So, are you willing to read about the tastiest Italian food ever? If you don’t believe me, I’m talking about a restaurant which has won the prize of “best Italian restaurant” (Veja  São Paulo) twice and “chef revelation” (Guia 4 Rodas) in 2006. Named Due Cuochi, it’s a small and charming place, where you can find the most well-dressed people in the city.

 The first thing you see when you enter the restaurant , is the perfect combination of the paintings on the walls, the beautiful furniture and the soft lighting, which all pass a  good sensation of comfort  that makes you feel at home .

Being served by very polite and nice waiters, you are able to choose from a variety of delicious dishes, such as Lasagna, Duck, any kind of pasta, salad with tasty dressings, “antipastos” and the best part: Dessert. They offer us a gorgeous mouthwatering sweet homemade “petit gateau” served with passion-fruit ice-cream. Just to make it more beautiful and delicious, they dip a piece of cookie in the chocolate and put it over the ice-cream ball and the petit-gateau comes heated with chocolate inside melting. The plate is also decorated with a kind of passion-fruit sauce, that makes it more colourful.

Even though Due Cuochi is a place very famous for high society people, the menu doesn’t offer anything expensive. If you want to go to celebrate a birthday or Mom’s day, it’s certainly the perfect option. Here goes the address and the phone number for reservations and more details:

Rua Manuel Guedes, 93

04536-070 – Itaim Bibi

São Paulo

3078-8092

www.duecuochi.com.br

T.G.I  Fridays is a very popular restaurant in the USA. They are famous for the casual diners, but they are also a good place for a happy hour. They have different types of clients, when you go to Fridays you can see a group of teens or a family.

       The chain is known its appearance, with red-striped canopies, brass railings, tiffany lamps, and frequent use of antiques as décor.

      The main plate is chicken alfredo, that is macaroni with a good sauce, cauliflower and pieces of chicken. They put a lot of Parmesan chasse. If you pay a extra R$ 10, you can have a dish of salad.

      This restaurant isn’t too expansive, but if you’re really hungry it can turn out a little pricy, because you want to eat all the appetizers, the menu and after that you want their deserts, which are really nice.

      The location here in Sao Paulo can be at:

Alphaville- Sao Paulo

Alameda Rio Negro, 585, Loja 9
Alphaville, Barueri, Sp, CEP 06454-000

Av. Antônio Joaquim de Moura Andrade, 737 
Vila Nova Conceição – São Paulo –

SP 
Telefones: (11) 3885-8580 / 3885-2844

Outback Steakhouse is an Australian steakhouse restaurant that was build with a rustic style, which seems like a house of the 50’s.

It was created in the United States and now-a-days there are more than 900 restaurants, 800 just in the United States, and others 120 in 22 different countries.1988 in

One of the advantages of the Outback is the possibility of choice that goes from a simple salad up to an exotic land beef, without forgetting of the famous potatoes with bacon and bunch, called Fries.

In my opinion the best choice are the Fries or the Ribs on the Barbie, but if you are a sweet lover you have a lot of options of desserts that are just amazing.

The portions are really big, the quality is incomparable, and the service is very good, what justify the price, that isn’t so cheap.  

Outback has a good atmosphere, and is a very nice place to go with friends and family. You can find an Outback at:

Outback Steakhouse Morumbi – Rua Marechal Hastimphilo de Moura, 641 – Portal do Morumbi

Outback Steakhouse Anália Franco – Shopping Anália Franco – Av. Regente Feijó, 1739 – Piso Acácia Tatuapé

Outback Steakhouse Eldorado – Shopping Eldorado -Av. Rebouças, 3970 – Piso Térreo

Outback Steakhouse Bourbon – Shopping Bourbon Pompéia  -R. Turiassu, 2100

  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.

Located on the Conselheiro Brotero street, 1120, this is one of the bests pizzarias of São Paulo. It is not big, or famous, but it is cheap and have pizzas of exellent quality. By only 14,50 reais, you can have a eigth pieces delicious mussarela pizza deliveried at the door of your house. The restaurant have a choice of over 60 equisite pizza flavours, and they have helpings of exellent free entrances too, such as a crunchy roasted pieces of bread, made at the time. The restaurant itself have a small problem: the ambient. The building of the restaurant is really small and it is almost ever crowed, and the tables are really close to each other.
After all, Prima Donna is still an exellent place to start a hang out night with your friends, not to close a hang out night, because the restaurant closes at 12 P.M. And there are no parking lots, so you would have to park your car at the street. Well, nothing is perfect.

Do you want to try some Australian food without having to travel 23 hours? Come to Outback Steakhouse and feel the Australian touch not far from home!

Outback Steakhouse is an informal restaurant decored with Australian style from the 50’s. The atmosphere is young and happy and it’s also very pleasant to be there with friends or family. Outback was made in the United States in 1988 and now there are more than 800 restaurants there and other 120 in 22 different countries. The menu includes big portions; six of them are steak varieties, fish, shrimp, chicken, pork meat, pasta, sandwiches, soups and salads.

One of the most tasty dish is the Ribs on the Barbie; which is a portion of exquisite pork ribs grilled and dunked in sauce (barbecue or billabong) served with spicy fries and a bowl of cinnamon apples. In my opinion it’s the most outstanding dish in the world. And it costs only $39, 99.

The waiters and waitress there are friendly and funny, they always talk to you and give tips when you don’t know what to order.

You can find an Outback Steakhouse in São Paulo at:

Outback Steakhouse Morumbi – Rua Marechal Hastimphilo de Moura, 641 – Portal do Morumbi

Outback Steakhouse Anália Franco – Shopping Anália Franco – Av. Regente Feijó, 1739 – Piso Acácia Tatuapé

Outback Steakhouse Eldorado – Shopping Eldorado -Av. Rebouças, 3970 – Piso Térreo

Outback Steakhouse Bourbon – Shopping Bourbon Pompéia  -R. Turiassu, 2100

So let go of the worries of the day, and Go Outback!

 So, are you willing to read about the tastiest Italian food ever? If you don’t believe me, I’m talking about a restaurant which has won the prize of “best Italian restaurant” (Veja  São Paulo) twice and “chef revelation” (Guia 4 Rodas) in 2006. Named as Due Couchi, it’s a small and charming place, where you can find the most well-dressed people in the city.

 The first thing you see when you enter in the restaurant , is the perfect combination of the paintings in the walls, the beautiful furniture and the soft lighting, which all pass a  good sensation of confort  that makes you feel like home .

Being served by very polite and nice waiters, you are able to choose from a variety of delicious dishes, such as Lasagna, Duck, any kind of pasta, salad with tasty dressings, “antipastos” and the best part: Dessert. They offer us a gorgeous mouthwatering sweet homemade “petit gateau” served with passion-fruit ice-cream. 

Even though Due Couchi is a place very famous for up-sider people, the menu doesn’t offer anything expensive. If you want to go to celebrate a birthday or Mom’s day, it’s certainly the perfect option. Here goes the address and the phone for previous reservations and more details:

Rua Manuel Guedes, 93

04536-070 – Itaim Bibi

São Paulo

3078-8092

www.duecouchi.com.br

I’m sure you won’t regret going there.

Sushi papaia is a restaurant in Praça Vilaboim that is usually frequent by well dressed and beautiful people, but the most of them are teenagers. The restaurant was created by an ex-business man, whose loves Japanese food. He gave de name of it Sushi Papaia because his family used to have a small restaurant called Café Papaia.

            The restaurant is big and it has two floors. The surrounding makes you feel very comfortable, because there aren’t only chairs for you to sit, there are also sofas, so people can choose if they want to sit in a formal or informal way. There is one thing that really annoys me: is the terrible smell of fish, but I think that all the Japanese restaurants has the same problem.

            I always go there with my friends on the weekend and all the waiters already know us. The service is really good: it doesn’t take too long for the food to arrive and the waiters are always very polite.

            Every time that I go there I order the same thing: uramaki of salmon, because I had just learned how to eat Japanese food, so I think that I’m not ready yet to taste other things.  The uramaki of salmon is a helping of rice, with salmon inside. It’s perfect! sometimes I ask temaki too. Temaki is just like the uramaki, but it has the form of a cone.

            The price there is not expansive at all, if you compare it with other Japanese food. I really recommend the Sushi Papaia, you won’t regret it!

            Mori Sushi was chosen by Veja São Paulo (ed. 23.11.06) as one of the bests all-you-can-eat of São Paulo. It’s a homey small Japanese restaurant where you can find beautiful people who have a sophisticate taste in this kind of food. Besides it has a cozy lounge for people who are waiting. The sushiman Aldo Aoyagi commands the team behind the bar preparing exquisites sushis and sashimis. They recommend to ask for the ‘festival’, when they create a lot of different sushis that usually doesn’t have on the menu. On the ample menu besides the traditional dishes you’ll find tempting mixed of hot or fresh dishes, delicious desserts like the Ice Tempurá and beverages. Mori Sushi is famous for his onigiris, delicious rice balls wrapped in seaweed, often with a ’surprise’ in the middle.

Though the restaurant is always crowded the service is good. Mori Sushi is pretty expensive, but it’s worth it.            

The first time I went there was last year with my family, now we always go there and it has become my favorite Japanese restaurant. We use to go at least 3 times on a month, and usually have the all-you-can eat. For me everyone that goes there should try the Truta Okinawa, it’s a tasty typical fish filled with shitake in a sweet sauce, it’s awfully good. And to drink you can try one of the various sakes and caipirinhas. What I like the most at Mori Sushi is the artistic sushi and the tasty fresh fishes. Impeccably fresh fish is Mori’s secret to wonderful sashimi and sushi, served with wasabi and soy sauce.

Mori Sushi is located at Consolação Street, 3610 – Jardins – São Paulo. TEL: (11) 3898 2977