Reviews Rio Brazilian Steak House

Located a couple of blocks west of Coquitlam Centre on Barnett Highway, RBS is housed in one of those many repurposed Bino's (or maybe Dino's?) buildings from many years ago. Spacious inside, it was not too busy on Sunday afternoon. There is a seriously decent salad bar in one corner of the restaurant where we started our journey. Included on the salad bar are many of the usual choices but some creative ones as well including a couple of hot dishes such as white fish fillets in a cream sauce which I did not try. There were two different kinds of pickled green beans that I could have loaded up on alone and written a contented review. Soon meat began to arrive on skewers. Not too surprisingly, the $26 lunch meal is limited to the more pedestrian roasted meats. So our choices were top sirloin, tri-tip, roasted pork, chicken legs, chicken hearts and pork sausages. Dinner which is about $10 more (?) includes lamb, some more premium beef and a few other choices. No worries though as my favourites items came from a second buffet area which had some more traditional Brazilian dishes. There was a braise/stew of pork, pork sausage, bacon and black beans. It was rich, rustic and meaty and I would order it off of an a la carte menu. I think this was Feijoada, a national dish of Brazil.Next to that was rice and more black beans. I loved the cast-iron Dutch ovens.There was pork belly and kale (the greens were way over-salted).
And finally some garnishes including pork cracklings, an impressive hot sauce and toasted cassava flour. These Brazilian dishes made this a bit more of an adventure for me compared to meat roasted on spits. I could have skipped to this part and been perfectly happy. The folks who brought the skewers around were accommodating and friendly and our main guy was actually from Sao Paulo so he knew what he was talking about. In fact, ownership of the two locations is also a Brazilian family. Lots of room here and pleasant surroundings.

Excellent service, fun and novel way to eat. We enjoyed the variety at salad bar and loved the variety of tastey meats. My favourite being the pork and the sirloin with the grilled pineapple coming in 3rd.

Came here for father's day celebration with my hubby and toddler
We had a blast! Especially the little one, children under 5 are free and my little one really enjoyed the food and dancing
The grilled meats were all good except for pork.
The hot food and salad bar were great too, they offered seafood paella, stewed pork with beans and fish plus plenty of salad items
The meat servers came around more than enough times so I'm not sure why some reviewers here say they left hungry....We were very full
The operators or manager seems to care about the business as he came around to check on us to ensure we are satisfied.
The two dancers were fantastic, they are young and energetic, put on a great show

Everyone was nice and curtious. Food was really good. Tried various items. Somethings weren't to our liking, but that was personal preferences not quality. We left with the place card definitely on the I give up side. We would definitely go back again.

Went for lunch on a Sunday. They had a nice variety of food at the buffet, and the meat that they brought around in the restaurant was delicious. The staff was friendly, polite, and attentive. All in all I enjoyed the restaurant.