With a
charming style from Minas Gerais, the Restaurant Dona Lucinha located in
the Moema quarter joins, in perfect harmony, the way of life of São Paulo
with that of Minas Gerais. As soon as you enter the restaurant, all the
fast way of living of São Paulo stays behind and the calmness fulfill the
environment. The Dona Lucinha Restaurant is a piece of Minas Gerais,
taking you back to the ancient time of gold exploration, right in the
heart of “the land of the drizzle”, the way São Paulo was known. To lunch
here is much more than only to taste a typical dish; it is to seat in the
kitchen and board in an interstate trip in time, customs and culture of
Minas Gerais.
Keeping
and broadcasting the traditions of the “mineira” cuisine, the Dona Lucinha
Restaurant prepares all dishes in an artisan way, with selected
ingredients and self-made products like the cheese, the sausages, the
coffee and the “cachaça”(local spirit typical from Brazil), all of them
brought from the farm in Serro, native city of Dona Lucinha.
The dishes are
characterized by the noise of the food been prepared and for delicious smell of
the dishes that fill up your mouth with water and are a gift to your eyes. The
Afro-Indian and Portuguese cuisine sets up the typical “mineira” cuisine. There
are a salad buffet with greens imported from the farms of Minas Gerais; typical
farm and “tropeiro” cuisine, besides the candies and liquors table.
Among
the specialties of farm cuisine, we have the chicken with okra, “rabada” with
watercress, bogged cow, “dobradinha” and “galinhada”. The native seeds like
“ora-pro-nóbis” bring a special taste to dishes. Concerning to meats, there are
a sauce made of “rapadura” (very sweet candy made of sugar cane juice),
exclusive of Dona Lucinha Restaurant. The “tropeiros” cuisine offers pork pan,
“tropeiro” beans, “tutu à mineira” and “feijoada” at Minas’ style, accompanied
by dry and crispy “torresminho”.
As
options of desserts, there are sweets of fruits, creamy milk, rice sweet, guava
sweet, “ambrosia”, “rapadura”, sweet lime, orange sweet, pumpkin with coconut
sweet, “espera marido” (specialty of the house made of eggs and milk sweet),
among many others delights. For drinking, there are a table of home made liquors
of “pequi”, “aniz”, “jenipapo” and jaboticaba, besides several choices of
“cachaça” available at the restaurant.
The Dona
Lucinha Restaurant has a menu printed in Portuguese, English, French and
Japanese. It has capacity to serve up to 70 people. Working hours are:
Mondays till Fridays from 12pm till 3pm and from 7pm till 11pm. Saturdays
from 12pm till 4pm and from 7pm till 11pm. Sundays from 12pm till
5pm.Inside the restaurant you will have surrounding music, acclimatized
ambience and non smoking area. |
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