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| - I went to Gaucho for lunch last Friday. Did you know that you can save a ton of dough by going to Gaucho for lunch instead of dinner? $17 instead of $35. True, it is 7 kinds of meat instead of 12 kinds, but face it, after a few skewer rounds, you lose track of what you are eating anyway, so it doesnt matter too much.
So, for $17 lunch, this might be one of the best deals in town. There was an entire hot+cold buffet, which consisted of all kinds of salads like regular salad, crab salad, beet salad, potato salad etc, and hot meals like mashed potatoes, rice, FISH STEW, onion rings etc. These people don't skimp on their buffet items, let me tell you that! That fish stew was amazing, by the way. But I digress. I did make the mistake of piling on my plate with the delicious buffet items, but then the meat started coming, and after about 4-5 turns of delicious chargrilled juicy meat, I was full. But, I kept eating. I had to - it was so good! Anyway, after stuffing my face and telling the waiter that I was done - no really, this time I was - I settled for coffee. Such copious amounts of food was already putting me to sleep. Then the coffee came - true Brazillian coffee it seemed, because let me tell you, it was FANTASTIC. It was out of this WORLD. Seriously, I even asked the waiter if I could buy this coffee to take home and he pointed out some 'Gaucho' coffee bags for sale near the entrance. If only I owned a coffee maker, I would have snatched one up, but alas, I dont.
The coffee itself would have kicked up my review to 5 stars, but I give it 4 stars because when we first came, we had to keep standing for 5 minutes until someone seated us (mind you, the restaurant was almost empty), and then another 5 minutes after we sat down, for a waiter to come and officially greet us and ask us which lunch special we wanted.
But a solid 4 stars!
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