Fogo de Chao

06/23/2008 Posted by AZWildcats

Fogo de Chao specializes in serving Brazilian-style beef, lamb, pork, and chicken tableside. There is a flat fee (I think around $50) that includes all the meat, salad, and soup you can eat. Not only is the food amazing, but the service beats any sit down restaurant in the country. Waiters constantly walk around asking if you need more meat, sides, or drinks. There is also a great salad bar that includes soups, fish, and cheese. My favorite meat is the bacon-wrapped filet mignon. I highly recommend this restaurant for a date, wives, clients, or friends.

04/18/2008 Posted by paulvatore

Meat lover's paradise! I went there with a few friends and had a blast! The service was top notch, all the waiters work together so a drink order or a question is never more than a look away. The meat just keeps coming until you flip the little card from green to red. Every cut was amazing, they had something like 16 different types of meat ranging from steak to pork to chicken. The restaurant had a great layout and felt very comfortable. I can't wait to go back. Highly recommended!

Pros: Everything

Cons: Nothing!

04/12/2008 Posted by cinnyj

This is by far the best brazillian steakhouse !!!! The staff are great, the food is so fresh and they bring it until you don't want it anymore. The inside is beautiful. The tables on the side are the best. Make reservations, we went at 5P and by 7P it was packed. Though in BVHills it is not stuffy and it's casual. Great place to have a party. Can't wait to go back. It is worth 54.00 JUST EAT SLOW!!!

04/01/2008 Posted by YummieInMyTummie

Kinda worth the money if u really do eat a lot. I hated the garlic beef, I liked their famous p-something meat(forgot what it was called) that was probably my favorite. I hated the stuff wrapped in bacon. The chicken legs tasted weird. The salad bar wasn’t that great, there were like cooked cold broccoli and sliced apples and things I don’t even remember I just only ate the salad with the chopped cucumbers and tomatoes kind of like this Persian thing called salad shirazi. The mashed potatoes were good but not the best in the world. The guys would come around and slice a piece of whatever they were offering and you would either say you wanted it or not. Then he’d slice it almost all the way down till u grabbed it with your tong and you put it onto ur plate. Its almost worth it I just wish it was a 40 dollar meal instead of 50 cuz I don’t eat lamb.

Pros: All the meat you can eat

Cons: The ambience feels like your at a wedding hall

03/23/2008 Posted by Billy90402

I can't say enough good things about Fogo de Chao. I have been a regular at this establishment ever since it opened and I still thoroughly enjoy it today. For those of you who don't know about this restaurant or this type of restaurant, it is a Brazilian steak house where you enjoy all-you-can-eat barbeque, a terrific salad bar, and excellent side dishes. Most of the "gauchos" have been there since day one and are excellent at what they do. Their meats are generously seasoned with salt and pepper then cooked over mesquite charcoal resulting in a true barbecue flavor. While there are over a dozen choices meat, by far and away the best tasting is the beef ribs. It is the same cut of meat you get at a traditional barbecue restaurant but at Fogo they keep the ribs attached and there is a much more meat on the back of the bones as compared to what you might buy at your local butcher. I have been there many times when I ate nothing but the beef ribs, it is sublime. While tempting, I must warn you not to fill up on the salad bar even though they offer you some great choices including one of the best chicken salads in town. This is a great place if you're hungry and want to have food in your belly within 2 minutes of sitting down. You will be served as much and as long as you desire; when you've had enough or need a break simply turn your coaster over to the red side and the meat parade takes a detour away from your table. Other delicious choices are the lamb chops (which they are happy to cook to your doneness preference), the filet, and the chicken legs. I have tried all the offerings and don't dislike a single one, but it boils down to filling up! So on your first visit try everything so that you know what you like. The staff operates fluidly and functions similarly to the Houston's staff where any one of them will do anything for any patron. I have referred dozens of friends to Fogo who unanimously say great things about their experience.

03/22/2008 Posted by dthstar

what can i say? what's not to like? if you love to eat and love to eat meat, this is the place! if you like great service & friendly/speedy portuguese gaucho-type servers w/ accents, this is the place. if you like good decor & nice dark-wood-mahogany ambience, this is the place. come hungry and w/ other meat lovers and have a jolly good time getting rotund (worry the next day). you HAVE TO TRY the 'papaya cream' dessert w/ tons of blackberry liquor! the 'strawberry cream' w/ liquor is good too. the valet parking needs work tho!

Pros: what's not to like

Cons: valet parking needs work

02/28/2008 Posted by lydia7lydia

I've been there 3 times and every time the food, service and customer service was amazing. I definitely recommend to everybody.

01/19/2008 Posted by ratzzz

The four of us...me,hubby and two kids love this place. They have a great atmosphere and a couple different rooms to sit in. We prefer the larger room closer to the front entrance. It's always crowded here, and we love to people watch. We would totally come here more often if it wasn't so expensive. I believe adults are $50.00 or so and I think kids are half that....expensive, considering most kids can't eat $20 some dollars worth of food. But, we do go, beacause the food is so great. The salad bar is fresh and good. And then they bring side dishes to go with your meats. The bread is out of this world and the kids love turning the little "thingy" on your table to green if you want more meat to come, or red if you want to take a break and finish what's on your plate. For those of you not familiar with a restaurant like this, it's all you can eat and the servers walk around carrying large "sword" type things that are filled with meat, they'll slide it off for you right on to your plate, you also get a pair on tongs so when they bring the larger cuts of meat, they will slice it and then you pick up the piece with your tongs.... our seven year olds favorite part !! how easily their amused !! All the meats are good, we especially like the ribs and the chicken legs. Some meats like the steak/tri tip are cooked like medium rare, so if you want some but want it cooked better like we do...it's no problem, just tell them... and they will come back around with some that are cooked a little more well. They have dessert here and it's pretty good ( not included in the price ). But you will be so full, you might not want to think about dessert or for that matter ever eating again, Hee Hee.

Pros: Great atmosphere, Great Food

Cons: Expensive to go on a regular...and you'll want too !!

11/30/2007 Posted by manuella

This restaurant is amazing!!! the best Brazilian food i've had in a long time. It is all you can eat, its in a great location on "Restauran Row" on La Cienega. The atmosphere is great, its very busy and its better to make a reservation ahead of time. The Food is fantastic. They have many differenct cuts of beef but also serve chicken, pork and lamb. They have a huge salad bar that is the freshest i have seen. It is all you can eat as well. The waiters work as a team so you have several people serving you and the customer service is excellent. It is definitely a place to try in LA.

Pros: great food and customer service

11/13/2007 Posted by yummy87

This place was amazing! The choices of meat were to die for. Do come prepared to eat a lot of meat, because by the end of the night, I could barely walk. The environment was great too. I went here with my boyfriend to celebrate our two years and I couldn't have asked for more. Their bread was really good. Many of the meat were just perfect, only like one or two choices of meat was kind of dry to me, but still delicious. The place is a little pricey, but worth it. The total for two of us was about 120 or so. It was roughly 50 per person.

Pros: Great selection of meat, great service, filling

Cons: pricey, but definitely worth it