The best restaurants São Paulo

, buffet of hors d'oeuvres to follow after the traditional caipirinha and its appetizers at the bar. The rodizio consists of meat of the highest quality: picanha, mignon, alcatra, mamiya, cupim… family, friends or businessmen. The restaurant is full every evening.

Renowned Italian cuisine. Try spaghettinis to squid, for example.

Here, it is absolutely the "class". A left-bank atmosphere for this good restaurant with three nets to three sauces, orange duck and French or Chilean wines. Cheese lovers will not be disappointed!

For 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.

Chef 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.

The Mercado Municipal or Mercadao has been mentioned as one of the places you must see in São Paulo. This venerable market offers an endless variety of stalls and restaurants, such as the popular "Hocca" or the "Brasileirinho". It is impossible to leave the mercadão without trying the big mortadella sandwich (a bit greasy) or the cod pastel . The bars/restaurants are located upstairs and everywhere the fillings are always generous!

A entorse of the Italian culinary traditions of Bela Vista. Mexilhao is an excellent fish and seafood restaurant, which has proven its know-how for over 40 years. His lobster is particularly tasty.

Specialities from the Amazon region. The amateurs will love the duck in tucupi and the Amazonian fruit sorbets from Belèm.

As 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.

Chef 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.

The 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.

Good Tuscan canteen in a simple and discreet atmosphere.

A Spanish restaurant appreciated by connoisseurs. It offers a delicious paella that even includes lobster! Seafood and exquisite fish.

Terraço 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.

Opened 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!

A restaurant that will soon celebrate its hundred years of existence! Famous for his steaks. Try the net chateaubriand with garlic.

Popular among the employees of the area, this establishment serves tasty salads, fish, the paella and the tasty meat. To eat well.

The "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.

Apfel has been serving organic food in Sampa for several years. The restaurant is a small vegetarian restaurant that serves dishes made from organic ingredients, most of which come from the owner's farm. The buffet is varied and creative with different recipes throughout the week. To end on a sweet note: you can try pear and fig pie, pumpkin cake, carrot pastry... The place is both simple and pleasant, in keeping with the organic and sustainable spirit of the house.

Brazil 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.