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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.
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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Tordesilhas has run in Jardins since 1990 under chef Mara Salles, plating regional Brazilian dishes with feijoada served on Saturdays in Sao Paulo.
OrderBolinho de pirarucu or the shrimp bobo
TipThe full feijoada only runs on Saturdays; other days stick to the wider regional Brazilian menu.
Bar Brahma has run since 1948 on the corner of Ipiranga and Sao Joao in downtown Sao Paulo, pouring draft chope under nightly live samba and MPB.
TipAn artistic cover charge applies once the band starts: it varies by performer, so ask at the door.
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