Best Brazilian restaurant in Texas

[Texas]

I was reading about Sampaio's in Austin earlier...where are the best churrascarias (sic?) in the state?

 

[origino]

Fogo de Chao in Dallas is good. Texas de Brazil too...although Fogo is better.

If you want "traditional" Brazilian food (feijao, arroz, feijoada, etc) Brasil Brasileiro is good. Its in Richardson.

 

[Texas]

Thank you, sir...it's a pretty good sign when an American-originated Brazilian restaurant has locations in Brasil. I'm going to try it out when we go to market in March.

 

[origino]

you won't be disapointed. i have eaten there twice, just make sure your stomach is up for the challenge! the salad bar is amazing too.

 

[wolfman]

I really like Fogo but Boi na Braza is the best one in D/FW. The original owner of Fogo opened it a couple of years back. It is the same menu but the restraunt is nicer than Fogo.

 

[Phil Hellmuth]

Boi na Braza is only about 10 minutes from my house. Ridiculously good, however it is not cheap.

 

[notreally]

they just opened a new one on the tollway i have been meaning to try "Rafain". They're all pretty damn good though. Fogo has a few more cuts than Texas de Brazil.

 

[ctrl+alt+del]

I have only been to Fogo and I absolutely love it. I get the meat sweats halfway trough my meal every time.

 

[RollingwoodHorn]

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[Brubricker]

OK, I'll bite. Where can I get good Brazilian food in Texarkana?

 

[numbereleven]

Recently tried Fogo in Addison, I had to take a nap immediately afterward. My meal was meat, meat, meat, a few bites of salad bar, meatmeatmeat, fried bananas, followed by six helpings of meat, then three more meat servings to finish.

Expensive, but a great experience. My one mistake: we let them start pouring bottled water for our group of eight. With all of the salty meat, we went through twelve bottles of water in addition to our wine. The H20 turned out to be six bucks a bottle. Next time, it's good ol' Addison tap.

 

[BNB]

80 dollars in water!

 

[numbereleven]

Yeah, that was a shocker. I asked the waiter about it when the bill came, he said in a terrific snotty voice, "unless you specifically ask for tap water, we pour the premium stuff. And NO ONE asks for tap water in this restaurant, sir." Well, lesson learned. I've been in hundreds of upscale restaurants, but they usually aren't so coy about it.

So yeah, it came to ten bucks a head. But hey, the prick waiter paid for half of mine when I reduced his tip by five bucks.

 

[Texas]

Obrigado, guys.

 

[Mack Tripper]

If you need recommendations for Houston, there is a Fogo de Chao on Westheimer near the Galleria. There is also Emporio Brazilian Cafe further down Westheimer, which is a traditional Brazilian restaurant rather than a churrascaria. Inside the loop, there is Nelore Churrascaria on Montrose, near the University of St. Thomas.

 

[Texas]

Mack, thanks...I read some very good reviews on the Emporio, and it would be intriguing to eat at a more traditional restaurant rather than the churrascarria.

Heard Houston's getting a pretty big Brazilian expat population. Most of them go to Boston (there's been a strong portuguese-azore island populace there for a long time), south Florida, Newark and Philadelphia but apparently there are an estimated 10,000 Brazil natives in the HOU area.

(I was surprised, though I shouldn't have been, to see that Brazilians are apparently the largest illegal immigrant group in the U.S. after Mexicans. The LRGV has seen a lot of them.)

 

[Spankytoes]

Mark down another vote for Fogo. Place is awesome. Texas de Brazil isn't too bad either.

 

[Jive_Turkey]

I like anything wrapped in bacon at TdB.

Fogo is probably a little better quality, but TdB is near downtown on Cedar Springs in Dallas, so we hit that up more frequently.

Haven't tried to other joints.

 

[KaiserSoze]

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[Ankf00]

I remember going to sam paio's a lot in school, right behind the ME building, $2 happy hour ritas and 1/2 off appetizers, good times.

 

[GakFoo]

the new sampiao's on burnet road is freaking awesome.

i wish i knew where you could get some true picanha or churrasco in austin. they have some steak dishes at sampiao's but not those, as far as i've seen, and i've been there a couple dozen times

 

[bevosayshi]

Can you split this thread into two?

Best Brazilian
&
Restaurant in Texas

Move one of the threads over to 3:16....that is all.

 

[Texas]

I've not gotten to try a traditional Brazilian restaurant.

What's interesting about these churrascarias is that they seem to be modeled after eating in that nation's Rio Grande de Sul state. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that Brazil, not much smaller in total area than the entire U.S. is shaped like (for lack of a better descriptor) a human brain. Rio Grande de Sul state, where a great deal of the Europeans who migrated to that nation settled, is only the medulla of that brain.

It would be like going to London or Edinburgh and opening up a Florida-style restaurant (if there is such a thing) serving beef, key lime dishes and conch fritters, and saying it's an "traditional American-style" beef house.

Hope to make it to Emporio's some day soon...

 

[TEXumAS]

Hey Texas,

Fogo originated in Porto Allegre, Brazil. It just happens to have a huge presence in the U.S. due to U.S. investors.

 

[Texas]

TEXumAS, thanks...my error.

 

[Pepper Brooks]

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