Palácio Tangará, Oetker Hotels
Live jazz and bossa nova on a terrace among fruit trees
About this hotel
The terrace at Pateo do Palácio is where Palácio Tangará shows its hand: an open-air restaurant set among fruit trees inside Burle Marx Park, with live jazz, blues and bossa nova playing through the evening every night of the week. A couple settling in as the light turns gold can watch the park's greenery darken while the music shifts from background to foreground, then stay on for Afternoon Tea earlier in the week, feijoada on Saturday, or the Sunday Brunch that draws guests back to the same tables. Upstairs, the 141 rooms and 59 suites all open onto their own balcony or terrace over the park, so the view earned downstairs follows guests back to the room rather than staying behind at the bar. For anyone wanting a more formal evening, Tangará Jean-Georges offers a tasting menu across six courses from a chef whose only South American restaurant sits inside this hotel, a detail that gives the terrace scene downstairs an unusually high bar to live up to.
- Live music terrace at Pateo do Palácio
- 141 rooms and 59 suites with balconies
- Tangará Jean-Georges tasting menu
- 9 event rooms and a 600-guest ballroom
Our take
Palácio Tangará suits a couple or small group who wants a rooftop-adjacent evening built around live music and a proper restaurant scene rather than a quiet balcony alone, since the terrace at Pateo do Palácio functions as much as a nightlife venue as a place to eat. The five-star setting inside Burle Marx Park and a restaurant helmed by an award-winning chef make this a splurge choice rather than a casual one. Anyone wanting a low-key rooftop terrace with just a couple of loungers and no live entertainment, or travelling on a tight budget, should look toward a smaller property instead.
- ✓Book a table at Pateo do Palácio in the early evening to catch the live jazz set before dinner service peaks.
- ✓Save the Sunday Brunch for a slower morning after a late night on the terrace the evening before.
- ✓Reserve the tasting menu at Tangará Jean-Georges well ahead if visiting for a special evening as a couple.
Why we love it
- Live jazz, blues and bossa nova on the terrace nightly
- 141 rooms and 59 suites all with a private balcony
- Only South American restaurant from chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten
- Sunday Brunch and Saturday feijoada on the park terrace