Secretly popular in Sao Paulo, Brazil!
The Punch Bar, a Japanese-style cocktail bar

There is a Japanese-style cocktail bar in Sao Paulo, Brazil.It is said to be even more popular among local and foreign tourists than among Japanese expatriates.Having heard such rumors, Drink Planet staff members living in Sao Paulo immediately visited .......

writer：Tatewaki Nio（サンパウロ在住）

Not an izakaya, but a Japanese-style cocktail bar!

Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the most commercial city in South America.

The Punch Bar, located in a building along Paulista Boulevard, the main street of the city, leaks its light through a small window in the door at 18:00 at dusk, when the workers are heading home.

The cocktail bar, which sells Japanese-style cocktails, is run by Miyazaki Hikardo, a second-generation Japanese American who speaks fluent Japanese.

He opened The Punch Bar in August 2020 after resigning in 2018 from a Japanese company where he had worked for 12 years as an industrial designer.

He said, "Ever since I was working at the company, I liked to serve food and drinks to my friends at churrasco (Brazilian-style barbecue) and other events, and the more times I went, the more people around me encouraged me to open a restaurant!"As I had been serving churrasco (Brazilian barbecue) and other drinks to my friends since I was working for the company, I was repeatedly encouraged by people around me to open a restaurant.

At first, he thought about running an izakaya, but he wanted to do something different.

Then the world of Japanese cocktail bars caught his eye.