Sao Paulo, Brazil: A Decadent Adventure

A locally sustained steakhouse delivers beef specialties and seafood dishes sourced from their own cattle ranch and orchard located just outside the city. A serious wine lists draws from French and Italian vineyards and attracts a professional happy hour crowd anytime after 4 p.m.

For those looking for more of a party scene, ditch your digs in the Jardins and head-out to Itaim Biti and Vila Madalena where fine-food and nightlife coexist. Café de la Musique is one of the city's hottest and best known celebrity eateries, everyone from Paris Hilton to Naomi Campbell has been spotted noshing on Brazilian specialties before hitting the dance floor or tabletops. Make sure to enjoy their signature caipirinhas while feasting on thick Japanese steaks and Italian specialties.

Still not chic enough? Hotel Unique rises out of nowhere in a fortified residential enclave near the Botanical Garden and Jardins. The hotel's semi-circle exterior is iconic, but its rooftop restaurant and pool lounge known as Skye is legendary. The restaurant serves inventive Brazilian cuisine in a narrow dining room overlooking a rooftop pool and city skyline.

	Skye Hotel
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Very Late Brazilian Nights

Winter (June through August) is the best time to visit Sao Paulo, with lower temperatures and minimal rainfall. It's also when everybody stays in town instead of weekending in Buzios or Rio.

Residents get a relatively late start clubbing, arriving around midnight to places like Lotus, the L.A.-style nightclub that likes to namedrop its celebrity clientele like Gisele Bundchen and Ricky Martin. A strong contingent of tanned women in miniskirts and dressed-up men drinking their bodyweight in tequila stay up most of the night dancing to Brazilian rock and samba.