ExPatNoBrasil · S1 Ep. 01
Mercadão
The big municipal market: the famous counters, unfamiliar fruit, and what a first visit costs.
Guides · Eat
Eat where they eat.
Markets, supermarkets, counters, and lunch spots. How to eat well in a new place without a guidebook, and without getting played.
Eat
Guides
Eat · 4 min readBrasil only
Lunch on Faria Lima: How a Rodízio Business Lunch Works
The companion to Lunch on Faria Lima. São Paulo’s Wall Street eats at a steakhouse, and the steak comes to you until you surrender. Here is how the table works.
Eat · 4 min read
How to Do a Big Municipal Market Without Getting Played
The episode companion to Mercadão. Go hungry, go early, taste before you buy, and ask the price before anything is weighed.
Daily life · 4 min read
Reading a Foreign Supermarket: An Aisle-by-Aisle Method
The companion to A Supermarket in Bela Vista. What to look for, what to stop looking for, and how a supermarket teaches you a country.
Principles
How we approach it
- 01Go where the queue is local. A line of regulars beats any review site.
- 02Ask the price first. Before anything is cut, weighed, or bagged.
- 03Learn food words before anything else. They get you fed and start conversations.
- 04Eat the famous dish, then the other one. The signature plate is rarely the whole story.
- 05Come back. Regulars eat better than visitors.
On screen
Eat, in Chapter 1
ExPatNoBrasil · S1 Ep. 02
A Supermarket in Bela Vista
Aisle by aisle: what is cheap, what is imported, and what I gave up looking for.
ExPatNoBrasil · S1 Ep. 03
Lunch on Faria Lima
The business-district lunch. Plates, prices, and the office crowd at noon.
ExPatNoBrasil · S1 Ep. 04
Padaria Italianinha
An old-school bakery in Bixiga. Coffee at the counter, bread, and regulars.