I love meat, preferably lots of it, so when I noticed this 'rodizio' opening up in my…read moreneighbourhood, I was excited. Unfortunately, Pampas didn't live up to my expectations...
We were served a plate with some veggies first, but since there wasn't anything special on it, we largely ignored it. A bit of a waste, really...
Then we were offered some garlic bread. Usually I love garlic bread, but a mayo based garlic sauce instead of garlic butter? Methinks not! The chips and oven baked potato were quite disappointing as well.
After a round of mushrooms, finally the meat arrived! We were quite early, so we were the only ones in the restaurant at first, but apparently that didn't keep them from grilling full size skewers. Since it is impossible to eat a whole skewer with just two persons, I was wondering how they could possibly control how thoroughly cooked a piece of meat would be. As it turned out, they couldn't: some pieces were extra-rare, others extremely well done. At first I thought it was just the Brazilian way of cooking specific kinds of meat, but when the same kind came back cooked completely differently, it was obvious they were just being very inconsistent.
Apart from that, I got the feeling they were trying too hard to fill customers up with 'cheap stuff', just to save on meat.
I don't mind paying a bit more for an all-you-can-eat restaurant if it offers more than just a buffet -- e.g. Chinese and Indian -- or one dish -- e.g. spare-ribs -- but this rodízio just doesn't deliver...