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| - My wife and I bought a discount coupon for Pampas at Tix 4 Tonight on the strip. We were buying tickets for a show at Planet Hollywood, so we decided to go ahead and eat somewhere in PH as well. We paid $3/each for a $20/each discount on our choice of the Meat Rodziio or the Surf & Turf Rodizio. We both chose the Meat Rodizio for $39.95 (before our $20 off coupon). We presented the coupon to our server when we were seated and he was obviously familiar with it and he explained what our options and discounts were.
Plenty of other people have explained how the Brazilian steakhouse concept works with the servers coming around with the different meats, so I'll skip that part.
The food was good. The salad bar area was self-service and there were alot of options, mostly made up of dishes we were unfamiliar with since, I assume, they were Brazilian. Some of them were great and some of them we didn't care for but I don't think they were made poorly, I just don't think they all fit our tastes. No problem there though, we were trying new stuff. Overall the salad bar area was good.
The different meats were good, some better than others. The fillet minion was excellent, as was their very tender ham. My wife and I both loved the grilled pineapple which didn't seem that appealing at first but it really was! Some of the other steaks and meats, were good, but nothing too exciting or better than you could grill up at home.
We each ordered a drink to our table; my wife had an amaretto sour and I had a margarita on the rocks. We aren't drinks snobs by any means, but both of these drinks were undrinkable. We had drinks all over the Vegas strip and Downtown and we never had a bad drink except these two. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe the bartender was sick or the servers have to make their own drinks? My margarita tasted like cheap, overly sugary sweet and sour and it tasted like something you'd expect to get out of a punch bowl at a frat party.HA! My wife's amaretto sour probably had the same sweet and sour mix in it because it tasted very similar. Again, I hate to sound like a complainer because everything else was pretty good, but the drinks wouldn't even cut it at a Chili's Bar & Grill. We didn't say anything or complain because we figured we wouldn't get anything any better.
With the two drinks and the two meals our total was $99.90 before the $40 off coupon. All in all it was a good meal and I think if you've never been to a Brazilian themed steakhouse it might be worth going, especially if you get a coupon. I probably wouldn't return, only because there are so many great places to eat in Vegas, but again, we enjoyed our food and our time there.
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