Charming but definitely not living up to the expectations... promised more than it has delivered.read more

Good Restaurant with good food. I had the executive plate which had a salad as entrance, pork as…read morethe main plate and a cocada for desert. It was really good but not a heavenly place. A bit pricy.

It couldn't possibly get any better than our Saturday afternoon spent at Porto Madalena. Perfectly…read morelocated on a busy Vila Madalena street, this boteco offered great ambiance, amazing live music, awesome food, and cold beer. Frankly, this is as good as a Saturday afternoon can get. We walked here from Pinheiros and took Rua Fradique Coutinho all the way up (a well-trafficked street with lots pedestrian and automobile action). The intersection of Fradique and Rua Aspicuelta seems to be the premier crossroads to find the heartbeat of Vila Madalena (retail boutiques and restaurants/bars line R Aspicuelta and R Fradique). We decided to go with Porto Madalena because of the feijoada sign out front - Saturday is feijoada day in Brazil, after all. We were seated right away and took in the ambiance. A beautiful Brazilian singer on guitar cooed bossa nova classics, nearby tables clinked beer cups and chatted away, and the intoxicating smell of feijoada piqued our hunger. Service was sweet and cordial and the meal was fantastic (but bad feijoada doesn't really seem to exist in Brazil). We ordered a beer (a large bottle of Original) and the waiter arrived with a ice bucket filled with 3 bottles. You're likely to have another bottle after your first and I LOVE the tradition of pouring your beer in little glass cups (this is so the beer never gets warm!) This is the kind of spot I'd bring visiting friends to. It offers a great laid-back vibe and excellent energy.

They offered me a chug from a frozen ceramic cask- Why didn't I take it?…read more I don't know what kind of alcohol lurked inside but I think of it to this day and wonder. Perhaps my life would have been changed and I would have moved to south America to fulfill my dreams of living on the Beach in Florianopolis I found this place from being a winner in Sao Paulo's "Cool Old Bar" contest. I'm sure the contest has another name - something with a B- but I don't recall it. This place has been around since the 1960's and has a different vibe than the rest of the restaurants and bars I have been to in Sao Paulo. Very neighborhood and easy going. We had the ham hock and sour kraut... all very good. Don't think about walking the neighborhood at night- take a cab to and from this cool bar/ restaurant.

Great genuíne food! The space is so cozy and the decoration is so cute!…read moreThe buffet is perfectly made, the smell catches you and makes you repeat at least 3 times