"0"^^ . "0"^^ . "3"^^ . . . "2017-08-05T00:00:00"^^ . "We're a bit spoiled by Fogo de Chao in Minneapolis, but for a scaled-down Brazilian Steakhouse, Samba is just fine. We had M-Life 2 for 1 credits, so the four of us ate for half price. Although, drinks are crazy expensive ($16 for a glass of house red wine) which bumps the total up quite a bit.\n\nThe restaurant itself is not large, and is open to the casino, so it lacks that intimate, restaurant feel. The decor is bright and colorful and the light fixtures (a bunch of bananas!) are inventive and pretty. A mixed salad with Greek olives, feta cheese, chickpeas, and a zesty dressing is brought out and served; no sumptuous salad bar you berate yourself for filling up on! The bread is little round pillows of cheesy goodness. A chimichurri sauce on the table was outstanding. Then come the meats, served to you on long sabers from which your portions are cut....The Rodizio dinner includes all the meats except filet, and no seafood. We had lamb (delicious!), sirloin (yum!), pork with grilled pineapple (kind of dry), bacon-wrapped turkey roulades (also dry), marinated chicken drumsticks (a little hard). But all you need are two or three you find delicious and they'll keep them coming. The meat server remembered how each of us liked our meats and that my daughter did not want red meat, she was great. There is also garlic bread chunks on a saber, large bread squares slathered in chimichurri and grilled.....amazing.\n\nOur service was good until it we had clearly finished our meal, said no to dessert, and then our server disappeared.He was nowhere to be found for almost 30 minutes. Then it was another 20 after he took our credit cards, so it ended up taking us almost as long to pay as it did to eat! All in all, it was a nice dinner but I'm really glad we did not each pay $39.95 for it!"^^ . "0"^^ . .