Sao Paulo: Restaurant A Griffe do File Mignon

267 Al. Ministro Rocha Azevedo, Cerqueira Cesar, Sao Paulo

This is a great casual restaurant.  Generous portions are meant to be shared with a large table of your friends.  The mixed grille can feed quite a few folks, especially if you get a plate of polenta on the side.

mixed grill

Polenta

Sao Paulo: Pamplona Restaurant

No sign, look for two awnings

Right across the street from McDonalds on Rua Pamplona is the Pamplona Restaurant.  This is a great place to get standard Brazilian fare at very reasonable prices.  They have a cafe counter as well as a sit down section.

Look for Fejoada (wiki article about Feijoada) on Wednesdays and Saturdays (pictured below).  If the unidentified meat pieces makes you a bit squeamish, try the Frango Filet Executivo, which is a nice thinly cut slice of chicken over a bed of rice.  It comes with beans and fries and a salad, and a fried egg on top of the slice of chicken.  Also good is the fried chicken, which is served as small bone-in sections of thigh and leg meat (I think).

The staff is extremely friendly and will probably recognize you as UAL (no special prices - but they are already very reasonable).

Feijoada

Cluck Returns!!

GRU - Hakka Japanese Sushi

Been looking for a good Japanese sushi place in SP? I've found a restaurant called Hakka that offers all-you-can-eat sushi and other Japanese fare for a moderate price.

You'll have to take a cab, but it'll only be about 15-20 Reals or so from the Hotel Tivoli on Alameda Santos. Not too bad if you go with a few of your buds. The address is:

1146 Rua Gomes de Carvalho
Vila Olimpia, SP
(11) 3044-6544

So, give it a try. Fill up on great sushi and tempura, and those crazy sno-cone looking rice thingies...