São Paulo's restaurants are concentrated where the money is, in the city centre and in the middle- and upper-class suburbs of the city's southwest in neighbourhoods like the Jardins, Itaim Bibi and the newly fashionable Pinheiros and Vila Madalena area. You can get away with paying $3 or so for a standard dish of rice, beans and meat at a small, side-street restaurant, but at the most elegant of restaurants in the wealthiest neighbourhoods you'll be very hard-pressed to pay less than $50 per person. Fortunately, though, there's a huge choice of good restaurants between these price extremes, so you're unlikely to have much trouble finding places to suit your tastes and budget