The real find has been a place recommended called Espresso Sorocaba, its on the web and has a Face book page:- despite its name it is a full-blown restaurant, and has a band 4 nights a week. We usually arrive early to get out regular seat to watch the place fill up.
All the waiters now seem to know us,and the bouncers as well. This can be a good thing as over here you can easily get in places but not out. When you have paid for your meal or drinks you get a ticket or card that you have to give to the guy on the door to get out. Without it, and the lack of spoken English means you’re pretty much screwed. All the men are either frisked or ‘metal detector’ scanned; the woman are never bothered unless they look really young in which case they need some id. Brazilian people don’t get drunk; well 99% of them don’t. We did see a poor girl on Saturday night throwing up under the table after drinking too much Tequila but this a very rare occurrence in our local bar. I’m not saying they don’t drink; far from it, but everything is much more sociable. The bar does specials on beer and shorts. The beer involves 4x pint bottles for the price or 3 – about £8.5; served cold in a bucket of ice. The shorts involves a full bottle of either Vodka, Jack or Tequila with up to 6 glasses and tins of red Bull all in a bucket of ice for about £80. It never ceases to amaze us as you often see 2 blokes polish off 4 beers and a bottle of Jack over a Sunday lunch time and not look any worse for wear.
