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!

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.

This was my favorite bar that I went to in SP! The drinks are crafted perfectly, the ambience is…read morefun and great for a date or drinks with friends. I couldn't tell you the names of any of the drinks, but I tried almost the entire menu and they were all great. My favorite cocktail had açaí in it, but I can't remember the name. Just look for the açaí one! We got gnocchi and the Brie dish to split and both were delicious. Great and fast service, delicious cocktails, and a fun/moody atmosphere!

Visited Sao Paulo for work purposes and went to Bar Dos Arcos for dinner on a Wednesday. From an…read moreAmerican POV (San Francisco or New York) this place has the capability to rival any trendy bar (with good eats) of either American City. Unless your Portuguese is good, you gotta go with a local. They assign an entry card to each person which allows you to wander the open seating areas and order and drink from different locations, this is something rarely seen in the US. Your total is tabulated from this assigned card, so don't lose or trade it. For Americans and Europeans, the benefit of Brazil is the strength of our currencies which makes everything about 65%-70% off of equivalent food and drinks in the US at the time of this writing (July 2022.) Check out the site: https://bardosarcos.com.br/en/home/ It's true, this place is built underground and you go downstairs to a large basement area that's been completely redone. Well appointed and freedom to move from place to place. This is not a restaurant, it's a bar that also served great food. This is not your sit-down dinner place, think mobile and meeting lots of people outside of your circle. Don't be shy.... Service is not like the US, it's important to have an aggressive local to help flag down the wait staff, once you do, the service is great. They hire an attractive staff so it's fun to interact. Food-wise - excellent- some were better than others, splitting into two groups: Top Picks: Coxinha Quinteto Desculpe o Aue Sertao Pegando Fogo (Best dish of the night) Baiao do Mar Vatapa All Drinks (props to the bar, they ain't messin' around) Next Level Below: Manifesto Regionalista Classic Arco Gnocchi Existe Amor em SP Grain Salad Would return again, bring your date and a local (or just a local date, haha) Obrigado

Went first night in SP to eat there with my brother and his children. Asked for a glass of tap…read morewater and the waiter acted as if I called his mother the B word. The food was good. We went the second night and they were very cold and I asked again for tap water, the waiter brought me bottled water, I asked him that i did not asked for that but for tap water and again they acted as if I had cursed his mother. He then told me he could not give me tap water as it was the house policy. I just like tap water. We order other drinks for the kids and my brother. I told him that I had eaten there the night before and had no problem in getting tap water. He then went back and brought us the vinagrete without the food. Then after about 30 minutes, our food arrived and it did not taste as good as the day before. The meats were dried and did not taste well. They did not dished the food as they did the day before. They were talking with a couple , who was seating behind us and telling them that the restaurant had a much cheaper option for burgers, which they did not told us. Anyways,experience was bad. Will not go back there. The waiters are poorly trained and not friendly. The place was empty not many costumers. they don't care. I will spend my American dollar at the Brahma bar that is right next to it or at mortadela place. Learn how to be friendly to costumers. Your waiters were on the phone instead of being attentive to your costumers, for the price of the dishes you should be training your staff in how to be better costumer oriented. Avoid this place.

Asked for a picanha ao ponto, received one charred and bem passado. The fries came half raw. Maybe…read moreI just had bad luck but I wouldn't return any time soon.

While staying at a hotel about .8 miles away (Ca'd'oro), I decided to bravely walk here through…read moresome questionable (and sometimes very stinky) streets for some lamb that I saw in Yelp. There were some scary people hanging around the destination but I continued my brave but perhaps Quixotic quest and FOUND IT: "PASV" in large letters reassured me to quit looking at the street and walk right in! I saw some entries on the menu that said "Lombo" so I assumed it was lamb but wanted to make sure. As a typical American (only speaking one language=English) I had trouble with the Portuguese menu and the server was trying to understand as he watched my arms flailing. The next table had exactly what I wanted, so I pointed to their dish and roughly said "que esta?" He said "Cordeiro." I was confused about the unfamiliar name so I pointed at my phone that was asking for a password for the PASV restaurant's wifi, and the kind server quickly entered the password. Ahhh, now I can translate their beautiful language into my one-and-only language of 66 years. The free wifi translated for me and nicely told me what I interpreted to be: "you idiot, "lombo" is "loin" not "lamb" and listen to the waiter: Cordeiro is what you want! Why don't you go to community college and learn something other than English?" The next problem was that there were two entries for Cordeiro. One had 1/2 next to it for 55 reals and the other had a name that translated to "red hot" for 90 reals. I wanted a half serving but it was confusing because it didn't say "red hot." I tried to tell the guy I wanted red hot (not fresh from the fridge) and he nodded. In the end I got the 55 real version. Well, it turns out that the entire section of the menu meant "red hot" so all I did was get a half order -- 3 strips of lamb in a beautifully unfamiliar cut as my photo shows. And I'm glad because it was plenty! And it was just-barbecued hot in spite of not having the moniker. It came with a big serving of big broccoli (not a typo--it was so big it was maybe a little overdone for the "leaves" but a little underdone for the large stalks), some mystery onion + whatever "salad" (which was excellent), a piece of flavorful yet soft bread (which I found on the bill to be about 1 dollar US extra), and a huge serving of rice and fat fries ("Steak fries" in the US). My total bill for the fabulous lamb was 68 reals = about $16 US at today's exchange rate. Maybe my 5 star rating has to do with the good price, but the lamb had both attributes: quality and quantity. I'm quite full now and ready for my harrowing and long taxi trip to the airport, thank you!

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.

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.