Cecília Pães and Pastries

the pão de queijo here is worth coming back for, and if you're used to grabbing it as an afterthought somewhere else, cecília reframes it as the whole point of the stop. curitiba's xaxim neighborhood doesn't get much specialty coffee attention, so finding a place this considered on r. gabriel frecceiro de miranda feels like a genuine local discovery rather than a calculated one. the pastry side of things pulls equal weight with the coffee, which isn't always the case in spots that lean too hard into one or the other. you get the sense that whoever put this menu together actually thought about how a Brazilian morning should feel, not just how it should photograph. go mid-morning, get something from the counter, and take your time with it.