Minhoto Restaurant

It hurts me as a Porkchop to slam a native eatery, but this place is horrible.
The service is always great, and my parents always get the royal treatment. They love the place, but out of the 2 times I’ve been there with them, I’ve gotten horribly sick off of the food. I ordered 2 completely different meals, yet each time my food came out super greasy and luke-​warm.
I’m honestly too afraid to try them a third time, so I say for Minhoto — approach with caution!

I’ve been here 4 or 5 times, and every time, the food and experience are great! Great environment and lots of delicious food to choose from.

The service here is wonderful. The staff is friendly and very attentive. However, the food was ok at best and slighlty over priced. I came here with 3 other guests and none of us could really say our food was delicious.

Carmen is a great waitress and her contributions to society are appreciated!

Couldn’t have been more pleased. First time with my friend. The service, attentiveness and friendliness was unreal. The food was amazing! Totally treated like special guests! Can’t wait to return

Place is pleasant. The food was freshly made. The waiting staff is friendly. I enjoyed my visit and will be returning.

Planned a family gathering here this Mother’s Day (went the day before)…we had a large group of 13, and had to enter through the bar door because the main door was locked. It was uncomfortable carrying small children through the bar to the other side connected… I’m not sure if it was an ethnicity thing or what, but me and my in laws (I’m white and my in laws Puerto Rican) were seated at fold up tables covered with a table cloth, while the Brazilian/​Portuguese customers got star treatment. Could have been a coincidence… our service was bad. The waitress was sweet, but the man who brought out the steak on a tile was spilling grease all over the floor and on my baby nieces plush jacket and didn’t even apologize. Our food all came out at different times and we had to constantly ask for bread because there were hungry children while waiting nearly an hour for chicken fingers, and we got attitude for continuously having to ask. When our glasses were refilled, they did so quickly as not caring that the beverages were being spilled all over. I don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese so I asked what certain items were and the waiter spoke quickly while walking away as if not caring… I ordered the chicken in rice thinking that’s what I’d get… I got a rice soup with bits of chicken. Had I known it was a soup, I wouldn’t have ordered. It was very bland. Someone in our group ordered the chocolate mousse for dessert-​the menu should called it chocolate soup because it was so watery-​NOT a mousse. And, the fact that you are given the option to buy a single apple or a peeled orange at a cost of $ 3.50 as a dessert shows how «classy» this place was. My husbands créme brûlée was also burnt. When it came time to pay, we did the math amongst the family since some had cash and some had cards. We told the waitress how much to put on each card after the cash was put through…30 min later, I had to ask what took so long… I was told the waitress didn’t know what amounts to put where and couldn’t do the math… she had acknowledged the amounts when we gave her the 2 cards (told her $ 68 goes on the cards and the rest was covered by the cash) apparently this was too hard to understand. One thing I still have yet to figure out is why there were so many ugly fake trees scattered throughout the restaurant…

I’ve been going there a lot more lately. I love the great food and the live music that was added recently.
Start with some warm bread and butter. Camarão a guilho (shrimp in garlic sauce is great) and their seafood platter on pasta. Finish with a galão coffee.
Friendly and attentive staff.

The food might be good, but I can’t say. Been waiting over an hour to be served and service is lackluster at best. Even for a holiday, everyone else seems to be eating except us! Stay tuned!

The food is above average for homemade Portuguese food
The fish plates are fresh
There is parking in the back
It is just okay and fresh

One of my favorite rodizio places and the employees are all great too

This restaurant was by far the best experience I’ve had with a Portuguese Rodizio in the Newark area. It is located Elizabeth surrounded by homes. The waiters were extremely friendly and the cooking staff was entertaining. The restaurant is a well lit and decorated dining hall with a hallway leading to an extremely nice Bar. This is a place I will be a frequent costumer. Well done guys !