SEEN crowns the Tivoli Mofarrej on Alameda Santos, a rooftop bar and restaurant on the hotel's 23rd floor with a wraparound view over the Jardins skyline. It is the São Paulo outpost of the SEEN group from Portuguese restaurateur Olivier da Costa, who runs versions of the room in Lisbon and beyond.
The bar's own site and the Tivoli Mofarrej restaurants page both place it on the 23rd floor at Alameda Santos 1437, and World's 50 Best Discovery lists it among São Paulo establishments. Tripadvisor and Yelp carry current listings with hundreds of reviews, which together confirm the rooftop is open and serving on its published evening schedule.
This is the room for a drinker who wants height, a view and a designed evening: a cocktail with the city laid out below, a seat at the sushi counter and a kitchen that treats the rooftop as a restaurant rather than a club. The crowd dresses for it and the bill reflects the floor it sits on. Skip it for a casual pint or a budget night, because the draw is the view, the cocktails and the occasion.
The space opens onto the skyline from every angle, with the bar and a sushi counter anchoring a dining room that runs to the glass. It reads as a hotel rooftop built for a long evening, where the lighting drops as the night runs on and the view does the heavy lifting that décor would elsewhere.
Order from the contemporary cocktail list, built by the bar team to sit alongside Olivier da Costa's fusion menu, and pair it with the sushi bar led by the kitchen's own chef. The food leans Mediterranean-meets-Japanese, so a cocktail-and-sushi opening is the move before any larger plates. Prices sit at the top of the São Paulo range, in line with a 23rd-floor hotel rooftop and its view.
The crowd is a dressed-up mix of hotel guests, date-night couples and groups marking an occasion, building through the evening from seven and running latest on Friday and Saturday to 2am. It is closed on Sundays, so the weekend window is Friday and Saturday night. A booking is the safer play, with walk-ins taken first come, first served when space allows.
What separates SEEN from São Paulo's other high rooms is the group behind it and the restaurant-first approach. The Olivier da Costa name brings a consistent template across cities, and the kitchen and sushi bar give the rooftop a reason to stay beyond the first cocktail and the first photo. That pairing of view and a serious menu is why it lands on city rooftop lists rather than reading as a hotel bar that happens to be high up. The Jardins setting helps too, since the 23rd floor looks out over one of São Paulo's denser clusters of towers, and the lights of Avenida Paulista sit within easy reach of the glass.
Who it is for: a skyline date, a special-occasion dinner with a view and anyone who wants a rooftop that takes the food as seriously as the vista. Best time to go is at dusk on a clear evening to catch the light change over the Jardins, with a booking to secure a view table. A practical note: it is closed Sundays and dresses smart, so plan the night and the outfit.
For the wider field, our guide to the best rooftop bars in São Paulo sets this room against the city's other high terraces, and the São Paulo bar guide maps where to drink across the neighbourhoods. Anyone chasing a view should also browse our pillar on the best rooftop bars worldwide.
Sources: SEEN São Paulo official site (2026); Tivoli Mofarrej restaurants page; World's 50 Best Discovery, São Paulo; Tripadvisor and Yelp listings.
