Jamie's Italian São Paulo — Restaurant in Região Imediata de São Paulo

Excelent...If you are on a diet, and don't mind paying premium for average cuisine.

Long story short: You will have a cheaper and more satisfying experience at Outback or Abraccio (if you are in the mood for pseudo-italian). Seriously, I'm using these brands as examples because the food at Jamie's Italian tastes pretty much like something you'd find in places like these, except for the portions, which are smaller and the presumptuous descriptions of the dishes, which are way over the top. Average per person: $110. Toss in a few extra bucks and you can have an amazing experience at several other restaurants in the neighborhood.

Now the long story...

First of all, I was there by accident. My original plan was to go to Hamburgueria Nacional, but I missed the entrance at Leopoldo Couto street then my wife and her sister saw the huge "Jamie's Italian" sign and they convinced me to try.

Ok now for the dishes.

We ordered a crispy calamari for the appetizer. The dish is ok...Calamari was cut lengthwise (I confess...I was expecting rings) and was very tender, but very greesy! The fried garlic and fresh chillies on top made it a little more interesting...But come on, $29 for like 6 small pieces of seafood is expensive except perhaps in Dubai or Monaco.

Now for the main courses:

I had a (large) super food salad. The salad was ok until I bit a undercooked chickpea, which kind of ruined my experience. If you are on a low carb diet, this salad, despite small, will be satisfying enough because it contains lots of grains and seeds, avocado and some cheese. Price: $39. Not worth it.

My wife had a "fish of the day", which was salmon under mashed potatoes garnished with cherry tomatoes. The salmon cut was small, but tasted fresh and well seasoned, unlike the cherry tomatoes which seemed very ripe and didn't add any accidity to the dish.

My sister in law had a rump steak with oven roasted potatoes. Beef: OK. Potatoes: greesy, not crispy and tasted like low quality olive oil (Galo or worse brands).

Last but not least, desert. The girls ordered some sort of glorified petit gâteau. The description was really awesome with pralines and everything. Then came the dish....The praline was a mere garnish - that don't even come close to a true praline - on top of a, literally, petit piece of dessert. I couldn't help it but laugh...Guys, seriously, you're advertising much more than you are delivering!!! When you say that a praline is part of a dessert, any sane diner will expect MUCH more than a fraction of (apparently raw) crushed almonds. Ohhh and by the way the cake tasted like RAW FLOUR!!!

Before I end this review I would like to say something about the prices of the juices. Latelly I've been to high end restaurants which charge less than $15 for more than 250ml of watermelon juice. Of course you're entitled to charge as much as you like but I don't think it's appropriate for the audience.

PS: at least the service was OK. The waitress was very polite and well trained. When the service is the only good thing you can remember in a meal you know something...

I love to travel. I have ate all over the world. This place was by far one of the worst culinary experience of my life. The Ceaser salad missed 3 key I ingredients to make it a Cesar salad... it was like eating greens with mayonnaise and no mustard..lemon... no anchovies. They missed half my order... the wine served me was literally LUKE WARM. I had 3 different servers ... no on knew what I ordered... the table next to me had all their steaks totally done wrong... and when I asked for the hostess to call a cab for me.. she told me I needed to just walk to a corner and try to fetch one..... I ended up walking 1.4 kilometers to my place in 5” platforms as there were no taxis.. what is so hard about callling a taxi. The wine reccomended to me was 3x the cost of my food bill. I can afford it.. but .. didn’t need a $200 bottle of wine I was actutallly intimidated into buying. If you serve me a $200 bottle of wine at least let it be cold. Where did you store it? Staff lockers? Every part of this experience was poor.. in fact .. I was one of only 3 tables in a huge restaurant so assume my findings are nothing out of the ordinary.. bad food .... Jamie..., you can put wet clothes on rising brewed and think your are a master but .. you should be terribly ashamed to promote your brand in São Paulo. You may fool of most of your celebrity.. but traveling chefs and food professionals are beyond disgusted. Only a local looking to say they have been there at a Jamie yada yada could ever possibly think that place is good. Absorb the profits of as far away from your original start...

Hoje dia de conhecer algo bem refinado, gostoso, mto bonito e um tanto caro hahaha De entrada uma Cestas de paes artesanais - Focaccia caseira de alecrim, ciabatta, grissini, & carta di musica crocante com azeite de oliva extravirgem, balsamico envelhecido & tapenade de tomate seco & azeitona preta... que na verdade era uma tabua de paes hahaha Como prato principal fui de Rib-Eye Steak - Contrafilé grelhqado servido com cogumelos portobello salteado, gremolata de limão, cebolas ao balsâmico & funky chips com manteiga trufada & lascas de trufas selvagens da Toscana. O contrafilé é bem feito, grelhado, eh feito como se fosse num churrasco, e como num bom churrasco, nao precisa de mto tempero, eh uma coisa simples pra saborear bem a carne, um sabor mto bon de uma carne mto boa, mas nao tem mto alem disso, simplicidade e sabor numa otima carne. Os cogumelos sao um show a parte, super saborosos sao salteados pra ficar numa consistencia mto boa e num sabor anormal, deliciosamente epico. Algo refinado preparado com maestria, com mto sabor, realmente da um destaque mto bom pra acompanhar a carne 😃 A manteiga trufada eh um molho a parte um tanto pastoso e azeitado. Um sabor diferente e suave, apesar da consistencia mais oleosa com uma pasta junto. Preferi saborear com as batatas pra dar um gosto a mais, na carne pareceu um gosto mais neutro e nao combinou mto bem. A cebola eh a parte destoante do prato, um tempero que pega bem em algumas partes e em outra deixa a ardencia da cebola se destacar mais, sozinha nao garante um bom sabor, mas com a carne melhora um tanto, dando um sabor um pouco diferente ao casar com os outros ingredientes do prato. Por fim vieram algumas folhas de rucula, que fizeram a parte verde do prato, nao consegui saborea-las bem com nenhum outro ingrediente do prato, mas serrvem pra dar um toque mais belo na aparencia. Outro bom prato que pude saborear (e bem mais light, apesar da 'montanha' de comida rs) foi o Salada Super Food - Abacate, erva-doce, brocolis, beterraba assada, mix de graos & sementes, queijo cottage & harissa ao perfume de erva-doce e salmão curado. O abacate eh da especie avocado, que eh servido numa metade inteira que deixa o prato bem atraente, no sabor algo mais consistente que nao deixa o sabor fugir, mesmo 'recheado' com cottage, nao tem seu sabor mto alterado. O brocolis eh algo mais simples que vem mais de acompanhanto ao prato, nao tem um sabor destacante, nem numa qtd exagerada, da uma certa beleza ao prato, mas com um gosto mto neutro serve pra saborear com outros ingredientes como o cottage ou molho de tomates apimentado. O cottage, q vem como 'recheio' do abacate, eh saboroso e casa bem com o abacate, os sabores nao se anulam demias e eh perceptivel sentir o gosto de cada um 😃 Uma boa combinacao de sabores e ingredientes sem perder suas caracteristicas Os outros ingredientes vem num mix bem misturado, saboroso e temperado, algo bem surpreendente, uma vez que maioria dos gros sao bem sem gosto que chegam a ficar enjoativos. Uma mistura que tem uma acidez consoderavel e um leve apimentado pra complementar o sabor, algo bem unico, original e bem preparado pra agradar mtos gostos 😃 O salmao vem em fatias curadas em cachaça, e isso muda mto o sabor do salmao, ele vem cru, numa coloracao bem forte e avermelhada, ganha mto a atencao do prato. Ainda veio um molho de tomate bem picante acomapnhando em cima do abacate, um sabor diferenciado e forte que vai agradar mtos os fãs de pimenta, mas que pode espantar quem gosta de algo mais suave rs. Pra beber fui de Suco de Melancia com Agua de Coco... algo bem original e um pouco diferente. No geral um lugar bem bonito, agradavel, gostoso e ligeiramente caro... mas que realmente da vontade de voltar pra comer qq outro prato sempre.

Preços Rib-Eye Steak - R$81 Suco de Melancia com agua de coco - R$15 Cestas de paes artesanais - R$22 Salada...