For today’s interactive feature, the question is: What’s your favorite Brazilian restaurant in the U.S.?
Though there are now quite a few excellent Brazilian restaurants in New York, like Porcão and Plataforma, my personal favorite is Fogo do Chão. Fogo has a fantastic meat rodizio and a huge salad bar in a very luxurious setting. I’ve been to the DC branch, but they also have locations throughout the U.S., including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, Los Angeles, amongst others.
What about you?
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My favorite is “Rudy’s Churrascaria”, in Germantown, Ohio (south of Dayton). Very much a family feel to the restaurant, and the owner & his wife are very personable, greeting every customer warmly. The food is also very good there.
Locally here in San Diego, my high-end favorite is Rei do Gado, a classy churrascaria. If I want a more casual, “comfort food” style, there’s a small cafe I love called “Brazil by the Bay” where I really enjoy the estrogonofe de frango, with a coxinha or kibe to start me off!
Of course, I love the churrascarias too but my 2 favorite restaurants to visit are Beetche’s Brazilian Cafe and Par’s, located just north of Dallas. I have taken many of my Brazilian friend to Beetche’s and they always leave happy. It is a buffet style restaurant where you can always get the favorites like pão de queijo, feijoada, farofa e arroz; along with many other great dishes. Par’s has a totally different atmosphere. It is a supermarket with a small restaurant inside. The food is great but the people are amazing. I feel like I am visiting my friends in Rio when I go there.
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Fogo de Chão is great (I’ve been to the one in Chicago several times), but we have recently (2 years ago now) been lucky enough to have an authentic churrascaria open here nearby in Northville, Michigan (a suberb in the greater Detroit metropolitan area) called Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse. The food is always excellent and I’ve gotten to know the owner and a few of the staff… great people who always make me feel at home (in the best Brazilian sense).
When I was in NYC about 3 years ago I went to a VERY small place in Hell’s Kitchen called Beans and Rice and had some incredible feijoada.