Zicos
Chaweng Beach Road,
Tel: 077 231560
This is a truly fun operation as well as a place to pig out on meat. The food concept is simple; there is a fixed price menu that includes a salad bar and all the barbequed meat you can eat. The meat is cooked over charcoal on a sword. The sword is then taken round the tables and served to any who want it. On the swords are different meats.

The night I was there we were offered: Chicken (dry), Turkey (OK), Turkey rolled in bacon (good), beef (inside good outside burnt), pork (good), lamb (good), salmon (good), barracuda and prawn (dry). In brackets are my assessments of each meat offered. In fairness I would point out that I like my chicken clucking and my cow mooing. The meat course comes with vegetables and potatoes. Everything is unlimited and the servers did not hold back. A nice touch is the Zico mat beside each place. One side is green the other red, if you want more food leave the green side up, if you want to stop or take a break, put the red side up.
The restaurant is large and airy with the barbecue a feature at the back. The tables are big and the chairs comfortably adequate for the largest person. The service were remarkably good and clearly much time has been spent on staff training.
Just after we sat down a couple of dancers appeared in Mardi Gras kit and waggled their botties at all the tables. The dancers were tall and dark. Obviously our party has spent too much time in Thailand, we thought they were Katoeys. But on the second bottie waggling trip we realised they were not, in fact they are native dancers from Brazil.