Rodizio Rico - Islington

Friendly staff and excellent service. The buffet selection is excellent and was always being replaced to ensure it was fresh. The meat that comes round is delicious and a brilliant selection for all tastes. We had a vegetarian in our group and the staff went out of their way to do extra bits for them, which we found to be really thoughtful. I would highly recommend for small or large groups.

Lovely evening of variety of meats and veg. This is actually my third time here over the last 5 years, probably should come more often, just can’t eat that much all the time 😅 Staff were wonderful and kept us topped up with food and drinks. Very attentive and when asked about chicken hearts they went and made them for us. Wine was very good too, though on the pricy side.

Great service and a huge amount of high quality meat (from a broad range) constantly being brought to your table. The all you can eat salad / rice / fries / everything else bar also has a great selection. For some reason the cocktails took very long to arrive both times we went there, but the food is definitely worth the price.

We had a good meal here. Admittedly, this place is not for vegetarians but I suppose they already know that. All you can eat meat and salads too, we tried too much and eventually fit any more in. The steak was decent, as was the sausage. The lamb was not up to much. One warning, prepare for the meat sweats!

Very tasty food, they keep bringing meat and its always delicious! The staff was impressively helpful and thoughtful, I don't think I have experienced such a good service so far. Definitely recommending this to friends.

Really nice selection of meat. Very very tasty. It was melting in my mouth. Also the best service I've seen in London. They were changing our plates so that we'll have some space and also brought us hot towels to clean our fingers from the oils and fats.

Always love this branch of Rodizio! Thoroughly enjoyed the ambience, food and service. I had a Groupon also so it made the experience even better. Their selection of foods and cuts of meat are why I love this location and staff tend to be very attentive and lovely! Not a bad experience yet!

For £27.90 per person you will be served meat and other quality food non-stop until your stomach tells your eyes not to look at any food until next day. Very tasty, costs double when compared to the chinese buffet but worth it!

Love this place!! Lovely food and service, very eager to please you asking your preference in meats available. The buffet has a good varied range of salads and other cooked dishes. ❤️

Really like this place. Went about 12 years ago and forgot all about it - went back and it was just as great as I remember. Great selection and friendly service. Can see why it's managed to stay here for so long at a time when some places struggle.

Friendly and very kind people. The food was filling and the air was fancy yet cosy. I was celebrating my birthday with my family and was surprised to see the staff singing happy birthday to my sister and I as though they actually enjoyed it themselves. My time here was absolutely perfect.

First went there in December 2012 on my birthday when my fiancé proposed to me, the food then was good then and is still excellent. We took our in laws and they enjoyed it as well as we did. The staff are very friendly and helpful. One of our favourite places to dine.

Traditional Brazilian tavern. Good grilled food and a big buffet. You can eat as much as you want. Friendly staff , good prices!!

Great selection of meats from the grill and salad bar options. Service staff were attentive and a really great chilled/relaxed atmosphere to catch up with friends and chat.

Good food and experience but a bit on the expensive side.

All you can eat restaurant. I love it! Food is great! It’s a bit expensive however food is really tasty!!!

Really good value for money, specially if you are hungry. For £27 you have all you can eat salad bar and meat spades, which are beef, chicken thighs, wings, pork etc. They just keep coming and coming untill you say stop. Wine list is decent so overall you can have a really good meal!

+3

The staff are fantastic from the minute you walk in they have a friendly and willing to assist attitude. The concept of this restaurant is fantastic. The selection and quality of the meat that is on offer Is second to none. Hot mouth watering rich cuts of quality meats will have you fighting yourself to find space in your stomach which you know is no longer available, and despite being full you will struggle to request the bill in order to leave because of the great smells streaming in from the meat that is being cooked on the open fire. The selection of wine is impressive and is not extremely over priced. There is something for everyone. Vegetarians need not avoid this great restaurant as there is a great selection of food which is non meat, but be under no illusions this restaurant is for the meat lovers around the world come and try you will not be disappointed. Reluctantly I have not been able to give this restaurant five stars Only because I tried What would be referred to as a cheeses bite and it was cold. Apart from that this is one of angels best restaurants and I would recommend every meat love attend here. You will not be disappointed.

I really like this place. As a place for out and out quality, yeah, it's not great. But by no means is anything unpleasant. The all-you-can deal is really good value, the sides are all tasty and plentiful, the meat on skewers makes pretty regular rounds. In particular, the grills chicken hearts are a delicious little nibble. Really good place for groups.

If you like to keep eating meat until you burst then go here. You cannot fault the quantity but maybe the quality could be a bit better. So.e of the cuts were a bit tough and some of the sausages a bit flavourless. Overall very good though. Side dishes also good. Some good new world wines on the list.

I have eaten here a good few times and loved it. There is always plenty of meat on turnaround, so you won't wait long till the next piece comes along. The staff are friendly in this one too. My favourite of all the Rodizio I have been to.

I liked the place... I would have liked more variety on the salad bar, however the meat was nice... And I like they cook it in small batches and come with the meat to you rather than having it all in a buffet. The place is also nice for groups or families...and the staff was super sweet.

Having visited twice now, they seem fairly consistent in their offering. The meat varied from very good beef topside to more sinewy cuts, great sausage and chicken and a fairly comprehensive buffet of sides. Cocktails are on the expensive side at £7.50+, and Brazilian bottled beers from £4.50.

Meat lovers haven! They have a good variety of meats to select, along with a grwat selection of other foods to accompany it. The staff are very nice people, very friendly and hospitable. The cocktails are tasty too. If you want 'all you can eat' meat, go here. Simple 👍🏻

Been a few times. Nice for a couple of drinks, bring your appetite. My advise is to wait for the meat you like and don't be tempted by the other meats that Maybe less appealing. A great way to try lots of different meats and something a little different from the norm. No doubt will go back for another fill.

Buffet over priced, not enough choice of food.

Went here on a Wednesday night and it was somewhat busy but not much atmosphere. It's a boujie buffet in the heart of upper street, so great location and I imagine it would be great for a group, it's about £30 per person for the food and we got £10 off as they're doing a September deal. The manager was really friendly, but the rest of the staff were not very personable and I found the meat wasn't great quality. The main buffet however was pretty good, I might go back for a birthday or something, but otherwise the fact the meat keeps coming over on skewers means that your meal is over SUPER fast, so not very chilled

The food is ok, but to be honest I liked the buffet more than the actual meat. Another thing I noticed is that, despite the fact that we turned our cards to red (meaning "Stop serving"), the waiters kept coming and asking us if we would like some more meat. I think that's a point that can be improved.

The food was decent for the price. Came here with one mate before heading out for some drinks. The staff were all really friendly. The food was not the best quality but £25 for as much as you want is a decent offering for the area. The covid rules were a little strange, to use the buffet we had to ask a waitress to come with us the the buffet section and put the food on our plate for us, which put us off going up more than the first time, there was only one other table eating in the place so it wasn't an issue with getting anyone's attention , they were all very attentive. This would have been completely acceptable and a great measure , I am guessing they want to limit the number of people handling the serving spoons, however, 30 minutes after us a group of 6 came in and all of them were allowed to get up and help themselves as they wished.

Nice to have unlimited meats but some of the roast is bland and flavourless unfortunately. The warm foods ie rice and extras was cold also so I had to stick to just meat. The chicken wings are really tasty and flavoured well. They seen to be the only thing which is well flavoured/seasoned

Not for you if you like your meats medium well or well done. Most of the cuts were near enough dripping in blood which put me off accepting or trying new meats. The food bar hot and cold was cooked well, I especially loved the beef lasagne and deep fried cauliflower. They have amazing cocktails and great drinks menus and wine selection.

In the past this place used to be amazing. Their prices are goong into the higher end of things, but with the amount of meat on offer it was worth it. However, now they done a slight price increase and this makes it more of a special occasions kind of place. Obviously this has had an effect as I attempted to go there with friends on a Friday. It was totally dead, with not a sole in the restaurant from 7pm - 8pm. We decided to come back and see if it livened up later. By the time got back they had shut up shop for the night. Every other restaurant around was packed so not a good sign for a once cool place.

I went to the restaurant around 12th of February with my bf and a couple of friends. Still trying to understand how a service can go down that far (compared to a couple of years ago, when I went there for the first time). I must admit they still keep the quality on the food, however, that's not enough for the success of any business, so the restaurant is walking towards a wrong path. The buffet was good, the food looked fresh and in a great variety. The caipirinha was good, however, the price being charged didn't justify. We had a man serving our table that was rather odd, bossy and we felt very uncomfortable as he didn't seem to be happy to come around and having the meat rejected at the time. If you go to a restaurant you just want to relax and have a good time with your loved ones. I've been to different branches and definitely this one is not the one I want to go back soon.

Decidedly average food but enjoyable, ruined by sub par service. Fair enough we had a large party, but somehow supplying one jug of water to a table of 20+ just doesn't seem on. On top of waiting 30 minutes for it and being told they cant give us any more water becuase the jugs are for cocktails only is embarrassing. Even when we got fed up of dehydrating in the heat and salty meat and ordered bottled water, it took 15 mins to get warm bottles of water. Not acceptable. That being said, the staff bringing around the meat were very good and generous. Very accommodating, especially when we complained alot of the meat was well done (we were brought more rare meat quickly). The meat was plentiful but some of the larger meats were well done and tough, chicken breast being a common culprit. The meat is quite salty, so make sure to have water... When it was done right though, it was really good and we otherwise had a good time and were well fed. This might be somewhere you're better off as a small group, be warned for bigger parties.

We were told we didn't have a reservation, despite us pointing at it in their book. Service staff did not make us feel welcome at all. Everything took so long to arrive, from our drinks to the cheque. There was hardly any meat and we had to wait 15-20 minutes between every time someone came to our table with a skewer, and there was only one or two different kinds of meat. We were celebrating a birthday, but we all went away disappointed. The buffet was good, which is what gives them an extra star. Might try Rodizio Rico again, but not in Islington.

We left very disappointed from the restaurant. The variety of the starters was limited which is understandable due to covid BUT be aware of the spoiled meat they served us!!! they gave us a few pieces of baby beef that seemed fine but was completely gone! The meat internally was acid and we almost vomited when we tried. We called the manager and he just said OK and changed our plates. We believe they knew that the meat was bad but they still cooked it and served it. Which makes it pretty unacceptable and quite scary!!

Not worth a single star! Honestly this was the worse experience ever!! I've never felt so disrespected and treated so unfairly in my lifetime! Me and my friends were quite looking forward to the experience, reading the reviews we expected something . The waiter 'Alejandro' kept us at the entrance for about 5 mins, asking us why we're here?, Is it the right restaurant? Are we waiting for someone? We had to literally argue our way in and requested he stop all these questions and take us to our seats. Once we sat down, he then gave us two menu's for the three of us, asked us how we would pay and then asked if we had a Groupon. We then decided to leave the restaurant and go somewhere else. My friend then went back into restaurant to get his name and was quite aggressively confronted by this waiter and was told she was stupid and that this is all in her head 'because of her history'. That comment alone was disgusting and if I was there when he said it then things wouldn't of gone so smoothly. He made us feel stupid, cheap, dirty and worthless There was so much discrimination and disrespect towards us (black people and women), it was sad and sickening that in this day and age, people like him are still around. If it weren't for his behaviour then I'm sure that things would of gone a lot better. I prefer not to write negative comments on businesses but this was way out of order and I believe other people should be aware of this before attending this place.

Awful place for the price paid. The all you can eat buffet section is tiny and very little on offer. Then you have to sit and wait for waitors to bring over a slab of meat and you have to ask them to cut you a piece, to which they give you a small sample size price and walk away and you have to wait for someone else to come over with a different cut of meat. This cycle continues until you get bored. Way overpriced for a not very enjoyable experience.

Really disappointed with Rodizio in Angel. The waiter and waitress told us that the manager did not want to serve roasted pineapple as the customers do not buy dessert if they do. How disappointing is that. He may lose a customer all together now. Service was poor. We received only 4 rounds of meat and the place is supposed to be unlimited. Not happy.

Everything was too salty. The food used to be really good, we came here a few times but today everything was so salty. What's crazy was the Plain Rice was so salty it tasted like eating table salt by it self!! Gave the feed back to manager , he said he will tasted it himself but he didnt even say anything to us after. Both me and my husband felt sick last night. Its unfortunate, we used to love this place.