Sadly, this was our last official meal in Rio before a flight to Buenos Aires…read more ATMOSPHERE: They're located in GIG just past the duty free shop in the food court. It's a takeout counter with shared seating with the other businesses. BEVERAGE: Bottled Stella & Heineken were $3 each, score! MENU: Pastas, pizzas, sandwiches. FOOD: Spaghetti Bolognese - $8. We received a pretty big bowl for the price, but the sauce was very weak in the flavor department, though grated cheese helped a little. The pasta was cooked in the middle of al dente and soft. I guess you can't expect much from an airport eatery. SERVICE: The female associates were very friendly and easy to communicate with. OVERALL: Good portions, lackluster food.

Stopped by for breakfast at 730A. We decided to sit in. Were given 2 menus with options to choose…read moreitems from. Kind of confusing, because our waiter was telling us we could get some things and not others. Bathroom directly in this area also. Food was fine

Took a while to get served but it was crowded in the restaurant. Food was okay. They take priority…read morepass customers. Menu was altered. It would have been nice to order something from the regular menu with the priority pass. Pass on the caipirinha ... wasn't that great.

All you can eat pizza and pasta…read more Here. I was up to the challenge but I was soundly defeated. The set-up is pretty cool. You sit down and wait for a waiter/waitress. Someone comes by and asks what you want. You could order off of the menu, but that would be a mistake. You should (and, will) order the all you can eat buffet. As anyone who's been to a churrascaria/rodízio will tell you, you let the food come to you. This is a good thing. Within seconds of telling the waitstaff to feed you, server after server starts to come by with all sorts of pizza, pasta and dessert pizza. The glorious thing is that they keep coming. The bad thing is that they keep coming. If you have an absence of impulse control like I do, this can be a very bad thing. I simply could not stop eating. Was it the best pizza and pasta I've had? No. Did I expect it? No. You get what you pay for and what you're paying for is fast(er) food with waiter service. Still, that didn't stop me from putting a significant dent into the food offerings... or, so I thought. Much like the hordes of The Walking Dead, the food just.kept.coming. There was no way to win. Thinking that I was making a good strategic move, I ordered a beer. The Brahma was exceptionally malty... to the point of being so oddly sweet that it turned my stomach a bit. I look to the carbonation in beer to help with digestion but I veered off course and it cost me more eating time. Granted, this didn't stop my from slaying the dessert pizzaS but the savory portion of my meal was over. After you've gorged to unhealthy levels, one of your party will roll to the counter and pay for your food. Yep, even though there's waiter service, the waiter's won't settle your bill. It's not a big deal but you should probably know that someone's gonna have to be the first to waddle. Once you've paid, however, you can sit around and try to digest a bit. I saw all types of folks here: families, teenagers, groups of friends, dates. It's a versatile space and if I were a teenager in Rio, I would have made this a regular part of my over-eating rotation. As an adult visitor, however, once was probably enough. I was grateful, though, to get another glimpse of an authentic, local way to spend a Sunday evening.

It's from another era. Old school. The waiters are seasoned and wear uniforms from years forgotten…read more The dishes are straightforward and unpretentious, dare I say meat and potatoes (pun intended). Visiting from Miami we felt the trip to Brazil would not be complete without a trip to a steakhouse. Some of the options we actually have back home, so we settled on this one. The steaks are of great quality, cooked perfectly to your specifications and delivered by friendly knowledgeable staff. The sausage sent out before the meal was perhaps my favorite thing, rivaled only by the fried potatoes. The fried potatoes are masterful. It's like they thinly sliced two pieces of potato, stuck them together, and then fried them. So you have two crunchy sides with an air pocket between them. Where have these been all my life??? Don't leave without ordering them. The picanha was as good as we expected. The chorizo is actually a cut of steak here, if he had known Portuguese a bit better we wouldn't have ordered it because we thought it was sausage, but here it's a cut of meat. Delicious anyway. The side of broccoli rice made us feel a bit healthier. Lol.

This restaurant came highly recommended as one of the best "barbecue" places in Rio. It's really…read moremore of a steakhouse than a barbecue place, but I wouldn't advise coming here unless you are ready to eat a Fred Flintstone-sized cut of meat. You have the option of going to the counter and picking the cut of meat you want or ordering off the menu and letting them pick for you. I highly recommend ordering from the counter, so you can see what you're in for. I ordered the t-bone steak, and it's the biggest steak I've ever seen in my life that wasn't for two people. I don't even know how I finished a steak that massive. The only thing I'd recommend is that for anyone (like me) who doesn't like anything less than medium, to know what the Portuguese word is for "well done". Medium well got me a medium rare steak. After drinks and sides, our bill came to about R$ 135, which was like $35. Look at the picture of my t-bone (or a picture of my friend's steak which was half of a steak he split with another friend) and tell me where else you can get a brontosaurus steak like that at that price?