Set in a former house in São Paulo’s leafy Jardim Paulistano suburb, Maní is immediately welcoming with its outdoor patio centred on a beautiful tree. Large wooden front doors open on to a long, white corridor decorated with contemporary art, where diners can enjoy close-up views of husband-and-wife team Daniel Redondo and Helena Rizzo’s kitchen. [...]

Italian tradition within an iconic São Paulo hotel Something of an institution in Brazil, Rogério Fasano’s vast hotel and restaurant group stretches as far as Uruguay’s stylish Punta del Este resort, but the eponymous restaurant in São Paulo’s Fasano Hotel has remained the flagship since its opening in 1982. Synonymous with style and class, Fasano [...]