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| - This review may be a little inside baseball for some of you but I hate you anyway. This review will be only comparing this Fogo to other Fogos because if you don't already know that Fogo is awesome at this stage in your life you are a lost cause.
1. Service- our main waiter was a little clueless (he was white not Brazilian and had no idea how to pronounce anything, rookie mistake) but the Gauchos were very good. The 2nd meat to come around was Picanha but all the outside pieces had been taken. I told him I would wait, and he winked at me knowingly. From then on he brought EVERY Picanha over to our table first so I could have an outside piece. This kind of watering is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Overall the meat flowed continuously, drinks were refilled (although the water is garbage, def spring for bottled/sparkling as Summerlin water is borderline Waco water) and sides were brought out continuously.
2. Food- Most things measured up pretty good, here are the things that didn't quite meet top of the line fogo standards
Pao de queijo -these are the cheesy poofs. They were very thick and dense, not large and airy which is how i prefer them- they clearly need to work this out as whoever is making them is out of it
Bottom Sirloin- this was a little light on salt for my tastes. The whole point of this meet is salt
Beef Rib- I didn't see anyone else ask for this, and they don't bring it out unless you ask. As a result I think it had been sitting in there a while too long and was therefore kind of dry
Picanha- pretty good, but some pieces the fat was still very white/not cooked
Limeade- not quite nailing these. Don't get me wrong, still quite good, but they are not as creamy/frothy as a well established fogo, and some of them had very little lime taste ( I say some as I drank like 40 of these)
They also didn't seem to have Filet, or non garlic ribeye- but it was lunch so who knows
Overall: This is better than the strip fogo for sure, not quite as good as the best fogos I have ever been to, but its 2 miles from my house so I will prob be eating there every other day.
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