BRAZEIRO Churrascaria & Rodizio — Restaurant in Cliffside Park

I made a reservation about a week ahead of time for my husband's birthday for a Saturday at 7 pm. I read that sitting by the bar is cool because you can see them cooking all the meats, so that's what I reserved. It turned out to be a great seat because a lot of the time, they'll stop at the bar first with the freshly grilled meats.

To start, they give you some fried appetizers - yuca fries, plantains, and croquettes. This was a nice way to start the meal, especially since we were pretty hungry at that point. We had to stop ourselves from ordering more so that we didn’t waste stomach real estate space. If you're doing the AYCE, there’s a salad bar that's included, but it was slim pickins. They had some grilled veggies (that looked cold and soggy), various cold salads (pasta, potato, cole slaw, corn, chickpeas), rice and beans. Hubby just had some beans but we didn't get anything else because again, we wanted to save room for all the meats.

Onto the meats! They give you a little card that signifies if you want the food to keep coming/you need a break or are done. Our favorites were the short rib, filet with bacon, picanha, and spicy sausage. Since I'm pregnant, I unfortunately had to eat all of my meats well done, which they were really accommodating with. Even well done, these cuts of meat were still pretty good. Though, there were other unmemorable cuts that tasted super dry. We didn't try any of the chicken because we were afraid it would be dry.

There's also a grilled pineapple with cinnamon at the end of the meal. I didn't think I'd like it because I don't really like cooked fruit, but this worked. For dessert, we had some sort of “homemade” tres leches cake (which looked like somebody took a bite out of) which was actually pretty good. It wasn't too sweet and it was a nice way to end the meal.

Overall, for $42 pp, it's not a bad deal for all of that food. There's a lot of variety of cuts, and of course, you're not going to like all of the meats. It was a...

This place has really good reviews but the food was honestly underwhelming. My sister and I were looking for a place to go for lunch and we found this one. When we got there we were greeted by the man in the kitchen. He was very polite and told us to take a seat wherever we wanted. After we sat down, it took a while to get our menus and there was only 2 other tables besides us in there. The girl that gave us the menus was nice. She explained how everything worked and we got 2 fountain sodas which were flat. Then we got the $45 rodizio instead of the $25 lunch one because we thought it was going to be good because of the various reviews we saw. It was one of the most disappointing experiences ever. The chicken we got was so dry. We only liked 2/14 meats that were brought to us. We left most of the meat on our plate. I asked for my meat medium well but most of it was well done. All of the meat was either over salted, over cooked, or under seasoned. We are steak lovers and this was just such a bad experience. We kept waiting for it to get better because halfway my sister wanted to just get the check and leave. Unfortunately it never got better. It was a waste of money and the pineapple with cinnamon was better than the meat itself. The only reason why we didn’t leave or complain was because the man that was serving our food was so polite. We paid for the check because we did try every single cut but sad to say we left hungry and beyond disappointed. I have gone to many rodizio places and this was a craving we were excited for. This place did not meet our expectations at all. The total came out to $119 with tip and it was a WASTE of money and we barely ate anything that was served or got another round of meat. We were better off ordering off a single dish off the lunch menu than wasting $45 per person and the meat being bad. Beyond disappointing and the only good thing about this place was the pineapple and the polite man serving the meat. Save your money and do...

If I could give zero stars I would ! The customer service was absolutely terrible, I had got to the restaurant at around 7pm and was told there was a 45 minute wait, we decided to wait because we were so excited to eat here. After an hour of waiting I went back up to the host and he said he was still waiting on a table to finish but that he would have us seated soon. Another 45 minutes had passed by and we still had not been seated, again we went up and asked how much loner because we had been waiting for almost 2 hours at this point, we were given a terrible attitude and told they were still waiting for tables to clear but that one of the tables was about to leave. Since we really wanted to eat at this place we decided to wait a little longer for this table to leave. We were about to reach 3 hours waiting for this table and decided to go up to management once more, and we asked how much longer the wait would be because they're kitchen would be closing in an hour and we had been waiting for almost 3 hours now, and we could've already been eating elsewhere, they told us there nothing they can do and to go eat elsewhere if we would like with a nasty attitude. We were fed up and left to eat at another restaurant. I am truly disappointed because we were so excited all week to eat here and had heard great thing...