For our last night of our Christmas weekend, in Montreal, Pooh and I came here for supper For appetizers I ordered the guacamole and chips (a must have) and Pooh ordered the shrimp with mango sauce The service is slow; we got our wine immediately but our appetizers took a little longer. The guacamole was delicious and the chips were lightly salted. Pooh's shrimp were tasty and the mango sauce was a nice addition without being too sweet The server was delightful; he taught us some Portuguese and told us to get off our phones and enjoy the food Our main dish was perfection. We asked for medium rare and we got it. The steak melted in our mouths; the beans mixed with the rice was divine and the cassava fries tasted like regular fries but much better This place is dynamite!! We will definitely return read more

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The food is just delicious authentic Brazilian. Awesome the service is fantastic. It's so good. You wanna eat everything WOW.

This is a great place in terms of good brazilian food, I'd definitely go for the feijoada if you want something super authentic :) however, I would not go there if you truly value good service. I say this because some people can get past it and not let it ruin the experience, but if you really hate it when the servers take forever to take your order, get you water, the menu, etc maybe skip this restaurant. They are constantly understaffed and everything takes forever to be made. Our food took over an hour to get delivered, the drinks took about an hour to get to our table too. It's very unorganized haha. The food is really good though! Just go with a lot of time and a lot of patience if you do decide to go. read more

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Amazing Brazilian food. Very authentic. Great atmosphere. The owners are super personable. Great service.

If you eat steak, go eat here! If you're vegetarian and you eat fish, go for it! If you're all the way veg, well, it wouldn't be top of my list based on what I had last night. My family and I ended up here after walking on St Laurent and overall it was a great choice. Cosy, welcoming, not too loud, super friendly service, and my family all loved what they ordered - chicken, shrimp, and sizzling steak plates. Value for money was very good, everyone cleared their plates and were perfectly full. They didn't have their usual vegetarian plate available so what I got seemed like a bowl of sauce for another dish with the protein taken out. Ouf. I'd still go back because the mango salad was lovely and I'd be into trying what they usually do for vegetarians. read more

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Amazing food and service! We had a some interesting conversations with the owner as it was a quiet post COVID-19 weeknight. If you want to try delicious and authentic Brazilian food in Ontario, this is the place to go. read more

Acajou Br - The chicken and steaks were awesome, I love the vinaigrette, I used it with everything lol - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

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Incredible. It's not often that one can have a totally bad experience from the very beginning to the very end of a restaurant outing - quite an achievement in itself. From the start - even after making a reservation, it took 20 mins to sit us down. It was one hour from sitting down to then get our starters. We had the fried fish pieces and calamari. Both of the dishes were soggy, wet, and not very fresh tasting. The batter separated immediately off the fish. Not good, and one of the rare times that I don't finish the dish - even being very hungry at this stage. For the main, I tried the "Chicken Xim Xim" - some sort of stew. Many things wrong with this: The dish itself was bland, flavourless, and any other adjective you care to use to describe 'tasteless'. The chicken didn't seem right at all - both in freshness and texture. Seriously, I've had better microwaved curries. This was served up with some plain boiled rice that had the texture of the dry stuff left over the day before. The side salad tasted like a standard bagged faire, with a balsamic dressing straight from the store-bought bottle. The service was lackadaisical and uninterested at best. Washroom needs attention in the cleanliness department. The knockout blow was the $80 price tag for two mains, the starter, and three drinks. The 4.5 stars this place has makes me seriously doubt the integrity of the '5 star' reviews for this restaurant - I would say they are either fake, or they were drunk when they were either eating at this place or writing their Yelp review. I also doubt whether half the celebrities on their photo wall actually went there - Robert de Niro? I don't think so. Three hours, $80, and a Saturday night I will never get back. read more

Acajou Br - Deep fried calamari - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

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Excellent hospitality and excellent service. Rex the owner is a great host. Can't wait to go back for another meal. Highly recommended if you're looking for traditional Brazillian food and atmosphere. read more

Acajou Br - The Churracao was amazing. - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

Absolutely delicious and amazingly friendly service. The caipivodka was perfect, the coxinha was tasty and the bobo de camarão was just right. Highly recommended. read more

Acajou Br - bobo de camarão - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

Excellent Brazilian food. Have Brazilians friends in Salvador de Bahia, and the Acajou Br offers really good non Canadian localized Brazilian food! It's true, the service was a little long though we were 12 for a lunch... The rice was too dry for my feiojada : certainly they kept it warm in the oven as we were 12. À little overpriced for a lunch but the quantity and quality worth it. The chef told us they're bringing a new menu for lunch. Excellent service as well, very warm and the chef came to speak with us personally! read more

Acajou Br - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

Truly excellent Brazilian food. The owners are a witty Brazilian man and his mother. She handles all the cooking with precision. Nothing here is rushed, or can be, for that matter. The decor is quaint, the service laid back --almost to a fault -- but the caipirinhas are truly outstanding and the food reminded our Brazilian friend of his childhood. As for us, non-Brazilians, we were thoroughly enchanted by the whole experience. Strongly recommended. And the prices are very reasonable, by the way. read more

Acajou Br - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

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The picanha was amazing!!!! Highly recommended! The staff were nice, especially the chef. read more

Acajou Br - Picanha - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

good food, great service and excellent atmosphere. the feijoada was great. we will come back again!

We were looking for an authentic Brazilian restaurant in Montreal, and came here because of the overwhelmingly good reviews. We ate here twice. The ambiance is not that great, and the first time we were close to the door, that did not close well and were literally FROZEN. The first time however, the food was much better than the second. The cocktails are delicious, and the staff is very welcoming. There are a LOT of vegetarian options, and so we had the manioc fries, the cheese buns, the cheese pastels, the mango salad and the Xodo (vegetarian main dish). They were so tasty and absolutely delicious! The second time however, the portions were smaller, we did not get cashews crumbled onto the fries which had made it very tasty the first time, and the Xodo did not come with the coconut milk and cashew sauce- only the cashew sauce... and so was blander. The mango salad, the second time around, took so much time to come out, that we just cancelled the order, as we were done all our other dishes. We will give it one more chance, because the food was so good the first time! read more

We discovered this place wanting to find a place to have supper with colleagues. It's a relatively small restaurant, perfect for going in small groups or with a significant other... Decoration is very nice and has a very sentimental meaning because it has many images that represent Brasil (Bathrooms are for Pélés and Carmen Mirandas) and also many pictures of the owner's family and great moments that happened in this restaurant during its history. Speaking of which, the owner, a very nice gentleman, who also prepared the dishes, told us that on Wednesdays, there is a musical group and brazilian dance with an instructor!! The drinks are delicious, I had Caipirinha and Coco Loco that has Cachaça, Brasil's own sugar cane liquor. They were just perfect and not very strong on the liquor. The food ordered was delicious (I had bisteca), many of my colleagues ordered Bobo, and also found it good. The portions are quite big, I loved the Feijoadas! It took quite long though to prepare the food for our group (not a complain, because I do understand that the owner was the only one cooking, and one could tell the ingredients were fresh and took time to cook well), however, we didn't have too many other options of having something to nibble on while waiting for the food,... No desserts either, and the coffee machine unfortunately wasn't working... I found the prices a bit too expensive (from 18.95-25-95) just for the plate, and ideally this could be improved a bit more by offering a Table d'hôte with entrée, dessert and coffee for that price, than just charging for the plate... I hope they have a great success because they are good, the 5th star is not awarded just for the small aspects to improve... read more

A friend and I went there a few weeks ago. First, the place was nice and well decorated. The owner was very friendly and made us feel welcomed. For appetizers, we had the guacamole, the cod croquettes and the grilled calamari. The guacamole was the best I had ever had in my life. The cod croquettes were too bland and uninteresting. As for the grilled calamari, we certainly expected more than one single calamari for 8$!! For the entrées, we had the chicken in a sauce with mushrooms (can't recall the exact name) and a white fish moqueca. The chicken was tender and tasty. We really liked the sauce. As for the moqueca, what can I say.... I regularly make moqueca at home, so I know what to expect. And if I go to a brazilian restaurant, I expect an over-the-top delicious moqueca. But this... , that thing was a farce. The broth had no taste. The fish had no taste. No flavor, no salt, nothing. Very disappointing. We wanted to find a nice brazilian restaurant in Montreal, that type of restaurant you go back to over and over. It won't be that one. read more

I'm Brazilian so every time I travel to a new city I look for Brazilian restaurants to try. I chose Acaju BR based on Yelp reviews and they were not wrong. The food was absolutely fantastic, the staff were super super nice and the atmosphere of the restaurant was simply great and had an awesome family vibe to it! I tried the chicken ximxim which is something I had never had before and loved everything about it! My boyfriend had the feijoada and said it was the best he's had. We also had coxinhas and pastel as appetizers and they were both delicious as well. The main dishes are around $18 each but they're a very good portion. I must say, this was my favorite Brazilian restaurant we've been to so far! read more

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Good Brazilian food, nice service, good bar and even happy hours! The Forro dance community gathers here every week(Wednesday). It is fun(really fun), but then service starts to get really slow once the place gets busy read more

As a Brazilian I have to say: The cod fish croquettes it was hard to stop on the first order. The Feijoada is a must to eat here, it's one of the best feijoada that I ever had overall! The owners Bred, rio carioca, funny and layback and his mother Dona Ana " the chef with a magic hands"! I almost forgot, everything with the real caipirinha!!! read more

I was torn between giving this 3 or 4 stars. I decided to be nice :) The food here is really good! It tastes authentic and you don't leave feeling overstuffed, greased out or nasty. I found the Caipirinha to be okay - nothing really to scream about, but the other reviewers like it, so I would give it a try. Per the other yelp suggestions, we tried the Feijoada and Ximxim. Both were very very delicious. The thing about this place is the wait. We waited for more than an hour before we got our food and there was only one other party in the restaurant. It may be because the mother is the only one cooking. Yes, I appreciate that home-cooked style feeling, but not at the expense of me waiting more than one hour for any action. Another cook would be better. So, totally up to you. If you don't mind waiting a really long time, need some time to catch up with your long lost friend or lover - go here. But if you want something delicious and quick, keep walking. read more

Try the Xim Xim (I think pronounced "sheem sheem"). I had it! A-freaking-mazing. Best dish on the menu. The first time I went here, my friends and I were wandering down St-Laurent looking for Indian food. We walked by and took a look a the menu posted outside. Being students, we were a little irked by the prices and were discussing this. A lady overheard us and started to say the food was really quite good. She then said she was the owner and makes all the food herself. She even used to have a catering business that served movie productions (hence the photos on the wall). So she promised us that if we didn't like the food, we would get our money back! We got in there, and (I think) one of her sons was the waiter for the day. He was hilarious while we waited for the food (which was just a tad long but so, so worth the wait). We ordered appetizers and main dishes. Main dish proportions were large, easily could feed two people but it was so good I ate it all myself. Last, we tried one of the drinks, I forget the name, but it was a specialty with limes and crushed ice and Brazilian liquor. The next time I was there, I ordered two of them. (And hey, at six bucks, they're not too bad!) Basically, really friendly people and amazing food was had at Acajou. Go! read more

Tip: if you plan on going to go on a Sunday, double or triple check. The most puzzling thing is that we clearly made a reservation for a Sunday evening with someone on the other end of the line. We showed up at the appointed time to find the restaurant closed! I'll be glad to update this review once I've actually had a chance to taste the food, but an error like this really takes the cake. read more

Long story short: if you haven't figured out what to eat tonight, go to Acajou. You won't be sorry. I've been walking past this place for the past 3 years, almost stopped, yet just kept walking every time. I think it's because, before this, my only experience with Brazilian food was churrascaria. Don't get me wrong, churrascaria is amazing, but there's only so often you can do all you can eat meat. Fast forward to today. We were trying to figure out where to go and I wanted to try something different and it fell between Acajou and Restaurant Om (Tibetan food - also incredible). Needless to say, we made the right choice. We weren't super hungry, so we only ordered the chicken xin xim and the feijoada. There wasn't a single scrap of food left on the plate. Brett (the owner, super nice guy) also brought us a piece of steak and it was easily one of the best things I've eaten this year. Crispy edges, tender middle and a perfect medium rare, I could eat this on a daily basis and never get tired of it. read more

Best Brazilian Restaurant in Montreal! You can feel like home in there! I tried bolinho de bacalhau and caldo verde, just amazing! read more

Acajou Br - Bolhinho de bacalhau and Caldo Verde! Just amazing! - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

They are now open for lunch Fri-Sun. We started with the chicken nuggets And had the Feijoada as a main. Service was excellent, the owner is a very witty and friendly man. The nuggets where good but I was no a fan of the doughy texture. He suggested the traditional slow cooked Feijoada dish with black beans, braised pork sausage, rib and beef (brisket I believe). It was very tasty! The meat was incredibly tender and had a nice slightly smoky flavour - reminded me of wood oven roasted meats from a Brazilian steak house. It was a very good hearty meal for a very reasonable price. I recommend. read more

Really nice small restaurant with authentic Brazilian fare. The staff are very friendly and helpful and make you feel welcome. Decent wine selection, only one Portuguese bock beer. This restaurant is a real underrated gem. read more

Acajou Br - Brazilian Near Me - Montreal, Quebec

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Great Brazilian food, awesome experience. The owner is a funny man who made our dinner even better with his great sense of humor. The food was delicious, very home made, I had feijoada and my husband had xin-xin. Both were awesome. read more

So good! This is some legit Brazilian food. It's the real deal. Portion sizes are generous. The food is made by the owner/chef so it's consistently delicious. The service is amazing and with a relaxing ambience. Have a cocktail as well, Brazilian style of course. read more

This was the worst experience ever. We booked the place but had to wait for 30 minutes because employees made a mistake. After that we waited for menu for another 15 minutes. Appetizers arrived 1,5 hour later: calamari were extremely small, fish wasn't fried enough and had an "old" smell and oil taste. Main dishes came with a salad bought in Metro, rice was "crispy" (Probably scratched from the bottom) and food was blunt. Dirty glasses were left on the table the whole evening. At the end they asked us why we hadn't include tips! This restaurant doesn't deserve even half of its prices!!! read more

Great food! I'm Brazilian and this is the most authentic food I have eaten in Montreal. Delicious! The service was a bit slow, but it was obvious that the food was made all from scratch in the kitchen. Overall the service was great, the food was well priced with good portions, the drinks were really nice!( great caipirinha!) Also the vegetarian menu was delicious! With soups and salads to go with it. read more

Delicious and very authentic Brazilian food at a reasonable price! I ate the feijoada (promotional price on Sunday's) and it was perfectly cooked. The pastel and bolinho de bacalhau are great appetizers. read more

This place is mind-blowing. Awesome home-cooked style Brazilian food at an affordable price. Perfectly grilled meats, great vegetarian options, and savory smoothies (try the mango!) Don't get discouraged by the long cooking times - the owner/chef is making everything a la minute in the back. This place is simply glorious. To add even more to the proverbial pie, the owner gave us bowls of what I can only describe as the best lentil soup I've ever had, on the house, because of the wait. This is a gem that should not be ignored! read more

You won't find a best "feijoada" in Montreal than this one! It tastes like home and I wish I had known it earlier. And as a bonus, you can watch people dancing "Forró" some days of the week :) read more

good cozy family run business. you see the passion at there work. Great steak, calamari a la planche, ceviche. good but not wow. i guess i've been too spoiled with churrascaria too often and this is more a traditional home cooked style. read more

We arrived near closing time, they welcomed us in regardless and were extremely friendly. Service was exceptional and the food was amazing. Will certainly be back! read more

Oh this place, about a year ago I happened to be strolling down Laurier trying entertain to some family , it was a warm balmy night , the air was still and our belly's were empty.we were looking for something to satisfy our hunger and provide a comfortable resting place for us as a young family to catch up, talk about our new endeavors , and revel in the summer air we so cherish that is left ; in late august Montreal.As we entered the doors we were warmly welcomed by the presumed owner of the establishment. upon being seated and ordering our various drinks, some of them being alcoholic , we felt comfortable and warm in comparison to the cooling night air we had so been accustomed to seconds prior. lets just say the rest of the night was not so pleasant , my sisters peanut butter soup seemed really delicious, but also my brothers chopped up pineapple with sliced ham seemed really good. once i finally got my steak it was cooked AMAZINGLY, the meat itself was blacker then the darkest corner of my cockroach infested apartment on the shortest day of the year. after our meal, whole faimily was accused of underage drinking. needless to say we spent alot of money . Acuju Br is one of my favourite restaurants in the Montreal , AND FOR GOOD REASON .Peace, love and recognition for panama canal cuisine. if not for the experience, come for the feeling and ethnic experience. sincerely , OMFG loling so hard, this place SUCKS . Never go!!!!!!!!!!! Stuart William Mitchell III read more

The service was extremely slow, and the food seemed to be overpriced for what it was. The food itself was neither amazing nor inedible.

First time eating Brazilian (other than steak houses) and could not have been happier with the results. Everything we ate was fantastic, and we will definitely be back for more. read more

Both food and drink are amazing! Must-go if in town, friendly owner/chef, great ambience. The caprinha is one of the best I've had, can't go wrong with anything on the food menu either! We had a mix of seafood and meat, many recommended from owner himself, of course great choices! read more

It was a bit slow because I think it is family run. So worth the wait! The lime and garlic chicken was everyone's favorite, as well as the mango salad. Had best cocktail too...forget name but it was with the cane juice liquor. Great atmosphere. Yucca fries maybe need dipping sauce...? read more