It is a great place where you can enjoy the very best of the São Paulo city cuisine - not the snob,…read morehyper-chic, upscale meals we sometimes indulge ourselves specially when we're out if the town. It is a couple of simple and delicious meals the "paulistanos" (people born and raised here in São Paulo City) have forever and are proud to carry as some of the São Paulo State capital traditions. Try the "Picadinho" or the "Paulistinha". There are some pretty heavy duty stuff as well (the "Leitao a Pururuca" is awesome, but after having that delicious piece of pork with an unforgettable and crispy layer of pigskin, you may check your cholesterol levels :)) Place is good (a little noisy during weekdays lunch time) but staff is awesome and hyper friendly. Coffee (from Santa Monica Farm (not our Santa Monica, CA)) is great.

Went there on a Wednesday trying to score some feijoada. Unfortunately it was after 6 pm and they…read moreonly serve it at lunch. The waiter must have seen the despair in my face so he asked the chef to prepare a special order of feijoada for me. It was delicious, it's amazing what a little extra effort can do for someone's experience to be great. Will definitely come back to try other Paulista dishes when I'm in town.

Brazilian friends wanted to take me to a place during my visit to São Paulo that would give me a…read morechance to sample some unique Brazilian flavours and they chose Micaela, partly due to its location (walking distance from my hotel) and due to our needing a place that would be open on Monday. Neither had been here before, but both had heard good things, so they figured it would be worth a shot. How right they were! The restaurant is cute and charming inside, with a rustic sort of feel. The waiters--none of whom appear to speak English, though I cannot be sure of that since my friends handled all the interactions with staff--were friendly and helpful. The menu is extremely varied and includes many ingredients from all over Brazil, including exotic fishes from the north of the country, spices from the Amazon, and all sorts of things that none of us knew what they were. We opted to share two starters, one called Aquarelas do Brasil (after the famous song of the same name) and the other "pintxos" of tapioca and shimeji mushrooms (mushrooms wrapped in tapioca pastry and fried). The Aquarelas dish turned out to be delivered on a plate resembling a painter's palette, with four little servings of things to be spread on thin pieces of a special bread that they make in-house (each serving a different colour, thus adding to the theme evoked by the dish's name). The tapioca-wrapped mushrooms was the better-tasting of the two dishes, though we enjoyed them both very much. For the main course, I had a dish that consisted of beef, farofa, a fried noodle sort of thing on top and a tomato-and-onion salsa on the side, together with rice. It had excellent flavours, though the fried noodle-y thing on top made it a bit difficult to eat. We also had caiprinhas or caipiroskas, one of the latter made with red fruits instead of lime--there is a sizeable list of options for these cocktails on the menu--and they even gave us a taste of a special cachaça made with a Brazilian relative of the betel leaf. We really didn't need dessert after all this, but we decided to share one among the three of us, choosing one made with toasted coconut, white chocolate caramel and something called puxurí that none of us was familiar with, so one of the waiters brought some out to show us. Turns out it's a spice from northern Brazil that is redolent of cinnamon and vanilla, and they gave me a piece to use at home. The dessert was excellent, as was the rest of the meal, and the price was pretty reasonable given all that we had ordered (R$140 each).

The food is amazing here. Definitely get the Galhinado. That chicken and rice dish was the…read morehighlight of my meals there. The chicken was cooked perfectly and had a smokey flavor that was very pleasant. The dessert with cupuazu was really good too.. reminded me of a combination of butterscotch and dried longan fruit.

Ok guys, listen up. You are going to sit down, get a menu, and see a long list of meats. Go ahead…read moreand read the list just don't order anything but the Ancho. Sure, you could get a kilo of ribs but don't. The Ancho.

This is an amazing Restaurant. The service is very personal and friendly. The outdoor patio is…read moresecond to none. I have been here many times and I have never been disappointed. The atmosphere is fun, eclectic and romantic in an old world kind of way. If you have never been here you will be in for a treat. Most important, the food its absolutely delicious. Enjoy!

From all the Braz restaurants in Sao Paulo, this is my favorite. They have a nice garden outside…read morewith tables which is super cozy. The pizzas are also very good but almost all the time you have to wait in line. Be prepared to wait for a loooong time though as it is always packed

I love Ritz. It's a staple in São Paulo dining scene. The space is super cute and the food was…read moredelicious. My favorite item on the menu so far is the shrimp pasta. It tasted like Japanese gratin. I haven't found a place that reminded me of childhood. I guess I had to fly to Brazil to find it. I'm definitely coming back! The service was so so but the manager helped recover the situation.

The traditional menu has good options and the caipirinhas are great, in particular the kiwi with…read morehoney and the Persian sweet lemon ones. Staff is always friendly :)