Where to eat in São Paulo

Restaurants, cafés and street food in São Paulo, Brazil that locals actually go to — plus the local names for the chains you already know.

• A Casa do Porco — Pork / contemporary, Centro (3). Order the Porco San Zé (8-hour pork). World-ranked nose-to-tail pork in the city center.
• Sujinho — Churrascaria / bar, Consolação (2). Order the Bife de chorizo + arroz. No-frills steaks past midnight — the anti-fancy churrasco.
• Mocotó — Sertanejo / Northeastern, Vila Medeiros (2). Order the Dadinhos de tapioca + baião de dois. Rodrigo Oliveira's temple of the Northeast — worth the trek north.
• Bar do Mané — Mercadão counter, Mercado Municipal (1). Order the Sanduíche de mortadela. The mortadella sandwich that defines the Mercadão.
• Padaria Bella Paulista — Padoca, Cerqueira César (1). Order the Pão na chapa + pingado. The 24-hour padaria — pão na chapa at any hour.
• Bráz Pizzaria — Pizza paulistana, Pinheiros / Perdizes (2). Order the Pizza Bráz + pão de calabresa. The wood-oven standard of São Paulo's pizza obsession.

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