Brasa Premium Rotisserie Review

Been going for about 3 years and the food is always great! Patio is awesome.

Small, cozy, great community experience, INCREDIBLE food!

Fast service, great staff, and the food is outstanding. I loved that their menu was marked for dietary restrictions!

Very Good food, kid friendly. Our meal didn't cost an arm and leg. We did the family style which let us try more of their dishes. Childrens menu offered great choices as well. Get the butterscotch pudding, its amazing.

I'm absolutely always hungry for Brasa. Vegetarian beans and rice is really good and, from what I hear, the carnivorous fare is equally memorable. A fun take away is their candied yam chocolate bar. May Brasa stand forever.

Excellent food and dessert. Good gluten free options!

Excellent food and service. Great atmosphere where locals go.

Service is very friendly and quite fast. We love the pork sandwich! They have possibly the best collard greens north of the Mason Dixon.

Collard Greens.
Damn.

Go here if you're a meat lover. Obviously the rotisserie chicken is fantastic, but everything they touch is gold. Ask for Patrick, grade A service.

Smothered chicken portion very small. Side garden salad $14.00 . More like a snack.

If you're looking for Latin comfort food in the Twin Cities, this is it!
Pricey though.

Great southern style food. Expect a 15-20 minute wait if it's dinner time, and parking is a pain, but it's worth it. Get a beer while you wait for your table. You can order by the plate but the menu is designed around ordering family style. Everything they make is great.

Excellent food and service. We ordered the pulled chicken sandwich and guacamole & chips. The sandwich was a very large portion. Bread was fresh, chicken was juicy. The guac had great flavor. We eat here frequently.

It's very good. You should eat here if you have the opportunity.

Great meats, but equally great non-meat dishes and sides. Unique flavors are easy on a Minnesotan pallet. Something for everyone.

Chicken came out in 2 minutes after the order. Patio was quaint

This was a great atmosphere, the food was delicious.

Food is great as always but I was very disappointed that this location does not have the fried catfish, mac n cheese, or pineapple gingerale like the St. Paul location, which is what I came for! Would have just got to the St. Paul location if I had known

The pulled chicken in poblano cream sauce is to die for, in my opinion!

Had a very good experience! Very nice place and excellent food. They bring a lot of tortilla chips as the food side, then don't order any appetizer with tortilla chips

A perfect casual go-to spot. Loved the family style service and the outdoor seating. Tried the roasted chicken and pork, chix was my favorite. Fried plantains were sweet and creamy. Would love to go back and try more.

Great food with a great selection of tastes. Good food and good people is pretty much their atmosphere

Criolo cooking at its best. The yuca fries are amazing, with their green aioli sauce (that sauce is to die for, delicious on their rice). They have vegeterian options, but they excel in rotisserie. They're chicken is famously known in the NE Minneapolis area. They are organic and use local, humanly treated, animals, so they are a bit on the pricier side. A whole chicken will run you close to $30 with tax but will feed many people. A half order of yuca fries tho, is only $5 and very delicious. Its a nice change from traditional "French fries" and also makes a nice appetizer. Also, their Masa cakes are extraordinary, and only $2.50. I put the red sauce on top, hmmmm, so tasty. They so delicious, makes me wish they were open right now lol.

UPDATE: After a decline in quality and also fewer menu options.. No more masa cake cause of covid. Im sad to drop down to 1 star rating. They add to all orders an automatic 18% charge additional to the tax already charged by the state. I understand servers need to be paid, if they serve. I ordered pickup. The service for bagging my food is 18%. The prices are already pretty high, but tolerable. With this increase Im sorry to say I wont be coming back till the stop charging 18% to all orders. Sorry, but we ALL suffering from Covid, I cant afford 18% for servers that dont serve.

Whether you enjoy a drink b4 dinner or relaxation after a fantastic meal, a visit to the warm campfire is a must stop.

Small Creole restaurant on the north side of Minneapolis. Has a small menu and everything is great on it. You have to try the Masa Corn Cake! This place delivers!

You can count on the food being very good here. Never have been disappointed.

Went for lunch on Mother's Day. I will not be going back. The chicken was dry, the beans had no flavor, the rice was hard, and the whole meal was cold. Definitely waste of time and money. One star is being generous.

Fantastic little place with a small menu of options. Great beers on tap and delicious pulled chicken and pork!

The food was pretty disappointing, seating cramped, and our service was abysmal. She spent more time chatting with fellow servers by the computer rather then helping us.

I call to place an order 30 mins before they closed. I was told they weren t serving anymore food, about everything in Brasa is slow cooked, plus I work at a restaurant just know it doesn t take long to make an order. So to be told I couldn t place an order felt like bad customer service, I know it was late but a job is a job until you re closed. I just would ve liked better from the establishment, that s all.

The chicken is fantastic get am extra dipping sauce your going to need it. If you love butterscotch pudding get two orders one to eat and one to go.

Small, homey with really good food and service to match. I have to go back and start working my way through the menu.

Delicious !! Did not know what to expect from this small place. Happy I gave it a try. Will definately return

The NE Brasa is one of our favorite go to local restaurants. Everything on their menu is amazing, but our favorites are the chicken, chips & gauc, spinach, & beans. That green sauce though... I dream about it.

This place is close to my office, highly recommended if you are looking for healthy lunch options.

fried yuca and a cold beer are the perfect match for this.
its a must!

Great tasting food but very mildly defined as Creole food. It was more like Carribean style. Also not many options for Pescatarians.

Great food, friendly staff. Wonderful place to take kids. Especially nice on a warm day when all the walls are open.

I love that they use meat from local farms here. The restaurant is tiny, but the food is amazing. The last few times we have gone, the service was a bit lackluster, but overall well worth the trip.

Such a gem! I just love the clan eating options here. You can order a la carte from the menu or get a platter. The guacamole and chips are a must, so fresh! And I love the collard greens as well as the andioulle sausage squash side dish (it's so sweet from the squash but you get a nice slice from the bites of sausage). The meats are always succulent and tender but to me they're not the highlight of the menu.

Excellent food and excellent service, I love yucca and fried tostones, chicken is at its point, prices very well considering that it is chicken without hormones, in short excellent place to go to eat with the family!

Had their pork which tasted amazing along with some great sides. Will definitely go back and enjoy more food.

Really good food. Interesting atmosphere. The only thing I didn't like was fresh cilantro in my rice and peas (yellow rice). But that's my personal dislike for cilantro. Otherwise the food was amazing, my fiance really enjoyed it as well. He even asked if we could go again.

Ordered the pulled pork, smoked beef, red beans & yellow rice, fried plantains, crispy yuca, and cornbread. Everything was okay, but nothing stood out. Our favorite things were the yuca and the beans/rice, and for a place like this you'd expect their meat to be the favorite of the night, but both the pork and beef were somewhat boring.

One of my favorite spots to grab something to eat. good location, clean, and good service. Keep it up!

Amazing! The tortilla chips are low-key the BEST I have ever had. I wasn't expecting that. The BBQ is omg good. Super good.

Amazing food ! I love the pulled chicken sandwich ! Service is great too

I honestly think this place is overrated. It feels way in the pricy range for what they really give you. However, the service and experience might be different while on regular operations.
Last time I went the fried yuccas were soggy and not as crispy as my first time in there, also the chicken was dry, so that loses some continuity in quality points for me.
Im not condemning them, but there aren t enough good elements to make me go back.

We received a gift card for Brasa a couple of years ago now and the food was so delicious, my wife decided to give up cooking Thanksgiving dinner and instead our new family tradition is to order from Brasa for the feast. Highly recommended.

amazing chicken! 4/5 because I wish they had possibly more assortment of dry rub for the chicken and also wish they opened a bit earlier

Took my GFGF (Gluten Free Girl Friend) to this place and let me tell ya the gluten free options are endless. Plus i ordered food with gluten in it and it was damn good. Reminds me of an authentic chicken restaurant in Mexican, with the wide open walls so even when you're inside, you feel outside. And they have bean bags and a cool fire pit so that's a plus. Only down side was the long wait (about 25 minutes for a party of 2) but DEFINITELY worth the wait 10/10 would go again

Excellent food and drink! Reasonably priced for the quality of food. Excellent service!

Excellent food, spiced quite nicely and great friendly service.

Way to expensive for somewhat decent food served by dirty hipsters that stink of pachuli

The food here is so good. If you're going there for lunch, get there before 11:30. They have limited seating.

Rotisserie Chicken with the Red Beans, Beef, and yellow rice is fantastic

A eclectic mix of Southern styled food. Good quality and the staff was very helpful.

Always love Brasa - the Yuca fries!!!! Wish Minneapolis had catfish like St. Paul.

Used to be one of my favorite places. Rude front staff. Not going back.

This place is killer. Friendly, delicious, and the patio is really pleasant. We asked the waitress to just bring us her favorite stuff, and she knocked it out of the park. My favorites were the pulled chicken and this sort of masa patty with cheese and spicy slaw on it. We had a pitcher and took our time without ever being rushed. I d definitely come back if I were in the area again.