Escobar’s Rodizio Bar and Grill

This was quite a fun little adventure as I’d never been to a Brazilian rodizio/​churrascaria before! We came on a Sunday night, without a reservation, and we didn’t need one as the place was pretty quiet. Apparently on Friday and Saturday nights it’s much busier. But we got the good deal, because dinner is only £16.95 on Sundays (and Mon-​Thurs) but £18.95 on Fri/​Sat.
Not too many wines by the glass, but they are inexpensive. Strong South American contingent as you’d expect! Think they only had one beer on draft though, Brahma. Anyway, so the deal here is you pay £16.95 and get all-​you-​can eat from their little buffet of salads and hot dishes, and then servers come around with meat on sticks and spear you off a few pieces, as much as you like. They give you a little coaster that is red on one side and green on the other, so you turn it to red when you’re full. And you will get full fast!
I’d say, don’t fill up on the salad bar area. I’ve heard at some churrascarias (like in Chicago, here I go again with my Chi-​town snobbery), the salad bar is almost the best part. Here, it was definitely more of an afterthought. I feel like they also had a few fewer options given the late hour on a Sunday night. I grabbed a few salads and some chimmichurri and bread (just normal rolls) and olives. Nice accompaniments to the meat, but the meat is the star. It was generally very flavorful and juicy across the board. I don’t even remember what we had — I know I had a big piece of chicken, some beef (nice and pink in the middle, sliced right off the skewer) and even a piece of grilled pineapple at the end!
It’s a really fun place to go because the concept is so great, and the servers were very friendly. I’d like to see higher quality on the salad/​hot bar (I don’t even think they had many hot things left…) but I think that might just be the night that we went. They don’t seat after 9 pm Sundays and we probably arrived at 830 so maybe that’s why. Everyone else seems to really like the self service bar. I’d definitely go back and eat there again! Hopefully I’ll be even hungrier this time. Just ask yourself, can I eat £16.95 worth of food, and if the answer is yes — you know where to have dinner!

this place is amazing, the meat is really good quality and there is a lot of different cuts and types. the buffet salad in the middle is also really good. service is nice too, would definitely go back

Touch and go between A OK and Yay Im a fan but the service gave it the extra push up.
The meat on offer was good value but the variety of the food and self service bar was not as great as other Brazilian resaurants in other towns.
Drinks menu was a little odd with no descriptions at all but like I said the service was grand so it didn’t matter and my cocktail was good, you could say I’m a fan of their mojitos :)
You don’t feel like you’re in a shopping centre except for the fact that you do not need to dress up which you generally would for other Brazilian restaurants because they are a fancier affair.
Worth a visit and the price is soooo reasonable, expecially with the free shots and birthday boy cake we were given.