Altruísta Osteria e Enoteca — Restaurant in Região Imediata de São Paulo

This place was amazing. A perfect Italian feast if you have time and the funds to enjoy yourself. Only one of us got wine but she raved about it. I love that they put the prices right on the wine bottles so you can see what you're spending before you even look at the menu. The atmosphere was amazing with an open roof, comfortable seating, and a wine decor that went so over the top. It was awesome. They really owned their wine theme and it worked beautifully... Right down to the reserved cabinet and the employee that went up and down the ladder to stock bottles. Several times while we were there. We shared small plates, each got our own main dish and a pasta to share. Everything was so quality so fresh and so delicious. We were sad we didn't have room for dessert. I bet it would have been amazing as well. They only had two English menus so the three of us had to share. That was a little annoying. But the server spoke English and did a great job making us feel welcome and accommodating our lack of Portuguese. It's the first time I've eaten here in Sao Paulo where I didn't have to pull out my Google translate.

Now to the bathroom Apart from me going to the men's room first, which I was quickly corrected by the manager, I had a great experience. The Stalls were clean and well stocked. The bathroom itself was spotless. I had trouble figuring out how to use the soap dispenser and finally just pressed underneath and got some soap. If it was automatic, I couldn't figure out how long to hold my hand there. The bathroom even had a spot for your teeth and breath. You could get some mouthwash and some floss to spruce up your face hole before you went back out for the next bites. I couldn't get the mouthwash to work. I wonder if all of these automated pieces were user error? LOL

Pee or pass? Definitely pee!

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I will start off by saying our main courses were excellent!

We were sat at our table in front of the kitchen, which appeared to be very well run. We started with the Fichi e Formaggio de Capra salad. The figs and the candied were excellent. In our opinion, the goat cheese was a bit underwhelming – maybe a blue like gorgonzola? While tasty, I found the salad to be very dry; a vinaigrette may have helped.

I had the Monza (entrecote with a risotto galet), and my wife had Ravioli di Brasato al Vino Rosso (ravioli stuffed with cabernet roasted beef). Both were amazing! I am typically a true believer that a good steak doesn’t need anything but salt and pepper, but the brown peppercorn sauce was excellent – really made the steak pop.

We didn’t get to desert as we were both full.

Our only (minor) complaints were about the service: We initially sat at the bar waiting for a table. Seems that while they sat us in a chair, the space overlapped the barback area. We moved down a seat once it became empty, but the wait staff still bumped into us and used the space in front of us as a used bottle and glass depository. No apologies for regularly bumping into us. At our table, they were very good when working with us, but not overly attentive. We filled our own wine glasses, and our empty water bottle was never addressed. Not too big a deal, but didn’t quite meet the level of service...

Incredible and vast selection of wine, and entire book of probably 800 or more wines cators preferences from the most afordable to the more premium selections. Relaxed night tonight, we wanted casual drinking easy wines..had a very nice Geisse Rose Extra Brut at a promotional price (was served at a perfect temperature) and a spanish granache from Navarra Dominio Vega linda. Food, we orderded Burrata to start with. Well presented with cherry tomatoes and homemade bread. Main dish we ordered the Lamb chop braised. Very well made, was melting in the mouth. It seems is a specialty of the house. Serves 3 very generously with mushroom creamy risotto and aurugula. Service was fast and well taken care. Sparkling was always kept on ice water and served as the glasses were emptied. Red wine came a bit warmer than actually desired and we requested chilling. Ademar took care of the details and was very cordial.

Overall food, drinks and service were good, served its purpose- place to drink a varietybof wines with good prices...