Condé Nast Traveller: Sustainable Restaurants
In a country where the recycling rate is nowhere near that of many European nations, 29-year-old chef César Costa is blazing a trail with his no-waste, low-carbon-footprint São Paulo restaurant.
Brazil
50 Best: All the restaurant and bar openings of 2021
If 2020 was the year of the pivot then 2021 is set to be the year of recovery
50 Best: El Espíritu de América Latina
In a devastating year for restaurants everywhere, those very restaurants have often been the ones to lift up their communities
50 Best: How Janaina Rueda became a Brazilian icon
“If we want our kids to understand about food, then we have to make sure they receive food education.”
Condé Nast Traveller: Manu, Curitiba
“My grandmother, Lelinha, put down all her recipes in her beautiful handwriting and I gathered them into a book”
50 Best: The 10 commandments of reopening
“Businesses won’t survive if people don’t understand the value. As restaurants, we now have the opportunity to make people understand the real value of things.”
Condé Nast Traveller: The Hot list – Bar do Cofre, São Paulo
In what could easily be the location of a heist series, Bar do Cofre occupies a vault in the basement of a former bank
50 Best: How chef Janaina Rueda is helping to save Brazil’s restaurants
“The time to make change is now – that’s our role. If cooking is a political act, let’s do it properly. Let’s change things.”
50 Best: Helena Rizzo on the inspiration behind Maní
“Brazil is such a diverse country. Our cuisine is like a patchwork quilt with a mix of influences that are similar but different; distant, yet always connected”
Nat Geo Traveller: São Paulo hotels
Brazil’s biggest city has accommodation to suit all tastes and budgets, from arty work-live lodgings to architecturally impressive design dens
Food and Travel: Curitiba
Bustling markets, sun-soaked parks and craft beer make this lesser-known Brazilian city a great winter escape
50 Best: All the essential restaurant and bar openings for 2020
The coming 12 months is packed with promise, with a veritable smörgåsbord of 50 Best chefs and bartenders planning to make moves, including Massimo Bottura, Mauro Colagreco, Daniel Humm, Remy Savage and Daniela Soto-Innes
Nat Geo Traveller: Soul food at Refettorio Gastromotiva in Rio
Right before the doors open, there’s a moment of nervousness; a buzz of anticipation, of butterflies in bellies. Indoors, 15 volunteers line up against the wall, like schoolchildren on the first day of class.
Nat Geo Traveller: The Kilns of Cunha
At Oficina de Cerâmica, Augusto
Campos prepares for burn day by spending weeks inside the chambers of his kiln, painstakingly loading painted clay pots, jugs and vases onto shelves separated by bricks
Postcards: São Paulo’s food scene
Beyond the beach capital of Rio de Janeiro, the jungle capital of Manaus and the capital city of Brasilia, there’s São Paulo, the undisputed capital of gastronomy
50 Best: 12 new restaurants in The World’s 50 Best 2019
From Noma to Twins Garden, these are the 12 new entries to The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 list
Inside São Paulo’s coolest new bar: Bar do Cofre SubAstor
Bar do Cofre is set within the vault of one of São Paulo’s most historic banks
Five exciting Latin American restaurants
Virgilio Martínez and Pía León, the husband-and-wife team behind three-time Best Restaurant in Latin America, Central, have – quite literally – changed the landscape with their new restaurant, Mil.
Profile and interview: Manoella Buffara, Manu
“We need to think about the amount of litter we’re producing, the water we use, the quantity of food we’re wasting. What will happen in the future?”
Interview: Alex Atala, D.O.M.
“It doesn’t surprise me that the majority of Brazilians have never eaten the Brazilian ingredients that I serve. There’s a disconnection between man and food.”
