I went here recently with a medium sized group for a bachelor party dinner. We arrived right at 6 pm for our reservations and were seated immediately. We were given the rundown on how everything works, and then were unleashed. \n\nMy first stop was the salad. I came in with a plan, go easy on the salad part to leave room for the good stuff (meat) and get some salad fixin's to at least make it seem like it is a somewhat balanced meal. Overall, I have to say I was pretty disappointed with the salad bar. The only things that I were really impressed with was the fresh cheeses (fresh mozzarella balls especially). I guess the pesto salad dressing was nice but most of it was just average for me. \n\nFinished the salad plate, and flipped the red/green card to go. (Note: I'm not sure how efficient this system was, there were times when I was green and the gaucho's passed me by, and times where I was red when they asked how I liked my cut). All of the sudden it was a whirlwind of skewer toting gaucho's, asking if you'd like some of their meat (hmm...that sounds more like a description for a bachelorette party?). I tried countless different cuts of meats, top sirloin, filet, chicken leg, lamb, etc. My least favorites were the lamb (did not like the flavor, I usually really like lamb) and garlic meat (can't remember the cut offhand) which was a little overpowering with the garlic (and I like garlic). The best were the filet mignon and the rib eye. The other meats I had were also very good. We were also served some cheesy bread rolls and a trio of sides, garlic mashed potatoes, fried polenta and fried plaintains. I did not try the plantains, but the garlic mashed were uninspired at best (and opposite of the meat had little to no garlic flavor) but the polenta was fantastic. I had at least three of those suckers. \n\nService was mostly good. One problem with the meat service is that you get hit with 5-7 different meats in rapid succession, then you don't see another server for a bit. Kind of feast of famine... Also, we had one person order an after dinner coffee that wasn't deliver and an error on the check. I additionally thought that the layout of the restaurant wasn't great, when it was crowded when we left it was pretty hard making it through all the tables when they were full and you had tons of employees running around.\n\nI liked it. I would definitely go back to a brazilian style steakhouse again, though if I went to Fogo, I might go for lunch (starting Oct 1) and save about $20 bucks.
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