churrasco restaurant ALEGRIA GINZA — Restaurant in Tokyo

Tucked away in an alley of an unassuming office building on the edge of Higashi Ginza and Ginza, we decided to try this Brazilian churrascco as we were craving for some grilled meat!

They offer a lunch tabehoudai (all you can eat) for 2 hours at 3,000 yen per person with 15 choices (incl. vegetables and fruit). We thought this was a very attractive price point, as usually these are above 5,000 per person at other places. Note that their dinner option is 5,200 yen!

The restaurant is quite small and a bit dated but the staff were very friendly and proactive. Unfortunately, we had an odd smell at our table that affected our experience a bit (maybe due to the age of the building/decor?).

Either way, we definitely got our money's worth. The staff cycled through all 15 items on their menu in good time, ranging for 3 or 4 beef choices, 2 types of chicken, several pork cuts, sausages, pineapple, potatoes, eggplant and zucchini. After their first run through, you can pick any of the items you like and theyll come back with more.

We liked their beef cuts, except for the pepper steak which was too fatty, their grilled pineapple was great, sausages and chicken were also yummy. The rest of their items were okay. Obviously, at this price point, don't expect the best meat quality.

With your tabehoudai, you get a salad and some bread. They also offer curry rice at the end of your meal if you're still able to eat!

Overall, we definitely got our fill but would only recommend if you're craving a lot of meat and are looking for a...

I seriously can't recommend this restaurant to anyone. I've been to several ALEGRIA series restaurant and they were all very good. Cheap price with delicious meat EXCEPT this GINZA one.

Visited during lunch hour on weekday, no waiting. This restaurant is located in a very old building, the restaurant inside had a weird smell, like there were some garbage just cleaned out. Anyway, ordered Mix Plate which costs 1000 yen with free soup.

Mix Plate was served with two pieces of chicken, two pieces of pork, one tiny chunk of beef steak and one sausage. The chicken was undercooked, you could see the raw color of it, the meat itself was very chewy(because its still raw), the taste of basil was so weird. The pork was very tough to bite, and was almost fat, and had no flavor. The beef was just...okay... very tough to bite, the only meat that you could "enjoy". The sausage was also just okay, without the sausage I seriously cannot finish the rice.

Overall, bad environment with bad, undercooked meat. Seriously, lunchtime is a no go for...

This rating is based off my experience, not the food…because I wasn’t even able to try the food!!!

I tried to make a reservation online for a party of 2 for when they opened at 5:00 pm., but I couldn’t because I did not have a local Japanese phone number. This attempt was made on the same day around 4:15 pm and the website showed there was availability. Since I was unable to make the reservation, we went to the restaurant and were there right at opening at 5:00. There was absolutely NO ONE…not one single person in the restaurant, but we were turned away saying they full. I showed the hostess a screenshot of my reservation attempt showing that it had availability but was still told “no”. We couldn’t help but feel we were turned away because we were American since there was obviously plenty of room inside...