The house, run by chef Ivan Ralston, ranked eighth on the list of the 50 best restaurants in Latin America
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Tuju restaurant in São Paulo, led by Chef Ivan Ralston, was named Best in Brazil and ranked 8th in the list of the 50 Best Restaurants in Latin America for 2025, serving seasonal menus with Brazilian products and modern techniques.
The three floors near Faria Lima, in São Paulo, where the property that houses the Tuju restaurant is located, can now be used as the address of the best restaurant in Brazil. The restaurant led by Chef Ivan Ralston took eighth place in the 2025 Latin America 50 Best Restaurants list release event, making it the top-rated Brazilian establishment.
Reopened in 2023, Tuju is committed to indulging in Brazilian products and ingredients based on detailed research by specialist Caterina Cordas. Menus are created with an identity of seasonal flavours, favoring inputs from São Paulo, which are used to create modern recipes full of techniques.
The peculiarities of each season of the year foster creativity in structuring the menus, which cost around R$1,480.
The restaurant has already won two Michelin stars. Among the highlights, we can list the combination of pork scallops, tocopi xo, caroncho, and the first step of the menu called Humidade, as well as the combination of figs, sobrasada, and tarragon, which make up the Sika menu. Peto shrimp, Santarém butter beans, pancetta and caroncho pork dumplings also form an association worthy of all honor as part of a winter tasting.
Anyone wishing to visit the place can make a reservation on the institution’s official website, which is open from Tuesday to Friday from 7pm to 10pm; – Saturday from 12 noon to 3 pm, and from 7 pm to 10 pm. Service fee is 15%.