Palácio Tangará Hotel

São Paulo, Brazil

It’s São Paulo, but not as you know it: the Oetker Collection’s 2017-launched palatial urban enclave feels a world away from the Brazilian city’s buzzy streets, with all 141 of the spacious guestrooms and suites boasting verdant views of the 14ha Burle Marx Park. Refined, pale, Bick Simonato-designed interiors are bathed in natural light, while outside a glorious pool provides the most photogenic of backdrops for your post-sightseeing R&R. The Flora Spa also demands a visit, for its superlative massages, facials and rejuvenating hydro-therapies.

With renowned French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the helm, you can rest assured that meals will also put a spring in your step. Make a beeline for the eponymous restaurant, where diners can linger at the chef ’s table over expertly executed dishes that marry European technique with stellar native ingredients, all paired with top-notch Brazilian bins.

Doubles from £206. 00 55 11 4904 4040, oetkercollection.com

Words by Julie Alpine.

This review was taken from the December 2020 issue of Food and Travel.

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