"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."
