Just got back from eating my birthday dinner at Fogo de Chao. Fuckin' ay, brilliant. I made an absolute spectacle of myself. At one point the waiter actually cut me off. My plate was full of assorted meats, and I said I'd like one each of the tenderloins wrapped in bacon and the chicken thighs wrapped in bacon, and he said, "Okay, I'll be back for you in a few minutes..." and walked away. I was flabbergasted. I got cut off by the meat guy. Unreal.

He did return though, and I got all that and a bunch more in me, so all is well. 2008: the year I acquire the gout.

Salut! Excellent birthday meals at Fogo De Chao! You are a good thing!

steve wrote:Just got back from eating my birthday dinner at Fogo de Chao. Fuckin' ay, brilliant. I made an absolute spectacle of myself. At one point the waiter actually cut me off. My plate was full of assorted meats, and I said I'd like one each of the tenderloins wrapped in bacon and the chicken thighs wrapped in bacon, and he said, "Okay, I'll be back for you in a few minutes..." and walked away. I was flabbergasted. I got cut off by the meat guy. Unreal.

That was fucked up.

The only explanation that makes sense is that they don't allow the meat dudes to 'pile' the meat.

Because your plate was covered with meat, like, exactly covered.

I like that place. The desserts are nothing special, but everything else is real good, and it is super low-key.

I saw Rose Shure, the owner of Shure Incorporated, there. She looks pretty good for 1,000,000 years old.

Anyway, not crap, again.

steve wrote:I got cut off by the meat guy.

This is going on my list of things to do before I die. I think it will be #25.

tmidgett wrote:I saw Rose Shure, the owner of Shure Incorporated, there. She looks pretty good for 1,000,000 years old.

I had no idea that Shure was someone's last name. I always thought it was one of those bizarre spellings of "sure", a la "E-Z-Bake" or "La-Z-Boy"

tmidgett wrote:

steve wrote:Just got back from eating my birthday dinner at Fogo de Chao. Fuckin' ay, brilliant. I made an absolute spectacle of myself. At one point the waiter actually cut me off. My plate was full of assorted meats, and I said I'd like one each of the tenderloins wrapped in bacon and the chicken thighs wrapped in bacon, and he said, "Okay, I'll be back for you in a few minutes..." and walked away. I was flabbergasted. I got cut off by the meat guy. Unreal.

That was fucked up.

The only explanation that makes sense is that they don't allow the meat dudes to 'pile' the meat.

Because your plate was covered with meat, like, exactly covered.

Nah, I figured it out.
You said he came back later and gave you more meat, right?

The man obviously saw he was dealing with a real meat connoisseur, a man who knows and enjoys his meat immensely. A man who knows a good piece of meat from a so-so piece.

I am thinking he knew the particular skewer of meat he was serving at the time was not up to snuff, I'm sure for 99% of the people there it would be an excellent hunk of meat but he knew in his heart it was not the best and sensed you would also know it.
These men are a proud bunch, they come from a long tradition of poofy pants meat skewer cowboy dudes. Says so right on the menu.
He did not want to be embarrassed and ran to the back to look for a more suitable skewer, that's all.

Excellent work gentlemen.

I've been here once. We got in pretty late, a little too near to closing time, so the Meat Men kept coming around with the same five or six cuts, trying to offload them before the end of the night.

Even then, it was still delicious. One day I'm going to go back for lunch, pay half the price, and eat myself into a week-long constipation.

I work 3 blocks from this joint. I love meat. I have never eaten there.

We went for the mrs's b-day and were pretty disappointed. We had been to another Brazilian meat place once before and had a much better experience. I felt like the meat was either over-seasoned or under-seasoned because everything basically tasted the same. Also I didn't feel like we got a real variety of meats, a few different cuts of beef, chicken and the lamb guy only came by like once.

Also, the atmosphere...eeh it was cluster-fuck in there, cluttered and overly bright and loud. Nightmare.

CRAP

The cocktails were excellent though.

Overall, for the price I don't feel like it lived up to our expectations. I think we would have been better off going to a high-end steakhouse.

Marsupialized wrote:poofy pants meat skewer cowboy dudes.

Would not see this band, even if on cable.