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| - If you chew a single bite of food on the weekend you're planning to go to a Brazilian steakhouse, you are a fool. No, to properly do Brasa, you must starve yourself like an ascetic, emptying out your stomach so it is little more than an empty sack, and by the time you arrive at the Grill you must be as ravenous as a zombie.
Then you flip that plastic chip over to "Green" and let the waiters run up to you with swords bearing tasty, tasty meat. And you shove as much into your gullet as possible so that when you walk out of that restaurant your stomach is a straining Hefty bag filled with half-digested cow.
At Brasa, you become a meat smuggler. Your goal is to pay the man $35 and walk out with $50 of steaks in your belly. Sure, your gut will ache for three days afterwards and you don't want to know what your toilet will look like as your colon goes into emergency overdrive in its vain attempts to digest an entire lamb... But it's WORTH it, goddammit.
Brasa is no different. As has been noted elsewhere, it's not as good as, say, Fogo de Chao, but that's like saying that Harry Potter's not as good as Shakespeare. (Or vice-versa, if you're not a muggle.) The meats are still excellent, and you get as much of them as you want.
That said, the weird thing is that the quality of this place's dishes change from night to night - my friends told me I had to get the flank steak, which on that night wasn't very good at all (they agreed), but the tenderloin was excellent. So if you really have a hankerin' for their lamb, be warned that it can change violently depending on the evening.
Also, don't bother with the orange-muddled drink that attempts to be a mojito variant. It's pure vodka with acid citrus. Not good at all. However, you MUST have a shot of the delectable almond liqueur Dohrina, which is awesome.
In other news, the Grill has an awesome salad bar. It seems to be a big laugh on vegetarians. Why would you go to a steakhouse, you silly herbivores? But if you do, you can pay way too much to eat leaves, g'wan.
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