At this restaurant I was not impressed. This is a rustic restaurant with a lot of potential for success however it did not impress me in certain aspects. Here are a few:
1) Decor and restaurant location: I couldn't find this restaurant at first but when looking for it, I saw only a Brazilian flag on a window. No signs and made it confusing to go to this place. When I entered, this so called "restaurant" was in a vape shop and I personally don't think anyone would've seen the restaurant.
Now inside the restaurant was authentic in other aspects, there were some good uses of decor (e.g: the paper mache houses) however no lighting and overall, looks more like a rustic cafe than a restaurant.
2)Food: Me and a friend had ordered 2 traditional meals, one was a beef meal and the other was a pork meal. This was good in flavor however bringing the plates, I felt that it was not adequate to use so many plate to serve one main and this wasn't big either. We also ordered dessert and it was a flan, really nice and tasty.
3) Service and hospitality: Utterly disgraceful. The manager was nice and I felt that he was somewhat welcoming however the waiter that attended us was not, primarily to me. My friend who was there was a woman and so the waiter attended and was smiling more to her than to me and then in food. The dessert, she got more than I did and I am a man. This gave me the impression that the waiter and cooks were sexist because as a customer and a man, I deserve the same quantity as any other person.
I am also Peruvian so in South America, this would be unacceptable at the highest level. I told the waiter I spoke Spanish but he did not and so made the language barrier difficult. The waiter talked too fast and since we did not know Portuguese, the guy still kept talking like that.
4)Pricing: decently priced however not worth it in my opinion (e.g: beef meal was £20 however took long to come).
Overall this is what I have to say:
If you want food at a cheap price in cheap "restaurant" with cheap staff who treat you differently if you are of a certain gender and are of Latin or Hispanic heritage, come here! I would advise you that you don't because of the review I have written and because of the one star.
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