Feijoada
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Tordesilhas plates its black bean and pork stew every Saturday, keeping Sao Paulo's own habit of tying feijoada to a fixed day of the week alive; in Brazil we have verified places to eat it in São Paulo. Start with where to eat Feijoada in São Paulo.

Feijoada · São Paulo

Tordesilhas plates its black bean and pork stew every Saturday, keeping Sao Paulo's own habit of tying feijoada to a fixed day of the week alive.

Feijoada, a stew of black beans simmered with pork cuts, is Brazil's national dish, but Sao Paulo turned it into a weekly ritual on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Local write-ups trace the fixed days to a Portuguese habit of pairing set dishes to set days of the week; Saturday's heavy plate also suits a day off, with time for a long lunch and the rest a rich stew calls for. Restaurants across the city built their schedules around it, serving the stew with rice, collard greens, orange slices and toasted farofa. Tordesilhas, chef Mara Salles' Jardins restaurant since 1990, keeps a Saturday-only feijoada on a menu otherwise built from regional Brazilian recipes.

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