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Così: an Italian menu turns towards the sea
Renato Carioni's 2024 additions used seafood, citrus and familiar pasta forms to widen the restaurant's repertoire.
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Trattorita EVVAI: an Italian kitchen at a different scale
Luiz Filipe Souza's casual São Paulo project connected regional pasta with a street-facing pizza bar.
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Alexandre Herchcovitch: thirty years beyond the clothes
A 2024 retrospective at São Paulo's Jewish Museum connected family history, the runway and the communities that helped shape the designer's work.
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Sal Gastronomia: continuity inside a new room
The restaurant's 2024 move to Bela Cintra joined an industrial material palette with dishes carrying its established Brazilian identity.
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SP-Arte at twenty: objects, materials and a wider conversation
The 2024 fair brought Brazilian modern art, contemporary work and design into the same São Paulo building.
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Lolla Meets Fire: a menu organised around the parrilla
The 2024 Itaim portrait brought meat, seafood and vegetables into a shared cooking vocabulary.
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Atsui: looking beyond the sushi counter
The Nakka partners' restaurant brought a broader hot kitchen into a São Paulo Japanese dining format.
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LouLou: the long table of a São Paulo brunch
French café references, baking and a broader hot menu met in the Jardins restaurant's 2024 Sunday programme.
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Cordial: the work behind an uncomplicated drink
A central São Paulo bar placed house-made ingredients and preparation systems at the service of a more accessible cocktail list.
Dining / Reportage
Mila: an osteria with more than one reference
The 2024 account connected Italian forms with São Paulo ingredients, shared plates and a distinctly coloured room.
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Three Italian routes into São Paulo’s food culture
Antonio Maiolica, Luca Gozzani and Fabio La Pietra illustrate different ways a culinary inheritance can change through migration.
Dining / Reportage
Foglia: the oven as the centre of a room
Franco and Lorenzo Ravioli’s 2023 summer account connected individual pizzettas with an open view of the kitchen.