6 editor picks across Brazil.
6 international restaurants worth the trip across Brazil, editor-ranked. All cuisines in Brazil.
Tangará Jean-Georges sits inside Palácio Tangará facing Burle Marx Park, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's only South American room in Sao Paulo.
OrderSignature six-course tasting menu
TipThe Ruinart Room, Brazil's first, seats up to fourteen for champagne pairings alongside the tasting menu.
Amélia is the second-floor dining room of the Janeiro Hotel, facing Leblon beach, serving a four-course fixed-price tasting menu in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe four-course menu, with a choice of starters, mains and desserts after the amuse-bouche
TipDinner only, as a fixed-price menu at R$380 per person; the glass-walled room on the second floor looks over the sea at Leblon.
Emile is the Hotel Emiliano restaurant in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, where chef Bernabé Simón Padrós cooks ingredient-led dishes with Latin American cues.
OrderThe fish of the day with yuzu kosho and coriander oil, then the squid with nduja and white beans
TipPadrós arrived from Peru at the end of 2025 and rewrote the menu around product names, such as tartar, yolk and brioche.
Cepa moved from Tatuapé to a square in Pinheiros in 2024, keeping chef couple Lucas Dante and Gabrielli Fleming's menu in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
TipGabrielli Fleming runs the room and the wine: there is no fixed list, just natural wines from small producers she tracks down, so ask what is open.
Cora occupies a revived sixth-floor space above downtown Sao Paulo, chef Pablo Inca's short, shareable menu earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand seal.
OrderQueso de chancho and the lamb empanadas
TipThe building sat empty for over twenty years before this floor was restored to house the dining room and bar.
Petí Gastronomia is a lunch-only kitchen inside the Pintar art-supply store in Sao Paulo's Pompeia district, run by young chef Victor Dimitrow.
OrderThe set three-course menu with cover charge, or the version built around the fish of the day.
TipThe menu changes roughly every three weeks; ask which of the four set options is running before you sit down.
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