Two years ago, the chef Bia Braga opened the doors of her house, in Barra Funda, where until then used to be just the seat of her buffet, Bia Braga Sabores. At the beginning, the restaurant was just for friends and closer people, but the commentaries from those people, the articles at newspapers, the publicity the clients used to make in general made the restaurant grows more and more. The restaurant, which has already been indicated to Prêmio Paladar and it’s a recommendation of many restaurants’ guides, is now been reformed, but it’s going to return working at April the fifth.There isn’t one thing at Feijoada da Bia that you can say it’s the best; the food (complete feijoada, served with minced cabbage, pumpkin, fried manioc, rice, farofa, crackling, orange, Portuguese sausage, Toscana sausage, salamelle, dried meat, ribs, ear, pork tail and pork feet, every thing from pork, and, as an extra option, Bobó de Camarão com Acaçá) is just spectacular. I’ve never eaten a feijoada as good as the Bia’s one, and what I think it’s great at her restaurant is the way it’s served: in beautiful bowls from the Brazilian inland, with the lean meat (the sausages, the dried meat, the salamelle) separated of the others parts of the pork. Besides the feijoada, the Bobó de Camarão is exquisite, served with rice and acaçá, a very traditional food from Bahía made with coconut milk and rice flour. The restaurant is beautiful, an old house with a simply but incredible decor; the service is great, and what makes you feel good in there is the way which the waiters serve you, the way which Bia talks to you (usually, she talks a little bit to the clients), I mean, the place’s a little informal atmosphere. As a final touch, a Chorinhos band plays great songs, and you can just relax, listening to a very agreeable song and tasting what is, for me, the best of the best of the Brazilian food.The reformation have been planed by Bia herself in order to preserve the place’s characteristics which make people love there; the house is very beautiful and it’s a great place to go to on colds Saturdays.FEIJOADA DA BIA:Only on Saturdays, since 13:00 with no time to end. Lopez Chavez street, 105 Barra Funda - São PauloPhone: 3663-0433 (you can call and reserve a table any day, except on Sundays)Feijoada: R$42,00 per person, so you eat as much as you want.Bobó de Camarão: R$36,00, price of the dish.
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