São Paulo

South America's largest city drinks with the same appetite it eats. Corner botecos pour cachaça and ice-cold chope without ceremony, while a generation of bartenders treats Brazil's native larder, cupuaçu, cambuci, tucupi, baru and mate, as a pantry no other cocktail city can match. The creative center of gravity sits west of the river in Pinheiros and Vila Madalena, where Tan Tan carries the flag as the country's only entry in the World's 50 Best, but the scene rewards wandering: izakayas in Liberdade, rooftop bars downtown, and the Rabo de Galo served everywhere from lunch counters to tasting menus.

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