order a tambaqui fillet or their tucunare soup, which comes
with rice, salad and potato fries.

Other than those, you can take a taxi to one of the shopping centers to
get something at their food courts, or down to Manaus Port to a
chopperia (bar&grill) for some draft beer and snacks, maybe pizza. Of
course, you can always get a sandwich from the hotel bar as well, which
really are not half bad.