The Fasano family has been in the restaurant business in São Paulo since 1902, and the flagship restaurant in the basement lobby of the Hotel Fasano is the institutional heart of the operation. The dining room is dark wood, leather banquettes, white linen, and the menu is precise upper-end northern Italian — handmade pasta, truffles in season, a long list of Italian and Brazilian wines, and the famous suckling pig.
This is the place to come for the kind of evening where dressing properly is the point. It is not cheap, the service is formal in a way that is unusual in São Paulo, and the room has a quiet, considered hum. Reservations are essential. Dress code applies.