Majórica Steakhouse

Old school asado spot, one of the best steaks I’ve ever had. I highly recommend checking this place out.

This restaurant has been one of my mother’s favorites for the past 60 years and now I understand why. The service is top-notch with well trained staff. There are numerous sharply dressed and attentive waiters cris-crossing the dining room floor, delivering delicious well prepared Brazilian traditional foods. They serve you family-style, which makes this place feel more like an old fashioned elegant dining experience than most others. The large grill is forefront in the main dining area, filling the air with the smells of fresh BBQ. I will continue to return here during visits to Rio for years to come.

One of the best places for meat in Rio de Janeiro. Very local, great quality and menu offering. Friendly and fast service.

Excellent food and great service! Follow us on IG: #firstglassticket

Great deal for “executive lunch”. Pre made plate just right amount with quality ingredients

They don’t speak English but it should not be a problem as they are very hospitable :) Great steaks and wines, highly recommended!

I recommend this establishment, at lunchtime you have to wait a bit for a seat however it is worth it, I had one of the best steaks here in my life (speciality picantha) .

If you are looking for meat, this is one of the best places in Rio. Their sausage as apperitizers is delicious and I love their picanha. Their sides are also very good. I really like their farofa. This is a very traditional restaurant and it gets super busy during weekends. It is not an all you can eat place, you order the meat and sides, but it is by far my favorite place for churrasco. When I am in Rio, I always try to go there.

It's from another era. Old school. The waiters are seasoned and wear uniforms from years forgotten. The dishes are straightforward and unpretentious, dare I say meat and potatoes (pun intended). Visiting from Miami we felt the trip to Brazil would not be complete without a trip to a steakhouse. Some of the options we actually have back home, so we settled on this one. The steaks are of great quality, cooked perfectly to your specifications and delivered by friendly knowledgeable staff. The sausage sent out before the meal was perhaps my favorite thing, rivaled only by the fried potatoes. The fried potatoes are masterful. It's like they thinly sliced two pieces of potato, stuck them together, and then fried them. So you have two crunchy sides with an air pocket between them. Where have these been all my life??? Don't leave without ordering them. The picanha was as good as we expected. The chorizo is actually a cut of steak here, if he had known Portuguese a bit better we wouldn't have ordered it because we thought it was sausage, but here it's a cut of meat. Delicious anyway. The side of broccoli rice made us feel a bit healthier. Lol.

This restaurant came highly recommended as one of the best "barbecue" places in Rio. It's really more of a steakhouse than a barbecue place, but I wouldn't advise coming here unless you are ready to eat a Fred Flintstone-sized cut of meat. You have the option of going to the counter and picking the cut of meat you want or ordering off the menu and letting them pick for you. I highly recommend ordering from the counter, so you can see what you're in for. I ordered the t-bone steak, and it's the biggest steak I've ever seen in my life that wasn't for two people. I don't even know how I finished a steak that massive. The only thing I'd recommend is that for anyone (like me) who doesn't like anything less than medium, to know what the Portuguese word is for "well done". Medium well got me a medium rare steak. After drinks and sides, our bill came to about R$ 135, which was like $35. Look at the picture of my t-bone (or a picture of my friend's steak which was half of a steak he split with another friend) and tell me where else you can get a brontosaurus steak like that at that price?

Came to this place during our first night of a 15 day trip through Rio and Argentina. We were amazed at the quality of the food here and even after 15 days of hunting down steakhouses, this place still rose to the top. My boyfriend ordered the filet mignon, medium rare, while I ordered the salmon. We also got a side of greens for a change in flavor. Both dishes were spectacular, but the steak definitely stole the show. The steak was enormous, and could easily serve 2 or 3 people. Much larger than any cut in the US. But more importantly, the quality and cook temperature were perfect. The medium rare was just how we like it. As for the salmon, it was also a very generous portion and cooked very well-- nice crisp outside with great seasoning. Would highly recommend for a nice meal in Rio. Prices are not cheap, but the quality is spectacular.

The real deal for meat lovers! We visited the great Majorica teice during our stay in Rio. That says a lot already. The picanha was delicious so was also the t-bone steak! Before we had ordered we were served a very tasty sausage and salad as a starter. How many restaurants offers that? The service was just perfect and the place had a relaxed atmosphere for being a "high class" restaurant. I'm drooling when I think of Majorica!

Best a la carte churrascaria (Brazilian BBQ) place in Rio. The quality is great and the service is old style where they serve you directly into your plate. The BBQ is with charcoal and it has a lot of flavor.

It's true that the portion sizes here are large, but with some strategy, you can easily walk out of here full but not uncomfortable. The four of us came ready for meat sweats after wandering around Rio all day, and decided to play it safe with ordering two types of meats and a number of sides. With an English menu available, we decided to go with the Picanha and Filet Mignon with black peppercorn sauce for the meats. For our sides, we went with french fries, farofa, and broccoli. Something to note is that the vegetables and sides are unsalted. When you eat the sids in conjunction with the meats (they use a ton of salt on the grilled meats), it's perfect. Separately? Not so good. We hadn't had farofa yet, so trying this at Majorica was fun. Farofa is a staple item that Brazilians use when eating grilled meats, and this version of farofa was mixed with egg (there's an option to mix in plantain too). All in all, everything liked the filet mignon with peppercorn sauce, but I personally found the Picanha to be the best. English is spoken, although don't plan on asking a ton of questions since their English is limited to what's on the menu. The open grill area makes for some fun photos, especially since you can see everything that's being done!

We were 3 persons sharing a piece of meet that they recomended. It was pink and perfectly cooked. We also ordered 2 sides, mashed potatoe (more salt needed) and greek rice. It was very tasty and more than enough food for us. With water and beer, we paid about 95 real/p.

Apparently a lot of people think this place is a rodizio, but it's not--you order off the menu, or you can actually go to a display case like at a butcher shop and you can actually choose whatever piece/cut of meat you want. Note that most of the dishes are very large, so you can probably share most of them between two people. Both, the service and the food were very good.

I don't understand how this restaurant is rated so highly. Either these guys were having a really off night or there are a lot of fake reviews. I came here with 3 friends and this was easily the worst meal of the trip and according to my friend Adam the worst meal of his life(a little dramatic I know). But there is no way this place can be anywhere near 4.5 stars. Right when we walked in we noticed that almost every person in the restaurant was a tourist so it seems like most locales know to stay away. Service: Starting from the service, it was actually pretty good. Waiters were kind and accommodating and put up with our lack of Portuguese. Had full menus in English as well. Food: Consistently bad. Here is what we ordered: Hearts of Palm Salad - This was literally just hearts of palm from a can, put on a plate with nothing else. It tasted ok, but at least make some effort and add some other stuff to it. If I wanted canned of hearts of palm I would have just gone and bought some at Zona Sul. Prime Rib - This steak was soo bland. Not sure how that is possible as a Prime Rib is one of the fattiest and thus tastiest cuts of meat on a cow. Usually just by the amount of fat on this steak makes it taste great, but somehow they screwed this up. Almost no flavor at all. What a waste. Filet Mignon - Understandably this steak has less fat and thus less flavor than most steaks, but again this steak was exceptionally bland. I don't think I have ever asked for steak sauce in a restaurant, but I had to. And for whatever reason when they brought out our "steak sauce" it was a bottle of soy sauce. Cod - One of the most offensive things I have ever had served to me. Cod is usually a very clean smelling, flakey fish. This fish reeked, was incredibly dry and tasted extremely fishy. It tasted like it came straight out of the Lagoa....20 days ago. I can't believe they had the audacity to serve it. We each took about 1 bite and couldn't go on. We tried to send it back, but maybe due to the translation issue, lack of caring from the manager or management shamelessly trying to rip people off they refused. Maybe this was our fault for ordering cod at a steakhouse, but the waiter did say it was very, very good. Complete B.S. Sides - These were fine. Got broccoli with garlic, French fries and some sort of boiled/baked potato. Wine - We did have 2 bottles of great Argentinian wine. It's funny that the only good thing about the meal was the only thing that the restaurant didn't touch. If you are visiting Rio and are in the mood for steak, I implore you to go somewhere else.

Best place to eat meat and barbecue in Rio! Love it! It's a very old place, and it has the vibe of tha restaurants from the mountains of the southeast of the country.