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| - I've lived down the street from Churrasco Villa for about 8 years now and I fell in love with their chicken since my first bite. I'm there quite regularly. You can smell the charcoal rotisserie from at least two blocks away in any direction and it's just blissful. I've often thought of bottling that scent and dabbing it behind my ears to make the men in my neighbourhood trail after me in a cartoonish wafting hover.
I usually order the same thing: double leg chicken dinner with house salad and French fries and the hot piri piri sauce. If you eat in, they give you a lovely basket of potato bread that is fresh, dense and delicious. If you takeout or get it delivered, you lose out on the bread, which is a shame. Eating in also offers the benefit of these lovely little chewy Portuguese candies after the meal (like the Portuguese version of a Starburst candy), which you also don't receive if you takeout or have the meal delivered.
I've tried other things on their menu: the sardinhas (delicious and plentiful!), the grilled calamari (perfectly cooked and tender, served with fresh tomato salsa), the huge beef ribs and the even more gargantuan bison ribs, which look like something from the Flintstones that would tip the car over because they're just so big and heavy. They were divine and saucy and meaty and perfectly prepared.
Their traditional custard-filled pastries are the ideal after-dinner mild sweet.
I've ordered from their catering menu for my sister's wedding rehearsal dinner and everything was delivered hot, fresh, on time, and reasonably priced.
If you're a regular at Swiss Chalet, then you don't know what you're missing. This is exponentially better tasting food at a similar price point. I will be a regular here long after I move out of the neighbourhood.
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