We visited for a birthday and decided to go for the full “Rodizio” Gaucho barbecue experience. The first impression was: this looks like a canteen, with white ceilings and bright white lighting and the salad bar in the middle of the room. No points for...atmosphere.
The starters if can call them that were a few tiny pieces of polenta and a few chips but that didn't really bother us because we were there for the main event, the BBQ.
Most of the meat was great, some pieces a little overdone to my taste. The staff, while friendly, didn't speak much and when they did they had heavy accents so half the time we had no idea what cut of meat we were eating.
The salad bar had an odd mix of sides, with cheeses, salad, pickled veg, cooked veg, rice and even Irish stew. While most of it was nice we weren't sure Irish stew, blue cheese and tomato and mozzarella were part of the authentic Gaucho food.
Starters may have been small, desserts were big portions, bigger than we had room for after all the meat. The creme brulee was very nice, my son wasn't too impressed with the chocolate mousse pretending to be a brownie.
You get a strict 2 hour slot but half an hour before the end we were told it was last orders for dessert and coffee. Bar staff started cleaning with a good bit of noise so we felt we were almost pushed out. By then the music from Lemon and Duke next door was so loud we could barely hear the music inside our restaurant.
The bill for dinner for 4 with a bottle of wine, desserts and a few other drinks came to €300 and I can't say it was worth it. €50 for the Rodizio BBQ doesn't include dessert and barely includes a starter so it's essentially the price of the main course.More