Eat in Bom Retiro, São Paulo

Um Coffee Co. ★ 4.4

Um Coffee Co. in Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo, is a producer-run cafe roasting beans from its own farms, serving them as espresso, filter and whole bean retail.

DrinkSingle-farm filter coffee

Um Coffee Co. ★ 4.4

Um Coffee Co. roasts weekly from its own two farms with over 38 varietals, running this Bom Retiro cafe in Sao Paulo as producer, roaster and shop.

BeansBrazil

BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Nanolote selections

Concrete Jungles Walking Tours ★ 4.4

This Concrete Jungles breakfast walk through Bom Retiro's migrant garment district pairs Korean pastry and Balkan burek with Colombian coffee along Rua Tres Rios.

Seok Joung ★ 4.3

Seok Joung has served unadapted Korean home cooking on Rua Correia de Melo in Sao Paulo's Bom Retiro district since it first opened there in 2001.

TryBulgogi, bibimbap and banchan

Hwang To Gil ★ 4.1

Hwang To Gil is a Bom Retiro home-style Korean kitchen in Sao Paulo, opened in 2000 behind a facade marked only in Korean, its dishes cooked by the owners.

Why locals goIts facade is marked only in Korean characters, and for almost ten years after opening in 2000 it served mostly the Bom Retiro Korean community.

TipThe menu has photos to point at; for dinner, arrive between 18:30 and 19:00, as evening service ends early.

Acrópoles ★ 4.4

Acrópoles has served moussaka and grilled octopus from a Bom Retiro storefront in Sao Paulo since 1959, still the city's oldest Greek kitchen today.

Why locals goThere is no printed menu: the day's dishes are on a wall board and you walk into the kitchen to choose from the trays, as regulars have since 1959.

TipWalk into the kitchen and look over the trays before choosing; the moussaka is the dish to try first.

Prato Grego ★ 3.9

Prato Grego hides on a gallery's upper floor in Bom Retiro, Sao Paulo, where first-time guests break a plaster plate, guided by owner Stelios Moyssiadis.

Why locals goTucked on the first floor of a Bom Retiro gallery block, with a plate-breaking ritual that owner Stelios Moyssiadis guides for every first-time guest.

TipTell the staff it is your first visit; that is what triggers the plate-breaking tradition at the table.