Hubby and I celebrate our birthdays kind of close to each other and Fogo de Chao is one of my favorites birthday places. Sign up for their email list, read the fine print on the birthday offer they send and you will see. We got $25 off for lunch or dinner churrasco experience, plus birthday dessert.
Vanessa was our server this time and she was amazing, Brian assisted her too. I did not get names for our gauchos but pretty much everyone was awesome this time around.
Our favorite always are the beef ribs, which I do not think they bring regularly to the tables, we always ask for them (even more than once).
The salad bar was a little different but it had solid options, we also noticed the meats had different offerings but did not pinpoint all the changes.
My best advice for this place is to be very conservative with the salad bar, and start with super small portions of all the meats the gauchos bring to your table, and I mean tiny. Then once you try a few (or all of them) you can ask for little bigger portions of your favorites. Enjoy!
PS The only down side for me here is that they do not offer the grilled pineapple like some other churrasco places do. : (