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Made In Brasil Boteco

Made In Brasil Boteco

48 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8BG, United Kingdom, NW1 8AJ

Fish • Tapas • Cheese • Cocktail


"Came here because they had the Moqueca on the menu and I felt like a tasty brazilian fish stew. Boy, was I dissapointed. I've had the Moqueca a few times before in Brazil and in New York at Esperanto in Alphabet City both very good both the one in Made In Brasil Boteco didn't give me any thrills. Only chills. The sauce was bland and tasteless in a boring tomato ish way no coconut milk fulness to it. The contents were fish, clams, jumboshrimp and calamari rings. The whole thing gave me a disgusted feeling. The fish pieces seemed like the step before garbage cut offs from fileting the fish. The jumboshrimp was served with everything (head and the works) and while that may be to the taste of someone that didn't improve the overall impression of the meal. Lastly white calamari rings the sort you usually get breaded and deepfried at cheap greek restaurants: I don't see them as having any business in the Moqueca and to me that just yanked the overall impression of the meal a few more notches down, as they just seemed like a cheap filler along with the other rather disgusting seafood contents of the dish. I was hungry and I did eat some of it the farofa to sprinkle on top did give it a little taste. But going through the different pieces of low quality seafood in the dish just left me with a feeling of whether or not this was good for me. Eating fish and seafood is kind of a trust game to me. So I let the waitress know that the dish didn't live up to my expectations and she took it back to the kitchen and came back and told me that this is how they always make it. That made the decision very easy to just pay, get out of there and never come back. The place has a nice vibe cosy, brazilian music and outfits. I'm sure you could have a nice with drinks and the occasional live music in there. But avoid the Moqueca at all costs."

Floripa

Floripa

91 93 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HZ, Hackney, United Kingdom

Fish • Steak • Fusion • European


"This is the worst place I have ever been in 9 years living in London. I went there with a big group of friends and we got in for free, I initially thought that the staff was kind to let us in, but eventually it turned to be a real scam. First of all, as soon as inside you are presented with a cheap place with old and ruined furnitures, not to mention the quality of their cocktails and the crazy expensiveness. Cocktails in average are 13£, but they are literally watery fruit juices. As a group we spent a lot, probably 400£ given that we were 15 people. After some time inside, we managed to find a big table for us. We were there enjoying the birthday of one of our friend when the security guy came and basically obligated us to either put our jackets in the clock room or leave the place. We spent a lot and we did not deserve such a treatment. The guy was untreatable, we could not even orgie or ask questions as he would ignore us. He was very rude to all of us, therefore we decided to leave the place. As soon as we came out the place, some of our friends, all young ladies, urgently needed to go beck to quickly use the toilette. The same security guy, as well as the manager, an east European lady, did not let the girls in, just as a revenge because we left the place without paying extra money for a non-sense clock room. The manager literally started screaming at us in an authoritative way saying that they had to find another place to go to the toilette. They were very rude and unprofessional. If you want to enjoy good music in a nice environment with professionally made cocktails, go around the corner and there is an amazing place with cocktails between 9-12£, but please do not go to this club because it’s the worst place you can go."