Rio Brazilian Food in Croydon - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Went in there today 29 July, was greeted by a lovely lady who took my order which was jerk chicken rice and peas she asked if I like extra gravy which is always a yes and for the large value at £9, big portions nice coleslaw aswell and great service, hadn't been in over a year will begin coming along more again

Nice but had to sit outside it was cold

Oh my word. I bought jerk pasta, sponge cake, a beef patty and a piece of fried chicken. The food was overpriced and terrible, I can't believe they have customers! The beef patty was the only thing that was good. The "jerk" pasta was so bland it didn't even taste one bit like jerk. The fried chicken tastes like I was eating flour. The customer service is zero, quite rude and I didn't feel welcome ordering from their shop at all. Certainly never going back again.

The size for mac&cheese is a joke for the price you are paying and it was cold dumplings are not fresh and rock hard can knock someone out

Very nice food and the service was great.

Tastes like it was cooked by Asians cosplaying as Jamaicans. Pepper steak tougher than my life to date AND it was sweeter than the SWEETCORN in the pot of coleslaw - I want to cry. You should be arrested for the state of the STALE Coco bread.

patties were so unbelievably dry taste old

My 3 year olds favourite food to eat

The soup was exceptionally good. Nice flavour. Lovely surprise to taste a little sweet potato.. 😋 Very happy that I woke up this morning and ordered super large and liver lunch.. Thank You.

I ordered curry goat, rice and coleslaw. The rice was hard in placed and the curry goat chewy. Not a good 1st impression

Wrong rice . They gave me rice I was allergic to

delivery got to me on the exact time i requested, food was delicious!

food was tasty and arrived on time.

Apple crumble was disappointing more like a sponge cake with not enough apple or crumble

I ordered food to be delivered not collected, I then receive a thank you for your collection which I did not collected. I would like a full refund please.

Very old food used again for sale,even if we bought many items none was at least enjoyable. Meet can be very old and not to be identified. The worst curry goat that taste like lamb or beef ,dry and old meet as in the picture. DO NOT BUY!

I am visiting the area and was desperate to have some 'home food'. I have to be honest I was a little put off by some of the reviews, but thought that the food can't be any worse than the hotel food I have had to suffer for the past few days....BUT, I'm soooo glad that I ordered. The fish soup was very good, I wish I had ordered the large. The brown stew fish was very tasty with the mixed veg that had plantain in it...very nice. The shop tried to call me to say that they didn't have any Mac n cheese, but I didn't hear the calls.....so imagine my surprise when I got to my hotel room with my food to see a note stating they are sorry they didn't have M&C but they sent me crumble and custard...and a slice of cake instead...WINNER! All I can say is on this day, you guys were 'on point'...thank you.

Worst customer service on Sunday evenings. There’s a young guy that works there ( mild complexion working around closing hours specifically around 9:30pm) And a new Jamaican girl who took ages to serve me and customers. He acted like it was one big party and continued to stare me down as a form of intimidation talking in youngster paywall which made me very uncomfortable. They need to realize that we ( the public) pay for there salary and a lesson in customer service @ may” help him”.

My favourite Jamaican restaurant on this app however I would say the apple crumble isn’t apple crumble there is hardly any apple in there and there’s a sponge type of texture which is more like a bake-well tart and not much crumble either. I guess everybody needs theirs differently, but this version is not for us.

Had had a stew chicken delivered. It was more like stewes chicken bones. It was inedible. Really unsatisfactory.

Not nice at all paid £10 for large oxtail got 3 small pieces with dry rice taste horrible never again. Disgusting tasteless nasty

Fresh food, great service great menu best Jamaican food shop in South London

So pleased that this restaurant is on Just Eat is the best Caribbean restaurant in South London been going into the shop for many many years so happy to see they are delivering would highly recommend their food

The food was alright. However there was unpleasant hard pieces of onion or onion skin in the food that was not editable. I wondered what it was because it was see through like plastic but it came apart like a onion. I also got given the wrong drink.

I love their soup and atmosphere is whilst waiting

Very nice food especially the chicken soup

the food is amazing for the price and for the amount you get i recommend anyone looking for good food give them a chance 10/10

Really lovely good. Lovely staff. Love the apple crumble!

Absolutely amazing! Best crumble I’ve ever had! Some of the order was unavailable but they let me know and were so lovely on the phone. Will definitely order again

Food tastes good. Shame forget my Rio can drinks but was refunded without any hassle. Very speedy delivery.

This was my first time ordering, I don't usually like leaving reviews but I'm hoping it will offer an opportunity for improvement. I ordered 3 desserts with custard, 2 cakes banana and ginger and a crumble. Unfortunately, one cake the darker coloured one was inedible as it felt and tasted dry and stale and the second cake was dense and had bits of eggshell in. All three desserts were generously portioned but I was disappointed in the quality and taste having paid just over £6 for each. Hoping my experience was an isolated one.

I do not write reviews but I literally have to come and write this. If I could give minus 1 I would. Food is disgusting and as a Jamaican very very disappointed. Brown stew chicken was no where near brown stew. Chicken was raw! And pink how?! Rice was soggy and mash up like soup. If this food makes me sick I will 100% writing a complaint to head office. Terrible

Greatly seasoned food and the variety present is vast.

Impeccable customer service..period..shalawam kaaaabooom ❤🖤💚

food great portions abyssal. I ordered a large goat curry with rice and peas. It xame in one small container. Rip off. food taste good however. better off ordering small because that's what you'll get

difficult to source genuine good food at the moment , This food is always on point . Hot , delicious , simply amazing , keep it up you man 👊🏾

the food was tasteless and very untidy in the takeaway container.£15.00 for one finger of banana one slice of yam.and a tiny amount of ackee it's ridiculous

Terrible customer service and inconsistent pricing.

Firstly: I PRAISE the AMAZING delivery driver who BICYCLED from the restaurant + STILL delivered my order on time even though he had A GREAT distance to travel! He's GOT to be the GoaT! Secondly: Before C-19, I was a regular walk-in customer of Brixton Caribbean Cuisine + had been for years. The shop was ALWAYS full but customers didn't mind waiting as the food was tasty, reasonably priced with reasonable + standard-sized portions. Today I placed my second online order + I'm sad to say I was disappointed. Aside from LOTS of small sharp bones in my curry mutton, there was FAR TOO MUCH pepper in it. I ordered one LARGE portion of curry mutton which cost £14.70 + one SMALL portion of rice + peas which cost £6.20. The total (plus a £1.99 delivery charge) was £22.89 FOR 2 ITEMS! The so-called 'LARGE' curry mutton container arrived in a container the size of which they USED to use for a SMALL rice portion. The size of the so-called 'SMALL' rice + peas arrived in a container which was EVEN SMALLER than the size of the container they USED to use for a SMALL rice portion. I did not even KNOW such SMALL containers were available!! I understand that prices the restaurant pays for ingredients, gas + electric etc may have gone up, but as a business, I suggest you should 'take one' for your own team + absorb some of those costs so you can either retain and/or grow your customer base. Making the customer bear the full brunt of rising costs, just makes you appear as if making a profit is your only goal, when you WOULDN'T BE making ANY profit AT ALL if it weren't for your customers keeping your busines afloat. You are pricing yourselves out of a market in which you were (probably) in the top 5 in Croydon. Sadly, this was my last order as it was REALLY expensive considering what I received. Having said all that, I sincerely hope that you manage to stay open + will either consider reducing your prices, or return to using fair-sized portion containers, or both!

food was tasty but the oxtail meal came with very little gravy and it could of done with a little more cooking so it would be falling of the bone. Arrived very quickly.

I've given a 2 as the taste and quality of the food is inconsistent. 3 weeks ago I had curry goat and it was lovely. Although the large portion on that occasion was small and way too much bones. More bones than meat. Another inconsistency depending who serves you. Yesterday had curry goat again and clearly different chef. Too much pepper and not nice flavour. Almost inedible but as I live in S Norwood, too far to return. They really need to sort out portion sizes and taste. It's too hit and miss. I want to like this place but find it hard.

Delivery time kept getting longer than estimated time and the food was not good. Coleslaw was watery and sweet

I enjoyed my order and thank you for the Saltfish Fritter.

Wow what amazing food. Oxtail peas rice and cabbage. 10/10. My go to lunch now every Friday. Piping hot in secure containers.

Fresh and delicious porridge with my festivals was top on today thank tasted delicious good start to the Vehicle day now I’ve got my soup with my beef and cheese patty for my lunch and tea. Good to go for the day

Very worst restaurant. My bicycle missing today 1 pm. They didn't give cctv. I bought 2 days ago1500 pound.

For the size of food portions I received this is seriously overpriced!!

The time kept changing from latest 15 20 to 16.20. Was delivered 16.02

The food was okay but ordered through deliveroo and paid extra for a large portion size and coleslaw but was served small with no coleslaw. I can understand they don’t really care about customers but it’s a shame that a business practice this kind of dishonesty. Avoid this place if you can !

Food was great as usual But delivery driver on phone voice echoing all through the hallways

Didn't receive it lady was helpful giving me just eat number bt number not recognize nt the shops fault it's just eats

I enjoyed my order but the Vegetable Red Peas Soup, Medium was missing.

The goat and rice was nice a little watery but nice and a good size. The coleslaw is nasty, it’s got sweetcorn in it and it’s spicy for some reason. The beef patty was dry, crusty and tasteless.

Wouldn’t get it again- dumpling was like a rock!

I just went to Brixton as I had a few minutes to spare before my train came and it’s been a while since I visited since moved away. When I entered the shop there was 1 person serving & 3 people in-front of me, 2 behind. I waited a moment before deciding to leave as I wouldn’t make my train in time. Not the staff shouting me down with “OI’s” & “OI, WHERE YOU GOING?”. Aside from the fact it took me leaving the shop to get someone’s attention, that isn’t how you speak to customers. Although the food is good and i’ve been going there for 10+ years, the customer service is sub-par making the whole experience unenjoyable.

My order was completely wrong& a lady called me because she got my number of the receipt on the bag so our orders weee mixed up.Not happy

Nice shop, good turnover, polite staff. I like the soup & the chicken bites

Love the Ital soup,will always make it my first soup choice. The stream fish is well seasoned with good,good flavouring. It comes with the option of "hard food" or rice. A very,very good Caribbean Take away.

Food was nice apart from fish soup. Tasted like burnt bottom pot. They should taste first. But everything else was beautifully made

Bought red pea soup today. Far too much red peas. Spent time fishing them out. I normally go to another shop for but decided to try them. Won't be going back.

If I could have tailored more meal more I would probably order from these guys every other day.. for example swap out the flour dumplings for cabbage and pumpkin .. i ordered the Callaloo and salt fish meal (Breakfast hours) got a large hoping for more callaloo and salt fish but got two huge dumplings which I don’t eat

Recommended Foods: Fish tea, Ital red peas soup, Salmon with Rice & peas and Pumpkin, Okra stew. Recommended Drinks: Irish moss (without milk), Sorrel & ginger, Soursop juice (without milk) and Guinness punch

money was taken from my card and no food was delivered

Best Tasting Cow Heel Soup 100%

Food missing and didn't read any of our instructions.

Always good quality and enjoyable.

Possibly the worse food I have ever eaten from Caribbean take away! The food tasted and smelt like full on plastic!!!!!!!

If you're ordering food through a delivery app, make sure your food arrives cold, as they wait until it's ready and sometimes take a while to deliver it to the drivers out of pure pranks. rude and rude employees

Only place that ever seem to have peanut porridge available. I enjoyed it but was more milky that most so lacked a bit of flavour. Partner had bananna porridge and liked it. Ordered sprats too. Not the freshest tasting but was still good overall. Hard to find them. Love that soursop fresh juice has non dairy option. Partner ordered sorrel. Both juices enjoyed. Prices do seem a bit steep for what you get. £30 for 2 Medium porridge, 2 fresh juice & 1 sprats portion. Deliveroo obviously take a cut etc but still seems higher than necessary. Haven't tried the rest of the menu to comment although reviews don't seem brilliant. ATM would stick to what I know is OK as a bad experience would put me off ever coming back. Not going to try the rest of menu until reviews improve. 10 years ago food was great but customer service has never been good hence why we order instead of going in.

This is their mac and cheese :/. Definitely, it's not worth the price. It's such a small portion. To me, it looked and tasted like if it was just boiled pasta and cheese on top. It's horrible how the food is not fresh either. They just warm up in the microwave, in the same plastic container you are given.

Ordered fried dumpling filled with ackee and saltfish….i might as well have ordered dumpling alone…they drop in the tiniest of ackee and saltfish in the middle, just got the leftover doughy dumpling and that’s it. Need to proportion it properly and serve enough ackee n saltfish with the dumpling.

Food was dry dumpling was rock solid

Was so pleased when I could order delivery as I normally buy from shop. Food as always is so so good 😋 Curried goat is my favourite the meat melts in your mouth, flavours are delicious 😋 Best Caribbean food shop would thoroughly recommend 👌

Cow foot dish missing - please refund money back

I watched the driver go around the whole area and delay the order for over 45 minutes. The signal was lost five times. The food was cold. I expect better from just eat. Why didn’t he call if he was lost?

Good patties generous on the filling

I do enjoy the food BUT please read the requests. Such as not requiring provisions in the soup.. We all don't like yam, dumpling etc.. I write it everything and rarely adhered to. Thanks

I will forever love this place. Best food. Best customer service

Bad tasting food. Should be shut down.

If whatever reason you decide to order from this restaurant don’t

Did not receive the 3 ginger and guava drink ordered.

I was passing through and fancied a quick stop for some food. Ordered large goat curry and rice. The container was filled full of rice with a drop of curry in the corner. The blatant ripping off customers is staggering so definitely won't be back. Its a great shame as the food was good but can't support a business that is hell bent on short changing customers.

Very rude not happy about the customer service will not be ordering from here again

Good food and competitive price.

From 7am when it opens you can see people in the back preparing the food fresh all the way intobthd evening... 10/10 on the food! Always the busiest takeaway on a long road of takeaway restaurants Good price Quick service Keep up the great work!!

Tasty food, however presentation was poor and my meal was cold. I had to reheat it. Good arrived very quick.

First and last time in there. Was unprofessional in there, shouting and screaming while trying to order. A young looking girl served me, no customer service whatsoever!

Large is a small full of bone 1st an last time for me

Food was absolutely delicious proper Jamaican cooking I throughly enjoyed it. Thank you 😊

Probably the worst pepper steak I've had. Portion size small

food always good. unfortunately one of my patties was left out but i got a refund.

Not bad Food was still hot and there was added plantain which was nice Festival was tough though

All orders correct ! Many thanks

Two likkle piece of fried chicken gave me food poisoning lol

Amazing food. Loved the oxtail and goat. Portion sizes brilliant 🤩

Not only was the food REALLY cold , there was 3 pieces of Saltfish in my Ackee and Saltfish dish , NO flavour to the meal whatsoever , the meal was completely drenched in oil which is disgusting ,my canned drink was open and spilling in the bag , the whole experience was disgraceful , I am a Jamaican person born and bred and and I know for a fact that whoever is making these meals has no culture behind them as this is just vile

The rare occasions I visit this shop, I have always been happy with the service and the food. Recent purchase the harmony porridge, compliments to the chef!! I most definitely will be coming back. Thank you all for being so nice and pleasant. Kalonji

Nasty. Ordered yesterday. Clearly said white rice on two occasions for two meals and got rice and peas. Shared the meals with me and my girl and we both got a runny belly all day. Ordered fish, curry goat and steak. I rang up to complain and the phone got put down on me. They offered a refund but they can keep that. Sat here in pain Kmt and my girls like where you get that food from groaning Kmt. Looking at the reviews I dunno how they in business still. Nasty

My first time eating here and I mist say, I'm beyond disappointed! Like is this really a Caribbean restaurant? The most tasteless, unseason food I've ever had in my entire life. I can't even call what I had curry goat. My husband had jerk chicken and after two bite, he had to bin it. My son had fried chicken and rice and peas and he almost vomited after tasting the food. The food taste awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never again!!!

Absolutely no flavour to the food. I have given this establishment more than one opportunity, and they have fluffed their lines on every occasion. The service is awful. The staff seem more concerned about what they are doing that night or over the weekend, than making the customer happy and wanting to come back to 'enjoy' the food. I will not be spending my hard earned money in this place again. I would rather travel well out of my way, to get the food, taste and service I deserve and expect. 2/10