If you’re the kind of person who likes to enjoy good food, you’ve certainly heard of the Michelin Guide. What’s more, you’re probably eager to find out which restaurants in São Paulo currently have the famous Michelin stars.
That’s because, after a three-year break, on Monday the 20th, the award announced the best restaurants in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The winners are chosen according to five criteria: quality of the products, mastery of taste and cooking techniques, personality of the chef, value for money and consistency between visits.
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Michelin-starred restaurants in São Paulo in 2024
First published in 1900, the Michelin Guide was the brainchild of André Michelin, founder of the tire manufacturer of the same name. The aim was to promote tourism to the growing automobile market. Today, the Guide now evaluates more than thirty thousand establishments in more than thirty territories on three continents.
In São Paulo, 17 restaurants won the award, and this time three were awarded two stars. The highest award is three stars, but we don’t (yet) have any with this status in the city. Get to know each of them:
Two Stars
D.O.M.
Chef Alex Atala’s restaurant has kept its two Michelin stars. The space offers an innovative gastronomic experience with dishes that recapture the authentic flavors of Brazilian cuisine from a contemporary perspective. That’s why each dish surprises with its flavor, reflecting the chef’s dedication to highlighting national ingredients and techniques. Also, here, you can try Amazonian ants.
📍 Rua Barão de Capanema, 549 – Jardins
Evvai
After winning a star in 2019, the restaurant, led by chef Luiz Filipe Souza, has moved up in the Guide and now has two Michelin stars. Evvai stands out for being modern, creative and with strong italian roots. The menu features haute cuisine that explores its origins and the cultural exchange resulting from Italian immigration to Brazil. In other words, Evvai’s cuisine reflects this cultural fusion, presenting innovative dishes that pay homage to Italian tradition while incorporating Brazilian influences.
📍 Rua Joaquim Antunes, 108 – Pinheiros
Tuju
The star of the night was newcomer Tuju, which won three categories of the awards: Opening of the Year, Green Star and Two Stars. The newly opened restaurant opened its doors in September 2023 and is already a success. After all, chef Ivan Ralston combines seasonal Brazilian products and flavors with contemporary European techniques. For this reason, the tasting menu is defined according to the climatic conditions of each season, which highlights the chef’s creativity and research.
📍 Rua Frei Galvão, 135 – Jardim Paulistano
A Star
Fame Osteria
Starting the list with one of the new Michelin-starred restaurants in São Paulo! Fame started out as an illegal bar, before becoming a meeting place for São Paulo’s foodies. The restaurant, run by chef Marco Renzetti, has a tasting menu inspired by classic Italian cuisine, with homemade pasta standing out. What’s more, according to the Guide one of the restaurant’s distinguishing features is that it offers dishes in which grilled meat plays a central role.
📍Rua Oscar Freire, 216 – Cerqueira César
Kazuo
A distinctive feature of Kazuo is the chef’s ability to create continuity between different dishes of Pan-Asian cuisine, with elaborate techniques and innovative proposals. After all, chef Kazuo Harada’s restaurant offers a culinary journey that covers a variety of Asian countries, for example Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea and India. The menu is extensive, but of course there are classic sushi options , sashimi, niguiris and even temakis.
📍 Rua Prudente Correia, 432 – Jardim Europa
Kuro
At chef Henry Miyamo’s Japanese restaurant, the highlight is the grilled sushi and the use of binchotan – an extremely pure Japanese charcoal that gives the dishes a special flavor. In addition, the chef advocates a menu omakase for just 10 people per meal. If that weren’t enough to make the house’s exclusivity clear, the menu uses only high-quality seasonal fish.
📍Rua Padre João Manuel, 712 – Jardins
Muramaki
Chef Tsuyoshi Murakami’s eponymous restaurant offers two menus: “Sushi Experience”, carefully prepared by the chef himself, and “Murakami Experience”, which combines starters, sushi, sashimi, tempura and a wagyu main course. With his outgoing manner, the chef guides diners on a culinary journey, highlighting the quality of the ingredients, such as the Hokkaido Hotate scallop . At the end of the meal, you can also try mochis prepared daily by Murakami’s son.
📍 Alameda Lorena, 1186 – Jardins
Oizumi Sushi
As the Michelin Guide tells us, chef Danilo Maciel named his restaurant Oizumi Sushi after the Japanese city with the highest concentration of Brazilian immigrants. Passionate about the Asian country and its cuisine, Maciel explains to diners the processes of preparing and maturing fish, in other words, a real gastronomic lesson during the meal. In addition, the omakase menu has 16 dishes, meticulously prepared with fresh fish of the day and other delicacies. For example, toro nigiri with smoked salmon roe, sea bass sushi, sea urchin and more.
📍California Street, 785 – Cidade Monções
Tangará Jean-Georges
Located in luxurious Palácio Tangará hotel the restaurant is run by renowned French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, with resident chefs Filipe Rizzato and Nevsilene Machado. Here, the focus is on international cuisine, with contemporary dishes full of flavor. In addition to the à la carte menu, there are two tasting menus, including a vegetarian option.
📍 Rua Deputado Laércio Corte, 1501 – Panamby
Huto
Another of the Michelin-starred restaurants in São Paulo, the Guide states that here you can find “extreme quality in a small place run personally by the attentive owner”. The philosophy of the space is reflected in the menus, which are suggested by the chef and are called Omakase (to be advised in Japanese).
📍 Avenida Jandira, 677 – Moema
Jun Sakamoto
Chef Leonardo Jun Sakamoto leaves his mark on the restaurant, which offers different tasting menu experiences. According to the Michelin Guide, this is where the best nigiris in the city are tasted and to confirm that, you just have to visit!
📍 Rua Lisboa, 55 – Pinheiros
Kan Suke
Anyone who thinks that only authorial haute cuisine makes the award is mistaken. The very traditional (and also tiny) restaurant, located in a gallery in Paraíso, is proof that you have to be on your guard and allow yourself to get to know the gastronomy that spreads throughout the city.
📍 Rua Manuel da Nóbrega, 76 – Paraíso
Kinoshita
The Kinoshita restaurant was born in the neighborhood of Freedom, the cradle of Japanese immigration to Brazil. However, when he moved to Vila Nova Conceição, chef Marcelo Fernandes decided to incorporate contemporary trends in Asian cuisine. The proof that Fernandes has preserved the memory of the old space can be seen in various details. For example, by presenting authentic Kappo cuisine, where chefs are considered artisans after years of apprenticeship.
📍 Rua Jaques Félix, 405 – Vila Nova Conceição
Maní
Twelve years old, Maní has been a Michelin-starred restaurant in São Paulo since 2015. Once again, chef Helena Rizzo and Belgian chef Willem Vendeven prove that the creative experience offered there is a winner for everyone. It also maintains the simplicity and values of its foundation, such as seasonality and respect for small producers, using 90% organic ingredients.
📍 Rua Joaquim Antunes, 210 – Jardins
Picchi
Located on the first floor of the Regent Park hotel, Picchi offers an authentic Italian culinary experience. Under the leadership of chef Pier Paolo Picchi, the restaurant combines flavors that recall the chef’s childhood memories with culinary innovations using Brazilian ingredients. In addition, the menu includes classics from the European country, as well as three special menus.
📍 Rua Oscar Freire, 533 – Jardins
Green Star – Michelin-starred restaurants for sustainability
In 2020, the Michelin Guide launched the ‘Green Star’, a new category that honors the best restaurants in terms of culinary excellence combined with ecological commitments. For the first time, three Brazilian restaurants, all in São Paulo, received the award. They are:
The Pig House
Although it has yet to win the traditional Michelin star, A Casa do Porco has already been elected one of the best restaurants in the world and Latin America, by ‘The Worlds 50 Best’. What’s more, Janaína Rueda, the chef behind the house, was also voted the best in the world this year. In the guide, it appears in the sustainability category because it “controls the food chain of its products from the field to the consumer and raises its own Brazilian breed pigs using sustainable techniques”.
📍Rua Araújo, 124 – República
Corrutela
As well as keeping his place in the national team Bib Gourmand corrutela also won the new Green Star. This is because “it works with ecological products from local suppliers, with sustainably sourced fish and meat, as well as flour made in its own mill”. In addition, at the restaurant with its minimalist atmosphere and industrial feel, chef César Costa focuses on uncomplicated dishes and a seasonal menu.
📍 Rua Medeiros de Albuquerque, 256 – Vila Madalena
Tuju
Finally, as we said at the beginning of the list, Tuju was the big winner of the night. After all, the newcomer appeared in three categories of the Guide and we can say that it has conquered the podium of Michelin-starred restaurants in São Paulo. According to the award, “in addition to recycling, reusing rainwater, composting and using seasonal products […], the restaurant has created a research center that aims to find and give visibility to producers who work fairly, ethically and sustainably.”
📍 Rua Frei Galvão, 135 – Jardim Paulistano