There are more espeto (grilled meat on a stick) options here than you can, erm, shake a stick at, from sausage to queijo coalho and even chocolate-coated strawberries, carried around by circulating waiters. But it’s not the food that is the real draw here: it’s the sprawling maze of a garden hidden out back, which sets this Perdizes branch apart from the Casa’s three other locations across town. Live music or football projected on enormous screens give added appeal. 

Other locations: Rua Mourato Coelho 1022, Vila Madalena (3032 5191) and Rua Padre Carvalho 525, Pinheiros (3812 0173).