I wish I had known more about this restaurant before I went, because I had a really bad experience…read more My sister and I went for the first time last night, and the restaurant was almost empty...that should have been our first red flag. We ordered the rodisio, at the suggestion of the waiter, so we could try a variety of different foods. All of the food that came to the table was mediocre, without much flavor...basically just to fill my hungry stomach. There was a large amount of food, and we became full very quickly, after eating a little bit of everything. We had some food remaining on two of the plates, and when we asked to take it with us, we were told that it was not allowed, due to the "house rules". This seemed very strange to us, as we were paying for the food (so, technically it belonged to us), but we were not allowed to take it with us. After the waiter left the table, we discussed how strange this was, and how wasteful it is to throw away this food, which could feed at least two people. When the waiter returned to the table, we asked him to explain why this made sense to him, and he told us that no rodisios allow people to take food because people might take advantage of the situation. We told him that this was ridiculous to us, as we had paid for the food, and we only wanted to take what was remaining on the plates that we didn't finish. We were not asking for new plates to take. He then went to get another person to explain to us. This was a woman who looked like the manager, but she was claiming to be the owner. She proceeded to give us a pre-memorized speech about why they don't allow ANY of the leftovers to be taken from the restaurant, including a lame excuse about the potential that we may take the food and forget it in the car, then try to eat it after it is rotten, and blame the restaurant for rotten food. We told her that she was insulting our intelligence with these excuses. If she was actually the owner of the restaurant, she would have done more to retain our business. We will definitely NOT be returning, and we will tell everyone we know that they should not waste their time and money going there. The only reason they get one star from me is because I can't figure out how to rate them a negative star.
