In São Paulo

11 places in São Paulo, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.

11 places · 11 checked in the last 90 days · newest today

Food & Drink 7

Food & Drink☆

Aug 28, 26Guia MICHELIN — Cuia+2

Cuia

Brazil's Own Pantry, All Day

Bel Coelho's all-day café inside a bookshop in the Copan, cooking Brazil's own pantry.

Cuia sits inside a bookshop, which is the first thing to understand about it and the thing most write-ups bury. It occupies part of Livraria…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Aug 27, 26Djapa (official site)+1

Djapa

Two Decades of Rotation

A Moema rodízio where the sushi rotation has outlasted two decades of São Paulo trends.

Djapa has lasted two decades in Japanese rodízio — all-you-can-eat service where dishes keep arriving until the table waves the waiter off — a São…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Sep 1, 26CNN Brasil Viagem & Gastronomia — "Para brindar sem pressa: conheça o Lita, novo bar de vinhos em Pinheiros"+2

Lita

Nelita's Wine Bar Next Door

A 44-seat wine bar from a Latin America Best Chef, tucked beside her own restaurant.

Pinheiros has been a real gap in Near's São Paulo coverage — not for lack of material, but because a neighborhood this dense with genuinely good…

PLINIOSão Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Sep 2, 26Guia da Semana — Pracinha do Seu Justino inaugura na Vila Madalena+4

Pracinha do Seu Justino

The Open-Air Sequel on the Same Street

Seu Justino's open-air offshoot — boteco tables, vertical gardens, street-food plates.

Two bars share a name and a street in Vila Madalena, and untangling them is worth doing before you show up at the wrong door. Seu Justino is the…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Aug 27, 26Rong He (official site)+1

Rong He

Noodles Pulled By Hand

A Liberdade institution where the hand-pulled noodles get made right in front of you.

Rong He, on Rua da Glória in Liberdade, rests its whole reputation on one specific, visible piece of craft: the noodles are hand-pulled and stretched…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Aug 27, 26Bendito Guia+1

Thai E-San

Isaan, Not Just 'Thai'

Isaan-style Thai cooking that earned a second location on word of mouth alone.

Thai E-San names itself after Isaan specifically, not just "Thai" — a small detail that signals something real about what's on the menu. Isaan is…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

Food & Drink☆

Sep 1, 26A Vida no Centro — "Conheça 8 mercearias orientais na Liberdade"+2

Towa

Where Liberdade Actually Shops

A Praça da Liberdade grocery where the neighborhood buys dinner, not souvenirs.

Restaurant reviews of Liberdade tend to treat the neighborhood as a list of tables to book. That misses most of what actually happens there on a…

PLINIOSão Paulo

Nightlife & Sound 2

Nightlife & Sound☆

Aug 27, 26bar Das (official)+1

bar Das

The Bar Women Built

A cocktail bar built by and for women, with a sliding-scale door for everyone else.

Most bars don't build their pricing around who's likely to feel safest in the room; bar Das does, on purpose. Since opening in January 2019, founders…

STEFANSão Paulo

Nightlife & Sound☆

Aug 27, 26CNN Brasil Viagem & Gastronomia+2

Fel

Marble Counter, Hidden Door

A marble-counter cocktail bar tucked into a storefront inside the Copan building.

Edifício Copan doesn't need much introduction — Oscar Niemeyer's curving, thousand-plus-apartment residential tower is one of the most recognizable…

STEFANSão Paulo

City & Culture 2

City & Culture☆

Aug 27, 26Globe Guide+1

Beco do Batman

The Alley That Repaints Itself

An open-air alley of street art that repaints itself before you visit twice.

Beco do Batman got its name the ordinary way street names actually happen, not the marketing-department way: someone painted a Batman mural on the…

CUBIC-VSão Paulo

City & Culture☆

Aug 28, 26Livraria Megafauna (official)+2

Livraria Megafauna

The Bookshop That Pulled Centro Back

The curated independent bookshop that helped pull São Paulo's Centro back to street level.

Megafauna opened on 23 November 2020, which is a strange and slightly heroic date to open a bookshop in a city centre — mid-pandemic, in a downtown…

PLINIOSão Paulo