Pastelaria Broadway

Super casual spot (read-​hole in the wall. these are the best). This was quite the excellent Unilocal find and the prices were quite reasonable as well. I had the X-​Galinhawhich is a chicken sandwich with just about everything amazing you can imagine on it. You’ll see it and think you can’t eat it — and then it’s gone. The actual pastry menu (various stuffed pastries with meats and cheese) is nothing short of incredible. I tried the chicken and cheese, the beef and cheese and at least one other. Definitely a great spot to go — particularly if you have someone to share the calories with. If you’re going all in, try the coxinha too wth chicken.
It’s also a grocery store with Brazilian and other international foods. My 4 year old daughter was particularly excited about some Italian chocolate confections.

Amazing combination of fresh meat and vegetables in a crispy light roll
English translation on menu makes ordering easy, excellent value! Amazed students in Cambridge have not discovered this place! I will spread the word at MIT

One of the best cheap meals I have ever had had today.
Steak sandwich with ham, bacon and a fried egg, all on a large toasted bun. Girlfriend had a chicken pastry with Heart of Palm. Both were absolutely delicious, would urge anyone to go here to try out these Brazilian sandwiches, a real experience worth having!

Fresh oj! Had me sold on that! Getting freshly squeezed OJ is very hard to find.
Also the food — pastels and salagado were pretty yum… A must to check out. You can dine in, but I prefer a take out from here.

This is legit Brazilian food.
Best pastel you could ever find in MA. My favorite is with chicken and cream cheese. Order it with one of their juices, simply amazing.
Everything is delicious with a very reasonable price.

Pasteis– the best hangover food.
This place has all different kinds of pasteis. As far as I know, this is the only pastelaria in Boston, I believe.
I usually like just plain pastel with cheese. The carne one was a bit salty.
Haven’t tried their sandwiches yet.

First off, the delicious juices are amaaaaazing! So fresh, so bright, flavorful, and refreshing. I got acerola com loranja, and id highly recommend it. Super fresh oj, like Miami style or even better. An important point is that you really either need to speak Portuguese or be unafraid of pointing and rolling with it. I speak just enough Portuguese, and they were patient and helpful as I gathered my thoughts because I never actually spoke Portuguese to anyone before, and I wasn’t really expecting to any time soon :0.
Prices were reasonable. The burgers are 5 stars, but the meal plates are not quite as good. I got the special, the frango acebolado, or onion chicken. It was tasty, but the garlic was overpowering, not because they used too much, but because it was burned, cooked too long or too high. I love garlic, but it is awful when burned because of becomes overpowering. It was a great portion for the price though. I’d stick with the pasteis or burgers, which is what all of the locals seem to get. The cakes looked amazingly drool worthy too.
I tasted the filling of my husband’s burger, and it was amazing! It was very similar to Colombian burgers, but instead of the sauces, the Brazilian version uses deliciously sweet and crunchy corn! Oh yeah, they definitely did get our order wrong too. No, I didn’t order the wrong thing because the lady at the counter confirmed, and the right thing was on my ticket. However, we got the chicken sandwich, not the even
yummier xtudo. For some reason, the cook appeared to have crossed the xtudo with the fact that i also ordered a chicken plate but anyway, it was delicious and the same price, so whatever.
In short, unforgettably amazing juice, good prices, great burgers, clean and sunny place to sit and chill for a bit or carry out. Oh yeah, there’s a market too. Try the yummy Brazilian bon truffles.

If you don’t speak Portuguese, communication is tough. However, the food is really good. The sandwiches are huge and don’t cost much either.

Amazing food! I just got the X egg burger. OMG– ham, cheese, an egg, corn, tomato, lettuce, mayo, all on a Portugese roll!
This is definitely a meal — size burger.
I also love the space. The menu is in both Portuguese and English, and the customers are all speaking Portuguese — it’s like going on a mini –vacation to Brazil!

I went in this place because of the good review and I hated, the pastel had too much garlic, coxinha taste sour and the sugar cane taste like cockroaches nothing like the one u drink in Brazil, the guy was mopping the floor with bleach while I was eating. never go back

For a long time I was obsessed with empanadas. Then I was introduced to pastels and realized I had been missing out. I had the pastel craving today. It’s been a really bad day, after a really bad few weeks, and I just needed the comfort of delicious meat inside a crispy (on the edges) and soft (in the middle) doughy case. Unilocal pointed me here, close to work, and it totally saved my day. The pastels were great, the chicken was my favorite. The staff were all smiling and super nice and really made me ready to face the rest of my day. Thank you guys so much, I can’t wait to come back and explore more of the menu!

This place is a hidden jewel. The owner comes from my mothers city in Brazil and his cuisine has brought people from all over boston; surrounding cities just to get a lil piece of Brazilian pastels. They are a type of fast food made to order, a thin dough enclosed, stuffed with a grand choice of fillings and deep fried. This pastelaria cooks amazing food either prepared in the AM or cooked to order either way extremely fresh and seasoned well. They have a x-​tudo which is a mega burger with all the fixings complete with a egg over medium inside. They are affordable and even have a section in the place where you can buy Brazilian products/​groceries. This place dedicated a mini fridge to cold ketchup and mayo kept in bottles, located near the tables for customers to enjoy their food with. Getting trendy by the day is freshly squeezed orange juice which they’ve had one for a good amount of time having me quence my thirty with a glass. Def go try it out and see for yourself how the owners passion comes out thru his food. Cheers and obrigado!

Best pastel I have had outside of Brazil. They also offer a nice, but small, selection of Brazilian groceries.

Been here twice for sandwiches to go. Both times, they got my order wrong, putting cheese on when asked for no cheese, and on the last occasion also forgetting the fries. They are friendly enough, at least.
Actually, the last visit was going to be for dine-​in, but the place was absolutely filthy. Food scraps on every table and all over the floor. Place is as seedy as it looks from the outside. Yes, they stack a bunch of neat things on your sandwich (egg, corn, ham, potato sticks, etc.), but the quality is low.

This place is receiving 5 stars specifically because they sell and make on site this special «Sugar Water» which they grind from actual raw sugar cane right in front of your eyes. This is no normal sugar water, do not expect Kool-​Aid. This is an earthy/​grassy sweet beverage that I tried in Central America a few years back and figured it was a local delicacy. I was so happy to find this place and that they produce such a unique beverage locally. I will be back to try their sandwiches and pastries.

«You hungry?»
«Yea.»
“What do you want?”
«Whatever.»
“Sandwiches.”
“Cool.” [Yelps.] «OMG. Get off the interstate NOW.»
[Diving across traffic. Screaming possibly ensued.]
And that’s how we ended up at the Pastelaria Vitoria Broadway. It was my dad’s first experience with Unilocal.I’m glad it turned out well.
Be warned. It’s Brazilian. The menu’s in Brazilian (most things have an English translation). The staff all speaks Brazilian. I didn’t even know there was a Brazilian community so large in Boston. You have been warned.
It’s a small little family-​owned and operated restaurant. There’s a little convenience store in the back. Service was quick, efficient. Know what you want folks.
I got a pastel — duh — my dad got one of the sandwiches. My father gobbled it up like it was the last meal on the planet. I chewed on the pastel. First off, the pastel was big. Way, way too much food. Also, there was corn in it, which I didn’t expect, and it was little off somehow. I couldn’t figure it out but it definitely wasn’t exactly right for some reason. But it was good. My dad really enjoyed his sandwich.
Oh, and order just one side of fries. There’s a lot of fries in that basket.
Price wasn’t bad either. Two drinks, one fry, two sandwiches… all under $ 20. And my dad developed a little respect for Unilocal that day, so wins all around. :-)
Stop by if you’re in the area, definitely.

All Portuguese speaking staff and clientele but great food. The menu is on the wall in English and Portuguese. Had the X-​Tudo and it was a great sandwich. Would highly recommend it if you want a serious sandwich.

Came here for lunch and got the ‘normal’ sized X-​tugo. It has 4 different kinds of protein from 3 different animals. With corn and potato chips… All in the same sandwich. For $ 6.

park in a metered spot. open the door and get in line. read menu posted on wall — grab printed one on paper since it’s translated. place order for sanduiche and pastel.
pastelaria has 27 varieties ranging from plain old cheese to shrimp to doce de leite. what’s a pastel? easy: it’s a deep fried pouch stuffed with one or two of the fillings, house made and served hot.
the sandwich i ordered was the X Tudo — recommended by another Unilocaler. the portugese bun was enormous and barely contained the meat of the sandwich. bun envelops a hamburger patty, ham, cheese melted, egg, bacon, potato stix, lettuce, corn, tomato and mayo. seriously, the most ridiculous sandwich I’ve ever had. incredibly well put together and contained in a perfectly sealed foil wrapper. INCREDIBLE.
loads of desserts, salads and other baked goods available for hire. find it and get there.

When it comes to rules of thumb for reviewing restaurants, «you lose one star for every consecutive week that the flabby, crumbling dude in a stained, droopy t-​shirt who sweats behind the counter and flips your burgers hasn’t showered» is a pretty inflexible one… though in this case, I think cutting just one star is probably a bit generous.
On the plus side, the hamburgers are ridiculous enough to make the place worth braving captain flopsweat and his gruff, short-​order-​cook banter, all of which is in Portuguese. Don’t get your heart set on any one order or price, as he’ll just assemble something at random based on what he wishes you’d said.
The meat itself is just a standard, well-​done puck of patty probably pulled off of a frozen stack somewhere, but the fixin’s are like nothing I’ve experienced before. Corn, «potato sticks» (basically, strips of Ruffles potato chips), ham, eggs, lettuce… all stuffed into a Portugese sweet bread bun so cavernous it could have held a second puck patty without breaking a sweat. The same could not be said for me, however. I had to stop halfway through and haul the rest of that behemoth home for later.
Despite the name, this is not really the joint for pastries (just hit up Patsy’s next door), but I have a feeling it’s a completely authentic Brazilian greasy spoon experience, so it’s got that going for it.