Three stars in São Paulo
Guia Michelin awarded three stars to Evvai and Tuju in São Paulo and gave a new star to Madame Olympe in Rio de Janeiro in the 2026 round of Latin‑American releases. (g1.globo.com) (uol.com.br) (Separately, Song at the Four Seasons Hangzhou retained a Michelin star in the new Shanghai/Jiangsu/Zhejiang guide for its Ningbo cuisine.) (thetraveler.org)
Brazil has its first three-star Michelin restaurants, both in São Paulo. Evvai and Tuju reached the guide’s top rating on April 13. (guide.michelin.com) The awards came at the 2026 Michelin Guide Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo ceremony at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. Michelin said the two restaurants are also the first in Latin America to earn three stars. (guide.michelin.com) Michelin’s star system rates restaurants for the quality of their cooking, with three stars reserved for places considered “worth a special journey.” In Brazil’s 2026 guide, Evvai and Tuju moved above a field that still includes three two-star restaurants: D.O.M, Lasai and Oro. (guide.michelin.com) (uol.com.br) That jump is new because Michelin had only just resumed its Rio-São Paulo guide in May 2024 after a three-year pause. The 2024 edition had six two-star restaurants and 15 one-star restaurants, but no three-star restaurants at all. (guide.michelin.com) Evvai is led by chef Luiz Filipe Souza, and Michelin describes its tasting menu as a dialogue between Brazilian and Italian influences. Tuju is led by chef Ivan Ralston, who shared the stage in Rio as the awards were announced. (guide.michelin.com) (uol.com.br) Rio de Janeiro also added a new one-star restaurant: Madame Olympe in Leblon, run by Claude Troisgros. UOL reported that the award lifted the guide’s total number of one-star restaurants to 19. (uol.com.br) The rest of the guide expanded more quietly. Michelin said the 2026 Rio-São Paulo selection still covers 149 establishments, with 12 new additions this year, while the Bib Gourmand list rose to 44 restaurants. (guide.michelin.com) (uol.com.br) Michelin also kept its three Green Stars in São Paulo unchanged: A Casa do Porco, Corrutela and Tuju. That left Tuju holding both Michelin’s top food rating and its sustainability distinction in the same guide. (uol.com.br) For Brazil’s dining scene, the 2026 guide turned a category that did not exist locally in 2024 into the headline of the year. Michelin’s ceremony in Rio ended with São Paulo claiming the country’s first two restaurants at the very top of the scale. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2)
