São Paulo earns three stars
In the 2026 Michelin Guide, São Paulo restaurants Evvai and Tuju were each awarded three Michelin stars, while Madame Olympe in Rio de Janeiro earned one star. (g1.globo.com)
São Paulo now has Latin America’s first three-star Michelin restaurants after Evvai and Tuju were promoted in the 2026 Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo guide on April 13. (guide.michelin.com) Michelin announced the awards at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, where the 2026 guide for the two Brazilian cities was unveiled. Madame Olympe, in Rio, was the only restaurant to gain one star this year. (guide.michelin.com) (g1.globo.com) Evvai is led by chef Luiz Filipe Souza, and Tuju by chef Ivan Ralston. Both restaurants had held two Michelin stars before moving up to three in the 2026 edition. (uol.com.br) (g1.globo.com) The jump matters because Michelin had never awarded three stars anywhere in Brazil or the rest of Latin America before this week. Michelin said the 2026 guide marks the first time the region has reached that top tier. (guide.michelin.com) Michelin’s star system is a ranking for fine-dining restaurants, with three stars reserved for cooking the guide says is “worth a special journey.” In Brazil, Michelin currently publishes a guide only for Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which concentrates the awards in those two cities. (guide.michelin.com) (band.com.br) The rest of the top end stayed stable. D.O.M. in São Paulo and Lasai and Oro in Rio kept two stars, while Michelin and G1 reported that no restaurant in either city lost stars in the 2026 edition. (uol.com.br) (g1.globo.com) Michelin said its inspectors kept the total selection at 149 establishments across the two cities, while adding 12 new entries this year. The guide also added six Bib Gourmand restaurants, a category Michelin uses for places it says offer strong value. (guide.michelin.com) (uol.com.br) Rio used the ceremony to pitch itself as a food destination as well as a tourism hub. Michelin had announced in December that the 2026 event would return to the city in partnership with Rio’s City Hall. (guide.michelin.com) For São Paulo, the headline is simple: two restaurants crossed a line no Latin American dining room had crossed before, and both of them did it on the same night. (guide.michelin.com)
