Rooftop Tetto launches numerology-inspired cocktails with origami menu

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What was once the mattress and equipment warehouse on the 25th floor of the WZ Hotel Jardins, on Avenida Rebouças, is now Tetto, a rooftop bar and nightclub for the elite of São Paulo. Over there, people enjoy pocket shows and dance to the sound of DJs while sipping cocktails that can be chosen based on numerology.

That’s because the house launched a drink menu inspired by the practice, which studies the influence of numbers on people. It works like this: first, the customer chooses a number. Then he opens and closes the menu, an origami, the corresponding number of times. Four options are visible for choice.

Matheus Cunha, the head bartender of the group that runs Tetto, says that people pick the number they most identify with, without even knowing the ingredients of the drink. The options are inspired by the master numbers of numerology, such as 11, the intuitive; 22, the entrepreneur; 33, the creator; 44, the solver; 55, the curators; 66, the bearer of love; 77 the understander; and 88, the pursuit of perfection. Each drink costs R$42.

According to Cunha, people generally keep their choice after opening the folding flap and reading the drink’s composition, unless they don’t like any of the ingredients. “Usually, the customer keeps the drink because it matches the characteristics of the number and his own.” Whoever asks for the number 33, the creator, for example, takes a combination of gin, cucumber, basil, ginger syrup and orange basil bitters.

It was playing with origami that started the creation of the new house card — numerology came later. The bartender was never attached to this mystical view of numbers, but he found this solution to link folding to drinks. “I started researching numbers to put on the menu and found the master numbers of numerology, which have a lot of power”, he says.

After choosing the format and names, Cunha sought to create recipes that matched what numerology defines for those numbers. “The concept of the drink bears similarities with the number, from the choice of glass to the way it is prepared”.

In addition to the new menu, the house offers around 60 cocktails. Drinks that were successful on previous menus, such as the Shard London Bridge, which is still ordered more than the classic gin and tonic, are among them.

Cunha took over the position of responsible for the drinks menu at Tetto a few months after the opening of the house, in 2017. Menus, in the plural, since the drinks menu available at the bar is renewed annually.

In addition to Tetto, he takes care of the other houses of the PHD Group, formed by the Asian cuisine restaurant Mr. Wong, by the restaurant inspired by the Belle Époque of São Paulo Antonella Maison and by the Italian Pippo Limone.

As the group’s executive head of the bar, Cunha does not mix and assemble drinks for customers on a day-to-day basis, since he divides his time between all the establishments. Anyone who wants to visit Tetto and try a drink prepared by the hands of the mixologist should reserve a table for Thursday.

It is on this day of the week that the dance floor at the house is open until dawn. Address programming varies. On Wednesdays there are usually pocket shows, for example, while Fridays and Saturdays are marked by a program of DJs.

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