Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouse

In response to the food poisoning person who wrote a comment. We were a group of 13 people at the Copacabana in Toronto and 9 out of 13 of us fell ill with food poisoning as well. We too also found out Toronto Health was there. We are now taking the next steps and getting a lawyer involved. Everyone stay away from this place its a dirty brazilian steak house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stay away from this place. 10 out of 14 of us who ate at the Toronto location on Sat November 21, 2009 were bed ridden. 2 were hospitalized from the tainted food. STAY AWAY!!!!!!!! Toronto Health inspectors have been notified.

If you love meat this is the place. Great food and a great atmosphere. Service was excellent. Dinner starts with the salad bar, but don't go crazy. Once you sit back down the meat parade begins. Spit after spit of different meats (I think about 15 different). Chicken, pork, steak, all exceptional. Cornmeal muffins and fried bananas are brought out. Staff was very friendly and eager to bring your meat selection to your table at request. But the best thing of all was the pineapple cooked on a spit. Incredible. I have never been so full in my life. Oh yeah. The restaurant has a certain flare for hiring. They are all very easy on the eyes.

One of the best restaurants ive ever been too . Meats are amazing , service was amazing and also very attractive staff. Our party had a ton of fun .
Ive been to many churrascarias this is one of the best ones. Only one word to describe our experience AMAZING .
For the guy that waited 3 hrs , well thats your problem, no one forced you too wait that long .

Do not go to Copacabana Restaurant in Niagara. Had to wait for 3 hours (after been told 1.5 hours wait) although there were plenty of empty tables inside. Likely a cheap marketing strategy. The hostess was obviously not a customer oriented one ... we waited anyway, after all the restaurant was highly recommended. By the time we got in to one of the empty tables (this one timed more than hour) my 2 sons were exhausted and hungry ... fell asleep with the first bite. The buffet food was average, the selection OK. What surprised me the most was the steak ... all the cuts tasted the same: BOILED MEAT, what a waste. After being in many Rodizios (Brazilian steak house) this is by far the worst. On top of that, pricey, no desert ... and on and on. - DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY

The Salad Bar had no signs of it's various dishes and was out of bread and mashed potatoes.
Had to ask for corn muffins for our table and never received the fried bananas for which they are famous for.
The meat was given to us as much as we wanted, but we were never asked how we liked it...example: rare, med or well done.
I think the place is not one for dining...the music (taped in and also the live band) were SOOOOO LOUD you could not even hear the person next to you talk. I saw the lady at the next table put pieces of napin in her ears. Why lure passer-byers with such loud music and not care about those already under your roof?
We paid the ripoff tax and will never again....I never heard of it before and we live nearby.
We were given our bill, but never asked if we wanted any desert or coffee etc.
Last visit for us!
This place can not compare with CHURRASCARIA in New York City.

Watch out for the extra tax. Refuse to pay it.

Other reviews have described the serving style of this restaurant and I think it's fun to try at least once.

The meat feast was endless and we had no worry about waiting for the next serving. We enjoyed ourselves very much until we got the bill.

My only complaints are that
- the meats tends to be a little salty and the desert selection was limited.
- The buffet food was only OK but we were there for the meats anyway (so go light on the buffet and save room for the meatfest).
- Watch out for the extra tax. It's a rip-off. I probably won't go back for this reason and gave the "worst service ever" rating. The personal service was great otherwise.

They make it clear that the seating time is limited (they have reservations for 6 and 8 PM) so don't be late if you go for 6 PM.

We were a group of about 100 and had the restaurant to ourselves. Everyone enjoyed themselves and the food, entertainment and service was perfect. 3 of the guests were vegitarian and they described their meal as "ok" but for the meat eaters, everyone was pleased.

While Copacabana may be a carnivore‘s dream it certainly falls short for the vegetarian in your party. The Copacabana website claims “We also feature an exciting a la carte menu and many vegetarian options.” However, no such menu exists and were told the regular $40.00 buffet fee would apply. (Eventually reduced by the manager to $25.00). Contradictory to the website, we found the salad bar to be less than enormous, failed to locate the exotic fruit and were disappointed by the corn muffin and chunk of fried banana as “dessert”.

Our parents-in-law came for a visit from Ecuador, South America. We wanted to treat them to a fabulous dinner and a show. We made reservations for 10pm at the Copa Cabana Brazilian Steakhouse. On their website, the restaurant advertises a show consisting of Brazilian-style dancers. We asked when the next show was and were told at 10:30pm. So we thought, great, we will eat at 10pm and see the show at 10:30pm. We live in Richmond Hill, Ontario. We arrived in Niaraga Falls at 9pm, hoping the restaurant could accommodate us earlier. When we arrived at the restaurant, the unfriendly hostess flat-out rejected our request and stated our table would not be ready until 10pm. Fair enough, we went to walk around until 10pm. When we returned to the restaurant at 10pm, our table was not ready! We waited around like idiots for another 20 minutes with our elderly in laws in tow. The hostess made absolutely no intent on accommodating us in any way; in fact, she made us feel like we were inconveniencing her for standing around waiting! We had not had dinner so we were famished. Plus, we were tired from the 1.45 minute drive and the 1 hour walk around the area. We were not happy campers and so we asked to see the manager. When she came to see us, she was just as unfriendly and as unaccommodating as the hostess!! She did not even offer us a seat while we waited! Finally, at 10:30pm, just in time to see the show, they sat us down at our table. To our grave disappointment, there was no show! We went to complain to the manager because we had been misinformed. She apologized but did nothing to remedy the situation. Even though the dancers were still in the restaurant, she failed to ask them to dance for us considering the fact that we had in-laws that were from out of the country. As a group of 14 adults, we spent close to $1,000.00 that night and I think we deserved better service. I will never return to this restaurant again.