Chiarascurrias
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I just wanted to add to my original review. They've improved the signage and the menus. It is clearly priced by weight. For me, this is great, because I can put together a modest meal on the cheap. For you who like to gorge yourselves like a bunch of pigs, perhaps an all-you-can-eat place is better.
As I said, it is a buffet, but the meats are properly grilled in the kitchen. After you visit the buffet, the guy in the kitchen gives you your meat. It does not sit on a steam table. This is as it's always been at Barill Grill, but now us uninformed, non-Brazilian pukes can figure out what we want to order by reading the new-and-improved bilingual menu.
This place has grown on me since my first visit. Wines by the glass still suck. With the glass doors open all around, it really is pleasant. On a hopping night, it's a perfectly good place to waste away your evening if you happen to live in the neighborhood. When the Brazillian national futbol team is playing an important game, things really start to get rolling--two large screens broadcast Brazilian television at the bar. Entertainment continues to be average, but hey, it is free.
As I said, it is a buffet, but the meats are properly grilled in the kitchen. After you visit the buffet, the guy in the kitchen gives you your meat. It does not sit on a steam table. This is as it's always been at Barill Grill, but now us uninformed, non-Brazilian pukes can figure out what we want to order by reading the new-and-improved bilingual menu.
This place has grown on me since my first visit. Wines by the glass still suck. With the glass doors open all around, it really is pleasant. On a hopping night, it's a perfectly good place to waste away your evening if you happen to live in the neighborhood. When the Brazillian national futbol team is playing an important game, things really start to get rolling--two large screens broadcast Brazilian television at the bar. Entertainment continues to be average, but hey, it is free.
I have been to a few of these places and have not found them to be an enjoyable experience. Those I have been to have had a "salad bar" (maybe that is to be expected at these places, I don't know) and to me there is probably nothing that cheapens a dining experience more than having a salad bar. I also find it very disconcerting/annoying for servers to pop up with a surprise on a sword to be available for the next thing to eat and to be looked at after each piece served to inquire if I want more. Give me a standardly served dinner of my choice over this "show" any time.
Salad Bars are part of the experience. It wouldn't be a real churrascuria (I have NO idea how to spell that word) without one. You just have to set your prejudices, based on other food cultures, aside.
(Also, at good churricsurias [I have NO idea how to spell that word], the salad bars are like phenomenal.)
(Also, at good churricsurias [I have NO idea how to spell that word], the salad bars are like phenomenal.)
Salad bars at your typical mid to high end churrascuria are nothing like the ones you find at a Beefsteak Charley's. Cept for special orders, those swordsman don't bring side dishes, they're found at the salad bar.
And of course I've taken my little friends to the churrascurias and Brazilian stops around town. Bring an exceptionally cute one and she can flirt and order the stuff the kitchen staff never serves the gringo's.... chicken hearts, lamb rump and a seafood stew.
And of course I've taken my little friends to the churrascurias and Brazilian stops around town. Bring an exceptionally cute one and she can flirt and order the stuff the kitchen staff never serves the gringo's.... chicken hearts, lamb rump and a seafood stew.
Depends on where you go. At the more generic or chain places like Greenfields they don't bring that stuff out. At joints like Plataforma it's much more the norm. But even at Plataforma and Rice & Beans there's stuff the kitchen staff will never bring out to the gringos. Some of it even Andrew Zimmern wouldn't eat... but you never know.
