WELCOME TO SÃO PAULO

 An effervescent Metropolis

São paulo hosts more than 90 thousand events per year .Of the major fairs that held in the country , 75% take place here .But we´re not just the business of Latin America , we´re also a great entertainment center.There are more than 300 cinemas , 160 theaters , more than 50 cultural centers and 200 museums , São Paulo has one of the most important nighlife around the world , In São Paulo there are innumerable nightclubs , not to mention shopping malls with more than 90 shopping centers and dozens of streets offering specialized commerce .And in gastronomy , there are more than 15 thousands restaurants with 65 types of cuisine from every part of the world. For these reasons , it´s very worth your while to discover this metropolis , which is full of distinction , trends ,aromas and colours. We are sure that São Paulo will surprise you.And when you come for business , for a fair , a congress or a convention , stay at least another day here. Let yourself be enticed by the cultural diversity of this city that is home to Brazilians and foreigners from every corner .You´ll understand better what it is to be a "paulistano".



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EVENTS

SHOPPING

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TRANSPORTATION

SÃO PAULO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 

LINE -1 BLUE LINE

The first line of São Paulo metro, had its construction started in 1968, and the first section started to operate in 1974, from Jabaquara to Vila Mariana.
In 1975 the line was complete, from Jabaquara, in the south, to Santana, in the north, crossing the city's historical downtown

In 1993 the line's name was changed from North-South Line to Line 1 - Blue

In 1998 it was extended to the north, adding three more stations: Jardim São Paulo, Parada Inglesa and Tucuruvi.


Characteristics:

• Length: 20,2 km
• Stations: 23
• Fleet: 51 six-car trains
• Daily passengers: 827.061
• Headway:
  • Peak: 109 s
  • Offpeak: 147 s
  • Max: 355 s
• Round trip time: 75 minutes

Tucuruvi Station

Characteristics:
Partly underground station with lateral platforms. Access for physically disabled persons and connection with urban and intercity buses.

MAPS & GUIDES

WHERE TO STAY

ARTS & CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT

TOP ATTRACTIONS

 

                                                                  viaduto do chá

                                                                    liberdade district


       

                                                                 Pateo do collegio

                                                                 Theatro Municipal

Vale do Anhangabaú

                                                SÃO PAULO -OLD  DOWNTOWN

The past lends the tone to the downtown área .Buildings that mingle with the history of the city and the country and various cultural centers ate the main attractions .Close to the old center , the liberdade neighborhood houses the city´s japanese community. Portals and oriental lanterns lend a special mood to the streets


 MUST -SEE ATTRACTIONS




SÃO BENTO MONASTERY

Mass with Gregorian cnahts and a shop with cakes and greads made from Benedictine recipes
adress: largo do São Bento tel (11) 3328-8799
monday to friday at 7a.m , saturday at 10 a.m


SÉ METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL

Built in the Neo-gothic and renaissance styles , it is one of the city´s landmarks.
Praça da Sé - Sé district



ALTINO ARANTES EDIFICE

Inspired by the the empire state building in New York ,its rooftop has a privileged view if the city
Rua João Bricola 24



MUSEUM OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

This museum is interactive and is the only one in the world dedicated to the Portuguese Language
Praça da Luz -Luz district




SACRED ART MUSEUM

Its collection narrates the history of Brazilian sacred art at the luz monastery , the famous pills of Frei Galvão are distributed . ,
Avenida Tiradentes -



PATEO DO COLLÉGIO

The place where the city was founded , it presents a collection that tells the story of the city´s birth
praça Pátio do Colegio 2


PINACOTECA DO ESTADO  (STATE ART MUSEUM)
Brazilian art from the 19 century to contemporary
Praça da Luz - Luz district


SALA SÃO PAULO

Its considered the best espace for concerts in Latin America
Praça Julio Prestes


MUNICIPAL THEATER

The 1911 building is the stage for operas and dance performances , as well as concerts
Praça Ramos de Azevedo

AVENIDA PAULISTA / CONSOLAÇÃO / JARDINS

Avenida Paulista is the beloved landmark of the paulistano .During the week .thousands of executives take over its blocks   On the weekends  the search is for entertainment and culture .On its lenght of more than 2,800 meters ,paulista have cultural centers , museums imposing buildings , park and the most famous museum in the city .Masp . Jardins is one of the most important district of São Paulo , there are many excellent restaurants , nighclubs ,bookstore ,museuns ,bars , cafeterias and bakerys.Oscar Freire is Considered the eighth most luxurious street in the world by the excellence mystery shopping international research, it has innumerable stores with national and international brands .In the consolação Rua Augusta is a famous street in São Paulo , there are many nighclubs , bars , pubs , restaurants , shops of young designers , and old bookstores . The gallery ouro fino ,which has modern stores and others with vintage items.RUA DR MELO ALVES is a street that has innumerable restaurants with contemporary cuisine and modern bars , HADDOCK LOBO is a street that has a innumerable restaurants with unusual ambiences . RUA DA CONSOLAÇÃO AND  FREI CANECA ,  in this part has a concentration of various bars for the GLS public .





CASA DAS ROSAS

This beautiful mansion holds regular art workshops and soirees
Av Paulista 37


FIESP CULTURAL CENTER

Composed of an art gallery and the Popular SESI ,theater with excellent plays running at popular prices
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CONJUNTO NACIONAL

Inaugurated at the end of the 1950´s ,it has bookstores ,cinema , a small shopping mall ans space for cultural evenst where art exhibits from around the world are held regularly
av paulista 2073


ITAÚ CULTURAL

Programming includes thematic exhibitions ,theater ,music ,dance and debates
av paulista 149


MASP

Besides its impressive architecture , the museum presents works by Van Gogh , Picasso , Portinari , Cézanne  and Ronoir.
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NORTH ZONE


The north region is in constant development , but in spite of this , it still has placed that ooze charm and tranquility in the midst of the busy rhythm of the metroplis .Lively nights at samba school rehearsais and pleasant weekends in the main green areas of the city are some of its options .


MUST SEE ATTRACTIONS


HORTO FLORESTAL

Located next to the Serra da Cantareira , it has an ecological trail .It is next to the Serra da Cantareira State park . One of the largest urban remaining of native forest in the world .From the outlook at Cantareira park you have a panoramic view of the city .
Rua do horto 931 - Horto florestal district


SAMBA SCHOOLS

Various samba schools are prepared to wlecome visitors during their rehearsais ,which take place all year long.Among them Império de casa verde, Mocidade alegre, Rosas de ouro , Vai-Vai , X9 paulistana and others


LARGO DA FREGUESIA DO Ó

With a church surrounded by bars and a traditional celebration of the divine (MAY) , this looks like a small town plaza in the middle of the capital .
















WEST ZONE


The region includes cultural complexes and famous achitectual developments ,Vila Madalena is a kind of different of neighborhood ,it ha street shops , ateliers , taverns with tables on the sidewalk ,quality restaurants and exciting nighlife in the streets .


MUST SEE ATTRACTIONS

BUTANTAN INSTITUTE

At the Biological Museum , children can see and learn about snakes , spiders and scorpions .There is also a very beautiful park .
Avenida Vital Brasil 1500


TOMIE OHTAKE INSTITUTE

The architecture os this Ruy Ohtake building prepares visitors for what trey´ll  find inside the institute :fine arts ,architecture and design exhibitions
Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima 201


LATIN AMÉRICA MEMORIAL

This architectural complex by Oscar Niemeyer earmarked mainly for Latin America cultural artistic ans scientific events

Avenida Auro Soares de Moura Andrade 664



FOOTBALL MUSEUM

The museum shows , with interactivity , how football had influenced Brazilian Identity
Pacaembu stadium



ÁGUA BRANCA PARK

Offers various cultural activities , as well as an aquarium with fish from Brazilian rivers and a fair with organic products on Satuday mornings
Avenida Prof Francisco Matarazzo 455

BARS AND PUBS

Top BARS  in São Paulo, Brazil  by   The Guardian  

For a pre-match venue or a place to celebrate (we can hope) when England play Uruguay on 19 June, we've pared the 15,000+ bars in São Paulo down to 10. Saude!

                       SÃO CRISTÓVÃO 

 If you're visiting São Paulo and are interested in Brazilian football make the city's football museum your first stop – and this fantastic, atmospheric bar your second. Practically every inch of the walls and ceiling is plastered with footie-themed memorabilia – 3,500 mementos from the owners beloved São Cristovão football club and others, providing a free history lesson of the Brazilian game. Vila Madalena is São Paulo's most established nightlife destination and Rua Aspicuelta and the surrounding streets are full of great little bars. São Cristovão is one of the best, serving excellent chopp (draft beer) and food (try the pot-roast-like carne de panela). It gets crowded, so if you can't get a table, take a stroll to one of the many other bars nearby.
• Rua Aspicuelta 53, +55 11 3097 9904. Vila madalena district

BAR DO LUIZ FERNANDES

Those seeking an authentic Brazilian boteco (local watering hole) experience off the tourist grid will find no better than this traditional North Zone bar, which has wooed paulistanos with its savoury bar snacks and ice-cold bottled beer for nearly 50 years. The house-specialty, bolinho de carne (beef croquettes), deep-fried and doused in spicey vinaigrette and fiery malagueta pepper sauce (£1 each), go with near-frozen Original and Serramalte cerveja like sun and sand. Inside the partly open-air space, chock full of football scarves and decades of photos, some of the city's friendliest waiters navigate the fun with grace and efficiency. Tables overflow into the street, full with a lively, down-to-earth crowd enjoying the simplicity of Brazil at its finest: great food, cold beer, good people. It's very hard to leave.

• Rua Augusto Tolle 610, +55 11 2976 3556, Santana district.  Web site : bardoluizfernandes.com.br

 EMPÓRIO ALTO DE PINHEIROS 

 

As recently as two years ago, Brazilian beer meant watery (but frosty!) lager brewed to stave off heat exhaustion in the tropical sun but with little or no accounting for taste or style (we're talking to you, Brahma, Skol, Antarctica and Nova Schin). Then the craft beer floodgates opened. This hybrid neighbourhood bar/microbrew shop has little atmosphere to speak of, but beer fiends quickly made it their temple, and it's here you will find the best and rarest of Brazil's burgeoning craft beer scene. There are 10 choices on draft (a revelation in itself; samples encouraged) and another 400 or so bottled options, including Invicta from São Paulo, Wäls from Minas Gerais, Bodebrown and Way from Paraná. If you take your ales seriously, this is Brazil's holy grail. Best of all, prices are the same whether you drink in or take away. Pack a cool box!
• Rua Vupabussu 305, +55 11 3031 4328, pinheiros district altodospinheiros.com.br

CHOPPERIA LIBERDADE 

A few drinks in at this old-school karaoke bar in the heart of Liberdade, São Paulo's Japantown (pictured), and you'll feel like you've plunged into a world of neon kitsch, glowing aquariums, Christmas lights and electric paintings. The frighteningly serous songsters who entertain the crowd of Japazilian hipsters, Brazilian twentysomethings, curious tourists and gaggles of hen parties offer dead-ringer renditions of Japanese, Brazilian and Anglo-American pop classics. Some complain that regulars hog the limelight, so you should think twice before embarrassing yourself on stage here lest you fancy the Simon Cowell treatment. There are pool tables and big screens for watching the footie in the back. Great fun.
• Rua da Glória 523, +55 11 3207 8783 , liberdade district 

ALBERTA # 3 

This cradle of counterculture was singlehandedly responsible for making Centro calm, cool and collected again when it opened in 2010. Reached through a neon-lit República doorway, this is a three-storey bohemian hideout where DJs spin classic rock, jazz and soul on vinyl for a mixed crowd content to sway on the small dance floor (no pogoing here). Inspired by 1950s hotel bars, it's far more Dylan than Disclosure, and a perfect haunt for introverts to escape flashing colours. Settle in with a seasonal cocktail (try the SP460 - gin or vodka, Tahitian lime, Sicilian lime, grapefruit and rosemary) and get into the groove.
• Avenida São Luís 272, +55 11 3151 5299, república district  web site : alberta3.com.br

BAR VELOSO

If you don't show up at this tiny boteco as soon as it opens (5.30pm Tue-Fri, 12.45pm Sat, 4pm Sun), you can forget about getting a table. The standing room-only crowd spills into the adjacent square for good reason: the city's best coxinhas (croquettes stuffed with chicken and gooey catupiry cheese), doused in housemade hot sauce; and bartender's Souza's competition-slaying caipirinhas in new combinations (tangerine with dedo-de-moça pepper, cashew with lime) and exotic fruits (jabuticaba, starfruit) are the perfect fuel for an full-on evening. After a round or two, you'll forget you were on the waiting list for a seat, anyway.
• Rua Conceição Veloso 54, +55 11 5083 1455, vila mariana district velosobar.com.br

Ó DO BOROGODÓ 

All exposed brick and uneven floors, this is the Sampa (as Brazilians call the city) spot to shake your rump to live samba, chorinho, pagode and any other string-driven strains of Brazil's most famous rhythm. Serious musicians and aficionados work the room here, so dancing tourists and foreigners without the benefit of Latin blood are quickly exposed (don't worry – it's a good thing). The sweat-soaked crowd fights for breathing room to let loose in the compact house Monday through Saturday (expect a cover charge of up to £5) and a full house most nights. It's one of the few places in São Paulo that can rival the samba scene in Rio's Lapa district.
• Rua Horácio Lane 21, +55 11 3814 4087, vila madalena district 

FRANGÓ

One of the city's most classic botecos, FrangÓ sits on atmospheric square off the beaten path in historic Freguesia do Ó by one of São Paulo's oldest cathedrals, Our Lady of Freguesia do Ó (1901). But the communion here is of a different kind entirely: with more than 500 Brazilian and imported beers available by the bottle, this was once Sampa's only haven for serious beer geeks. Today, it no longer stands alone, but it continues to draw purists not only for its beer menu, but its famous grilled chicken, served with farofa (toasted manioc flour) and salad (£16 for two people) and famous coxinhas (£7 for 10). The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul. 
• Largo da Matriz Nossa Senhora do Ó, 168, +55 11 3932 freguesia do ó district. 4818,frangobar.com.br

ASTRONETE

Like most hot spots in Sampa's edgiest nightlife district (Baixo Augusta), funky Astronete caters to alt-leaning crowds dissected into diverse subcultures mingling in sweet counterculture harmony. It straddled the line between bar and club, and DJs spin one of the city's most eclectic soundtracks (electro, garage rock, indie, rockabilly), which grows in volume as the night wears on and the crowd swells, pressed against lipstick-red walls peppered with faded erotic film posters. Go early if you want to chat over cocktails; go after midnight if you'd rather get loose in your Levi's.
• Rua Augusta 335, +55 11 3151 4568, consolação district astronete.tumblr.com

SubsAstor 

Mixology is still a relatively new concept in beer-mad Brazil. Before SubAstor, mixed drinks were mostly limited to caipirinhas. But down a shadowy staircase beneath Astor (one of the city's finest botecos), sits this the dark and sexed-up basement of whose name does no justice to the imaginations of its bartenders. Italian mixologist Fabio la Pietra is easily the most daring drinks man in town. He knows no limits: rocket, bottled butter, capers and saffron are all major players in his outrageously progressive drinks. It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
• Rua Delfina 163, +55 11 3815 1364, vila madalena district. Web site : subastor.com.br

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NIGHTLIFE

RESTAURANTS

TABULEIRO DO ACARAJÉ 

Vatapá, acarajé, caruru: this exotic mouthful of sounds, ripe for rolling around the tongue, is matched only by the exoticism of the ingredients themselves, which come together to make one of the most emblematic dishes in north-eastern Brazil's superb cuisine. A street-food staple in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia and the epicentre of Afro-Brazil, the deep-fried, black-eyed-pea patties (acarajé) are split and filled withvatapá (a thick yellow paste made from ground shrimp and peanuts, coconut milk and thickened palm oil), then crowned with a handful of shrimp and a dollop of caruru, a saucy little condiment made from okra. The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro. The Bahian sisters, who abandoned rat-race São Paulo careers to launch this place instead, taught themselves to make acarajé over a period of intense experimentation before opening in early 2013. And, if the happy, friendly throng that gathers here nightly for the £2.60 snacks is anything to go by, they've cracked it.
• Rua Dr Cesário Mota Jr 611, +55 11 4301 4363, consolação district

ACRÓPOLES 

Still under the command of 96-year-old owner Thrassyvoulos Petrakis, who worked as a waiter here for a decade before buying the business in the early 1970s, this well-loved classic has been thriving since 1959, in the heart of Bom Retiro, one of São Paulo's most traditional immigrant neighbourhoods. There's often a wait outside on weekends; best to just order a bottle of ice-cold beer and consider it part of the experience. Once you're settled in the simple, pretty blue-and-white restaurant, start with a generous half-portion of Greek salad (R$22, £5.80), or the starter platter (entrada completa, £9), with soft cheese, pickles, aubergine, hummus, potato salad and tender chunks of octopus. To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus. The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below. A fat slice of custardy galaktoboureko(£1.80), with an exquisite filo top, should finish you off nicely.
• Rua da Graça 364, +55 11 3223 4386, bom retiro district web site :  restauranteacropoles.com.br

MOCÓTO 

It's a schlep to get there: Mocotó is some 40 minutes from downtown São Paulo by car (or take the blue line metro to Tucuruvi, then it's 10 minutes in a taxi). But if you can manage it, and if you can handle a 40-minute to two-hour wait for a table at weekends – sipping delicious, creative caipirinhas while you wait – this is a don't-miss chance to try north-east Brazilian food at its very best. The restaurant, which appeared (at no 16) in last year's list of 50 best restaurants in Latin America, is run by Rodrigo Oliveira alongside his father José, the formerly humble boteco's original owner. It is famous for faithfully produced classic dishes that are somehow, every time, twice as good as you've ever had them before – and cheaper than seems possible for pricey São Paulo. Try theescondidinho de carne seca (£6.60), a cassava-topped shepherd's pie made with jerked beef, or the sumptuous, melting joelho de porco (pork shank, £9.80), with a pile of cuscuz (Brazilian couscous). Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30). Oliveira recently opened a sister restaurant next door, Esquina Mocotó, with a fancier menu and slightly higher prices, which has been received just as rapturously as the original by SP's gastronomics brigade.
• Avenida Nossa Senhora do Loreto 1100, +55 11 2951 3056, vila Medeiros district web site : mocoto.com.br

CHI FU 

Home to what's considered the largest Japanese community outside Japan, São Paulo is blessed with hundreds of Japanese restaurants, serving sukiyaki, ramen (lamen) and sushi galore. Search for Chinese food, however, and your options are weirdly limited, which makes Chi Fu, a two-storey palace of cheap, highly authentic Chinese cuisine in Liberdade, the heart of Japanese São Paulo, all the more precious. If Portuguese is a problem for you, relax: most of Chi Fu's staff speak barely any either, or affect not to. So make what sense you can of the vast menu, lavish with photos, or go for the steamed carp (£8) or tilapia (£9) with ginger; a pile of noodles (massas) with beef, pork, prawns or mixed seafood (carne, lombo, camerão or fruto do mar, £7); or a huge platter of spicy, saucy squid (lula com molho, £10.50). Expect to be steered to the upper floor, past a ground floor packed with feasting Chinese families and – unless you're in a similarly large group – to share one of the huge tables, complete with lazy susan. Slices of watermelon appear when the staff decide you're done, complete with a bill, handwritten in Chinese. Note: no cards accepted. 
• Praça Carlos Gomes 200, +55 11 3112 1698, liberdade district 

ELLA 

Opening on a nondescript Pinheiros street in March 2013, and run by chef-proprietor Alexandre Romano – who has stints at some of the city's finest Italian restaurants under his belt, including the incomparableFasano – Ella is a compact, deliciously affordable revelation. Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating). Best of all, there's a three-course daytime menu that could be the best-value lunch in town. About £8.80 gets you a choice of starter from a menu that changes weekly – our choice was polenta topped with duck ragu, or leafy mozzarella salad – a main course that might be pasta, risotto or the aforementioned milanesa, served with fat strands ofbigoli pasta in sage butter, plus dessert. From the a la carte menu, the tender pink beetroot tortelli (£10.50), scattered with scraps of walnut and wilted sage and filled with ricotta with the option of foie gras, rather than sage butter – is simply unforgettable. To finish, choose between a thick slice of pineapple or a pot of bright white pannacotta in a fruity, vividly ruby broth.
• Rua Costa Carvalho 138, +55 11 3034 1267, pinheiros district 

RICONCITO PERUANO 

A little slice of Lima in a very old, very run-down part of central São Paulo, Rinconcito Peruano ("little corner of Peru" in Spanish) is humble, unpretentious, cheap as chips, and almost invariably rammed. There's no sign, just an open doorway and a flight of stairs; so in you go, and carry on upwards, past the main salon to the breezy top floor. The varied menu features soul-warming soups (try the Minuta, £3.20, or fried chicken and Peruvian-Chinese fried rice, chaufa), but the fresh, delicious ceviche is the king of dishes here, and it comes in small, medium or king-size servings (from £7-£26), piled on a bed of potato and sweet potato and topped with fat golden kernels of toasted, crackly corn. The neighbourhood is extremely insalubrious, so this is not a place in which to wander about, and certainly not at night. Go for a slap-up lunch instead, or if it's night-time, take a taxi right to the door.
• Rua Aurora 451, +55 11 3361 2400, santa efigenia district 

SABORES DE MI TIERRA

With his well-regarded Suri Ceviche Bar already going famously, chef Dagoberto Torres opened this tiny Colombian joint with his aunt Magdalena in early 2013 in the garage of a Pinheiros house just opposite the city's Goethe Institute. The menu is simple: arepas (flat, white corn bread) and patacones (flattened, fried discs of plantain that hold their topping perfectly, rather than collapsing at the first bite) with a choice of toppings: shredded, stewed beef or chicken; linguiça sausage with onion; baked ham (pernil); cheese; or beans with guacamole and pork scratchings. The plump, nicely spongy arepas are a bargain at £2.60 each (or £1.80 with just cheese), making this a popular spot for after-work get-togethers over snacks and cold beers, to which you help yourself from the fridge.
• Rua Lisboa 971, +55 11 3083 3114, Pinheiros district 

BAR DO BIDU 

A browse round the Saturday bric-a-brac market at Praça Benedito Calixto followed by an afternoon's lounging at nearby Bar do Biu is something of a São Paulo institution. This deceptively spacious boteco is an exemplary specimen of the no-frills bars/lunchrooms to be found the length and breadth of Brazil, where you can get a square meal (prato feito or prato comercial) from about £3.50, featuring your choice of meat with a serving of salad, fries, rice, beans and farofa – toasted cassava meal. Here at Bar do Biu, grab a pavement table if you see one, or make your way past the cool, tattooed crowd to the back, where there's plenty of seating. Order maybe a caipirinha (£3) then get down to business with a slap-up feijoada(Brazil's emblematic pork-and-bean stew complete with mixed grill, shredded kale and farofa, £6) or the house speciality, baião de dois (£9). That's rice and black-eyed peas jumbled with shreds of jerked beef and shards of bacon, sausage and squeaky queijo de coalho cheese – enough for two, especially if you order a pork chop on the side. Shake some bottled butter or hot sauce over it, and send it on its way with an ice-cold bottle of Brahma (£2.40). 
• Rua Cardeal Arcoverde 772, +55 11 3081 6739,  Pinheiros district. Web site : bardobiu.com.br

YAMAGA 

Thanks to the city's million-strong Japanese and Brazilian-Japanese population, sushi and sashimi are at the heart of São Paulo's gastronomic industry, a major food group for food-loving Paulistanos, who appear to need regular fixes of the stuff to stay happy and healthy. Revered masters of the art, such as Jun Sakamoto, of the eponymous restaurant, command eye-watering prices, but there's something for every budget in Liberdade, SP's Japantown. And if affordability, simplicity and quality are in order, old-school Yamaga is a consistently reliable choice. The wide menu boasts ramen, teppanyaki, yakisoba and more, plus sushi sets ranging from £3-£7. Consider a combinado, which comes with a mix of sushi and sashimi plus a hot dish of your choice (gyoza, tempura) for £12. It's technically for one person, but if you order some of the exceedingly tasty miso soup on the side, there'll be plenty for two.
• Rua Tomás Gonzaga 66, Liberdade, +55 11 3275 1790, liberdade district 

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