Best Restaurants in São Paulo

São Paulo is South America's culinary capital — a city of 22 million people that has built a restaurant scene of extraordinary depth and diversity. The city's immigrant heritage, which brought Italians, Japanese, Middle Easterners, and dozens of other nationalities to build Brazil's industrial heartland, has created a culinary landscape that is without parallel in the hemisphere.

The Liberdade neighbourhood is home to one of the world's largest Japanese communities outside Japan, and its restaurants reflect generations of authentic Japanese-Brazilian culinary fusion. Vila Madalena and Pinheiros are the bohemian neighbourhoods with creative contemporary dining. Jardins is where the city's most celebrated chefs operate their flagship restaurants. And the traditional churrascaria (BBQ house) tradition — refined to extraordinary levels in establishments like D.O.M. and A Figueira Rubaiyat — underpins a distinctly Paulistano approach to meat that is unlike any other in the world.