I just made an account just to review this place....HONESTLY WORST PLACE EVER.This is coming from a person that's open to anything, from the most posh club to the weirdest lamest bar in Camden....Me and 3 other girlfriends decided to go to Guanabara tonight, it sounded like a good place... We were expecting to go to a Latin/Brazilian place that would actually play some latin music... after all this is what they say on their website about Friday favella bloc parties..."No other night in London can you expect a tropical riot of dance sounds and an eclectic mix of global music with a Latin twist! The atmosphere is completed with special live acts alongside live percussion, Capoeira, DJ’s and our infamous Samba shows. This is the way to start any weekend!"THERE WASNT NOT EVEN 1 LATIN/BRAZILIAN SONG...THE ONLY MUSIC THAT WAS ON ALL NIGHT WAS RIHANNA, 50 CENT AND SOME SONGS THAT WERE HITS IN THE 90S. Honestly now, LAMEST PLACE EVER, don't even bother going there, -£10 to get in , £6.50 for the worst cocktails... SERIOUSLY?-Full of drunk lame people-smells like SHIT-REALLY BAD MUSIC

This place is highly overrated. Has no Latino spirit at all, it just felt like a English wanna-be Latino club. The music sucks, is very old, both the Brazilian and the normal club music that comes at 12.
I waited the whole night for something to "happen" but the boredom never left.
Take it from a Latino girl herself... DONT GO THERE!!

I have to say I don't know what some of these reviews below are going on about???? My friends and I have have been a regulars at Guanabara for nearly five years now and have always enjoyed its Brazilian theme as a venue. It really brings back memories of my time in Brazil. The warm nature of the people who go there all the time, the fun and relaxed atmosphere without the usual heavy dress codes and meat market environment most other London clubs have is what really makes Guanabara special for us. Guanabara has always been a place for good times, dancing, great Brazilian live music and reasonably priced tasty cocktails and food for my friends and I.It really upsets me that some of these reviews are slamming the live music which 'is really Brazilian' so if you are slamming the music you are basically slamming the culture. I suggest to some people perhaps they go to Guanabara with the mind that this is not an English club, serving sausage and mash and that this is not just a club night but a cultural experience, that is as close to Brazil as you will get outside of Brazil. To me it shows a real display of ignorance to the experience you are going to and for people who like club music after the live music at around midnight they play your commercial music better than any London club I have been to. For other people please don't be put off by these reviews, when you go to Guanabara the Brazilian staff and most of all regulars make it an unforgettable experience especially on Sundays (my favorite night and the Brazilian night:) ) where complete strangers drag you to the dance floor and teach you how to dance Forro to get everyone involved in the dancing! Its a great laugh and I will continue to support Guanabara for years to come! Love it.

Booked for 8:30 on a Friday evening. The table was not ready when we arrived so waited 20 minutes, despite the venue emphasising that customers arriving 15 minutes after their allocated time will lose their table.Another 20 minutes until the waiter bothered to take our orders, and then only because we grabbed him as he went past. The entire evening consisted of us on the lookout, ready to take advantage of the rare moment when the waiter came anywhere near our table. Drinks and starter finally arrived after another 40 minutes. Mains 30 minutes after that. Just to sum that up - it took 80 MINUTES from walking in the door to receiving our meals!The food was bland compared to Brazilian offerings elsewhere, distinctly average.The waiter had the nerve to add a 12.5% service charge to the bill which we immediately had removed. At no point did any of the staff apologise or offer any deductions for the awful service and huge delays. All around us we could hear other customers complaining about the length of time they had been made to wait throughout their evenings.There is a plethora of high-quality, reasonably priced restaurants in the area. Avoid this place at all costs!

I purchased a voucher for about £25 which entitled my girlfriend and I for a three course meal and cocktail each. This sounded like a pretty damn good deal until we got to the restaurant. Our first impression was bad as was a hassling with the bouncer who appeared to have started drinking, (night still young at 7:30pm), although I may have just mistaken this for his sub-normal IQ level. He gave us a round of 20 questions before we finally were allowed upstairs to a dull walkway lit by what appeared to be a one very dim bulb which nicely resembled the security we had just passed.

Once inside the restaurant we waited for a waiter to sit us at a table. Boy did we wait. And wait. Finally I approached a waiter who was as occupied than an ASLEF member on boxing day. The comedian told us to "wait" while he cleared a table before sitting us by another already cleared table. Brilliant!

Thank God menus were already on the table as the last train was at half 12. The set menu had about 3 options for each course and we made up our minds after a couple of minutes. Service came several minutes later. Of course we tried to wave over a couple of waiters without being rude but they were as observant to customers as moles are to stars. After ordering, a pattern was broken as the cocktails and food was brought to the table within half an hour.

But... BOOM came the random really poor Brazilian music. It was one man bellowing the lines "Ba ba ba, da da da, cha cha cha" about one thousand billion times. However, his fellow musicians were extremely talented. All 4 of them shook their tambourines very well. The guitarist was the best through. He could strike 1 out of 2 of his chords very very well!

The food was okay (5/10) and fortunately for me my girlfriend is a surprisingly quick eater so we were out of the restaurant by 9:30. God knows where the bouncer had gone off to because we were just approached by 3 predatory cab drivers in the pissing rain but I think I'd rather be ou

Don't believe the hype about Guanabara. You walk up the stairs and it looks like a downmarket wedding while the inside looks like a student bar. The food staff were very disorganized: they took my friends' orders, then waitress said she would come back to take the rest. Because it took them so long to process the orders, my friends ended up going to the (very crowded) bar to get their drinks.

They cram in people to eat while drinkers crowd around them. I was seated next to the kitchen area exit & because they packed so many tables in the dining area, they didn't have much space to come out with the dishes because the benches were so close together. Drinks & food are pretty expensive (but the food was ok).

It's not the worst place I've been to...but it comes close.

I went to Guanabara for the first time on a Saturday night with my sister. The atmosphere was great from the moment we got there and the place was buzzing by 8.00pm. We tried one of the platters, it was huge and delicious. The cocktails were great and my sister said she hadn't had such a good caipirinha since her trip to Brazil and is now considering having her Hen's night at Guanabara. We also enjoyed the live drumming. For a good night out with friends I would recommend Guanabara.

IT'S NOT A RESTAURANT!Don't be fooled. This place *could* become the stuff of legend, like Saturday's at The Jazz Cafe used to be before they gave in and become a w***y 80s night!Their biggest problem is that clearly upper management is only looking at the bottom line, so they over-stuff the venue. Cut numbers by 20% and it would be ideal, as it is you can't move, you have to practically wait in line for the dancefloor and the table staff simply can't cope.I accept that we had to pre-order our set menu for a party of 12, that's pretty normal, but if so, they shouldn't get 3 items wrong (that's 25% fail rate, if you think about it) Not that it mattered, despite appealing names and descriptions the food was bland and uninspiring. Hot n Spicy Chicken Wings were exactly that. Hot, spicy, but utterly flavourless, which I suppose is actually quite an achievement. I'm not even sure how that's possible!!Also, we had a set time to arrive with a set menu for a set number, all of which was confirmed just a couple of hours before arrival, yet we still had to wait over an hour and a half for the first course to arrive. What's more, what they called seating for 12 was seating for about 8, just REALLY squeezed in to add the rest.So the eating experience was a total wash-out. What DID work was the bar service - despite a room that was jam packed (which mixed with all the food and an inadequate air con system smells creates a HORRID wall of hot, clammy, stale air as you walk in) they were friendly, speedy and most of all made great cocktails. I rarely had to queue for any excessive length of time.Also, the music and performances were spot on and great fun. It was chilled Brazilian beats with easy hip hop to start, building into up tempo soulful and disco house, interspersed with carnival dancers and capoeira performers, before finally, around 11, dropping into the bog-standard commerical house routine that (sadly) all bars have to adhere to, to retain the mod