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| - If you've never been to Texas de Brazil, you're in for an experience unlike most others. Contrary to a typical dining experience where you order from the menu, at TdB you take a seat, order your beverage and the food is served on the spot. Your table will be approached continuously by numerous servers each offering a prepared selection of meat: bacon wrapped filet mignon, BBQ flank steak, beef rib, garlic sirloin, lamb chops, rotisserie chicken, sausage, pork loin and more. The flank steak stood out as the best of the bunch. If you've eaten too much, flip over a marker that informs the server you're full; they wont offer any more. Flip it over when you're hungry again and the meat keeps a comin'.
A salad bar is available with a large selection of prepared salads, meats. cheeses and some salmon. You can build your own salad as well, but I found it to be lacking most of the basic ingredients of a typical salad: chopped tomato (Or cherry tomato), diced onion, cucumber, spinach, black olive and egg. Yes, they have bacon bits and croutons. You can however get creative and just top off the lettuce with some of the prepared salads and lay dressing over the top (Meh?). A prepared chick pea salad seemed to help. They offer sliced tomato, but it seems odd to lay it on top of a salad. It's meant to be tasted with fresh mozzarella and balsamic.
A hot-station has au gratin potatoes, fish, beans and a couple other options. Don't fill up on all these offerings however; you'll need room for the abundance of beef, pork. chicken and sausage. At this particular location, it was very busy and our service was sub-par. The people seated in the middle of the restaurant were getting flooded with meat offerings. We were set off to the side and spent several minutes waiting for someone to come over. The server offered me another glass of club soda. What he didn't tell me is that I'd be charged $3.50 for every glass. Most restaurants will charge you for the first glass and give refills for free. Not at TdB. I spent over $10 on three glasses of club soda: nice way to run up the bill mr server. When finished, we waited a long time for our plates to be cleared and for desert to be offered.
For desert I ordered Creme Brulee and a glass of Chalk Hill Chardonnay ($13 for the wine...not bad). The Chardonnay however was served in a water glass shaped somewhat similar to a wine glass. This glass is not suitable for wine though. What happens when you order a 1995 Chateau Latour for $2500? Do they serve it in a water glass????
As this is unacceptable, I went to the bar in search of a wine glass (I wasn't willing to wait around for our server to return.) When I went to the bar, I expecting to see a fine collection of wine glasses (They have top-dollar bottles on that wine menu). Low and behold, there are none. I asked the bartender if they had a wine glass. She handed me a water glass. I informed her that this is a water glass and that I needed a wine glass. After some scrambling, she produced a Bordeaux glass. Ahhh.....they do have wine glasses, but only for those who spend the big bucks. On the table to our right, they ordered a bottle a wine. Yes, it was served in water glasses. I guess they didn't spend enough money.
The Creme Brulee was fine, but not above average. I should have ordered the cheese cake. Aside from banana cream pie, the other offerings wouldn't have paired up well with the wine (Chocolate cake?).
Many people have complained about TdB meats being too salty. I understand why this is a so. Many of the meats, but not all, are seasoned about as much as possible without it being over-seasoned. For some folks, this will come across as tasting like sea water on the palate. IMO, it was a touch on the salty side, but not to the point of error. Perhaps on some days they get a little carried away with the seasoning. They probably have seasoning shakers in the kitchen. If careless, it would be easy to ruin a good dish.
I think you should experience TdB. The experience is unique and everything is well prepared. That being said, it's clearly over-priced. Our meal was 50% off and I still spent $65 including tip: $25 for the meal, $13 for the wine, $10 for the club sodas and $9 for the desert. I don't care how you slice it; it was not a $95 meal. They served my wine in a water glass. LOL. TdB is much like a buffet, but instead of walking up to it, the buffet comes to you...and it's all meat. Try it one time and decide for yourself if you'll go back. Pay the $50 for the meal, buy a drink and skip the desert. I would go back, but order cautiously.
If you're thinking of taking a date here, think twice unless you are certain that person is a die-hard meat lover. Of course, you could pass on the meat and just order the salad bar.....$20.
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