Best of Brazil: São Paulo’s food scene is booming so why have none of its restaurants been awarded three Michelin stars?

AS Luiz Filipe explained his pairing of chicken broth with eel tartlets, he spoke like a classically trained French chef fresh from a three-Michelin-star kitchen in northern Spain. In fact, the owner of São Paulo’s leading restaurant Evvai is entirely self-taught, rebelling against his engineer father and teacher mother to master the stove instead. After a stint with his mentor at destination restaurant Reale in Italy, he knew it: he would be a culinary star back home. READ MORE: Falstaff would approve – From tapas to tasting menus Spain’s 2026 Gastronomy Capital of Jerez de la Frontera has it all…