Le Jardin — Restaurant in Região Imediata de São Paulo

Had lunch with my husband at Le Jardin yesterday. It was all beautiful! Ambiance among the luscious greenery of this Old São Paulo historical mansion, now being adapted for a Rosewood Hotels property. The food, service, table furnishings were all of the highest quality. Close attention to detail and perfectly crafted food. Our lunch was initiated by an appetizer of delicately baked hearts of palms with fresh baby greens and baked ripe grape tomatoes. Proceeded lunch with the fresher baked Sea Bass with heart of palms and I had the Shrimp in a special shrimp sauce over rice and other accompaniments. The wine list is also excellent, both by the bottle or by the glass. We ordered two lovely and light weight desserts, the lemon tart artistically crafted in a dome shape, adorned with fine herbs forming tiny flowers on top. It was delicious! My husband had the Pavlova style meringue, filled with beautiful Brazilian tropical fruits. The final note… We ordered two Espressos to end our meal. We are treated with a lovely and dainty silver tray with our espresso cups, perfectly cut cubes of “Baba Au Rum” served in a glass domed plate, accompanied by two tiny elegantly crafted crystal glasses bordered in gold rims with the “M” insignia of the original family that owned this lovely early 1920’s mansion. Our visit to Le Jardin will be remembered for a long time. Bravo! We can only hope that the Rosewood being built in Miami Beach will offer as high standards as of this São Paulo property....

Nicely decorated restaurant inside Rosewood but not worth the price. Disappointing!

Food: good not very special. We ordered Atum cake for appetizer, then grilled Octopus and Chef’s suggestion (Risotto with Beef rib), finished with Vegan Chocolate brownie and mousse. We only liked the dessert. We drank 2 glasses of wine and finally paid R$ 700 (€ 130). Honestly, for such price ( and the reputation) we expected more.

Service: not at quality to be a resto inside Rosewood. Some of the staffs look very tiring and slow. They changed the waiter to our table in the middle of our lunch. The 2nd waiter when serving food, didn’t even say anything to us and just left the food on the table. We had to guess what the food I was and if we ordered it or not.

Atmosphere: very well designed interior with super nice tropical garden. We were mostly upset because we were assigned a table next to the cleaning counter (with noise and smell of the left-over) even though we made the reservation in advance and there was no one when we arrived until we...

We went for lunch at this wonderful hotel. The decor is simply spectacular everywhere you look, truly incredible. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about the restaurant Le Jardin. We ordered a carpaccio, which was very good. Then my 90-year-old aunt (an important detail) ordered the duck mixed with rice, which came with two little duck bones. Imagine the risk of choking on that! My dish was a fish called 'Namorado,' which tasted good, but it came with tough mushrooms and what were supposed to be artichokes, but they were extremely hard. I asked for a bit more bread, and it arrived when I had already finished eating. We kindly asked the waiter to let the chef know about the bones, we even showed them to him. The waiter apologized, but do you think anyone came to say sorry? Manager? Chef? No. My aunt demanded two coffees on the house. In places like this, you expect excellence. Sadly, it's not the case. It’s only worth stopping by for a coffee just to enjoy the...