Braseiro, Brazilian Steakhouse — Restaurant in Paralimni

Having visited a similar restaurant in Doha back in 2015 - well now I'm in Cyprus I thought I would try Braseiro. There are two sittings at 18:00 and 21:00 I was told. I went for the 18:00 one. It was very quiet to begin with but started filling up about 19:00. The salad bar was small but with an ample enough selection - but you're here for the meat and the salad is only to compliment the meal. Being an early sitting the varieties of meat came round rather quickly and your plate started to fill up with meat. But hey I wasn't complaining. There was no traffic light system as in Doha which you flipped from red (hold fire on the meat) and green (I'm ready for more). What's important to remember is when they carve the meat to ask for more slices otherwise you might only get one piece. Once the server knows your style they usually ask if you want more slices. As the evening progressed you were usually approached again or ask if you happened to miss a type of meat. But bear in mind in the later sittings it gets more crowded and was told in really busy times they could have between 160 to over 200. So make sure you ask for more meat when served otherwise you could miss out because of the numbe of diners. They served Lamb, Pork, Chicken, Chorizo, Gammon and 2 types of steak. As to how well the meat was - well being a bit of a carnivor it was cooked perfectly! I really cannot complain. As for desert the Cinnamon Spiced Char-grilled Pineapple was to die for... Certainly cleared your palate after all that meat and I had quite a few refills. Overall I cannot complain at all. The setting was good and the staff excellent - officiant, friendly and courteous. So yes I would highly recommend Braseiro Brazilian Steakhouse and intend to go back again...

We ate here as our hotel, the sunrise jade, has a scheme where you're entitled to eat out at affiliated restaurants a few times in the week. We had a really great meal.

My fiancé had the experience with the unlimited meats, salads, and they also serve you fries and bread towards the start of your meal. This was exceptional, he was offered 8 kinds of meat, faster than he could consume them, and then after you've tried them all you can have more of whatever you liked best. All of the meats were good, but the picanha and the lamb were on another level. I'm vegetarian but even I could tell the meats were good by how they looked. The salad bar had a wide variety of well prepared, fresh and tasty salads available.

You'd think as a vegetarian I'd be missing out, just one option for me, a tofu moqueca, which is a Brazilian stew. It's testimony to how delicious this was that I didn't feel I was missing out at all. Love and care went into that sauce, it was so tasty. I was also able to pick at the chips and bread my partner got and they didn't care.

To finish the meal as part of the unlimited meats thing, they serve cinnamon grilled pineapple. They also asked me if I would like to try this, even though I wasn't having the unlimited meats thing and they served me as much as I wanted, which was lot, because warm, juicy, cinnamon roasted pineapple is delicious. If you're staying at an affiliated hotel, this is definitely one to go to, but it seems like a great experience if you like meat even if you're not, and veggies in your party won't be disappointed. Service was friendly, they happily provided a take out container because I couldn't...

UPDATE 27th July 2023: forget what i said below….. credit where credit is due… this is now my favourite restaurant in EUROPE. The staff are all AMAZING as is the food (so long as you are a meat eater!). This is the best value for money ANYWHERE! We had a wonderful evening 😎

Last year this was our favourite restaurant in the whole of Cyprus & we would have given it five stars. However having been waiting all winter for them to re-open, we finally returned there the other evening for the first time this year and were sadly quite disappointed:

1. we actually had to leave early because a diner next to us lit a VERY strong smelling cigarette & we both felt quite ill. We really wish that restaurants in Cyprus would show a little more concern to protect and respect the many people who are very sensitive to disgusting carcinogenic smoke being blown in or near our faces.

To many restaurants have no decent “ non smoking” areas outside and force their customers to sit indoors if the want “fresh” air and do not want to be passive smokers for the duration of their meal. This restaurant really should have a large & protected (upwind) area reserved for people who prefer not to be poisoned and made unwell by uncaring smokers.

2. They do not seem to have sharpened their knives since the end of last year, so the waiters were having some significant difficulty carving the various meats at our table.

3. The very nice lady who was seating diners, was taking so long with each couple that, we were left standing at the entrance for a...