Rio Rio Churrascaria BBQ Bar & Grill

02/14/08

If the bathrooms are that bad..... i wonder how the kitchen is?!?

by foodlovas at Citysearch

This place, who's name is not even worth mentioning again was without a doubt, The most repulsive resturaunt my wife and I have been to over 7 years. Lets make this quick: Dirty floors, holes in the walls, agressive and rude hosting service, filthly bathrooms, WAY OVER PRICED, perverted manager who stares at every famale that walks in the place and it was decorated worse than a Denny's. That should do it! DONT GO! EVER!

• Pros: none
• Cons: Everything! Definetly bringing down the restaurant scene in valencia.

02/01/08

Tottaly avoid

by gooz08 at Citysearch

All the five star reviews are written by the fraud owners. One review gives you all the detail about show hours and calendar of events, homework done nice, how fake is that.

01/08/08

Avoid it completely!

by jaronb at Citysearch

We had heard many wonderful things about this restaurant, but were extremely disappointed when we finally visited ourselves. First, we waited for 20 minutes for someone to come to our table to ask if we'd been helped already. Of course, the people sitting behind us had arrived after we did and were already served their bread basket and drinks. Our child should have been given a child's plate as requested, but no one brought anything out to him until long after my husband and I had been served. We've eaten at many restaurants such as this in the past, and this was the most mediocre. The sides were very "gravied" down and unhealthy (spinach and mashies - mashies had lots of chunks), and all of the meats were highly over-salted. It was as if someone had dropped a salt shaker on everything. Brazilian food is known for its wonderful seasoning but not for it's having too much salt. Additionally, the server was extremely pushy about trying to charge us for being there for the show, though we had told them from the beginning that we weren't there for the show - just the food. By the way, the show is not at all intended for younger children. The talent we've seen on cruise ships was more authentic than the show we ended up seeing (pretty sad) - we had no choice, as it took forever to complete the dinner. We should not have had to continually ask for more sides. The amount they initially give is laughable. One of the servers was most wonderful and made every effort to bring us better meat, so we couldn't blame him for the poor cooking. We will not recommend this restaurant to anyone here in the Valencia area. Oh, and what were they thinking about keeping some of the original Hamburger Hamlet restaurant's old, red, vinyl booths??? And they were ripped as well. Overall disapppointing! Great night out for my birthday!

• Pros: none
• Cons: Everything about it!

12/23/07

Disgusting food, terrible service! We will never go again!

by mrsnancyb at Citysearch

We went to this restaurant last night and absolutely hated it! We will never, ever go back.

The food was terrible! Like the original poster mentioned, the tri-tip was too dry and FULL of fat! In fact, none of their cuts of meat were lean. Also, I do not recommend anyone ordering from their dessert menu. I ordered the chocolate cake which tasted like it came from a cheap bakery, and my husband ordered the coconut creme brulee which was dry/crumbly and had NO flavor.

We went primarily for the show, and the hostess sat us behind a wall! We could only see half of the dance floor from where we sat. When we complained about it she said there was nowhere else to sit. I have no idea how a restaurant that offers a show can expect paying customers to sit behind a wall!!

The service was extremely slow! We were waiting upwards of about 15 minutes between meat cuts. Our server also did not bring out the sides in a timely manner. The portions were SO small! By the time we got our first cut of meat, we had already finished our sides. When the second cut of meat came out (~15 minutes later) we still had no sides.

The restaurant was also VERY overpriced for the quality of food. Our bill for the two of us came to $120!!!

I would not take my children to this restaurant. The show was very risque, with the dancers' outfits. Some dance moves were very provocative, and with some of the customers who had been drinking it got pretty rowdy. With that being said, the clientele was far from classy.

We were very, very disappointed.

• Pros: Parking
• Cons: Food, service, entertainment

10/03/07

Wonderful Restaurant!!!

by molini at Citysearch

This restaurant is wonderful! When I first read the reviews on citysearch com I was surprised. Most of the people rated this restaurant with 5 stars, and only 2 people that actually wrote their reviews at the same day, gave the worst grades. So, trully speaking, I went there out of curiosity. Now, I do not have any doubts that both reviews were written by the competitors. Certainly, you can not compare it with Fogo de Chao, but it is one step ahead of all Brazilian restaurants I have been to. The food is great, the ambience is the best in all Santa Clarita Valley; and there is nothing like their entertainment around here. Plus, they have a live dj playing on Friday & Saturday nights. Common guys! Be fair. I definitely recommend this restaurant.