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In São Paulo, wine bars are celebrated for their selections by the glass rather than the queues they attract. Across 23 establishments, one can find natural-wine counters in Pinheiros and Sumarezinho, elegant rooms in Jardins near Rua Oscar Freire, and cellars in Itaim Bibi and Vila Nova Conceição. Highlights include Tangará Jean-Georges by Parque Burle Marx and Terraço Itália in the historic centre, offering a mix of Burgundy, Champagne, Barolo, Malbec, low-intervention bottles, and emerging Brazilian wines.
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Bardega Wine Bar
Wine Bar · R. Dr. Alceu de Campos Rodrigues, 218 - Vila Nova Conceição, São Paulo - SP, 04544-000
Self-service is the whole idea at Bardega, which bills itself as Brazil's first wine bar and sits on a quiet street where Itaim Bibi meets Vila Nova Conceição. Guests collect a card on arrival, slot it into the dispensing machines that line the room and choose a 30ml taste, a 60ml half-glass or a full 120ml pour, with sommeliers circulating to help. Nearly a hundred labels are open at once, so a single evening can run from Alsace Riesling and Champagne to Barolo, Rhône Syrah, Ribera del Duero and a glass of Port to finish. Natural, orange and pét-nat bottles sit beside the classics, and the New World is well represented by Argentina, Chile, California and South Africa. The small pours keep prices modest, which rewards curiosity. It is the São Paulo address for comparing two Pinot Noirs side by side.
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Cellar Cave
Restaurant · R. Diogo Jácome, 372 - Vila Nova Conceição, São Paulo - SP, 04512-001
Cellar Vinhos, one of Brazil's established importers, opened this restaurant, shop and wine bar on Rua Diogo Jácome in Vila Nova Conceição in 2024, and the glass list draws directly on its own portfolio. That portfolio leans French, so the pours read like a tour of the country's classic regions: Burgundy Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, Loire whites, Rhône reds and the oxidative, nutty wines of the Jura, with biodynamic growers well represented. Barolo and German Riesling widen the lens beyond France. Because the shop shares the space, a glass enjoyed at the table can easily become a bottle carried home. In the kitchen, chef Giovanna Perrone cooks a precise, modern menu built to sit alongside the wine rather than compete with it. The room is bright and the pace unhurried. For anyone who wants to taste an importer's range before buying, few settings are more persuasive.
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Miya Wine Bar & Restaurante
Wine Bar · R. Padre Carvalho, 55 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP, 05427-000
Baixo Pinheiros, the bar-dense lower end of the neighbourhood, is where chef Flávio Miyamura revived his Miya name as a wine bar, in a townhouse on Rua Padre Carvalho with a timber deck out front and an upstairs room framed by tall wooden windows. The glass list is the draw: more than ninety wines open at once, drawn from a cellar of some four hundred bottles, and priced close to what the importer charges. That makes room for pours rarely offered by the glass, Barolo and Barbaresco, Brunello, Bordeaux and Burgundy among them, alongside Champagne, Rhône Syrah, German Riesling, Rioja and a run of Argentine Malbec. Miyamura's kitchen keeps pace with small plates such as his tuna tostada and a katsu sando. Sharing a roof with a wine shop, it rewards the curious drinker. A second glass is rarely a hard decision here.
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Tangará Jean-Georges
Restaurant · R. Dep. Laércio Corte, 1501 - Vila Andrade, São Paulo - SP, 05706-290
Deep in the green of Parque Burle Marx, on the southern side of the city, Palácio Tangará feels a world away from São Paulo's traffic, and its main dining room is the reason many guests make the journey. Jean-Georges Vongerichten lends the name and the approach, while resident chefs Filipe Rizzato and Neusi Machado apply French technique to Brazilian produce, with touches of Asian seasoning and two tasting menus alongside the carte. A Chef's Table sits inside the kitchen itself. The wine list runs past 280 labels and is built around the classics that suit this kind of cooking: Champagne in depth, Burgundy of real range and serious Chardonnay from several continents, with biodynamic producers well represented. The glass selection follows the same line. Dinner here is an occasion, and the cellar is sized to match.
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Vino! Leopoldina
Restaurant · R. Guaipá, 880 - Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo - SP, 05089-000
Vila Leopoldina, a largely residential district in the west of the city, is an unlikely home for one of São Paulo's most generous wine offers. At Vino!, every one of more than two hundred labels, drawn from sixteen countries, can be ordered as a single glass, with no premium charged for choosing a pour over the bottle. That turns the list into an invitation to wander: Provence rosé, Rioja and Portuguese reds, Barolo and Super-Tuscans, Chenin Blanc from South Africa, Malbec and Cabernet Franc from Argentina, even an orange wine or a sweet finish. The house is split across three spaces, with a terrace, a ground-floor room and a quieter salon upstairs. Its kitchen works in a Mediterranean register, borrowing from Italy, France and Spain. Bottles bought to take home earn progressive discounts. Neighbourhood regulars have clearly worked out a good thing.
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Wine Bar Casa La Pastina
Wine Bar · R. Oscar Freire, 574 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP, 01426-000
On Rua Oscar Freire, the Jardins shopping street, the importer La Pastina has opened a two-storey house of Mediterranean food and drink, and its wine bar is the part serious drinkers head for. The numbers are hard to ignore: some 500 labels from fifteen countries in the cellar, and 195 of them open by the glass on a printed list that changes every two months. The range comes from the La Pastina and World Wine portfolios, so Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne share the page with Greek whites, New Zealand, South Africa, orange wines and Portuguese bottles such as Maçanita's Branco. Sommelier João Renato da Silva, WSET Level 3 and two decades in hotels and wine bars, keeps the tone relaxed. Comparing three regions side by side costs no more than a single evening. That is exactly the idea.
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Gnomo
Restaurant · R. Rodesia, 206 - Sumarezinho, São Paulo - SP, 05435-020
On a leafy corner of Sumarezinho, where it shades into Vila Madalena, Gnomo is the small wine-bar sibling of Nomo, the restaurant next door on Rua Harmonia. Sommelier Patrícia Werneck, co-owner of both, built the list, and it leans firmly towards natural, biodynamic and low-intervention bottles from small growers, with sparkling, white, orange and red all represented. The glass selection is generous for a room this size, and the menu notes are written with a wink, which makes lining up two or three pours side by side feel like play rather than homework. Chef Nando Carneiro sends over snacks built to sit beside them. There are only a handful of stools indoors. On warm evenings the crowd drifts onto the tree-lined pavement, glass in hand, and that is exactly the idea. Every visit seems to turn up a new producer.
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TUJU
Restaurant · R. Frei Galvão, 135 - Jardim Paulistano, São Paulo - SP, 01454-060
Few restaurants in Latin America treat wine as seriously as TUJU, and the Michelin Guide agreed in 2026, when it made Ivan Ralston's restaurant one of the region's first two to hold three stars, alongside a Green Star for its environmental work. The building near the Museu da Casa Brasileira in Jardim Paulistano rises over three floors: canapés and the cellar at street level, the dining room around an open kitchen above, a bar with city views at the top. The ten-course menu is organised in three acts that track São Paulo's seasons. Down in the cellar, around a thousand labels are held, with Burgundy the clear centre of gravity, backed by Bordeaux and Champagne from celebrated houses and rarer names. Several pairing options accompany the menu, and the sommelier team pours by the glass with real depth. A long evening, and worth every course.
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Zahil
Restaurant · R. Bandeira Paulista, 726 - Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP, 04532-001
On the ground floor of The Flag, an office building on Rua Bandeira Paulista in Itaim Bibi, the importer Zahil runs a showroom that doubles as a tasting room. The format is simple and rather generous: more than forty wines are open daily so that customers can taste before they buy, and the staff are glad to talk through each one. The range is wide. Burgundy and Bordeaux anchor it, but the pours can just as easily include Barolo and Barbaresco, Loire Chenin Blanc, Alsace, Adelaide Hills and Oregon Pinot Noir, English sparkling wine or a Sherry. Natural, biodynamic and regenerative producers are a clear thread through the list. Courses, workshops and themed tastings with visiting winemakers fill the calendar. It keeps weekday office hours, so it works best as a lunchtime or early-evening stop for the genuinely curious.
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Altruísta
Restaurant · Alameda Campinas, 952 - Jardins, São Paulo - SP, 01404-200
Behind a Jardins frontage on Alameda Campinas, Altruísta runs as an Italian osteria and enoteca at once, and the second half of that name is taken seriously. Five sommeliers work the floor, and the list runs past a thousand labels, with rare bottles and older vintages kept in a special reserve cellar. The glass selection runs to more than twenty wines, strongest in Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, with names such as Ornellaia and Château Margaux on the list and Portugal's Tonel Mouchão 3-4 alongside. Pasta, meat and sauces draw on the restaurant's own organic garden. At dinner a daily tasting menu pairs four small plates with four glasses, the easiest way to let the team steer. The room has a mezzanine, private rooms and a roof that retracts on warm nights. There is a wine shop on site, too.
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Balaio IMS
Restaurant · Av. Paulista, 2424 - Bela Vista, São Paulo - SP, 01310-300
On Avenida Paulista, at the Bela Vista edge of Jardins, Balaio sits inside the Instituto Moreira Salles cultural centre. Chef Rodrigo Oliveira, of Mocotó fame, uses the kitchen to travel Brazil state by state, reworking regional dishes such as dadinhos de tapioca and pork ribs glazed with guava barbecue sauce. The wine list follows the same instinct for origin and producer. Low-intervention, organic and biodynamic bottles lead, and the by-the-glass selection is unusually well balanced: two Amazonian sparkling wines, ten whites, four orange, two rosés and twelve reds, with Riesling, Pinot Noir, Malbec and Portuguese bottles among them. Pair a glass with an exhibition upstairs. This is a museum restaurant that takes its wine seriously.
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Bráz Pizzaria Jardins
Restaurant · Alameda Tietê, 110 - Jardim Paulista, São Paulo - SP, 01417-020
Alameda Tietê, in the leafy grid of Jardim Paulista, is home to this Jardins outpost of Bráz, the São Paulo pizzeria name built on the city's Italian immigrant story. The ovens and the dough are the draw, but the wine offer deserves more attention than pizzerias usually get. More than twenty wines are open by the glass, chosen by head sommelier Carina Cooper, who has more than 25 years in the trade and belongs to the first class of sommeliers trained by the Brazilian Sommeliers Association. Tuscany is the anchor, with bottles from Famiglia Mazzei such as Siepi, a Sangiovese and Merlot blend, alongside Piedmont whites like Batasiolo's Il Pumo, Argentine reds and Cabernet Sauvignon. Her approach is direct and unfussy. A Super-Tuscan by the glass with a margherita is a very São Paulo kind of pleasure.
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Bráz Quintal Alto de Pinheiros
Restaurant · Av. São Gualter, 679 - Alto de Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP, 05455-001
Set among gardens planted with more than fifty native species, the Alto de Pinheiros Bráz Quintal fills a 2,000-square-metre site on Avenida São Gualter that was home to Restaurante Ilha for over three decades. It opened in 2025 and is the most expansive address in the Bráz pizzeria family, built for long evenings outdoors under the trees. What sets it apart for wine drinkers is the first Enoteca Mazzei outside Italy, housed on site and marking a partnership with the Tuscan family that began in 2015. Expect Chianti Classico from Castello di Fonterutoli, Maremma reds from Belguardo and Sicilian bottles from Zisola, plus the house Mazzei per Bráz wines by the glass. Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon broadens the choice. Pizza is the anchor, including a Quintal special topped with taleggio, asparagus and prosciutto. Sangiovese and a wood-fired crust remain a very happy match.
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Chou
Restaurant · R. Mateus Grou, 345 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP, 05415-050
Two blocks from the bustle of Rua dos Pinheiros, Chou occupies a small house whose real asset is the courtyard behind it: plants, trees, strings of little lights and a herb garden scenting the air. It has been part of the neighbourhood for more than fifteen years, and chef Gabriela Barretto's kitchen opens for dinner only. The grill sits at the centre of her kitchen, turning out the day's fish with harissa or aged rib-eye with chimichurri, while mezze-style small plates are designed for sharing. Wine has always been the first drink here, and the list is chosen by a sommelier with the same care as the produce. Its sympathies lie with organic, biodynamic, natural and low-intervention growers, so smoky, charred flavours meet bright, lively bottles. It suits a slow, candlelit evening for two or a table of friends. The garden does the rest.
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Nomogamia
Restaurant · Rua Harmonia, 815 - Sumarezinho, São Paulo - SP, 05435-000
Behind a plant-covered façade on Rua Harmonia, Nomo is a compact, glass-fronted restaurant built around an open kitchen, where chef Nando Carneiro cooks contemporary, vegetable-forward dishes meant for the middle of the table. Braised cabbage with muhammara and dukkah is typical of his style. The wine is in the hands of sommelier and co-owner Patrícia Werneck, whose short list changes constantly and favours small producers over familiar names, with a handful of exclusive pours rotated each week. Cool-climate thinking runs through it: Burgundy and Jura, Loire Chenin Blanc, German Riesling, Rhône Grenache, plus detours to Portugal, Italy and South Africa, often from biodynamic or low-intervention growers. The aim is to widen a drinker's repertoire rather than confirm it. Gnomo, the pair's wine bar, is a few steps away. Few rooms in the area pair cooking and cellar this closely.
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Platter and Co.
Restaurant · R. Dr. Renato Paes de Barros, 146 - Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP, 04530-070
Platter & Co. moved into Itaim Bibi in May 2026, bringing a brand known for its gourmet boards and gift boxes into a single room that changes character through the day. Mornings belong to coffee and brunch from a menu by chef Paula Labaki, with eggs Benedict and sandwiches on naturally leavened bread. By evening it becomes a listening wine bar, with jazz, lounge and electronic music setting the tempo and around twenty-five wines open by the glass. Those pours lean towards smaller, lower-intervention producers: organic and biodynamic bottles, an orange wine or two, German Riesling and Chenin Blanc among the whites, and Argentine Malbec, Chilean Cabernet and Pinot Noir among the reds. The boards, built to order from the delicatessen counter, make natural companions. It is also dog-friendly, which says a good deal about the mood.
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Restaurante Cena
Restaurant · R. Oscar Freire, 384 - Jardim Paulista, São Paulo - SP, 01426-000
Inside the Emiliano hotel on Rua Oscar Freire, Cena is a newer dining room designed by the architect Arthur Casas, its open kitchen running straight into the tables. Chef Vinícius Pires, whose career includes a spell at Evvai, cooks contemporary Brazilian food built around the ingredient and exact technique. The drinks side is led by Luís Otávio Álvares Cruz, the reigning Brazilian sommelier champion, who represented the country at the ASI world contest in Paris in 2023. His by-the-glass list runs past twenty wines, with Champagne and classic bottles set beside Brazilian and South American producers, and a clear preference for organic, biodynamic and regeneratively farmed wines. Sherry gets a place too. Recent pours have included Endogen's Xarel·lo and Textura's Pretexto blend. It is polished without being stiff, and the glass list rewards curiosity.
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Restaurante Evvai
Restaurant · R. Joaquim Antunes, 108 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP, 05415-000
Italian São Paulo, reimagined through a Brazilian lens, is the subject at Evvai on Rua Joaquim Antunes in Pinheiros, where chef Luiz Filipe Souza serves a single tasting menu he calls Oriundi, after the descendants of Italian immigrants. This is one of the most complete dining experiences in the city, a verdict the Michelin Guide echoed with three stars in 2026. Wine carries equal weight. Sommelier Marcelo Fonseca, named sommelier of the year by the Michelin Guide in 2025, builds each season's pairings along two contrasting lines: one of Old World classics, the other of Brazilian discoveries. The wider list reaches from Barolo and Barbaresco to small producers across Italy, with Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne alongside and organic bottles in the mix. Pairings range from an accessible flight to a prestige selection. It is a special-occasion table, and the cellar rises to it.
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Restaurante Neto
Restaurant · Av. das Nações Unidas, 14401 - Chácara Santo Antônio (Zona Sul), São Paulo - SP, 04794-000
Inside the JW Marriott on Avenida das Nações Unidas, in the Chácara Santo Antônio business district of the south zone, Neto takes its name from the grandchildren of Italian immigrants who shaped São Paulo's cooking. Chef Carlos Leiva's menu keeps to classic Italian recipes but builds them from Brazilian produce and small local suppliers, a pairing that the wine list mirrors closely. Italy leads, with Barbaresco among the reds most worth seeking out, while a considered Brazilian section gives local winemaking its own space, and Port closes the meal. Wine Spectator recognised the list with an Award of Excellence in 2024. Weekday lunches bring a set of chef's suggestions for business diners, and dinner moves at a gentler pace à la carte. The room is polished and calm. For a hotel restaurant, the cellar is taken unusually seriously.
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Terraço Itália
Restaurant · Av. Ipiranga, 344 - 41o andar - Centro Histórico de São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, 01046-010
Forty-one floors above Avenida Ipiranga, at the top of the Edifício Itália in the historic centre, Terraço Itália has been part of São Paulo life for generations, and the view across the city's skyline remains the headline. The wine list deserves more attention than it usually gets. More than two hundred labels span the Old and New Worlds, with Italy at the heart of it: Barolo and Barbaresco lead the Piedmont section, joined by Bordeaux, Rioja, German Riesling, New Zealand Pinot Noir and Argentine Malbec. At the bar, a gold-finished wine-preservation system made specially for the building keeps a changing set of wines open by the glass. A sommelier is on hand to match the list to the Italian menu. Sunset is the obvious hour to book. A glass of Nebbiolo against the lights of the centre is hard to better.
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Aguzzo - Jardins
Restaurant · Rua Haddock Lobo, 1002 - Cerqueira César, São Paulo - SP, 01414-000
Handmade pasta rolled every day has been the Aguzzo signature since the group opened in 2006, and this branch on Rua Haddock Lobo brings it to the heart of Cerqueira César. The gnocchi is the dish that made its name, once judged the best in São Paulo by the newspaper Estadão. What sets the Jardins room apart for wine lovers is its willingness to pour serious bottles by the glass. Diego Ramirez oversees the list and the pairings, and older, grander labels are offered in single measures rather than whole bottles; a Barbaresco from Bonardi has featured in 150ml pours. Piedmont is the natural centre, with Barolo and Super-Tuscans, but the list also covers Bordeaux, Champagne, Rioja, California and Argentine Malbec. The setting is elegant and the service warm. Order a second glass of Nebbiolo before the pasta arrives.
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Bráz Trattoria Pinheiros
Restaurant · R. dos Pinheiros, 412 - Pinheiros, São Paulo - SP, 05422-000
At the corner of Rua dos Pinheiros and Rua Dr. Virgílio de Carvalho Pinto, the Bráz Trattoria takes the famous pizzeria's name somewhere broader. Since opening in 2024 it has served handmade pasta, risotto and grilled meats alongside the pizzas, with carbonara in three versions and a 900-gram bistecca alla fiorentina for sharing. Some 140 seats spread across the dining room, a counter and pavement tables that welcome dogs. Wine follows a Tuscan thread. The backbone comes from the Mazzei family of Tuscany, including the house Mazzei per Bráz red, a Sangiovese blend, and a Vermentino white made for the group and poured by the glass. Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon covers those after something bigger. Lunch runs every day, which makes it an easy midweek stop. Simple Tuscan reds and Italian cooking rarely go wrong together.
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Ecully Gastronomia
Restaurant · R. Cotoxó, 493 - Pompeia, São Paulo - SP, 05021-000
A century-old house on Rua Cotoxó, in Pompeia, hides one of the west side's more rewarding dining rooms. Chefs Juliana Amorim and Guilherme Candido met while training at the Institut Paul Bocuse in the French town of Écully, near Lyon, and named the restaurant after it. Tables sit in the leafy back courtyard under a glass roof, so lunch is bathed in daylight. The cooking starts from French technique yet borrows freely from Brazil, Italy and Spain, with dishes such as tuna in a Brazil-nut crust and mushroom risotto. Wine has always been part of the proposition: a wine shop at the front of the house sells bottles at importer prices, with Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Super-Tuscans and Chilean and Argentine reds among the selections. That makes a good bottle here unusually good value. It is a place for long, relaxed meals.
View Full DetailsWine by the glass turns a single evening into a tasting flight, and the wine bars in São Paulo above show how far a thoughtful by-the-glass programme can travel — from grower Champagne to bio-dynamic reds. Use the map to plan a crawl by neighbourhood, and open each venue for opening hours, the current pour list, and booking details.
The Coravin Guide reviews each venue independently, focusing on the ambition and depth of what they pour by the glass. No venue pays to be included.