Whatafood Brazilian Street Food / Olá! Cafe & Acai — Restaurant in Downtown

This has been my favourite restaurant until now when I met a rude young girl today. It’s Sunday and 5:30 pm. She was the one without glasses. She was literally dictating my order. I had a guest tonight from out of town who asked me if I could recommend a good restaurant and I brought him here to have shrimp no. 8. I ordered for both of us when she suddenly asked my friend if he eats shrimp what I had just ordered. My friend doesn’t normally eat shrimp but he wanted to try. The girl insisted that your friend doesn’t want shrimp embarrassing me in the process. Then I was ordering the bigger one no. 8. She insisted that my friend can also get the smaller one because the bigger one is expensive. So my friend who likes to eat more ended up eating half of my order too. My friend hated what he had ordered and his comments were that this is a terrible restaurant.

The shrimp that I ordered had very few shrimps in it. Terrible food. I’m not coming back to this...

I'm very disappointed. I walked in and ordered had to wait 10 mins, I come back she passed me the box without checking and my chicken pastel is missing from the box. I didn't notice till I got home... It wasn't even busy. Now I get nothing for my dinner. At least they managed to get the boys order correct. I don't think I will be back. I was also collecting stamps and now apparently they aren't doing stamps anymore. Meanwhile I've been going in to fill out the card. Finally get it filled out for a free one and she tells me it's no good. So leaving out my order certainly doesn't sit well. I've been a regular customer there since they opened including buying grocery items for my Brazilian students. I'm very disappointed. She said they would return the money on my item. If they don't I will drop in tomorrow and speak with the owner. I order 3 pastels how hard can it be to get...

When you say "deep-fried" you generally get my attention... Which is why I dropped by Whatafood at the New West Skytrain to try their Brazilian pastel. Specifically, their beef and cheese pastel which is a deep-fried pocket of ground beef and cheese wrapped inside a flaky pastry.

First off, the pastry shell was light and flaky. I wish it came with something to hold it with... like a cardboard wrapper to keep the oil off your hands and to help keep it together. Mine was wrapped in paper napkins which sorta helped to sop up the oil but did little to add to the structural integrity of the pastel. Hence, it got very messy to eat as the thin shell fell apart easily as I ate it.

I did like the cheesy pull but it could have used more cheese throughout. The beef could have used some seasoning but they have a pack of hot sauce and ketchup.

Just under $10. Prepared pretty quick and ok...