Easter isn’t just made from chocolate eggs. Therefore, we have listed 10 tips in São Paulo for Easter, with some restaurants will serve special menus for the date and also items that can be ordered to celebrate at home.
Tips in São Paulo for Easter:
Two House
The Due Cuochi restaurant’s rotisserie will offer the restaurant’s traditional cod lasagna on Easter Sunday, to take home. The recipe, which serves one person, comes with layers of green pasta interspersed with cod cream, lightly gratin. The customer who orders the dish will also take home a white crockery dish, ideal for baking. Orders will be accepted until Easter Saturday (15/4), noon, by calling 11 3167-4817.
85 Manuel Guedes Street – Itaim Bibi
Among the tips in São Paulo for Easter, chef Alain Poletto serves a special menu at Good friday and on Sunday. Among the options for April 14th: cod roasted in extra virgin olive oil, grilled vegetables and provençale tomatoes and yellow hake and mussels with reduced cooking sauce, rustic purée and pumpkin chips. For Sunday, the 16th, the house will offer cod roasted in extra virgin olive oil, grilled vegetables and Provençale tomatoes and roasted lamb shank, confit garlic and Dauphinois potato gratin.
Rua Augusta, 2542 – Jardim Paulista – São Paulo
The Jardins emporium presents a complete special menu for the celebration of Jewish Easter, Pesach, which, this year, takes place from April 10th to 18th. For the date, the Casa Santa Luzia rotisserie, in partnership with chef Carlos Siffert, prepared recipes such as sole with asparagus, matzah varenikis with golden onion, oven-baked eggplant with golden onions and leek rice.
Orders can be placed until April 5th, directly at the Nutrition Service, located in the store’s Mezzanine. For more information, call 11 3897.5023 or 3897.5013.
Alameda Lorena, 1471 – Jardins
MaraMello
Pastry chef Mara Mello has a suggestion to share at Easter lunch, the Ninho Cake – dense chocolate cake, decorated with brown royal icing, colorful eggs and a chocolate bird. Among the chocolates, packaged for gift giving, there is the Crochet Basket with 50 eggs made of Callebaut milk chocolate 33.6% and Callebaut dark chocolate 54.5%, wrapped in colored lead paper.
Products can be ordered via the website or by telephone (11) 3071-3770 or (11) 3079-3228.
Chef Fábio Vieira prepared cod with four Brazilian cheeses for the 14th, with peeled tomatoes, potatoes and rice. Served in the restaurant during lunch and dinner.For Sunday the 16th, the chef created a special menu for customers to take home. Roast pork shank; roasted goat leg; roasted catch of the day fillets with coconut and cream cheese sauce; octopus rice and cod with four Brazilian cheeses.
All dishes serve up to four people and orders must be placed 72 hours in advance by calling 11 3473.6849.
Rua José Maria Lisboa, 228 – Jardim Paulista
The Pina restaurant created an exclusive menu for the Holy Week holidays, designed by chef Riccardo Rossi. On Easter Sunday it is possible to taste the complete menu with starter (fig salad, parma ham, pecorino cheese and walnuts, in honey sauce), main course (artichoke risotto and zafferano mantecato with brie with rack of lamb in herb sauce Mediterranean dishes) and dessert (strawberry and almond tortino with homemade vanilla ice cream).
Those planning to spend Good Friday at Pina can enjoy one of the house’s fish dishes, such as risotto arancia and gorgonzola (caramelized orange and gorgonzola cheese), with fish of the day. Or try the pasta fettuccine gamberi zafferano ed asparagi (with pink shrimp, saffron and asparagus sauce; and tortelli di pere e pecorino con salsa di rape rosse (pear tortelli and pecorino cheese with beetroot sauce).
Jacurici, 27 – Itaim Bibi – São Paulo
Tips from Campos do Jordão
The restaurant will serve special lunches to celebrate Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Exclusive suggestions such as the Greek cod salad for starters, Praça cod with peppers, onions, roasted potatoes and tomatoes, black olives and broccoli and the Italian chocolate straw make up the buffet on Friday. For lunch on Sunday, the 16th, the suggestions will be the red quinoa salad with cod, asparagus and cherry tomatoes as a starter and wood-fired cod for the main. Easter eggs filled with truffle chocolate and chocolate lollipops shaped like rabbits and carrots will be served among the delicacies on the dessert table.
Casa do Ator, 608, Vila Olímpia
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Peruvian chef Marco Espinoza launches an exclusive dish to share during Easter, Pulpo Anticuchero, grilled octopus with Peruvian pepper sauce, potatoes, mushrooms, onion and capers with rice in squid ink.
Rua Adolfo Tabacow 269 – Itaim Bibi
The Italian restaurant attached to the emporium created special menus for Friday and Sunday. On the 6th, customers will be able to try dishes such as cod fry with onion, olives, peppers, tomato confit and boiled egg, fetuccine with cubes of salmon and broccoli, Nonna’s rice with cod and northern gnocchi. On Sunday, the menu will include dishes such as roast lamb in roast sauce with grilled vegetables, Roman porchetta, gnocchi with 4 cheeses, Bolognese lasagna and roast chicken with potatoes.
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All recipes can be tasted as much as you like for the set price of R$74 per person (on both days).
Rua Professor Tamandaré de Toledo, 51, Itaim Bibi.
Felix Bistrot
One of the tips in São Paulo for Easter is the country-style mansion, located in Granja Viana. The bistrot offers dishes that bring a mix of international cuisine, national flavors and French inspirations. To toast, the options include an organic poached egg à la Bordelaise for starters, cod risotto and tomatoes for main and chocolate mille feuille to finish.
Rua José Felix de Oliveira, 555 – Granja Viana
These were our tips in São Paulo for Easter! Choose your favorite and have a good holiday.
By Tamy Roxo, @boccanervosa
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