If you love meat and have good stomach capacity, go with the experience, so yummy and worth it.We love the salad bar and the cheesy bread.
First time at this location. Repeat customer of the chain. Everything was fantastic. My favorite are the bacon wrapped chicken!!
Bad, bad, bad! The negative reviews u find on here are 100% correct. The positive reviews come from people with only one review ( bots) We had a table of 11 for my friend's b day. They pack you like sardines in this "fine dining " restaurant. A table of 15+ on both sides of us where we couldn't even get out of our chairs to use the restroom. Not to mention the place was SO LOUD with everyone right in each other we often had to step outside because it was so overwhelming. That's just the environment! The service was horrible! Our waitress tells us that we all can only order the same type of package meat deal with no variations. It says there's happy hour all weekend so some of us thought we could do that but only to be told that's in the bar area. Which is not mentioned on the menu online. When we sat down, they had a bottle of mineral water poured in our cups and when we asked for refills, they said it's gonna be another $25. $25 for a bottle of water and one we didn't even ask for?! When half of us decided to just get drinks they removed all napkins, silverware, and bread from in front of them. BREAD!! They couldn't even eat bread with their drinks!! Some of us ordered the Brazilian cut Service and some of us ordered entrées and we were all told if you ordered food you could go to the salad bar or whatever fancy word they called it. Most of the salads were empty all night and it wasn't very easy to get up and get the food. One of us ordered a seafood platter that was $38. And she went and got the salad bar because the waitress told us all too. Her food arrived. It was just two lobster clause and if you shirts and it smelled rancid! I mean, smell so bad that the table could smell it when it arrived. It took a long time for the waitress to come back to even tell her. Eva came to talk to us, but apparently that wasn't the manager. She was kind and caring and felt bad. The manager was Kimberly, and when she came, she already came with an attitude and mean face because I believe our waitress was telling her how much we were upset. I had ordered an entrée, but the meat was taking such a long time and I was already full by the salad so I said cancel the meat the waitress said well you special ordered it to be cooked a special way and I said no I didn't everybody else has gotten meat five times and I haven't gotten anything so I'll just get a salad bar. When the manager came, she said that she would finally comp her seafood meal. (I would hope so since the food was spoiled and rancid.) but when she saw that she had got the salad bar, she said she was still charging her for that. I looked at her and I said are you seriously going to charge her for the salad bar when you serve your food that would've made her extremely sick and ill and caused her to the hospital?! She gave an attitude to another person at the table because I was involved in the conversation now and she said yes we're still going to charge her for it. I said we are definitely all going to go on Yelp and let them know that you Kimberly had horrible customer service and not even sorry for her and putting rancid seafood plate in front of her. She made her pay for her salad she thought was included per the waitress and they kept sending her the wrong drinks! If you want to pay $50 + for a few meats (they said were very fatty) and a salad bar that isn't even stocked with horrible service or you can't even hear the people around you and pay $25 for a bottle of water you didn't ask for THEN definitely come to this place. look at all the BAD reviews and believe me and them! DONT COME HERE!
I am always very pleased with this restaurant, good food, service and atmosphere . It is located in the Irvine Spectrum with indoor parking across the street, lots of great restaurants, shops, and more.
I've been to other Fogo de Chao and I have to say that this location was not so good. Service was ok. Not at the level that I was expecting. We got seated and we were missing the forks so we had to ask our waiter for forks. Instead of going around and giving each person a fork, he just put the 4 forks on the table. We also had to ask twice for certain things. Another thing that bothered me. Restrooms were not checked. It looked messy and when I had to use the restroom, there was no more toilet paper. The meats were either too salty or had no taste. Especially the picanha; it lacked flavor and it was cut too thick. Maybe I'll give it another try when the Brea location opens up.
Still amazing after over 20 years.
I love the monthly special events to help promote new items and cocktails on the bar menu. I would like to be able and comment abd give feedback on new items.