Samba

We are regulars to Fogo de Chao in Minneapolis every year on our son’s birthday
But since we are in Vegas and staying at the Mirage we thought we would give Samba a try.
Plus: same price as Fogo
Negative: everything else! Poor service, no salad bar, quality and taste of meat not even close to Fogo!
We were there late in the evening (9:00) and it was obvious that everyone just wanted us to leave. I didn’t realize that 9:00 dinner in Las Vegas was late!
There is a burger and beer place next door and throughout dinner I was looking at a poster at the burger place thinking «is it too late to get up and grab a burger?»
The answer should have been, get up and go
We stayed, we payed, and we will NEVER return!
Too many options in Vegas to settle for bad food and service!

Dry. Moisture less. Tasteless. These are one of the few words to describe the meat here. I seriously needed to chug a cup of water after eating this.
The price is typical for a Brazilian statehouse but not worth it for this place.
Environmen: could have been better.

Don’t do it. I made a bad choice in coming here for a wonderful Brazillian BBQ experience. The food was Not Good at all especially for the price that I was paying for. I have never taste such a bad filet mignon. Treat yourself to a better place. It might cost you a bit more, but you won’t regret it. Trust me.

:(they can’t split a check. Not for large groups but food was good. 3^rd try and I still don’t have my card back or got the correct ticket. Our show starts in thirty minutes and we may miss it.

We had excellent services, food was AAAmazing and cooked how we wanted. You definitely get what you pay for.

I should give less stars so that the masses will stay away. I like that there have not been long lines lately!
This place is great! Easily on my top 3 Vegas stops.
MMM. :)

Something is not right at this restaurant. They claim to be a Brazilian barbecue. But is not like any other Brazilian barbecue that I’ve visited. The meats are cooked together and are dry and tasteless. The mess on a stick sort of blended together. Not sure if I was eating lamb, steak or pork or bread Staff was nice, friendly and helpful so I gave it 2 stars.

Visited Samba once again. I love this place. Around $ 45 per person for dinner, but it was great. Excellent service and even better food. I wanted to finally sing my praises on Unilocal for this place. Keep it up!

So I and 4 other friends came here over the weekend to try out their food as we are big foodies and obviously take our Unilocaling very seriously lol Anyways, for 3 of us including myself, it was our first time at a Brazilian steak house. It’s located inside the Mirage hotel. They give you 2 choices, $ 10 difference between the two, and the pricier one has 2 more additional items on it. We all went with the lower costing one. Staff was friendly, surroundings were nice, but honestly I just didn’t feel wow’d. In the beginning the gave you a salad which they never came back and asked if any of us wanted more. Aside from the meet that they slice off for you, they bring these side dishes which also not impressive. Tiny bowl of veggies, medium bowl of rice and beans, tiny bowl of fried plantains that were way too sweet, and then they have their version of garlic bread on skewers too. All the things Ive heard about from their competitors and coming here I just feel let down. Dont get me wrong, the employees were great. I just wish the food was more bold and flavorful.

Great prices for their food packages, especially for Vegas. For $ 50 you get the higher package which adds salmon and filet. $ 50 for all you can eat steak, chicken, pork, and salmon (not to mention the salad, pineapple, and those little bread things that taste like they have cheese baked in them. Lol), that’s unheard of in Vegas! Everything was excellent, no complaints for anything I tried. This little place was definitely a good find (a colleague set up this dinner for me so mad props to him!). Very good service as well. I couldn’t eat everything they were bringing around fast enough!
Another little tip. Get the Caipirinha. It is a sweet rum punch with lime and natural sugar cane I believe they said. It is life changing!

This was my first experience dinning at a Brazilian Steak-​House! It was so good!
Do not eat anything before you go here because you want to leave room in your stomach to be able to taste everything.
One of the guest in my party is Brazilian and he said that the food was very traditional and tasted authentic!

Having been to Brazil, this is very authentic and amazing! We all decided on the buffet (where it comes to you). If you like meat — this is amazing! Do not be hung up on the decorations… it’s Vegas, baby! Very over the top/​cheesey but when you are joined by friends and eat the most amazing food, it is a fantastic experience! Everything is juicy, cooked to perfection, and plentiful!

SambaSamba Steakhouse is a fun experience all around. Now, I can’t rave about my experience because this restaurant did not supply the WOW factor. To start off, this Brazilian Steakhouse offers two types of menus: the endless meats and salads, or you may order directly from the menu. We ordered the endless meats, salad, and sides. I truly enjoyed the salad, however I would have wishes that the salad be left at our table for use to continue to enjoy throughout our meal. Yet, the meats were okay, when we could receive some. The restaurant servers were very slow in bringing the various meats around; even when our card was turned to green. Now, I must say that we arrived at the restaurant exactly when they opened and their were only four other parties seated inside of this establishment as well. So, I can’t quite understand why the service was so slow!!! Now, the highlight of my dinning experience came when our drinks arrived. The alcoholic beverages served were excellent!
Overall, this is a good restaurant inside of the Mirage, but if your looking for an up beat Brazilian restaurant, this might not be the spot for you.

When you’re in Vegas, you gotta embrace the tack sometimes. My dad and I had originally wanted to go to the Italian place that’s also in the Mirage, but it was closed in Sunday, which is totally legit ANYWHERE ELSE, so we picked Samba instead. It seems like most restaurants within resorts have the same kind of design and structure as if they were truly street side, but not this place. It’s kind of plunked down on a slightly raised level on the casino floor, which really can go either way. You hear and feel the energy and excitement of your surroundings, but sometimes you just want to focus on your dinner.
The décor is kind of like a Cirque Du Soleil meets Denny’s. A little cheesy and tacky, but not in a way that distracts you. It’s definitely the place you take your older parents, but not necessarily your date. When I suggested this place to my dad, he of course immediately countered with that he didn’t think he would eat $ 40 worth of food, but he totally did and he was totally happy.
The food is great here and plentiful. Even if you opt for the lower tier, the cuts of meat are still tender, juicy and just amazing. The cocktails are also great, with fantastic sangria and caprinhina. It’s a reasonable bill for what you’re getting and you certainly won’t leave hungry. Definitely worth it.

Hubs and I were waiting for Tosh 2.0 to start and all the bars were super packed at this hotel. We noticed that no one was sitting at the bar at Samba, so we decided to be guinea pigs and sit there.
The drinks were ok. Nothing that I would ever go back for. Lucky for the bartender, because we were sitting at the bar, we apparently drew others in and before you know it, he had about 6 couples sitting there. Hope he made some good tips! :)

Are the all you can it! So many different options of meat from 2 types of steak, lamb, pork, sausage, chicken. We had a party of 20 and had 2 waiters. The waiters brought one type of meat at a time and gave us as much meat as possible. The meal started with salad and bread. I forgot the name of the sauce that went with the bread but it as bomb. Then rice, beans, veggies (kale, zucchini, carrots) and plantains for the side. There was so much food and you can always ask the server to bring more meat. The meat was seasoned differently and well and it was delicious. Great for big groups (takes reservations) and for small groups.
Located in the Mirage.

I didn’t choose the restaurant and after reading the reviews I was a bit concerned. Our table decided not to do the BBQ as it is just too much meat before sitting through a 2 hr show. I’m glad we didn’t as most of the unfavorable reviews pertain to the all you can eat.
I opted for the seafood stew which was delish! The portion was huge, with a lot of shellfish and two large pieces of seabass. The broth was light with some tomato and kale. I wish I had bread to soak up the broth.
Service was excellent, cocktails were good as well. My dish was good but I’d say this place needs to step it up if it wants to compete with all Vegas has to offer.

First time trying Brazilian food!!! It was a great experience, new flavors, interesting meal, and nice friendly staff. Pretty colorful small restaurant with a nice ambiance, Hostess very welcoming, my server was from Brazil, she was very attentive and knowledgeable about the menu! You have choices to order from a regular dinner menu or do the All You Can Eat of a variety of meats table side.
My server recommended the Rib eye and that’s what I decided on. It comes with garlic oil and salsa for dipping, bread basket, house salad, white rice, black beans, vegetables, and a plantain banana dessert marinated. The meat was well seasoned, cooked medium rare on top of potatoes. Everything was so delicious and I was tasting new flavors that I haven’t had before. Rib eye was great but definitely could not finish … A lot of food and left full, satisfied. I really enjoyed the plantain banana because I’ve never had anything like it before. Next time I would come back for the AYCE hungry and definitely want to try Brazilian restaurant again.

Samba is a basic Brazillian restaurant in the Mirage.
Samba is all about the all-​you-​can-​eat option. They offered skewers of pork, beef, chicken, and lamb. The meat came around every two minutes and kept on coming. No one was lacking meat at our table. There is a nice selection of steaks offered here too if you are not interested in the all-​you-​can-​eat option.
Meat is the big feature of the menu but there are a few seafood entrees and one vegetarian option. The vegetarian option, Legumes Feijoada, is a huge bowl of beans. It was very bland and the presentation was nothing special… just a big bowl of beans. I recommend staying away from this dish. It was horrible.
Dessert come in small shot glasses and in a variety of flavors. Each dessert shot costs a few dollars. I recommend trying a few. They are all very tasty.

For an an unusual experience during Restaurant Week, I, my wife, and two friends ventured out to the Mirage for a Brazilian rodizio churrasco dinner at Samba. I walked inside the restaurant with an open mind, not knowing whether or not this would be a memorable meal.
The beginning was auspicious. We were seated in a beautiful reserved booth with a view of the entire dining room and part of the outlying casino floor that the hostess called «the best seats» in the place. Soon afterward, our server introduced himself and described the churrasco experience and «green light, red light» system by which to indicate if more cuts of various meats were desired to be brought to the table, or to be held in abeyance for a time. We then each informed our server that we were all interested in ordering the special Restaurant Week rodizio offering, and the presentations began.
Samba Salad was a very tasty complex salad including Garbanzo Beans, Beets, Hearts of Palm, Kalamata Olives, tomatoes, Feta Cheese, and of course field greens. After being asked to indicate how much salad we wanted ladled on our plates, our wishes were honored to the letter. But the rolls and other bread products set on the table were bland and not very flavorful.
Then we were brought side dishes of hard vegetables like Brussels Sprouts & Carrots, good Black Beans, and very good sweet Plantains, along with some Pico de Gallo and a kicky sauce of minced garlic in an oily foundation for spicing up the meats to come. In fact, because various cuts of beef were mostly bland, the garlic sauce did improve the taste of these entrees.
In no particular order, we were brought two types of Top Sirloin and Flank Steak, Garlic Toast, Chicken Legs, Roasted Pork & Pineapple, slices of lamb, sausage & Sweet Peppers, and well-​received hunks of Brushed Turkey Breast Roulade wrapped in tangy bacon, which was Diane’s and my personal favorite.
Included dessert consisted of a selection of small but rich and interesting parfaits, including Mocha Cinnamon with Chocolate Mousse. After I often forgot to put on the brakes with a red light, the skewered meats kept coming, and we hardly needed these refreshing meal enders.
This restaurant without walls reflected a very nice colorful South American ambiance, with very comfortable seating. And service was very good: both proactive in refilling water glasses, and responsive to diners’ requests for more specific food items.
3−½ stars overall, largely because most cuts of meat were bland.