Virtually all of the information I?m about to share is posted repeatedly over voluminous reviews of this place, but since the last several seemed to be pretty negative and that?s all I saw at first (which almost prevented me from patronizing it), I thought I should clear things up.
Gaucho's Village Brazilian Churrascaria is a great time. The restaurant is pretty vast; dozens of tables lined up under a pitched roof that looks like someone flipped Noah?s Ark. The stage is at the far end, near the salad bar. On the salad bar you will find standards like rice and beans and sweet glazed bananas (sooo good). Don?t assume after your first trip up that you?ve seen everything the bar has to offer; they switch things up a bit over the course of the evening. There is no food menu. Like a buffet, you pay one price (it was on $31.99 on the Saturday night we went and on Fridays, but lower during the week). For that you get the salad bar and regular visits from the gauchos who come bearing meat. The meat is varied and delicious and almost always perfectly cooked. This is NOT a perfect evening for a vegetarian! The gauchos are friendly and fun and actually seem disappointed when you don?t say yes to an offer.
The entertainment is also really fun. There are two types during the night: the ?showgirls;? two Brazilian-built dancers in tiny glittering bikini costumes and huge feathered head things shake there most Brazilian feature almost impossibly to percussive Latin rhythms music and the band, an even more attractive young woman singer backed by a trio of bass, guitar and drums nailing the vibe on bossa nova tunes like ?Girl From Ipanema? (seriously, the whole repertoire sounds a bit like ?Girl From Ipanema?). They were really very good.
So, to counter the previous entries, I want to make it clear that this is a truly fun place with a friendly attentive staff, delicious food and pleasing entertainment.
Pros: The staff and the food
Cons: The salad bar could have more vegetables, but I'm nit-picking
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