Rio's Piri Piri in Watford

I come here like 50% of the time for my lunch break, and it's always amazing food.

Food is better than any other piri piri place in Watford. Chicken is moist and juicy. Service on time. Would recommend.

Amazing food best grilled chicken 🍗

I've ordered chicken and rice ( extra hot flavor) but instead they gave me a different flavor which is too tangy it tasted like I'm having concentrated lemon juice . I've asked one of the staff if they've mistakenly prepared a different flavor which is not extra hot I'm sure. The person at the till haven't told me if it was wrong flavor he just took the box and went into the kitchen and told he will add more sauce so that the lemon flavor will not be so strong . I asked him to prepare a fresh one ( extra hot ) . The other person from the kitchen offered me to prepare a fresh one (extra hot) . Even the 2nd box was filled with too much sauce which was tasing like a strong lemon flavor. The staff were very busy to close , as we came after 10 . I heard about this place through my friend he told me it tastes good but I'm not at all satisfied, might be due to closing time. Even the customers who were on the other table were complaining the same thing about the sauce that it's tasting tangy. Something is wrong with the quality of the sauces. So disappointed.

Best peri peri spot in Watford by a mile

This restaurant is just perfect!! We are French tourists and we received a remarkable welcome: they listened to our requests despite the language differences, were very generous and very kind! I 100% recommend this restaurant, the food is very good 🤩

Staff can’t speak the country language which is English taken order wrong asked for meals and only put through burgers the rude man wants me to pay again full price for chips and drinks smelly staff not happy they need to go learn the language and have a shower before working

The service was fantastic we were greeted by Osama who was so friendly and helpful. This was our first experience, the food was fantastic and the atmosphere really clean and pleasant. I would highly recommend, thank-you

We were greeted by Osama who made our experience really lovely. He made us feel very welcome considering it was our first time and really went above and beyond. Would definitely come back again with family and friends. Such a clean and friendly vibe

I had a pita with grilled chicken and there is just 2 small piece of chicken strips inside and that’s also hard to chew bad experience

Guys if you have any doubts please not call one lady will pick the call and if u ask anything in very rude way she will say “ go to the website and then call”… hey management you should work on the training of the staff how to talk to the customer.. I asked her name but she didn’t tell the name so please check who was on shift on 1/10/24 at 9:33 pm… I am very disappointed

Great chicken and flavour. Only problem, parking is restricted, although you can eat in but lots of deliveries available.

Absolute rubbish. Chips were cold. Aircon was faulty and the excuse from employees was its leaking water. When it’s 26 degrees outside.

The Guy at the till has very good customer service skills 👏 Food was OK not too keen on the chicken wings batter but chilli sauce and fried chicken was nice

The loaded fries were disgusting- the worst loaded fries I’ve ever had - ended up throwing them away.

I found 3 flees in my food and a lot of raw meat in my chicken

The order was 30 mins late which meant I had to reschedule my appointments today, I was disappointed by the delay. However, as always the food was pleasant and because the service is usually brilliant and we are nice customers...we'll give 5*

Brilliant! Fresh Fried Chicken and Chips!

Resolved all issues politely and quickly. Great food and customer service

Regular Rio consumer but that’s going to change soon. Went down in quality since past few orders. Delivering wrong and incomplete orders, food quality terrible, dry chicken with no sauce. Cold old fries. Sorry, not your customer anymore. What a shame !

Cold. Different spice than I ordered. Chicken hard as rock. Horrible. Avoid!!!!

Great food and very tasty what a big meal on the burger I wasn't able to finsh my chips will coming here again I live in dunstable and had to travel to Watford worth it thank you team for the food see you again soon

We are regulars at Rio’s but unfortunately this order disappointed. The burger was dry, not saucy and the chicken we ordered despite being ‘hot’ flavour was very bland, not spicy at all.

arrived quickly. everything was piping hot. delicious flavourful chicken. Will definitely order from here again

chicken was raw and a missing item — the one star is given ONLY for the sauce cuz that was pretty good; i’d give zero stars otherwise lol EDIT: i went another time and got staph food infection and vomited all over my bed and in the toilet, but im still going back because it’s the best chicken in town. sucks about their lack of food regulations though

Everything that I've ordered from Rio's so far has been great, food is full of flavour!

It's very nice but should be a little bit cleaner

The double burger I bought, very dry, without salad or cream. I wouldn't buy it again.

I got some portions of wings here I’m surprised in that I got end of the wing a little piece with bone without meet. I opened it and they counted this as a wing it’s really shameful. And one more thing is the quality and quantity is changed it’s not like same before

Went to KFC next door and they had no chicken! So ended up here and was pleasantly surprised - prompt service and food was better value, hot and significantly larger portion - only had 3 pieces and chicken and chips but will be using again and KFC have lost a customer

The Food is absolutely delicious. The Family Platter is amazing to have and provides a great value. I have been taking that for a long time. Ramadhan offers were great value as well. Absolutely love this place.

Grilled Chicken and Grilled Wings both are really tasty. As always fresh tasty food.

The food and service were great however reading the delivery notes would be the icing on the cake! If followed then sleeping babies wouldn't wake up! Food for thought for future late deliveries!

Grilled Chicken and Hot Wings are really tasty.

i wanted Mcdonalds. then changed my mind to Pepes. They have bad reviews recently so I thought I'd try this. The smell and taste of lighter fluid was unbearable. 1 piece of chicken with barely and meat and the other actually had good meat. but I could not get past that odour and taste. I'll avoid in the future...You should too, unless you are a fuel fanatic!

Really Good Fried Chicken in Watford and as always fresh and tasty.

I received my order after 2h waiting…. Because the driver sent it to different adress. I had to call several times the restaurant to find out where my food is. When the food came… the hot wings was dry and cold….

Hot Grilled Chicken always very tasty.

The chicken was overcooked like a brick, someone must have cooked that chicken for an hour. I ordered ‘extra extra hot’ and it wasn’t even spicy, either they got my order wrong or their spicy levels are misleading. Despite that, the flavour of the sauce was good and the chips were good.

Usually my order always comes on time and is lovely yday when I ordered they got my order totally wrong & food was also stone cold.. disappointed to say the least

Food was cold even though they are only 1 mile away 😡

Fried chicken in burger was tough,rubbery and did not taste fresh. Almost inedible. Also they should mention on app that it is spicy. Chips were burnt. Grande burgers had good flavour but the fillet was a bit small for the bun.

Food was very cold and items were missing, rice was stone cold and delivery 35mins late. Very dissappointed

The flavour of the Hot Grilled Chicken and Hot Grilled Chicken Wings is very good. Also the fried chicken is nice.

Nice food, very good service and best food among the neighbouring chicken shops.

Food was cold and not enjoyable

Grilled Chicken has a very good flavour.

Fried Chicken and HOT Wings are really tasty.

Fantastic customer service, food amazing flavour, garlic and chilli dips freshly made and were delicious - peri peri chicken and wings mouthwatering flavour🤩 , spicy wings crispy and tender and peri peri fries are a must for any meal, first time ordering from here, an amazing experience 🤩 will definitely be ordering again soon

On 3 occasions, the food was not delivered!

The Grilled chicken has a really nice flavour.

Always food is cold but is people is not good today I buy chicken and rice I’m so cold turn the manager to change the staff if you can please pay for money and pay for food

Fast delivery, never disappointed, amazing food and chicken was delicious always

The delivery was quick and food was good.

Very good fried chicken and chips

Nice fresh chicken and chips, and Hot chicken wings

I had the burrito which was not made very well - missing some of the ingredients inside and squashed at the bottom of the bag. I also asked for ketchup but got this weird brown sauce instead. Other than that everything else was good.

Ordered 2 regular chicken burgers and was given 2 spicy burgers. Couldn’t be eaten as no one eats spicy burgers. Steak burgers were okay.

Really good value for money, chips where nice Fried chicken was quite nice, peri chicken really good. Delivery driver was brilliant. Will order again.

Food came early which was great, wings were a bit dry compared to normal but besides that everything was Elite. Would definitely order from here or Hayris Kebab

Food taste nice just a little cold and had to be re heatedand with a butger just made it a little floppy

The only problem was delivery person knocked on wrong door so will put a note when I place order next time.

Was a loyal customer but will never order from here again. The manager in Watford rio branch is a person who really needs to be trained on how to talk to customers. Their rice was tasting so bad and foul on 12th Jan and I had contacted them to report it but instead the manager kept yelling and teaching me that it is plain rice and will taste like that rather than listening to me. They don't value even their regular customers nor do they accept any feedback

Quantity was very very less in chicken wings not at all worth the money

One of best Piri piri burger shop in town staff is very good

Closed 2 hours before advertised closing time, wasted journey,

Very bad food and late timing never again

The order was incomplete. We had ordered the 15 wing platter but only received 14. And the size of the wings was smaller than usual. I also ordered 2 peri peri fries but there was hardly any peri salt on the fries. Usually Rio’s are very good with my order but on this occasion they didn’t do very well.

Was dreadful. Chicken over cooked, no flavour. Got nothing on pepes at all

Good food but forgot the salad

The best full chicken you can get ! 10/10

The chicken wings tasted very bad

Worst experience with the lady in the front ,requested her to add extra sauces on the chicken but she gave it very dry very bad experience with this lady.very bad staff to rios

Worst experience with the lady in the front ,asked her to serve extra sauce on the chicken ,request will pay more ,but she made it out dry ,i don’t understand why such rude and irresponsible people work in good shops

Satisfaction. Good smoothies beautifully thick.

All the food was cold, it all smelled off and it taste absolutely vile, only thing edible were the chips and even they were soggy oily messes

Food was lovely and the delivery driver was brilliant. Polite and courteous.

Always, always amazing….been going to Rio’s for ten years..,they have ALWAYS been awesome..thank you guys, See you soon

Raw food again my little son kept throwing up after eating your food

One of the best peri peri burger, chicken burgers and wings

Always a pleasure to be here, the staff are great and the food is good

Very expensive and the rodeo wrap was tiny especially when it was nearly £10!!

The chicken was dry and tasteless

Perfect in all aspects, food, delivery speed, delivery driver

Didn’t get Piti Piti chips was wrong also chicken was cold and very chewy and hard

Everything was soggy and mushy. Like meal was all sweaty. Pepe's, why I didn't I just order from Pepe's.

Great food with a lot of variety to choose from, good portions sizes, and an amazing chilli sauce. It's worth the visit.

Quick delivery and piping hot !

We ordered 3 meals but only received 2 mayo dips and 2 mint sauce, when they should have 2 in each meal. This has happened again, even when last time ordered they didn't send enough dips

Very fresh, hot and great taste food delivered

Better chicken than KFC. Good prices too. Also clean.

The food was really nice but it was quite cold

I love their Rio's Grande Burger 😋

Food was amazing, i saw uncle Naeem at taraweeh and he gave me a free burger, nice people. Food is phenomenal and exceptionally nice, rios on top.

Quality food and good flavours. Both grill and fried chicken taste great. Little bit expensive compared to others.

sometimes good and fresh but not always, never serve old food

Don't buy wings here it's rip off . 5 wings for £5.45 and they give just half wing. Better go for full chicken option not the wi gs here.

Super Rapid Delivery - Less than 15 minutes since ordered, and The Food was Fine too!

Food was good delivery was really good except couldn’t find my house however they called me

Ordered from the guys at Rio’s last weekend, after a while. Nothing has changed, STILL consistently great food, simply delicious, and unlike other food deliveries, always arrives PIPING HOT!!! I had friends over and had told them the food was excellent, and they loved it too, and are now going to be regular customers. Thank you Rio’s, in all the years, you have never disappointed.