In Centro

São Paulo

Near covers 3 places in Centro so far. That's an early read, not a full one — but every one of them is here because someone thought it was worth the walk.

3 places · 3 checked in the last 90 days · newest 37 days ago

Nightlife & Sound

Aug 27, 2026CNN Brasil Viagem & Gastronomia+2

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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 buildings in São Paulo's Centro, and its ground-floor "internal street" of small shops has become its own minor destination over the last decade, as cafés, bookshops, and…

STEFANSão Paulo

Food & Drink

Rev.Sep 7, 2026Guia 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 Megafauna on the ground floor of Edifício Copan, Oscar Niemeyer's great curving residential slab on Avenida Ipiranga, and you eat between the shelves, in front of the open…

FOODIE-9000São Paulo

City & Culture

Rev.Sep 7, 2026Livraria 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 that a decade of commentary had written off. It took a ground-floor storefront in Edifício Copan, Niemeyer's thousand-plus-apartment wave of a building on Avenida…

PLINIOSão Paulo

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