Rodizio Rico

This place was so much fun! The service was great, and the food was amazing! Meat meat meat!!! My only complaint is that there was no music playing at all.

It’s my second time here, last time was 4 years ago. Came back with a bigger group than last time and we managed to get a table straight away. Service is fast, the side dishes are yummy and the meat is AMAZING! Honestly, it’s so amazing and it just keeps coming. Best thing is to come on an empty stomach, skip the sides and just enjoy all the meat! Glad to say the service hasn’t deteriorated in the last few years. Great place for a family meal out.

All you can eat buffet! £21pp for meat bbq, salads and garnish! Drinks are extra. Good environment. Bringing meat to you every few minutes. Use a go and stop card to indicate if you still want more food.

My civil partner and I chose this place for our reception. He’s brazilian and half our guests were also Brazilian. It’s was perfect in every way. As the years have gone by we have returned regularly and it seems to be suffering a bit. The food is still very good but each time we visit there’s something else that’s not quite right. I think the increase in Brazilian restaurant’s around London is really putting pressure on and maybe Rico is, dare I say it, a bit complacent. We still go there and I still recommend it but I have been into others and they are better, just not hugely. I also think that timing is everything. We have had much better service earlier in the evening rather than later in the evening and the food was much better at the earlier booking than later. I would still recommend this testaurant but choose an earlier sitting rather than right up close to the end of the night.

Great buffet and very good meat that keeps coming!
A good place for 2 or huge tables!

I rolled out of here with meat sweats — in the best way possible. Be careful not to fill up too much on the salad buffet where they offer so many delicious looking sides including lasagne! The meat was plentiful and well cooked with good flavour. A nice variety of meat including chicken hearts which were interesting to try. Service wasn’t slow, and staff were very attentive. Vegetarians miss out on the novelty of food arriving on a spit and being carved onto your plate, but the buffet is delicious and diverse and would serve as a fantastic meal by itself. Good experience!

A great time had by all. Stopped here for dinner tonight with friends. The buffet has a nice selection of salads, side dishes, and vegetables. The meats dont stop. Chicken, Lamb, Steak, and Sausages. It is endless and oh so tasty. They also have brahma beer and a excellent selection of cocktails.
Just Go!!!

If you want meat, and that’s all you want, this is the place to go! Go for the meat all you can eat and gorge on as much meat as you can squeeze into your belly. Lovely cuts of beef, pork and chicken oh, and chicken hearts if you are brave enough! Good to go to for a birthday meal as the set price makes it easy to split the bill once the meat sweats have set in. Tip: wear stretchy pants and prepare to roll home ;)

Le personnel est un peu absent lorsque vous entrez dans le restaurant.
Le concept: BBQ à volonté. On vous met une vignette à côté de vous. Tant que vous né la tournez pas dans l’autre sens, c’est que vous acceptez que les serveurs viennent vous proposer de la viande.
D’ailleurs celle-​ci est bonne. Le buffet des accompagnements également, et très diversifié.
Bémols :
— n’acceptez pas une table dans un coin, parce que vous né verrez pas la moitié des serveurs et leurs méga brochettes,
— un peu cher lorsqu’on a un petit estomac.

Rodizio Rico is kind of like a meat lover’s dream. The best thing about the Brazilian BBQ places is that you know you will never leave hungry. As my partner said, «If you are ordering dessert, clearly you’ve done something wrong.»
There’s a wide spread buffet to start off with. The buffet has a nice selection of salads, cheesy bread (get this), fried bananas (also get this), beans and a selection of other vegetarian goodies (also get the eggplant and mushrooms with the garlic sauce).
But don’t get too much, because when you get back is when the meat comes around. And there’s a lot of it. I won’t even try to get into the massive selection of meat they brought out. Unfortunately, the people with the meat skewers do kind of like to force a lot on you at the beginning, then they refuse to give it to you because you have too much. Well if you hadn’t sliced off EIGHT SLICES of beef the last time you came around, we’d probably be okay to get some of that pork. The top meats (for me) were the chicken hearts (eat as many as possible), the chicken legs, the beef ribs and the beef neck. A lot of the other cuts of meat were chewy and not that great (even though they did come out nicely rare to medium).
The service is fairly good too. Our waiter was very friendly and offered to get us some fries to go with the food as well. He was also Australian so wanted to talk to us about where we were from (although I was the only American there that night, so it wasn’t as exciting as he thought it was going to be). It was a bit tricky sometimes to get the water pitcher filled up, and some of the guys with the skewers were a bit aggressive about not giving us any meat because they had cut us off too much already.
So it’s a nice place, but not the best. The meat isn’t the best quality (but what do you expect for unlimited meat for £25). I wouldn’t say no to coming back, but it’s definitely not at the top of my list. You can definitely eat your weight in meat, but be warned that you may be way too stuffed to sleep later in the evening.

In recognizing that male bonding should occur over disgustingly glorious volumes of livestock and beer, the boys at my agency have elected to build our so dubbed monthly «meatings» at Rodizio, one of the very few meaterias in these parts. The traffic light never sees red — not on our shift.
The variety coming off the grill is respectable with no grilled veggies and similar pollutants pissing on the meat parade. The big surprise was the grilled chicken hearts — never would I have expected it to be a favorite of the night even among the less adventurous.
Rodizio, I salute you! (cue formation fly over)

Oh my god I love this place so much.
It’s a bit pricey but I’m a meat lover so I’ll eat mostly rump steak that is
always cooked to perfection. I highly recommend Rodizio Rico, Islington to anyone who loves meat. If you’re
vegetarian there is an amazing salad bar with a splendid variety to choose
from. The staff is always polite with a smile on their face, well done guys you
always keep me coming back.

I loved going to their original restaurant. However, since becoming a chain I thin k the quality of the food has gone down significantly. The restaurant on upper street is far too crowded, they shouldn’t allow that many people in there. The meat also didn’t come round fast enough for me.

Meh. Meh? Yes… meh.
I’ll start by saying that I’m not a big fan of beef, so I am basing my review solely on the chicken and pork offerings, as well as the salad bar.
The salad bar was random and didn’t offer as many fresh items as other churrascarias I have been to. Some of the offerings were downright odd: lasagna? Stir fried Chinese veggies? I… um…yeah, no thanks.
The chicken sausages were what appeared to be just chunks of chicken shoved in casing. It sounds great in theory, but it resulted in a very dry, chewy sausage that lacked in fat and something to bind it all together.
The pork ribs were tasty, but mine was raw near the bone. Raw pork is no bueno, so I didn’t take that when it came back a second time.
The chicken thigh was nice; moist, with a good grilled flavor.
Pork roast never made it to my table, sadly, so I can’t comment on that.
I will say that my husband enjoyed the beef that came around frequently. I would say it was 2:1 in favor of beef being offered. So that might have increased my review if I had sampled those offerings. The beef looked amazing and the quality seemed good.
The mojitos were very nice, fresh and crisp. The service was spotty and our server spoke almost no English, making requests for additional napkins and a jug of water a bit more of an ordeal than it should be.
All in all, I probably wouldn’t go back unless I was hosting dinner for the Samoan rugby team or something.

This place is awesome! Always great atmosphere and the grill buffet is amazing. I am a big meat eater and the choice is amazing as they keep coming to your table until you turn over your little card to stop them chicken wings, chicken thighs, chicken hearts (yes delicious you need try), pork ribs, pork joint, lamb joint, beef joint, gammon, chicken sausage, many types of steaks! Guranateed to leave you feeling mega full!
HEAVEN!

I kind of liked the concept of the restaurant, which takes me back to some backpacking memories in South America.
The veg buffet is quite impressive in its quality and diversity.
The cocktails are impressive as well, very tasty and different, yest not too sweet, creamy nor sour !
I’ll stop here with the «pros» list.
Now the down part: the service is quite average, at least in my experience last night. Nobody came to great me when I came in, yet I had merely put my scarf down that a waitress came to me and told me to pick a cocktail from the (quite nice) list. Wow, calm down !
One of the waitresses looked angry (not at us), the whole night, and sometimes said incomprehensible things (like, you get 2 buffet vouchers, when we were three, then took off).
Even though the rest of the service was fine, most of the waiters didn’t understand when we asked them a question beyond «yes» or «no», when they were bringing those huge skewers of meat.
The meat now… It’s supposed to be the highlight of the restaurant (and truly, of any true churrasqueria). However, most of the pieces they brought us was over-​cooked, under-​seasoned and sometimes dry.
Notable exceptions: some beef pieces, the chicken wings, and the chicken hearts !
Also, they came at a very steady pace towards us, asked us if we wanted more meat. After saying «Yes» the first 4 times, we quickly got swamped by meat. Then we start refusing politely, but they didn’t look too happy about it (c’mon, smiling isn’t that hard !).
All in all, an average night. It would have been absolutely fine if the buffet price (basically the only option) wasn’t that high.

At £25 for all you can eat BBQ meat — its not a bad deal. But I’m not sure what the deal is with all these ⁴⁄₅ stars for the food quality though. Maybe they think the restaurant deserves it b/​c its all you can eat, and has a large selection of meats. Large selection, yes. But I thought it was alright, would rather go to a normal restaurant and get a quality steak! I guess it depends on how much variety you want!
There were beef, pork ribs, chicken wings, hearts, and chicken sausage — which was my least favorite item. It was heavily salted /​seasoned, and extremely garlicky, and this is coming from a garlic lover! In case anyone was wondering, the chicken meat was not ground up, but are chunks of chicken stuffed into a sausage casing. When the waiters arrived with the spit-​roasted meats, I oooh’d and ahhh’d as they sliced the meat onto my plate, but the novelty quickly wore off. Someone else commented that the meat was either cooked too rare or too well done. I have to agree on that, as the waiter brought the meat back to the kitchen when he realized the meat was too rare.
The salad bar wasn’t great, and certainly not worth the £18 if thats what you’re going for. There were stuffed mushrooms, pasta and potato salads, olives, roasted veggies, ox stew, fries, rice, and beans. Actually the highlight was these little mini cheese bread balls. now those were delicious!
Service — the guys with the massive meat skewers came by frequently, which everyone was quite happy with, though the waitress kept asking if we were done and eager to clear up the table.
Overall, not bad. A fun place to try out, but I wasn’t really into the all you can eat meat.
The reason for my 1 star? I’m writing this review as I’m clenching onto my toilet bowl for dear life. Remember the scene in Bridesmaids where Lillian was staggering across the street and ends up sh*tting herself? I almost didn’t make it to my doorstep. What should have been an 8 minute walk home, ended up being an 18 minute walk home. I have no idea what made me sick but I’m def not going back!

Went to this place for dinner with friends while visiting London for business. I must say this is one of the better brazilian places, but few problems would make me not give them a high 5. So breakdown:
Service — generally it was good but for some reason they kept bringing the same meat 3 – 4 times in a row. A bit annoying — the point of such place is to have new things, after all its like 15 different types of meat…
Salad bar — fantastic, lots of selection, only thing i would have liked to see is black beans instead of refried beans. I loved the fact you could grab their famous cheese balls there and not wait for server to bring them.
Meat — most was very nice and key thing, not over marinated. Few pieces were a bit hard.
Also one thing is this place can get quite crowded with not much room. Perhaps thats the reason they dont bring meat out that often, servers barely have room to walk.

If you like meat, and I mean a lot of meat, then you’ll like Rodizio Rico, a Brazilian Churrascaria just off Islington Green. I went on a Friday night and it was bustling with many large boisterous groups. As with most churrascarias there is an endless parade of all things meat (sirloin, skirt steak, pork, chicken wings, salt beef, etc). There are also well disguised skewers of chicken hearts so be sure to ask what meat it is first! You get a nifty red and green card (red means = NO, I’m stuffed, Yes = More Meat! Please!). They make some well crafted caiprihinas with cachaça…having a few will make the experience even more memorable.
But why just 3 stars for Rodizio Rico? Well compared to other churrascarias I’ve been too, this one is a bit of a let down. The meat albeit plentiful was continually either too rare or too well done, and sometimes a bit chewy. You definitley get quantity over quality here. That said, there is good value to be had (just over 20 pounds/​person for unlimited salad bar and meat) and I do like the concept.
Last bit of advice… be sure to be careful when you go to the toilets (especially after drinking multiple caiprihinas) as there are plenty of waiters running around with skewers of beef and comically large swords and they don’t always look where they are going.

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I would definitely agree with the rest, rodizio rico is a must, especially on an empty stomach, if the buffet isn’t enough for you, waiters come to your table constantly with different meat until you really really can’t eat any more…
I would recommend going there, you might have to go twice as the first time you might be disappointed with yourself… for no eating enough… and would have to again.

I’m well on the way to developing gout after eating at Rodizio Rico. At £22.50 this place isn’t cheap but when you can eat a farm yard worth of meat it works out well.
The waiters come around with skewers of meat and then slice off a piece at your table. Over the course of the night, I had steak, beef, ham, ribs, sausage and lamb. The service is great despite being in the corner, the waiters kept coming but I lacked the capacity for chicken wings, beef with cheese and chicken hearts.
I’ll definitely make a return visit to Rodizio Rico once my body recovers from all that meat.

Awesome all you can eat Brazilian BBQ place, just a pity that it costs £22 per person! Beware the really tasty and big spread of vegetables and sides that you serve yourself; while they really do taste good as well (thus catering for vegetarians), they will fill you up so you don’t have any space for the meat!
Service was really quick and fast, with the meat carvers coming round to your table every few minutes, and if you don’t keep up you’ll soon have a plate piled high! Do try the chicken heart, which is a Brazilian speciality, and tastes better than it sounds.
Review by The London Insider