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| - Leaving the house without a clear destination in mind, the wife and I went out in search of a delicious meal to satiate our growling stomachs. Driving up Patrick as it turns into Green Valley Parkway, we again saw Bertolucci Brazilian Steakhouse. when they were still serving Italian food, we gave it a try and never went back. Hoping for a different outcome last night, we turned into their parking lot and headed inside.
We were hoping the nearly empty parking lot was just a sign of a lack of knowledge regarding the restaurant's existence, rather than portending the food we were about to consume.
Walking in, we were immediately greeted by a very friendly chap, who gave us a rundown of the price and how everything is set up. Deciding to use a gift card Christmas gift from my employer to take up a huge chunk of the bill, we chose a table and gave him our drink order. While talking with us, he let us know, if we had looked on Facebook or in the Lifestyle magazine, there are buy one, get one free coupons. This is nice to know, however, disappointing that we did not know ahead of time.
Being that there was only one other table sat in the restaurant, our gracious host lead us to the lightly appointed salad bar and hot meal bar, with descriptions of each item.
Looking at some of the meats in the chaffing dishes, I was hesitant, but dove in anyhow. As I expected, the meats sitting there, slowly simmering for who knows how long, were all tough, overcooked and featured an odd texture for what they said were filet mignon tips.
The rice was delicious, long-grain, Brazilian style white rice. Freshly heated bread was also brought out to us, which, had a spongy, tough texture to it.
In the hot table, there was the filet tips, steak and onions, some pork and beans, empenadas, chicken stroganoff, and some other fried items, in addition to the rice.
Shortly after we were seated and eating the items already picked up, the skewered meats began making their way to our table. We had the picanha, tri tip, grilled chicken and bacon wrapped chicken.
The picanha was very flavorful, tender, medium rare and pretty good. Their tri tip was also pretty good, juicy and with a decent flavor. Tasting the grilled chicken, it also was moist and not tough, but without much flavor. Lastly, the bacon wrapped chicken we were served featured charcoal in-lieu of bacon, it was completely charred, and barely discernible as bacon. Given the state of the bacon, it was no surprise, but still disappointing, that the chicken was tough, dry and without flavor, too.
Before we could even go through half a glass of water, our server brought a full pitcher over, to keep us hydrated.
Their chef was training a new staff member as a passadore (meat waiter), both of whom were very friendly. Chef's personality was very up-beat and you could tell he was passionate about his job and the food. He refused to let us leave until we had sampled the dessert creation by the salad bar, with such an enthusiastic smile, my wife couldn't help but accept the dessert.
Overall, the service was fantastic. The staff was very attentive, asked if we needed the climate or lighting adjusted, our drinks were never empty (or empty for long), our plates had food on them, to excess at times, as one should expect at a Brazilian steakhouse.
One... odd... thing, they have a gentleman playing music near the front door. Or, so we thought. A couple songs in, he started singing karaoke-style along with the music. It was a bit... painful to hear at times. He tried to have the lounge singer vibe, talking to the "crowd" and all, aside from a couple of regulars at the bar, I don't know if anybody else even paid him any mind.
The food though, it is always the food. For $29.99 a person, I personally did not leave wanting to go back. When I awoke this morning, I had the worst indigestion that I have had in a long while. For NYE, we ate at another Brazilian steakhouse in town, without this issue.
Don't think we will go back, despite how great the staff was, the food just didn't do it for us.
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