Viva Brazil Cardiff Reviews Summary

Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Atmosphere was decent. Gives off the air of a high end restaurant which given prices, is accurate."
• "It's quite a noisy; bustly place but a good atmosphere."
• "The ambience was lit."
• "The atmosphere was great, the food was beyond phenomenal and the staff were amazing."
• "Loved the Brasilian music."
• "A great atmosphere, very friendly staff too."
• "The atmosphere was really like an authentic rodizio."

Cons:

• "Atmosphere 4 stars due to a rather noisy and large group near us, which didn't ruin things but was a little off putting."
• "It was so noisy."
• "Atmosphere can be loud and crowded but that's expected."
• "Atmosphere was not great neither, we were all so so hot, air con didnt seem to be on!"

Service

Pros:

• "Staff were extremely accommodating towards my fiancé’s allergies, and the chef even walked him through the buffet."
• "The service was fast and Catarine was polite and high standard professionalism."
• "Our server Ivin was very attentive and friendly....looked after us very well."
• "The lady that served us was ever so polite and accommodating."
• "Service was excellent."
• "Every member of staff was attentive and friendly."
• "Servers were very polite and helpful."

Cons:

• "Service was not great, the meat cutter didn't look happy to be cutting more than 6 pieces of meat each time."
• "We had to wait an hour for our food to arrive."
• "Poor services... the quality of the meal and service were definitely not worth the price we paid!"
• "The service was poor, servers did not seem to want to serve us."
• "The service was poor... This place just seemed severely understaffed."
• "Made a booking for 15 members of our team to enjoy a christmas meal. Never have we ever received such awful service from a business."
• "The staff were very inattentive. More staff than customers who were standing around talking to each other."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The 14 different meats were all amazing in their own special way, and the sides were equally as good."
• "Fantastic selection of meat; for lunch you can get 10 different unlimited meats and 6 unlimited side."
• "The food is beyond amazing, as the restaurant provides a range of different meats as well as traditional Brazilian rodizio food such as feijoada, farofa, fried banana."
• "Food was superb."
• "The grilled pineapple is delicious."
• "The meat was all excellent: variety of perfectly cooked, juicy, tender steaks; surprisingly flavoursome & moist chicken; and good gammon too."
• "The steak was absolutely delicious and cooked to perfection."

Cons:

• "Very little meat rotating, super overcooked food, low quality and inauthentic side dishes at the salad bar, incredibly slow service."
• "Severely undercooked or over cooked meat."
• "Beef not soft like a sheet of paper pork a bit better with parmesan great (not Brazilian) chicken awful again salt and salt."
• "The meat cuts are tiny. There is more chicken and pork than beef."
• "The food was terrible! We did not like non of the meats."
• "Bland meats, overcooked meats, limited menu."
• "Food was awful. Poor quality meat seared on the outside and almost raw on the inside."

Value

Pros:

• "The price is very fair and the whole service from start to finish was outstanding."
• "I went away happy and impressed with a lovely full tum for just £25/person."
• "The price matches the quality of the food and the quality of the service."
• "The fact that you could just keep getting more and it not cost you more than £19.95 was amazing for someone like myself he eats large portions."
• "I am pleasantly surprised at the prices."
• "Incredible value for money for what you get it astonishes me just how much of a good deal you are getting."
• "Fantastic value for money."

Cons:

• "Paid over £40 a head without drinks."
• "Absolute rip-off!! Definitely not worth £39 a head!!!"
• "Price increased so much... outpriced themselves. Not good value for what you get anymore."
• "£40 per person was a little steep."
• "The prices are a little high compared to other restaurants in Cardiff."
• "Well too expensive for what it was."
• "It was one of the most expensive restaurants of this type I've ever been to in Europe."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Level access throughout the building and very spacious inside for wheelchair users."
• "Wheelchair/Pram Friendly."
• "Located 2 min walk from Cardiff central train station."

Cons:

• "You have to walk up the hill from the station car park which only has a £15 tarrif."
• "Terrible problems finding parking in the area."