30 editor picks across Brazil.
30 fine dining worth the trip across Brazil, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All Brazil guides.
Lasai in Humaitá serves a single tasting menu built on produce from the chef's own gardens, and it holds two Michelin stars in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
OrderThe single tasting menu, led by vegetables from the chef's gardens in Itanhangá and Vale das Videiras
TipSeatings are fixed at 20:00 from Tuesday to Friday and at 19:00 or 22:30 on Saturday, so arrive on time; the house takes reservations only.
Evvai in Pinheiros serves a single tasting menu, Oriundi, fusing Brazilian and Italian technique under chef Luiz Filipe Souza in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
OrderMoqueca branca with squid and pupunha palm heart
TipThe tasting menu changes with every edition but the scallop course, Bomba de vieira, is a permanent fixture on the menu.
Tuju occupies a three-storey Pinheiros townhouse near the Museu da Casa Brasileira, where chef Ivan Ralston builds a seasonal menu from Sao Paulo produce.
OrderSeasonal tasting menu built around the current climate cycle
TipThe three floors separate functions: canapes and cellar on the ground floor, the open-kitchen dining room above, and a panoramic bar on top.
Oro in Leblon cooks over live fire for chef Felipe Bronze, with two Michelin stars and tasting menus that draw on Brazil's regions in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe Criatividade menu, the longer of the two fire-cooked tasting menus
TipAfetividade is the shorter menu, built around two main dishes; the kitchen counter seats only four guests, so ask for it when booking.
Casa 201 serves an eight-course French tasting menu from chef João Paulo Frankenfeld in a Jardim Botânico house, with one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe eight-course tasting menu, which has included raviolo nero with scallops and cauliflower
TipEvery guest is seated together at 20:00 and the house takes up to 32 people a night, so book ahead and arrive on time.
At Madame Olympe in Leblon, Claude Troisgros and Jéssica Trindade serve a French tasting menu with Asian touches, with one Michelin star, in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe eight-course tasting menu; a shorter four-course version is also offered
TipThe tasting menu is renewed three times a year, so dishes change by season; the room is inside a shopping complex on Rua Conde de Bernadotte, shop 101.
Oteque in Botafogo serves chef Alberto Landgraf's single seasonal tasting menu in a house dating from 1938, and it holds one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, which has included langoustines with pirão and aromatic pepper
TipTables are sold as prepaid packages; same-day bookings after 18:00 and groups of more than eight must phone or email the restaurant.
D.O.M. in Jardins, Sao Paulo, is Alex Atala's tribute to native Brazilian ingredients, a menu he has built since 1999 around Amazonian produce.
OrderTasting menu built around native Amazonian ingredients
TipAtala opened D.O.M. in 1999 and was a pioneer of putting Amazonian ingredients like pupunha and priprioca on a fine-dining menu.
Oseille is Thomas Troisgros's 16-seat counter above Toto in Ipanema, serving a tasting menu of French technique with one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe seven-course tasting menu, which has included a course of cavaquinha, the slipper lobster
TipGuests are asked to arrive at 19:45 for the 20:00 start, and the U-shaped counter seats only 16, so reserve well ahead.
San Omakase is a Leblon sushi counter led by chef André Kawai, serving a nine-course omakase and holding one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe nine-course omakase at the counter, finished with a dessert by pastry chef César Yukio
TipThe counter is on the first floor of a shopping centre on Rua Conde de Bernadotte, shop 103; reserve online through Tock.
Maní has served organic, contemporary Brazilian food from chefs Helena Rizzo and Willem Vandeven since 2006 in a white house in Pinheiros, Sao Paulo.
OrderMoqueca de pescado with rice terrine, pirao and farofa, or the tasting menu by Rizzo and Vandeven
TipTasting menus, a three-course option, the chefs' menu and a dessert menu, are served to the whole table and taken until an hour before closing.
Jun Sakamoto in Pinheiros has no sign on the door. Chef-owner Jun Sakamoto and chef Ryuzo Nishimura each run their own omakase for guests in Sao Paulo.
OrderNigiri omakase, either the Sakamoto or the Mesas menu
TipTwo separate omakase menus run side by side, priced differently depending on whether Sakamoto or his chef Nishimura is cooking.
Mee is the Copacabana Palace's pan-Asian restaurant, led by chef Alberto Morisawa, with an omakase sushi bar and one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderOmakase at the sushi bar, or one of the two tasting menus, one of them vegan
TipThe hotel asks for smart casual dress and does not allow flip-flops, slippers or shorts; the omakase is served only at the sushi bar.
Mr. Lam serves Peking duck, prawns in nine-spice sweet and sour sauce and other Beijing dishes on three floors by Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderSenhor Batista prawns in the nine-spice sweet and sour sauce, or the Peking duck
TipVeja Rio named Mr. Lam best Asian restaurant in 2026; Saturday and Sunday service starts at 13:00 for a long lunch.
Satyricon has served Mediterranean fish and shellfish in Ipanema since 1982, with a counter of the day's catch and over 300 wine labels, in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderAn oyster, king crab and prawn plateau, or the clam tagliolini, which Time Out calls the chefs' favourite
TipVeja Rio named it best fish and seafood restaurant in 2026; on Friday and Saturday the kitchen runs until 01:00.
Kanoe is an Edomae sushi counter in Jardins from the Omotebako group, where chef Tadashi Shiraishi ages fish in house for the omakase in Sao Paulo.
OrderOmakase built around house-matured (jukusei) fish
TipReservations are charged in full when booked and diners must list allergies and restrictions in advance for the whole party.
Kinoshita traces to a 1970s Liberdade restaurant and now serves kappo cuisine in Vila Nova Conceicao, Sao Paulo, the only Krug Ambassade room in the region.
OrderKappo-style tasting menu of seasonal fish and shellfish
TipThe separate Krug Room pairs a chef's menu with Krug champagne for special-occasion bookings.
Murakami in Jardins runs an omakase built by chef Tsuyoshi Murakami, who trained in Tokyo, New York and Barcelona before opening this Sao Paulo room.
OrderMurakami Experience or Sushi Experience omakase menu
TipThe chef sets two menus, Murakami Experience and Sushi Experience, that change with seasonal ingredients rather than staying fixed.
Picchi opened in 2007 and moved to the Regent Park on Oscar Freire in 2014. Chef Pier Paolo Picchi has held a Michelin star here since 2017 in Sao Paulo.
OrderTasting menu of family recipes reworked with Brazilian produce
TipThree tasting menus run alongside the a la carte list: a 12-course, a 6-course classic, and a 4-course pasta-only option.
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.
Oizumi Sushi seats twelve guests for an omakase built on house-matured, dry-aged fish, chef Danilo Maciel's specialty in Sao Paulo's Cidade Moncoes.
OrderOmakase featuring jukusei dry-aged fish
TipSeating is limited to twelve guests a session, so the room stays intimate and reservations book out early.
Kuro seats ten diners in Cerqueira Cesar for an omakase grilled over binchotan charcoal, with the Shiro cocktail bar attached upstairs in Sao Paulo.
OrderOmakase built around binchotan-charcoal grilling
TipOnly two nightly seatings run, at 19:00 and 21:15, so the ten counter seats sell out fast.
Fame Osteria hides behind an iron door between a gym and an ice cream shop. Chef Marco Renzetti cooks a single nightly tasting menu in Sao Paulo.
OrderAgnolotti Mantovani and Arroz de polvo com tutano
TipOnly four counter seats face the open kitchen, and the tasting menu starts at the same time for every guest, so arrive on time.
Kan Suke is an eight-seat sushi counter in Paraíso where chef Keisuke Egashira works alone, slicing imported garoupa, tuna and hamachi in Sao Paulo.
OrderCounter sushi and sashimi omakase
TipThe counter, in Loja 12, seats only eight, with a few more seats upstairs, so the single-chef service is intimate and slow.
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.
Gero Rio, in the Fasano hotel on Avenida Vieira Souto, serves classic Italian pasta and meats from chef Luigi Moressa, with a beach veranda in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe spaghetti alla carbonara, or ravioli di vitello ai funghi, veal ravioli in mushroom sauce
TipAsk for a veranda table over Ipanema beach; Friday and Saturday service runs to 01:00, and Sunday is continuous from 12:00 to 22:00.
Sud is chef Roberta Sudbrack's home-like Jardim Botânico dining room, cooking from a wood-fired oven with a menu that changes daily, in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderWhatever the daily menu offers from the wood-fired oven, then the chocolate cake, always on the card
TipThe door is kept closed, so knock or announce yourself to be let in; the menu follows what small local producers deliver each day.
Lilia is chef Yan Ramos's two-storey brick dining room on Rua do Senado in Rio de Janeiro, with a three-course lunch and an eleven-step dinner tasting menu.
OrderRoasted beetroot on curd with tahini and herbs, then the crispy pork belly with smoked mash
TipDinner is the tasting menu at R$410, with a natural-wine pairing at R$257, per Agenda Carioca in June 2026.
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.
Aprazível cooks Brazilian dishes from organic and biodynamic ingredients on Santa Teresa terraces, with natural wines on the list, in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe ceviche in tucupi sauce with plantain chips, then the free-range galinhada caipira
TipOnline bookings are taken up to 22:00 from Tuesday to Saturday and up to 17:00 on Sunday; the house seats about 250 guests.
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