Villa Brazil Café Grill
Brazilian restaurant · Long Island City ·
Brazilian buffet with churrasco meats, salads, baked goods
Brazilian buffet with churrasco meats, salads, baked goods
"Villa Brazil is a cafeteria-style buffet complete with sneeze guards and tiled floors, and all of the food here is sold by the pound. But unlike your typical buffet, this Astoria spot has amazing homestyle cooking and a dedicated Meat Guy. After you’ve piled your plate with freshly made Brazilian hot dishes and salad, go to the churrasco window where the Meat Guy (who's also the head chef) will offer you the day’s selection of grilled meats. This is one of our favorite homestyle Brazilian spots in the neighborhood, and the quality of the food is on par with what you'll find on higher-end a la carte menus." - bryan kim, neha talreja, sonal shah, will hartman
"Villa Brazil is a longstanding Queens favorite for Brazilian comfort food, especially regarding the all-you-can-eat buffet. “You want some of the best Brazilian BBQ in NYC?” says Khan. “You have to come to Astoria where there’s a community of Brazilian people here that keep the culture and cuisine alive. Make sure you ask for the spicy chicken sausage and the beef ribs.”" - chris mohney
"If it’s one of those nights when you’re so hungry that everything on your way home looks good, try to hold out until you get to Villa Brazil Café Grill. At this Brazilian buffet-style restaurant in Astoria, you get homestyle food by the pound, and there’s a churrasco window where you can choose from a rotating selection of things like picanha, frango, and sausages right off the spit. The intimate dining room is calm, the buffet spread is vast, and they’ve got freshly baked desserts behind the counter to take home." - willa moore, will hartman, neha talreja, carina finn koeppicus
"At Villa Brazil in Astoria, the setting is a cafeteria-style buffet complete with sneeze guards and tiled floors, but there's amazing homestyle cooking and a dedicated Meat Guy (the nexus of any good BBQ). It's got a cozy, familial feel, and you can eat and run as soon as you finish whatever you've piled up on your pay-by-the-pound plate." - hannah albertine, bryan kim, neha talreja
"Villa Brazil is a longstanding Queens favorite for Brazilian comfort food, especially regarding the all-you-can-eat buffet. “You want some of the best Brazilian BBQ in NYC?” says Khan. “You have to come to Astoria where there’s a community of Brazilian people here that keep the culture and cuisine alive. Make sure you ask for the spicy chicken sausage and the beef ribs.”" - chris mohney
