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Originally Posted by Drunk Skunk
That sounds exactly like Fogo De Chao in Chicago, and other places.
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Originally Posted by Antithesis
There is another place on the east side of MacLeod near the 37th-42nd Ave area. It is called Gaucho and is also a Brazillian BBQ place. They do keep bringing you meat but I think there is a 2-hour time limit or something. Some of the best food I've ever had.
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Originally Posted by photon
Yeah the one I went to in Vancouver many many years before Calgary got one was the same; you had to use red a lot. In Calgary we went with some friends, and they were asking "what's the point of the lights thing."
Eventually we laid it on its side for yellow which for us meant "Pineapple only please".  |
This is all the Brazilian style of bbq called Churrasco and these steakhouses are called Churrascarias. They don't normally have whole steaks like we do, even at home in Brazil, they cut it up. The waiters (gauchos) bring the meat on skewers and you eat until you can't anymore. There's also a good buffet of salads, veggies, potatoes and stuff. I recommed the FEIJOADA. It's Brazil's national dish of black beans stewed with pork. It's very good.
I haven't been to the one at Cravings in Calgary because it doesn't look as good, but Gaucho and Bolero are great. Bolero has perhaps a better selection of meat, better feijoada and the great cinnamon pineapple, but I find the meat tastier at Gaucho. Both places make caipirinhas (Brazil's national drink made from sugar cane liquor called Cachaca) and they make them well, but they need more sugar to taste like they really do in Brazil.
Fogo do Chao is a chain from Sao Paulo that some cities in the US have. Samba in Vancouver off of Robson is also a Churrascaria. These places are great but you have to go to Brazil to eat the real thing. Just awesome! I think they are worth the money because if you think about it, how much would a rack of lamb or big steak cost you at a steakhouse? Easily $20-30. You eat one or two and you already got your money's worth.
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Geo/Prizm