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    Preto

    3.3 (33 reviews)
    ModerateBrazilian
    Open 12:00 pm - 3:00 PM, 6:00 PM - 11:30 PM

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    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Hanz T.

    Brazilian bar B Q anyone! This place was highly recommend by the Park Plaza Hotel concierge. The quality of meat they serve is worth the money! Come on an empty stomach and you will not be disappointed:)

    Rich M.

    No matter how hard I think about it, I just can't force myself to really recommend Rodizio Preto to you. It's trying so hard (and succeeding) on so many levels, but the whole just didn't quite work. I knew it was too good to be true when, scanning around for somewhere to take the Radio Star for a (very) belated Christmas dinner, I came cross Victoria's very own all you can eat Brazilian meat buffet... so many reasons why that sentence should make sense. The restaurant themes itself as a Churrascaria, a Brazilian BBQ restaurant. After filling your plate with hot and cold Brazilian starters and sides (don't get too much.. seriously) you sit back and wait for the Passadores to arrive. Translating essentially as meat waiters, they bring large skewers to your table, carving off hunks of animal to order. It's a modern but undistinguished Latin American cafe style place focussed around that large buffet counter. Think 3* hotel breakfast room in the Algarve with canned Portuguese pop pumping out of the TV on the wall and you won't go far wrong. But you're not here for the look, you're here for the meaty experience. Friendly staff give you a card to place on your table that you swivel between 'Sin' and 'Nao' depending on your need for meat. They ignore it mostly, piling delectable cut on top of cut. Feel free to turn them down early on, I looked away from my plate for a second and returned to 4 or 5 lumps of cow. It's a marathon, not a sprint... The skewers work, really well in the main, though miss hits come with a chicken sausage, too doughy for all of us, and a too tough fillet steak wrapped in bacon (what? Why!?). Other than that, chicken thigh takes the cooking process well, caramelised, crackling skin protecting the tender flesh, but as you'd expect, the real highlights are the slivers of steak, three or four different cuts or twists, served mainly rare and oozing with taste. The umami notes in the charred edges of the steak are heady and superbly flavoursome, tastebombs in your mouth to be savoured. Pork loin is another winner, unctuous porky fat delivering a whallop of taste. I'd recommend taking a thick piece of the beef shoulder too. It's a fatty cut, but takes to the churrasco grill superbly, fat rendering into moist flavour. The salad bar disappointed a little. It's 'traditional', if you use traditional as a euphemism for cheaply prepared, fairly bland food you don't recognise. Hot sides consisted of rock solid cheese 'puffs', insipid and tasteless polenta cubes, onion rings and little breaded torpedos of deepfried plantain. The cold options were either mayonnaise based cubed veg, rice, or selections of random veg. As I say, keep it tight and leave room for the cow. Have a salad for lunch if you're worried about the state of your waistline.

    Monica R.

    Astrud Gilberto, Samba, Caipirinhas, all this gifts that Brazil has given to the world, and now this newly opened restaurant on Pimlico. They serve proper Brazilian food in a modern and light atmosphere. They serve a buffet that has salads, cheese, beans, rice. They have meat on skewers that is passed to the tables by the waiter and they just keep coming until you flip a paper disc that on one side says "no more", I thought that was sweet. The food was really good.

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    The space was a but cramped and with the long she skewers the servers ( all of them) knocked into something at nearly every pass at ours or other table.

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    Rodizio Brazil

    Rodizio Brazil

    2.8(19 reviews)
    2.0 miClapham, Clapham Common
    £££

    Headed here with Groupons, and whilst I've not have good experiences with Brazillian food in the…read morepast, I decided to try this place after heard good things about the Rodizio Grill. Places with supposedly endless supplies of meat carved at your table. However, based on my experience, I fail to understand how this business stays viable. We arrived at 1pm. There was only one other party, and they looked native brazillian. We were shuffled to a table in a very tightly packed area where getting out would be difficult. We asked if we could re-locate and reluctantly the guy serving us agreed. A major difficult is that the staff say very little and presume you understand exactly how this whole Rodizio Grill works. Where more people came in during lunchtime with their Groupons, the confusion on what to do was repeated, and the waiter absolutely looked like he was tired of actual businessa and having to interact with people. Whilst I try not to always judge a place on service, this person interacted with customers with borderline contempt. It's fair enough if you're stressed. But this is your job, and to ruin my perception of the business is not any fault of mine. Anyway, to make things worse, we arrived just after a powercut had taken out the electricity. It was quite sunny outside which made the interior look all that much darker. We were not told anything regarding this, just to start helping outselves to the salads and other buffet style food laid out in the back of the shop. It's incredibly difficult when you can't actually see anything! Not to mention it took about 30 minutes for any meat to start appearing... Onto the meats. Given the description of the voucher, I was under the impression that the meat would be cooked to order. However, meat comes around in cycles every 10-15 minutes and you don't get a choice! It's either Yes/No to that round. As non-beef eaters, there were then rounds we couldn't partake in. The one highlight of the experience is that the grill chef noted this and didn't offer us any more beef and went out his way to substitute beef rounds with either pork chicken or lamb. That said, the variety is not as wide as the groupon claims. Not once did chicken heart appear. And some meat was near on inedible. What we did get to try were lamb, pork sausage, pork shoulder, chicken thigh and pork belly. A lot of this was tough, chewy. However when meats came around again, they would sometimes be better or worse. Either way, it was disappointing. Not to mention we were asked a few times whether we had finished, the first time after only having had 2 meat servings. Almost felt like we were being rushed out. The salads/rice/beans were good, but were nothing special. We felt the meats were supposed to be the attraction, but were not good enough, whilst being filled with salad that were actually a lot better. The cocktail was good, but again, I thought we would get a choice. But all you get is Cachaça, which I can't complain about, since I love it. Also the dessert is just an Iceland style chocolate gateau. Disappointing to the max. My dad asked if were could have instead the blackforest gateau right next to it. We were strictly told no. I was surprised, as it wouldn't have cost them anything more, and bought them some goodwill. In all we didn't feel well treated during this lunch and would never go back again. The Groupon choice was restricted to items not clearly explained at the start, service was abrupt and contemptuous, food not near good enough to serve to paying public. I really wanted to have my mind changed about Brazillian food, but this only cemented my bad (personal) experiences with it. Other Groupon holders seemed to be going through a similar experience as eye contact said everything. How this company even managed to sign up to Groupon given the horrendous difficult making a telephone booking is beyond me.

    Came here for a birthday meal. Lively atmosphere with good food. I got the full Rodizio, with…read moreunlimited meat. Loved it! Wide range of choices and waiter is happy to bring out any meat you are waiting for. Live music was entertaining and added to atmosphere. One member of our party was a vegetarian and was very happy with what was available. Another two only ate chicken as they don't eat meat. We all left feeling very satisfied. I will return.

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    Rodizio Brazil - Chicken, Sausage, Chicken Heart, Pork

    Chicken, Sausage, Chicken Heart, Pork

    Rodizio Brazil - Selection of salad, Pork and Beans

    Selection of salad, Pork and Beans

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    Café Brasileiro

    Café Brasileiro

    5.0(2 reviews)
    3.6 miIslington

    I think this is the closest thing to a food "hole in the wall" Islington has. Just five weeks ago…read moreCafé Brasileiro popped up as a clean, tasty and friendly establishment. It's also adorable with a lovely man serving and making all the food out the back. I walked past this place this morning and thought, "I must pop in for lunch, this place looks too cute." I'm so glad I did! Browsing the menu there is a host of Brazilian home baked delights on offer, from chicken croquettes to cheesey dough dumplings. I went for one of their home made sandwiches filled with egg mayo and tonnes of salad. That with an apple cost no more than £3. What a great value lunch. They do have a little sitting area for 2 people that you can eat at. It's really nice because you can sit and watch the world go by while munching your lunch. I am so going back here to try the rest of their menu as well as their coffee. Well done Café Brasileiro, I can't wait to see you grow ever popular with the locals.

    After having returned from my few week sojourn to Rio i was massively in the doldrums and suffering…read morewithdrawal from my pao de queijos (cheese balls) , coxinhas (chicken in manoic flour - deep fried) and cupuacu (super healthy amazonion juice). So every day I'd hot foot it down and stuff my face with salgadinhos (snacks) and brush up on my portuguese with the owner. So I really didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he said that he moving on and to be replaced by a Vietnamese cafe (my second favourite food in the world). Where oh where do I get my snack-fix now?!

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