I love this place! Try their vegan chocolate cake, it's super yummy! I cannot wait to try their…read morevegan pizzas this weekend!

Walked from our hotel to this restaurant. We were seated immediately but it took a long time to get…read more a waiter to take our order , waitstaff would dissapear or would be with other patrons . Extensive menu which is nice , they have everything from salads , açaí bowls, chicken and fish etc . The coconuts are amazing , try the pineapple coconut , and also heard it's great when you add alcohol . My only complaint was there chicken dishes weren't that great. I felt adventurous and got the curry chicken with spinach and mashed potatoes , and it arrived to the table looking like straight puke , literally . I couldn't even tell my potatoes from spinach. I couldn't eat it , it took too long to get our food so I just gave it back . My recommendation is play it safe ordering food, no curry chicken or sweet and sour or anything like that , that's more from the states . I will say the desserts are great ! I would return , and would just play safe with salad !

Expensive for the quality provided. Really simple place but charging double for the location…read more The food is regular, don't expect excellence.

Meu bar favorito en Vila Madalena! It looks like a second…read morehand bookstore on the inside with authors like Bukowski and pictures of young Marlon Brando, drawing rad (but surprisingly not pretentious) people from all over Sao Paulo. Any given night of the week the whole bar/restaurant has people spilled out onto the street with buckets of ice cold original by their side. But don't let the crowd discourage you if you've come for a bite. They can always find seating for you inside after a few minutes. Friday nights are my favorite because they have a guy walking around with huge tray of fresh pastel. They taste amazing. Especially after that second caipirinha.

Mercearia is a cheap local dive bar with a great - and LARGE - crowd. The place is so popular with…read morethe locals that it's packed every night, and people just end up overflowing to the streets (and blocking traffic, but that's beside the point). It's a great place to chill out with some friends, or other local Brazilians in the area :)

It's a historic bar in the historic center of SP. I work right around the corner, so I come here…read moreoccasionally. The location is great, because I love the surrounding architecture, but I probably wouldn't recommend hanging out in the area at night. The area is dead and not very safe. The venue itself is very unique and it has a very good bar feels. The food is also ok, but it is generally a place to come to get a drink and maybe some bar food.

While staying at a hotel about .8 miles away (Ca'd'oro), I decided to bravely walk here through…read moresome questionable (and sometimes very stinky) streets for some lamb that I saw in Yelp. There were some scary people hanging around the destination but I continued my brave but perhaps Quixotic quest and FOUND IT: "PASV" in large letters reassured me to quit looking at the street and walk right in! I saw some entries on the menu that said "Lombo" so I assumed it was lamb but wanted to make sure. As a typical American (only speaking one language=English) I had trouble with the Portuguese menu and the server was trying to understand as he watched my arms flailing. The next table had exactly what I wanted, so I pointed to their dish and roughly said "que esta?" He said "Cordeiro." I was confused about the unfamiliar name so I pointed at my phone that was asking for a password for the PASV restaurant's wifi, and the kind server quickly entered the password. Ahhh, now I can translate their beautiful language into my one-and-only language of 66 years. The free wifi translated for me and nicely told me what I interpreted to be: "you idiot, "lombo" is "loin" not "lamb" and listen to the waiter: Cordeiro is what you want! Why don't you go to community college and learn something other than English?" The next problem was that there were two entries for Cordeiro. One had 1/2 next to it for 55 reals and the other had a name that translated to "red hot" for 90 reals. I wanted a half serving but it was confusing because it didn't say "red hot." I tried to tell the guy I wanted red hot (not fresh from the fridge) and he nodded. In the end I got the 55 real version. Well, it turns out that the entire section of the menu meant "red hot" so all I did was get a half order -- 3 strips of lamb in a beautifully unfamiliar cut as my photo shows. And I'm glad because it was plenty! And it was just-barbecued hot in spite of not having the moniker. It came with a big serving of big broccoli (not a typo--it was so big it was maybe a little overdone for the "leaves" but a little underdone for the large stalks), some mystery onion + whatever "salad" (which was excellent), a piece of flavorful yet soft bread (which I found on the bill to be about 1 dollar US extra), and a huge serving of rice and fat fries ("Steak fries" in the US). My total bill for the fabulous lamb was 68 reals = about $16 US at today's exchange rate. Maybe my 5 star rating has to do with the good price, but the lamb had both attributes: quality and quantity. I'm quite full now and ready for my harrowing and long taxi trip to the airport, thank you!