A friend had been telling me I need to go to this place for a while. We finally were able to go and…read morelet me tell you she was right! It's kind of hidden but i think it makes it special. As soon as you walk up you have an inviting outdoor space as well as indoor dining option. When I ordered the girl taking my order was super helpful, gave suggestions, elaborated on any question I had. I got the frank burger and said they could cook it how the house likes to cook it which is pink with a small line of raw in the middle. When the burgers arrived I was so excited to try it, as I've only heard great things. I took the first juicy bite and yummmmmm it was delicious, without a doubt top 3 best burgers I've had in Brazil! We were fortunate enough to meet the owners as well and they were the cherry on top. So accommodating and suggested the black bread bun which went perfect with my burger. Overall an excellent experience I will be back and will be telling everyone about it!

Amazing American style burgers. Excellent quality and service!!! I will be back. Thank you!!!read more

More to it than meets the eye. When you first walk in, it's…read morea teeny tiny place. Then you walk around the corner and your suddenly up on a balcony with a huge floor (with its own bar in there). We went there with low expectations. The place turned out to be great. They had a superb 80s band playing some great hits for the night. The waitresses were also in top of their game and keep the caprinhas flowing. Their 'system' was a bit weird. When you enter they require to see your ID. They then enter you into a system and assign you a swipe card. You need the swipe card to buy things. No cash is exchanged until you are leaving the bar. At that point you go to a cashier. Everyone must hand I their card and pay the fee (pro tip: if you are a couple, put some drinks on each card, as otherwise you will be stuck with an admission fee on the zero balance card), then you get a token to leave, which is carefully examined by the bouncers. Strange, but pleasantly surprised by the night.

This is a great spot to watch a soccer match and grab some higher end bar food. I had the chefs…read moreburger and it was delicious - the cheese gooey so it fell apart pretty quickly. It was hard to find a spot to sit so take a lap and you will probably find something. They cleaned up really quickly.

Yelp Review 2025 #167:…read more One of Latam's 50 Best Restaurants and Michelin Big Gourmand is A Casa do Porco or the House of the Pig. Aptly named since they raise their own pigs in a farm and they make sure they follow practices that are humane and sustainable. Feeding people with respect to the environment. They use the whole pig and nothing gets wasted. I made a dinner reservation a month in advance through their website. It was a simple process. I stopped by for lunch too and there was a line out the door for people without reservations. They do have a takeout window to the side of the restaurant if you want something like a sandwich. You can do their tasting menu or do a la carte. It'll end up cheaper if you did the tasting menu than a la carte. However, I have been eating my way around São Paulo and I knew I would be struggling to finish a lot of food plus, I had a 7am flight the next day. So, I ordered a la carte. I wanted the San Ze Pig (roast pig) but it's too much food. Torresmo de Pancetta + Goiabada + Picles de Cebola Roxa: Crispy pork cracklings topped with a thick sauce made with pickled red onions, and guava. You get 6 pieces. Definitely get this. It was crispy, salty and sweet. Sushi de Papada de Porco + Tucupi Negro + Ameixa fermentada: Pork sushi brushed with black tucupi (sauce made from fermented manioc which looks and tastes similar to balsamic vinegar) and fermented plum. It looks like unagi nigiri. You get 4 pieces per order. I was not given utensils. The items I ordered were meant to be eaten using your fingers. The interior and exterior seem very casual. There's graffiti outside the building and inside the restaurant. Even when you look in Google Maps, it doesn't look like it's a restaurant but an abandoned building. By the time I contemplated adding the San Ze Pig, I was already done with my meal and it was time for me to go back to the hotel. You can check out their menu on their website which you could translate to English to save time on making your selections. They also have menus in English if you ask for it. Service was great and helpful. It was nice light dinner.

A Casa do Porco is an innovative restaurant specializing in numerous preparations of pork. However,…read morethey do so much more and employ fine dining techniques and presentation in a casual and affordable setting. According to our waiter, the "must try" appetizer was the crispy pork belly topped with guava paste, but more than the taste of this item, I loved the presentation, as the six bite-sized pieces were plated on a pink plate topped with a pig head cover! The best way to get a good sampling of their offerings was the 8-course tasting menu, which featured numerous small bites, an entree, and two dessert courses. 1. Countryside Flavors - Pork shank terrine, pork tartare, pork with couscous, ora pro nobis (an edible leaf), and an earthy pork crackling bread with mortadella and brown butter. 2. Using Your Hands - Sweet potato steamed bun topped with Milanese pork, roasted pork empadinha with cream cheese and couscous farofa, pork in a can (shredded pork fritter), and a miso pork broth. 3. Raw Pork - Pork loin carpaccio with salad and a pork crackling. 4. Pork + Shrimp - Dumplings filled with cotechino and shrimp, all in a toasted vegetable broth. 5. Fond Memories - Pork rib, corn & cheese foam, and ground maize chips. 6. San Ze Pork - This entree course centered around two super tender pieces of fatty roasted pork, pork sausage, and a number of vegetable sides including couve, okra with peanuts, farofa, beans with eggs, and banana tartare. Definitely a highlight! 7. From the cow's udders - The only course with no pork, this dessert came with vanilla ice cream, rice pudding, yogurt, milk foam, crunchy peanuts, toffee caramel, and toasted breadcrumbs. 8. Sweets + Black Coffee - Mid roast black coffee from Minas Gerais, strawberry sorbet/jam in a cone, cured cheese with pumpkin jam, candied banana, milk caramel, and a chocolate-covered pork crackling. What a feast of the senses and a must-try restaurant for any foodie! My favorite courses included the pork crackling bread from Countryside Flavors, the pork empadinha from Using Your Hands, and every component of the main course, the San Ze Pork! The service was super friendly and explained everything we were tasting, and the menu came at a reasonable price for the high quality and creativity of the dishes!

Near the office in São Paulo, stopped in after work for some food and drinks with the team. Loved…read morethe place! I wish I could tell you everything I ate but I can't read Portuguese or can remember what everything was called. Service was amazing, our waiters were attentive and entertaining. The food was sooo good! The space was very relaxing and the architecture inside reminded me of a 1930's hotel. I would come back!!

This place is Marcelo's jam! Back in the day before my husband moved to California and married…read moresome girl, he used to come to this bar A LOT. So much that he actually had his own bottle of booze! From the first time he brought me to Astor, I was in love. It is a great bar with a lot of life and action, amazing drinks and food. What more could you ask for? I love drinking the "friendly caju", and I will eat bolinho de bacalhau and pastel all day long. It's just perfect bar food. It definitely gets BUSY here! Expect to wait, but once you get your seat, you can stay eating and drinking as long as your belly wants.

An Izakaya is first and foremost a neighborhood bar that serves drinks and bar food. This place did…read morea great job making me feel welcome, offering me a menu in English as we greeted. There were certainly plenty of Japanese speaking customers mixed in with Portuguese. And I, the odd tourist, felt right at home. The bamboo shoot and shitake mushroom appetizers were delectable. The chicken broth ramen was insipid. The Gyukatsu Kare (breaded fried beef with curry sauce over rice) was better, but not the ultra crispy panko planks I've had in some places. Maybe it was because I ordered it at the end of the night. The Brazilian brewed cold sake was really good. Could hardly tell the difference from Japanese sake. But, the highlight of the dinner of Sanma Shio--grilled pike mackerel with sea salt. Inexpensive for Sanma, uber fresh, grilled crispy so that you could crunch up the head and tail! The service was prompt, efficient and very warm. Even the owner came by to chat several times. Arigato gozaimasu! Obrigado! Thank you.

It's not bad... We went here at night and to be totally honest we didn't feel that great about the…read morerelative safety of the neighborhood we were in. It felt a bit sketchy. Something to keep in mind if you're considering going here and you're a visitor. Other than that, the food is pretty standard izakaya fare- not that much of a Brazilian influence from what we could tell. And we're very familiar with the genre (tons of these in the NYC) so we knew what to expect. The food is pretty tasty and the service was pretty good. The restaurant kinda feels like you walked into someone's kitchen which is pretty interesting. But overall we've actually had much better Japanese food. So there's that. But not a bad option if you're looking for something completely different in São Paulo.

If you wanna listen some english musics, you are on right adress ;) and of course home of the blues…read more!

Great Place! Hole in the wall with serious burgers and real southern food from the USA. I had the…read moreétouffée that was perfectly done with loads of shrimp. That would have been great by itself but then they brought out homemade hot sauce. Even better. Chef Matt is from South Carolina so he knows what he's doing. If you know how bland a lot of Brazilian food can be you'll be happy to know he will spice it up for you. The live music is also awesome. Highly recommended.

Let me start by saying I'm an American coming from the San Francisco Bay Area visiting Sao Paulo…read morefor business. Balaio translates into "straw basket" and they are known for these straw basket lamps which decorate this semi-indoor restaurant. It's a casual restaurant that serves no-nonsense Brazilian-inspired food with locally sourced ingredients. It's located on the ground floor of a private library located on Avenue Paulista (touristy) but is a bit hidden away. We had a local with us who knows this restaurant well. Note on exchange rates, because of the current strength of the US dollar, restaurant food prices will seem like a 65-70% discount from an equivalent in the States. Balaio IMS has a sister restaurant in the Los Angeles California area called Coboco, so their staff runs like a typical US wait staff that is attentive to requests, moves quickly, and most speak English. Balaio Site: https://balaioims.com.br/ Coboco Site: https://www.cabocola.com/ Food: all fantastic, I don't think we had anything we didn't like, all plates were clean when we finished. Dadinhos De Tapioca (I was told they invented this) Fish of the day (wonderful) Duck Confit (what can you say, it's duck?) Sun Dried Pork (tender, lean and juicy....how do you do that?) Quindim dessert (creamy and delicious) Fig Panna Cotta (nicely done) Yellow Fruits of SP (this was a winner, sorbet was also nicely prepped) Cajuina cashew apple drink, refreshing I'm back in California, can't wait to try Coboco;) Let's Go!