Okuyama, located in the Liberdade neighborhood of São Paulo, is a Japanese restaurant with a karaoke bar and private boxes to rent for parties up to 15 people. I came here with a party of 9 for some late night karaoke. The boxes are spacious and plain, which is fine with me since renting a room is very affordable.
Our room had two different karaoke players, which can get confusing. While they both have many similar songs in their catalog, they also have songs that the other doesn't have. Instead of switching back and forth from each machine, we just flipped through both catalogs and stuck with the one that had more songs we wanted to sing.
A server is assigned to each room to take orders for food and drinks. We ended up ordering rounds of pitchers of beer as well as izakaya snacks such as grilled chicken hearts, fried chicken, and some other appetizers I can't remember at the moment.
The best part is that karaoke is available until 4 am. This was definitely our favorite late night spot in the city. read more