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| - It sort of sounded funny that they've called a Brazilian place "El Gaucho" (which means "The Cowboy", but relates to the Patagonia cowboys - there was not much of those in Brazil, especially after that war over the Uruguay independence back in the XIX century ;-)
Anyway, I was looking for some good meat feast, and in this sense Rodizio (this is a proper name for the Brazilian "meat buffet") was just about what I was craving.
For those unaware, it works like that: You seat at the table, get a bottle of wine, and then servers start to pop-up and offer you a fresh, smoking pieces of meat on the shiny metal spears. You nod or dismiss, point with your finger, they cut those chunks you like and drop them on your plate.
Typical error is to eat something apart from the meat - potatoes, salads, starters, etc. Just don't! :-))) Try all the meat you can possibly ingest. Start with those little sausages - first fried, than those with more blood in them. Then move to pork and lamb, than beef. Ignore the chicken! Well you may try it, just for giggles, but not much. Trust me, it is so much more fun to try all those different flavors of fried meat - hard to believe there is so many of them existing.
When you feel like losing it, use a switch-card to give a "red light" to the servers and take a break. Those cards could be literally pieces of carton, or some fancy plastic figures, but whatever they are - their task is to say the servers not to pop-up just now.
Expect to get more wine and continue the game. My personal record set in San Paulo was 9 plates of fried meat. No worries, you can get there too, just practise...
Now back to our "Gaucho Barbecue". Khm, barbecue sounds like an insult here but oh well... It is an actual Brazilian rodizio, and it offers not as wide a scale of meats as the South American prototypes routinely do, but is quite good for this part of the world. Quality was, again, barely ok. In the best cases it was good - but I might be badly biased, simply being accustomed to that sort of food - sorry for that!
My main complain (apart from only six or so different types of ordinary meat to play with) is a huuugely inflated price. Guys, those prices are wrong. Rodizio is a great thing, but it is essentially just a "meat-buffet", to get together with guys from the office Friday night - and it should not bust the wallet the way Gaucho does. In Latin America those places are usually on the cheaper side, compared to the full-scale expensive restaurants, and I can't understand why it should be any different in Canada.
For those who've never been to rodizio, or would like to recreate an experience, Gaucho is a good place to go. Not so great to return, I'd say, but that happens...
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