Fogo De Chao Brazilian Steakhouse

Have you met Andrea? She's amazing. Dare I say, the best? Can't tell between her and Marianna who is more connected to the client experience. They both find ways to make this BIG restaurant feel hometown and nothing is impossible to make the evening (or afternoon) a great time. I'm just a regular guy with high expectations- they've figured it out. Go visit- you won't be disappointed! Treat yourself!!!

Superb place. Got a discount coupon in email which makes the price actually very value oriented. Meat was excellent. All cuts were great. Salad bar is the best. Just so many excellent choices, all favorable and well prepared. Service is excellent also. I think given any discount, this is a superb choice for a great meal. Also, the 10 dollar caparinas are again, superb. Not too sweet but not watery either.

UPDATED REVIEW 12/26/23: Fogo invited us back for a second chance, and everything was REMARKABLY better: frequent meat circulation, tastier meat, good service, fast sides, clean restrooms. It wasn't perfect (still waited at least 15 minutes after our reservation time to be seated, and had to ask 4 different times for a particular item) but we left happy. I'm glad that it seems our previous visit must have been a very off-night for them, so we'll likely return in the future. ---- ORIGINAL REVIEW ---- When I was a kid living in a different part of the country, Fogo de Chao was our favorite place for a fancy, nice meal to celebrate when we'd trek into the city. I have many fond memories of delicious meals and atmosphere there. I'm not sure if it's just this location that's a complete disaster or if the chain in general has become an embarrassment, but my memories were shattered last night. The physical size and number of tables in this massive restaurant is about 3 times bigger than they can successfully manage with the staff they have. We showed up at the exact time of our reservation (7:45pm) and were told it would be about a 10 minute wait. That's fine, we joined the 45-50 (!!) people waiting between the lobby and street outside. After about 15 minutes, we hadn't heard anything, so checked in and were then told it would be 20 minutes from THAT point. When we finally came back after getting the call our table was ready, the hostesses all prioritized handling bags of delivery orders and serving every new delivery driver that came in over the customers in front of her waiting for 45 minutes. By the time we actually sat down, it was 50 minutes past our reservation time. Younger me always liked the green/red coasters they give you to start/stop the meat offers, and I fondly recall the parade of gauchos coming by so often that I'd regularly alternate between red and green to have a chance to eat. The coasters are no longer needed -- we and every table around us were green all night and staring around waiting for any sign of food to come our way. With the exception of the Picanha, which was delicious, the others that did come were dry and not worth it. Seriously -- we probably spent at least an hour during our visit with empty plates just waiting for something. Sides took FOREVER to come -- we didn't get our first cheese bread until over an hour into our meal. The drink I ordered when we first sat down never came, so after around 45 minutes I reminded the waiter (I would have reminded him sooner had we actually seen him before then) -- and it still took another 20 minutes to get a COKE (which comes in a bottle and requires no preparation). We had to ask several times for our completely-empty water glasses to be refilled -- there were simply no servers around with any regularity. Between all of the delays (being seated, waiting for meat to come by, waiting for the check, etc.) we didn't get to leave until over 3 hours later at 11pm. Oh, and the bathroom was more like a public toilet than a nice restaurant. I'm including a photo of the trashy sink area and empty hand towels, but rest assured the other parts were even less maintained. FDC either needs to either hire a lot more people, close at least half of the tables they're trying to operate, or switch to counter service because they've forgotten how to run a fine dining churrascaria.

I'm blown away by the exquisite taste of this restaurant as well as elegant people. I was suggested to get the Sea Bass since I practice pescatarian. But I got the Salmon. Everyone else had so many meat 🍖 options that it was like a served buffet which they do have added to your entree. You get 3 options. I can't remember them clearly. But food is great and the atmosphere especially me not being a city person. I'm loving it and so was my group!

First time here and this place deserves 10 stars!!! Amazing food, drinks, and dessert! Not to mention our spectacular server JoJo! She was so attentive, friendly, and struck up great conversation with my honey and I... thank you JoJo! Will definitely be coming back!