Historical version 3 of Buffet Brazil, SW15 1SL (view current version)

  • Address: 26 Putney High Street, SW15 1SL (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
  • Opening Hours: 11:30am-4pm Mon-Sun for self-service buffet; 6:30pm-11:30pm Mon-Fri and 12:30pm-11:30pm Sat-Sun for rodizio

Brazilian restaurant just south of Putney Bridge. (I believe they have another branch in Earlsfield, at 505 Garratt Lane, SW18 4SW.)

Offers an all-you-can-eat self service buffet at lunchtime and an all-you-can-eat freshly grilled meat selection (rodizio) in the evening. The decor is fairly basic and cafe-style, and they'd probably be pushed to seat more than about 35 people. The food is very good though.

Kake and other RGLers visited on a Thursday evening in January 2008. We had no trouble getting a table as there was only one other group there (half a dozen young men who'd also come for the infinite meat buffet). We all went for the rodizio (£14/head, which is a very good price for what you get) and also had a few jugs of caipirinha (£13/jug). I think I remember ilmari saying that the caipirinha was done properly, with no sour mix. Some of our group were drinking bottled beer; was it Sagres Black?

The way the rodizio works is you help yourself from the hot and cold vegetable/salad stations, then return to your table and the grill chef brings freshly grilled meat around on a skewer and slices it to order at your table. We like our meat rare, and once our chef realised this he started carving us rarer bits. Some of the meat was a bit salty, but there was plenty of it, and it was good quality. I remember we had chicken (both bacon-wrapped and nude), sausages, chicken hearts, lamb, and at least one kind of beef.

The veg/salad stations were also fairly good. Most of the cold selection involved quite a lot of mayonnaise, but they also had a great mixed bean salad and a fresh-tasting finely-chopped pepper salsa. The hot "vegetable" selections included a chicken dish, for some reason. The menu includes the option of "vegetarian or buffet, £10", which I suspect might be the same as rodizio but without the meat, so just the hot/cold veg buffets.

(There was apparently meant to be dessert included in the rodizio price, but I'm entirely uninterested in dessert, so I can't actually remember if they offered it to us or not.)

Toilets are downstairs.

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Last visited by Kake, Bob, Martin, elvum, ilmari, etc, 17 January 2008. Opening hours and prices taken from menu on that visit.
OS X co-ord: 524117 OS Y co-ord: 175584 (Latitude: 51.465111 Longitude: -0.213027)
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