LA VECCHIA CUCINA
Read moreRenowned Italian cuisine. Try spaghettinis to squid, for example.
TORDESILHAS
Read moreFor 30 years, Tordesilhas has been a restaurant that honors the terroir, simplicity and quality of products and dishes. The menu features traditional Brazilian dishes, always with a personal touch from chef Mara Salles. The menu changes regularly, but regional dishes and desserts made with tropical fruits take pride of place. There are also a few specialties of Belém cuisine. Try tacaca or pirarucu with tucupi. The trio of açaí, cupuaçu and tapioca ice creams also come straight from the Amazon rainforest.
D.O.M.
Read moreChef Alex Atala, considered one of the world's top ten chefs, has made D.O.M. est one of São Paulo's most prestigious restaurants. His contemporary fusion cuisine, inspired by French, Italian and Oriental cuisine, subtly highlights the richness of Brazilian produce. The chef takes great pleasure in going to the source to learn more about his ingredients, which come from the Amazonian biodiversity, and to be in symbiosis with the producers. A true culinary adventure for the taste buds, at a price.
CONSULADO MINEIRO
Read moreAs its name suggests with a touch of humour (Consulate of Minas Gerais), the Consulado Mineiro is a restaurant specialising in mineira gastronomy. The restaurant offers an excellent feijão tropeiro, but you can also find the classic tutu à la mineira, the quibebe with dried meat, the traingle mineiro -obviously, not recommended for those who don't want to go off their diet or who are vegetarians! The prices have gone up a bit lately, but the food is as good as ever. The cachaça menu is impressive.
CARLOTA
Read moreChef Carla Pernambuco (whose family is not Brazilian but Italian, despite her surname) is raising the bar for Brazilian gastronomy, with New York and Italian influences, of course, since she trained in New York and her family is from the country shaped like a boot (near Tricarico). Try the sea bass with mashed banana terra or the bolinhos de carne de sol and manioc for starters. It offers a contemporary and refined cuisine. The menu changes regularly.
RITZ
Read moreThe Ritz, which opened in 1981 on Alameda Franca, has a relaxed atmosphere and a retro feel. The decor is by artist Wesley Duke Lee, who also designed the restaurant's logo. It's nestled in a designer industrial warehouse setting with natural light, a garden, red sofas and marble tables. It features the best cheeseburgers in town, as well as asparagus and cured ham penne. Some may say that for sandwiches, it's a bit expensive, but the food is tasty and the setting is neat.
LA TRATTORIA
Read moreGood Tuscan canteen in a simple and discreet atmosphere.
TERRAÇO ITALIA
Read moreTerraço Italia has stood proudly on the 41st floor of the Edificio Italia, one of Sao Paulo's most emblematic buildings, for over 50 years. People come here for its Italian cuisine, entrusted to the expert hands of Tuscan chef Pasquale Mancini, and for the unique view over the city...some would say it's mostly for the view. Terraço is a complex of four rooms, including a bar. The fine wine list, with over 200 labels, is almost worth the trip to this magical place. Very chic. But relatively expensive.
SANTOS RESTAURANTE
Read moreOpened in 1946, it offers a varied and pleasant menu of Portuguese cuisine. Some don't hesitate to say that its bacalhau de are among the best in the city!
FAMIGLIA MANCINI
Read moreThe "Famiglia Mancini" restaurant is a venerable Paulist house with an excellent reputation, an icon of Italian cuisine in Sampa for some. In a typical and friendly setting, one comes here to taste very good pasta accompanied by a choice of about thirty sauces. Each dish can easily feed two people. In the same street, the family still owns a shop and two restaurants (of pizzas and fish)! The pizzas with salmon carpaccio or the fettucine with seafood and grilled eggplant are sure to please.
ALMANARA
Read moreBrazil has a large Arab community, mostly from Lebanon and Syria, when they were still under the Ottoman yoke. The wonderful Middle Eastern cuisine could only be expressed with talent in this city.
Considered the best Arab restaurant in the city, the Almanara is part of a chain of Arab restaurants whose first establishment was opened in Via 25 de Maio. Classic dishes are in the spotlight. Next to the restaurant there is a lanchonete area serving snacks and small dishes, for those on a tighter budget.
DINHO'S PLACE
Read moreAnother institution of the Nordestine kitchen in Sampa. Who did not go to Dinho to enjoy a feijoada did not know the delights of the Brazilian national dish. Saturday at noon preferably, which gives the time to enjoy the good child animation of family tables! Home with colourful and colorful batidas, and a buffet of just as colorful hors d'oeuvre. Recommended.
QUINTA DA MANDIOCA
Read moreTypical Brazilian dishes in this rustic restaurant serving excellent picadinho feijoada and a saturday that left a good memory. You can also just have a sandwich. It is also a well-known musical bar of Bohemia paulist.
FAMIGLIA MANZOLI
Read moreThe Famiglia Manzoli is a restaurant that honours the cuisine of the boot, as its name suggests. It must be said that the Manzolis are cooks from father to son, since the grandfather Tuscan, and the father, passed by the Fasano, among others. It offers a good Italian cuisine, which pasta lovers (ravioli are particularly recommended) will appreciate. The pasta is made on the spot and the veal ravioli with butter and sage sauce definitely seems to be the attraction of the place. The grilled fish is also excellent.
MARTIN FIERRO
Read moreArgentinian meat restaurant, excellent note. Picanha de and beefsteack (de) of sausage are required (approximately 60 R $). A pleasant wine list.