“ Definitely one for meat lovers, this Brazilian restaurant and bar just off Deansgate is much more preferable to the Argentinian offering of Gaucho a few streets along. The atmosphere is cool - more relaxed and welcoming. Everyone just seems to be having a good, exotic time. Definitely one for meat lovers, here you can eat tons of BBQ'd beef, chicken, pork, lamb whatever takes your fancy in the upstairs restaurant. Wash it down with a tasty caiprinha of your choice (there are many) - one of my favourite cocktails and particularly tasty here. The downstairs bar is open till late and nice to go to for a bit of grown up fun: put it this way I've never got beyond tipsy here. They have live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Good option if you want to have lunch and drinks in the centre of Manchester. ”

“ Oh My God ! What a restaurant ! If you are a meat lover, there is no hesitation to have ! The restaurant is stylish and beautiful and the food is really good, well especially the meat ! It's the kind of restaurant wherer they bring over meat on sticks and cut onto your plate : sausages, pork, chicken, steak, spicy, garlicky and the best the brasilian steak. You have the buffet for sides with pasta, rice, potatoes and salads. All really good quality. Also, the wine selection is varied. I advice a Malbec to go with the meat. Service is really good, they come very often with a new stick of meat. For desert they have a pinaple with cointreau which is delicious ! ”

“ Having been to a proper middle-upper echelon churrasco in Brazil, I'd say that this restaurant gets the idea, but is drastically different in execution. Rather than being an opulent, nearly-sombre space for the well-to-do, Bem Brasil is a raucous, packed, house of protein pleasure. Having experienced many an all-you-can-meat restaurant previously, this was my strategy to the evening: - drink only enough water to ensure that I can still swallow - turn down seconds of any meat that's been processed - get seconds and thirds of any beef that appears to still be bleeding - finish up with a single trip to the salad bar to top up on some roughage to ease all that protein down the pipes I think the farofa here pretty much says it all about Bem Brasil: tasty, but has chunky inedible bits that you just have to spit out. ”

“ Somewhere as I write this review there is a vegetarian sobbing.... As the reviews below attest to a visit to Bem Brasil is for those with a hankering for meat, vast quantities of meat. It's not a cheap option, when the waiter said it was fixed price of £32 per person (as of December 2010) I was cynical that this represented value for money from what is essentially a glorified buffet. A basket of chips appeared at the beginning, a cunning, salty plan to fill you up and also whet your appetite for a drink. The buffet items were varied in quality, a black bean and chorizo stew was a delight, other items such as pasta were relatively pedestrian. However, never underestimate the power of meat to challenge a cynical but hungry man. After flipping our table markers to green an array of skewered meats were brought to the table, where they are carved by hand from what resembles a sword. The beef stands out, as it's the rich, deeply-flavoured sort that the Brazlians do so well. We had both rump steak and beef rib, each meltingly tender, pink and succulent. The gammon was salty but savoury, chicken wrapped in bacon much the same. The surprise of the evening was chicken hearts (yes, I know - bear with me) which resembled small sausages but proved gamey and intense. It's not a cheap option, once the salty meat begins it's far too easy to reach for the Caipirinhas. But, if you want a dinner that offers a new way of eating and have a fondness for well-cooked, good quality meat it's worth a visit. ”

“ Well worth a visit. It really is all you can eat and the quality is amazing. For £12 per head you can have the 'salad bar' which includes several meat and fish dishes cooked in the traditional Brazilian way as well as various delicious rices and pastas, and salads. The real thing to do though, is the full BBQ, for £22 per person. They give you a small disk, green on one side and red on the other. If your disk is green side up, every five minutes the waiters, who are specially trained in the cooking style and are called 'passadores', will bring you a different piece of amazing, perfectly cooked meat. The beef selection alone includes fillet steak, sirloin, rump, rib-eye and more. There is also chicken, pork and lamb, as well as barbequed pinapple. They also do superb Caipirinhas and other cocktails. The place itself is a great setting, very spacious and full of character. I certainly can't imagine anyone being disappointed. ”

“ This place is an all you can eat restaurant like no other! For one set price you can enjoy an extensive choice of different cuts of meat from a traditional Brazilian BBQ, carved at your table by waiters. You can try as much as you can eat of Beef, Lamb, Chicken, and Pork, all marinated in the traditional Brazilian way, fire roasted on a traditional charcoal BBQ. Not only that but there is a good selection of hot dishes, salads, and breads all freshly made in house that you can help yourself to. The set prices are great and you walk away feeling you definitely got your monies worth. This place is probably one of my favourites and is defiantly worth the few minutes walk out of the Northern Quarter! ”