Cafe Brasil
Brazilian restaurant · Culver City ·
Creative Brazilian cuisine, outdoor seating, and a full bar.
Creative Brazilian cuisine, outdoor seating, and a full bar.
"Weekday lunch platter specials from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. run just $15 here, with generously portioned plates featuring sirloin steak, well-seasoned fish, a pork chop, grilled chicken, or vegetables plus black beans, rice, salsa, and plantains. It’s easy to tack on a Brazilian pastel with ground beef and cheese or the empanada pie stuffed with chicken or hearts of palm, and it’s common to see groups watching futbol in one of the neighborhood’s oldest spots for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Must-try dishes: pork chop platter, linguica sandwich." - Rebecca Roland
"Whether it’s the restaurant’s all-day breakfast options or delicious feijoada, all the food at this Brazilian café has been feeding the neighborhood for the past three decades. Late mornings at Café Brasil usually involve scrambled eggs with collard greens, fried plantains, pão de queijo, and fresh passion fruit juice. And if you’re coming for lunch, expect some great pasteis—fried empanadas stuffed with ground beef, cheese, or hearts of palm." - brant cox, sylvio martins, garrett snyder, cathy park
"Eating a big plate of lamb chops with rice and feijoada for lunch might require an afternoon espresso run to stay awake, but you won’t be complaining if you get the chops from Cafe Brasil. This Brazilian spot is a Culver institution that’s fed the neighborhood for three decades. In addition to excellent grilled meat combos, expect great pasteis: these fried, puffed-up empanadas are available in a handful of variations, but our favorite is the mixto that oozes with ground beef and molten cheese." - nikko duren, brant cox
"Cafe Brasil is a Culver City institution that’s been serving its all-day menu for over 30 years. Mornings include freshly squeezed passion fruit juice, strong Brazilian coffee that makes your neck hairs jolt up, and soft scrambled eggs hugging sides of sweet plantains and collard greens. By the time lunch rolls around at this cafe, there's usually a soccer game on TV, Brazilian exchange students filing in for fried, beef-stuffed pastels, and the sandwich press toasting up juicy linguiça sandwiches. But what makes Café Brasil so special is its significance for Brazilians in Los Angeles, who use this spot for a quick salgadinho pit-stop or to spend a whole afternoon chit-chatting over a cafezinho." - sylvio martins
"Culver City’s longstanding Cafe Brasil is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily with an all-day menu that permits breakfast at any time. But for those ready to throw down, the grilled fish platter works wonders. Choose from wonderfully seasoned red snapper or salmon, which comes with long strips of fried plantains, rice, a simple salad, and SoCal’s best black beans. Operating since 1991, Cafe Brasil has the gift of experience with dishes that are tried, tested, and executed perfectly. — Mona Holmes, reporter" - Bill Esparza