Boteco Do Brasil Edinburgh Reviews Summary

Atmosphere & Ambience

Pros:

• "Such a wonderful restaurant and atmosphere. Will definitely be coming back."
• "Great music and AMAZING VIBES from the place!"
• "The atmosphere is so fun and friendly and people got up and started dancing."
• "The atmosphere sitting outside was nice - we could hear the live music quite well."
• "The atmosphere is vibrant, cosy and fun."
• "Great flavoured Brazilian food with authentic atmosphere."
• "It was a pleasant night of great music, company and I would recommend this bar to anyone looking for a great relaxing night."

Cons:

• "Sat inside this time around and the music is tripe. Loud tripe."
• "They play very few Brazilian musics (90% are Spanish language musics), they don't serve Brazilian drinks and cocktails."
• "The music is cranked up which I personally thought was a little too loud."
• "Unfortunately, it felt more like a cheap and kid-friendly strip show."
• "They had a band come in at one point, but the room is very small and the noise just bounced around the room."
• "Does not look as nice as in the pictures just more like a tacky sports bar."
• "Visited downstairs on a Saturday night to go to club area but place was packed, dancefloor was too crowded and fight broke out at the end unfortunately...."

Service & Staff

Pros:

• "The team was very friendly. Great service."
• "Marco was a great server as well, made great conversation with us, and checked on us throughout our reservation."
• "Jorge was the best!! And Kay was so polite and the cocktails were so amazing!!"
• "The staff are super friendly."
• "The service was good and the staff were helpful."
• "Staff were friendly and attentive, atmosphere was good."
• "We had an amazing dinner and incredibly friendly and accommodating staff."

Cons:

• "The manager is soo rude and the staff have no respect for their customers!"
• "The stuff we're not the most accommodating and there was a bizarre entertainment interval."
• "The manager needs to take training on customer service and how to treat staff."
• "Service was okay, despite none of them knew that we prebooked the set meal option."
• "The service was slow, bad, and rude."
• "Service wasn't great at all. Very lax, waitresses on their phones, had to ask for a drink numerous times."
• "The hospitality, the waitresses didn't even greet us, I felt terrible."

Food & Drink

Pros:

• "The butterfly chicken breast was very tasty and nicely cooked."
• "Legumes grelhados ao pão de alho: grilled vegetables with garlic bread slices, got the thumbs up too."
• "Tasty food & drink."
• "The food from the deal was delicious and as ordered."
• "We had ordered two cocktail, fish cakes, calamari for starters and OMG delicious!! Then we ordered traditional mains and again OMG delicious!!"
• "Coxinhas de frango: Soft potato dough filled with chicken, delicious!!!"
• "Absolutely stunning Food, tried multiple tapas and the most amazing seafood main."

Cons:

• "The Gnocchi tasted like tomato soup out of a can, everything was unseasoned, the meat tough."
• "disappointed with the feijoada and the caipirinha, the feijoada had no pork, it had beef."
• "Overpriced, bland food. Feijoada is nothing like the picture on the website."
• "The food was horrible and expensive."
• "Disappointing meal got the sharing platter and very expensive for what you get not many chips unseasoned meat and the thinnest steak I have ever had."
• "Food, at least the Burger is really bad. Unmelted cheese, the bread looks fresh out of sainbury bag and non juicy meat."
• "The food was really terrible. One a really old burnt bit of chicken another turned out to be slices of hot dog."

Value & Pricing

Pros:

• "On a positive note, the Brahma beer was pretty cheap."
• "A great little Brazilian bar offering very good value drinks."
• "Good value for money, great atmosphere, lovely food, great staff - what's not to like!"
• "We had a Groupon voucher which made it incredibly good value."
• "With all cocktails at 3.50 from Sunday to Wednesday and with Patron shots at 2.50, this place is a pretty good bargain on weekdays."
• "Food was a decent price."
• "Food was good; tasty and satisfying - however uber-excellent value for money."

Cons:

• "The parking is a nightmare and shockingly over priced £6 for one and a half hours."
• "about the value, if I had eaten a real feijoada it was a fair value, but I thought it was very expensive to eat a bean with beef."
• "Very expensive for what you get not many chips unseasoned meat and the thinnest steak I have ever had."
• "Just charge me £1 more per meal and give us a bottle."
• "And the price, a 8 pounds... Come on is a theft."
• "The moqueca was bland. It needed more salt than the Makgadikgadi to taste appetising."
• "It's unbelievable that in the same place you can be charged differently for the same drink."

Management & Organization

Pros:

• "I manage bars and restaurants and the duo of her and the bartender, presumably the manager or owner, they were friendly and working hard."
• "Boteco do Brasil is an affordable, trendy and quirky place to meet your friends, with efficient and friendly floor staff."
• "Close to the university of Edinburgh main campus (just across the street from Bristro Square), this place offers nice Brazilian food and drinks."

Cons:

• "Before we know it another bouncer is yelling at us and forcing us out the door."
• "Very disappointed from the management- they ruined our special evening which we booked 2 weeks ago."
• "The manager on the other hand was an absolute piece of work, extremely aggressive, rude."
• "Management had no interest in changing it, I do wonder if this is because it was 3 young people eating."
• "It seems to me this place is very unorganised."
• "Another business owner thinking they can do what they want."
• "Management treat staff shockingly."