Fogo Brazilian BBQ - Intiland — Restaurant in Jakarta

Honestly speaking, it's tough for me to score this restaurant because it is a mixture of hits and misses.

The restaurant is located in intiland tower, in sudirman, perfectly located in the center of the city. They have a few outlet now but i think this intiland outlet is the first one. Fogo is rapidly expanding into the malls nowadays.

To enter the restaurant, you need to reserve online through their online reservation system and you can get the link through whatsapp but first you need to call to their outlet and tell them your mobile number in order for them to send you the link. Once you get the link, press the link and it will take your to their online reservation website and you have to register and create the account in the website. It is a bit troublesome to be honest because you have to create an account and create a password with certain criteria.

Once succeeded with the booking, you can now go to the receptionist to tell them your booking name and they will let you enter the restaurant.

The service is really good, all of the waiter is very responsive to all of your demand and they move very swiftly. No time to relax, hehhe.

Once you are seated, they will explain to you about the rules such as: A. All the meat will be served and offered by the waiter B. All the meat requested must be eaten, any leftover will be charged C. You can take the food in the buffet but you have to wear mask and glove provided D. Once you are done with the meal, you can ask for bbq ed pineapple and it will be the end of your meal and no more meat will be offered E. The dining time limit is 60 minutes F. The bill will be served together with the pineapple

Next i will talk about the interior, the interior is really nice, very well decorated and quite spacious, they have separate room for more private dining experience, they also have painting and mural hanging on the wall. Definititely very nice decoration.

Contrary to the service and the decoration, unfortunately the food that was suppose to be the star of the establishment, fail to shine. The meat comes with different sauces such as peanut, butter, garlic and peri peri. There are two different meat available, which is chicken and beef. The beef itself have two varieties which is the sirloin and belly. I personally prefer the belly because it is more tender due to the layer of fat in the meat. In my personal humble opinion, the meat itself lack searing and fragrant smoky aroma that is supposed to be present in the barbecue. Moreover the meat has still very strong meat odor which might be a deal breaker for some people. Even for someone who likes meat, the odor might proven to be discouraging you from eating more.

The buffet itseld have 8-10 variants of food, such as corn, brocolli, chick3n in black pepper.They also have salad and pudding.

For sauces they have the barbecue, chili, chimicuri sauce and dabu dabu sauce. All the sauce is good, especiallly chimicuri.

They also offer fried rice and chimicuri rice.

Last but not least, for the price offered, we couldnt complain much, especially considering their excellent service, most of the waiter is serving us with their smile.

But for me, i wouldnt go for...

Good place for AYCE,

Poin 1 (flavour) for flavor its ok and fits with my tummy, but after the more you eat seem the taste become less deliciuous and some time the meat was so juice but some time the meat was so dry, They have chicken too but it was to unflavour, and the sousace is plain, but overall for taste meat i give 4 of 5

Point 2 (price) Overall the price seem in the right value for what you get not to cheap not to expensive so i give 5 of 5

Point 3 (variant) Variant is not to many but bot to less the have ide cream, multiple sauce, salad, and karage and some ribe aye and soto, i recommend if you see the side diss such as rib aye, i suggest you can pass it first, try the main menu first the you can take the side dish. If you want value your money. Such the taste is not as i expected.. Try it if you dont bellive, then you will get what i mean. So i give 4 of 5

Point 4 (ambiance) The place is cozzy and enough clean, thr music was a little bit 80's but i like it. Nice place to hangout, so i give 4 of 5

Point 5 (drink) To be honest the tas blackbaery was to water i cant even taste the flavour so i expect it can be more improve. It a refill fyi, but there is not many option foe your drink. So i give 3 of 5

Point 6 (service) The service is good, but maybe because the cuatomer was not in full capacity so the services can maximum, but i dont know if the service was in 80% capacity so i will give 4 of 5.

Back again this is my personal opinion, and nothing to do with offended anything pure only as customer who love to eat.

Noted : please keep your menu in hot, due some customer love to eat in hot instate cold menu, example : soto, bread...

i came here during the pandemy, so im going to review the health protocol first.

•Health Protocol •

All the staff wore masks. One/two of the cooks took off their masks while grilling the meat. They asked us to put on masks while taking the side meals (it is an 'all you can eat' restaurant). They provide plastic hand gloves and hand sanitizer. The staff delivered the meat grilled.. so the meat has been torched with fire before it was served to us. The waitresses use masks all the time.

The restaurant does limit the total seating in one table.

All and all.. i don't fell 100% safe.. but i appreciate their effort.

• The Food •

The highlight of this place is their grilled/BBQ meat. They use torch so the meat would be medium to medium rare. I think the meat itself is quite good.. i do think they used imported beef.. you can tell from the fragrance. The seasoning is generous! They even offer additional seasoning if we asked for more. The taste is quite delicious actually. The side dishes also taste good! The grilled pineapple is exquisite! You should definetly asked for it! Another great thing for this place is the price. For an all you can eat grilled meat.. they only charge 150k IDR incl. tax and service fee. That's affordable. All and all if you're looking for a place to eat good meat for good price.. you should...