Carioca Grill

The churrasco grill in the back is really good! Skirt steak, sirlion, ribs, yumm. The rest of the food is ok.

Good food, and the place deserves another star, but for the most unfriendly cashier (the young blond woman). She never says hello, thank you, or goodbye. Doesn’t care to make eye contact either. She must either loathe her job, or maybe the customers.

Stopped for dinner late evening on a glorious night. The restaurant’s décor was okay. Our Brazilian BLOND waitress/​cashier was inattentive, slow, and unconcerned with our comfort and VERY RUDE. She was too busy texting. I mean Hello ?! I’m still your customer .I was not impressed and cannot recommend based on the poor food quality and poorer service. Food: disappointing, tasteless. Skirt steak was burned. Never again

If you’re hungry and want to feast on veggies and delicious meats I recommend this place. My plate was on the more expensive side ($ 12 and some cents) since I grabbed some potato salad along with pork sausage, lamb, and some other type of meat that I’ve already forgotten about. My friends opted for meat and/​or light vegetables. Definitely more on the savory side, but I would recommend grabbing meat and some of the more flavorless sides so you’re not bombarded with the amount of salt and/​or seasoning of the meat.

the buffet was great! the vegetables were awesome and the steak was seasoned so well. the service was good and they are polite. i would definately come back! i want to try other things on the grill. fun for friends or family!

Get your daily protein allotment here for less than the $ 100 you’d blow at an upscale rodizio/​churrascaria!
$ 7.99/lb for a combo of BBQ and salad bar items
$ 8.99/lb for only BBQ
The value is fantastic for those of carnivorous persuasion. $ 7.99/lb is cheaper than your crappy Manhattan steam table lunch. Likewise, the vibe here is very similar: self-​service, plain rickety tables and chairs, grungy tile floors, cafeteria-​like.
Here’s the protocol: First, get a plastic plate and fill it up at the salad bar. The offerings aren’t that many and most look unappealing — cold fries, stale spaghetti, soggy fish.
Then bring your plate to the BBQ counter. They have a churrasco grill behind the counter and a board on the wall listing the many meats available. Tell them what you want and your desired doneness, and they’ll take out the appropriate skewer and slice it up for you.
The meat (we tried sirloin, skirt steak, and lamb) was pretty good, very juicy but very salty. «Medium» was closer to rare.
Service is unfriendly and confusing. We at first requested a quarter pound of something and the guy said sharply, «I can’t go by weight, you just have to tell me when to stop cutting.» That’s fine, good sir, but you should probably remove the BBQ skewer from your butt.

Fantastic variety of food, always fresh. Will miss this place since I won’t be in the area anymore!

I love this place. It’s buffet style, quiet peaceful clean environment. The food was well prepared and fresh. I would go back.

I had good food here but I am sick of bad service. The meat guy always asks for how you want your stake. WHY WOULD YOU ASK IF YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE ME WHATEVER THAT’S AVAILABLE AND MAKE ME ARGUE? I don’t expect alot from this place since it’s a cheap and self service place. But to give me a burnt piece of meet and calling it a Medium to medium well is sad. I know this is a family owned place so you guys have no management and it shows.
Good luck with you burnt meat!

Food was great! Loved the buffet food selection and meats were delicious! It’s nice that they list which meats they are serving rather than having to guess, or even worse, ask which meats they have on the grill. Other than that, place was clean, but it was a little quiet… it felt more like i was eating at home than at a restaurant, but overall, no complaints!

If you like Brazilian food, or if you just love fresh food, variety, and a plate of food like it was cooked at home by your mom, you need to go to Carioca Grill. Where else in New York can you get a huge plate of rice, beans, fresh, salad, steak cooked your way, and any kind of meat you want fresh off the fire for under 15 bucks? Under 10 if you don’t load your plate up like I do, because it’s by the pound. Eating here is cheaper than grocery shopping and cooking in NY, and the owner and staff became like family to me. They even have bossa nova and samba bands on Saturday nights!

Hands down the best food in Astoria! I literally come every other day. Probably best Brazilian food ever. The food is extremely fresh and great prices! Make sure you try the salmon and the sangria! A must! So glad to have this so close to home.

Dear Carioca Grill
We have been friends for more than 3 years.
I stop by when I am hungry.
I tip the meat slicer person.
I tip the cashier.
I spend $ ²⁵⁄₂₇ with my wife.
I really enjoy your food.
Meats rare.
Salads tasty.
Everything always good.
I have never ever had a complaint.
I am a loyal customer.
Remember this.
I am a LOYAL customer.
Now…
You broke my heart.
Today I walked in.
I wanted meat and more meat.
Cesar looked good.
Maduros looked sweet.
Now I go to the counter.
I want sirloin.
But you treat me like shit.
You the female employee.
Made me wait.
Food getting cold.
You wipe your hands on your mouth.
You twirl your long hair.
Around and around.
Your breaking health codes.
I ask nicely.
Can you please wash your hands.
You looked at me with disdain.
Like I just murdered your family.
I thank you and I left.
As I walked out.
You said.
What’s up with him.
To answer.
Please read above.
Goodbye old friend.
Forever.

The steak is very nice but the salad bar I personally did not care much ! The staff is very nice but nothing really special about the buffet

This is a convenient restaurant located near the subway. It’s a great place to stop and get lunch.
The salad bar has a small but good variety. And for a couple of dollars more per pound, the grilled meats are a great addition to the plate. Even after filling your plate with food, you’re paying less than what you would buy at a Whole Foods Market salad bar.

This is a real hole in the wall semi-​self-​serve, semi-​AYCE Brazillian Rodizo!
You might be wondering about all those qualifying semi– statements, so let me explain how it works here. You get a plate and you load it up at their salad bare area with veggies/​salad/​beans & rice. Then you pull up to the rotisserie station and you realize your mistake and get a second plate. They have lots of meats on hand. You have it sliced off of the spit for you and put onto your plate. You can take as much as you want! Then you pay at the register and its all based on weight.
I had the beef ribs, spicy pork sausage, and leg of lamb. The pork sausage was phenomenal, haven’t had one that good in a long time. Ever so crispy on the outside, bursting with flavor on the inside. The beef ribs were really great too. Lots of juices and grease still packed in there to make it a very satisfying meal. The lamb was somewhat lack luster and I was considering giving the place a 4 star review because of it, but the quality of the first two meats deserve 5 stars on their own.
Best of all the prices were very affordable. I only wish I came out to Queens more often!

These guys are pretty solid when it comes to Barbeque rotisserie meats. I always go for their delish slow roasted Brazilian skirtsteak and the shortribs since I’m a meat enthusiast …
Their buffet is well supplied with braised meats that would take you forever to cook at home, which is very convenient. They have also some great side dishes as well as salads, so you really get a bang for your bucks in this place. Staff is very amicable and oozes a nice still calmness that contributes to the soothing ambiance.

Everytime I don’t feel like cooking, I stop here! The ribs are so good! I always order plantains and okra for sides! Try also the beef stroganoff! So good! I pay about $ 8 everytime I come here! So cheap!

I think I paid somewhere between only $ 7 – 8 for a full heaping plate of food. This place is ridiculously exciting. It’s a little commercial and the food sits out in bins, but man are the buffet options insane! Trying to even remember everything I stuffed my face with a few months back is an obstacle but there was: chicken stroganoff, fried chicken, empanadas, arroz con pollo, lasagna, crab seafood salad, macaroni and potato salads, ribs, some kind of beef patties, French fries, other various pastas and stews. I was impressed because we were also the last customers of the night and the array of food they still had out was pretty quality and nothing was luke warm or nasty. They also let us stay a few minutes past closing to finish up our feast. I don’t care if this is authentic Brazilian food or not. It’s a great freaking deal and pretty quality food. The only thing I couldn’t care for that I threw on my monstrous plate of obesity was the crab salad. It wasn’t the freshest or greatest tasting. Their meat and rice and pasta sides are what you should lunge for.

Gorge-​fest for the Glutton
Decent Brazilian buffet where you pay by weight. The place looks pretty clean except for a few flies buzzing around. They have a short buffet line and your choice of grilled meats on the end manned by a cordial grill-​master with limited English speaking skills.
They had a number of things on the buffet line to weigh down your plate. They had asparagus with hearts of palm, salad, spaghetti with alfredo sauce, yellow rice, white rice, gnocchi in red sauce, fried sweet plantains, fried sole fish, chicken breasts, beef stew, sausage in yuca-​flour, black and pinto beans.
On the grill they had short ribs, sirloin, chicken sausage, bacon wrapped chicken, chicken leg, pork sausage, skirt steak.
The sirloin was dry but the Chimichurri sauce and beans helped make it palatable. The chicken sausage was way too salty but I guess it’s how they like it. I didn’t have the chicken leg or pork sausage. The short ribs were succulent but the large bone in the middle weighs a whole lot, so keep that in mind. I had a large portion of the juicy skirt steak which was cooked perfectly medium. It went well with the Chimichurri.
Nothing was really out of this world awesome but everything was decent. Except I got a slice of flan to go and it was unpleasantly plasticky and inedible.
If i had to do it all over again I’d just get plenty of skirt steak, a few plantains, some beans and rice.