Bem Brasil Northern Quarter — Restaurant in Manchester

In my opinion this place food serving concept is conceived to bamboozle customers. Statement that I confirmed when I tried to give a place like this, a second chance.

They make you believe you're getting your money's worth and it's actually the opposite. So, you're given this green/red token, the waiters are supposed to be constantly circulating around your table, carrying different cuts of meat right?

Well, I could tell they were systematically coming to us, bringing only really cheap cuts of meat like sausages, beef belly, chicken, pork, which I won't say they were bad, they were ok and quite flavourful, the problem is that at some point someone either at a management level or the waiters themselves decided we had had enough, so they wouldn't come and if they walked by us they wouldn't stop or make any sign that they were willing to do so. No expensive cuts of meat were ever served on our table, so eventually after the initial 20mins they rely on the fact that the longer they take to come back, the fuller you'll start feeling, so eventually you'll just stop eating.

The second issue comes from the fact that at least in this location, they haven't brought back the salad bar, so they encourage you to order at least 4 sides per person, which they bring in these small cups and they're very difficult to put down on a table where 8 people are eating at the same time (4cups x 8people), plus the waiters come with the huge skewers in a rush pushing everything aside. All this makes the whole experience quite stressing and not the laidback nice dining experience that you'd expect from a place like this. Also, suspiciously the seats are very uncomfortable, wonder if that's just another strategy for the customers not lingering for too long.

In conclusion, this place seems to be designed to take advantage of every little passive-aggressive trick to make their profits bigger out of an unsuspecting client distracted by the cheap novelty of the skewer dance around them blinded by a hungry belly.

You leave feeling robbed, full of cheap food you could have paid way less for,...

Very disappointing wirh the place so we came here for my Birthday

Was not busy and we waited for ages for someone to come to us they finally do then we order drinks and sides

Which took awhile to come finally a plate comes for me and my gf so there putting mains on plate with no sides or drinks apart from the water

OK so now it gets bad waiting for sides and drinks at least 8mins I'm getting very annoyed now

Anyhow sides finally come I ordered chips and rice and peppercorn sauce the drink was bottle coke

Chips was good the rice was OK and the peppercorn sauce was disgusting I'd say cheesey flavour

So then I had to order some majonaise for a dip as peppercorn sauce was fow

Anyhow I thought it is what it is now am like ok let's get eating so they he comes with rump steak I said yes mrs saids no

He start taking 2 pieces off he says no 1s for you and others for the mrs OK so you don't listen

Now I was like ok wow then the gammon comes and the mrs asks what flavour is it

Foreigne waiters so don't know what you saying really so he's like ewwww I don't ewww I don't know finally

Anyhow am like right are these trying ruin this birthday so we order now a large original coke came basically flavour cola yuck

Final straw is he comes with sirloin and cuts near enough half off drops on table into the majonaise then says do you want that piece I reply no i do not thankyou

So finally comes with a new piece couldn't see what it was until cut into it and put on my plate let's just say its made my plate covered in blood now

I'm like wow this is to much I pull manager and tell them this is beyond a joke I offered to pay for 1 meal but not 2 she said I see its been bad but you should ask how you want your meat

Excuse me I should ask people who can't understand what flavour a gammon is how I'd like my steak funny

Anyhow they said I don't need to pay for the meal or drinks which am glad I didn't very very very let down...

First time here after hearing recommendation about the Liverpool restaurant. However left very disappointed and with reassurance from friends that this one was nowhere near as good as Liverpools. The food was lovely, and the meat came out hot and fairly fast at first. However after new customers filled the restaurant they just completely skipped our table for around 45 minutes+. After asking the staff if there was a reason for this they seemed to begrudgingly start to include our table again (we had our green disc clearly displayed at the end of the table the whole time). The sides where hot and really good sizes However, in the hour and a half+ of being there we where only asked twice if we needed any more sides or drinks and in that time our glasses where empty and put to the end of the table to make it visible that we needed more...Not alot of staff around which made it near impossible to flag one down to ask for more drinks. Most of the staff where rude, blunt and not welcoming. After finding a dead fly in my drink and brining it to the waitresses attention there was no apology just a quick,unbothered grab off the table to replace it (I was still charged for the drink). There was little to no atmosphere with the same songs on repeat. The unfriendly staff seemed to become very friendly towards the end of the meal after the bill was given to us (ironically) we removed the service charge of £25 which is so unlike us, but we was just so disappointed in the poor service.

Won't be returning to the northern quarter restaurant, but hoping to try the Liverpool one in the future for what will hopefully be a much...