Two Brazilian restaurants are located in Kansas City, Mo., that serve authentic Brazilian food in the same traditional style as it is served in that Latin American country. These restaurants emphasize the diversity and amount of the meat that they serve. They use no menus and the wait staff responds to cue cards that the patrons receive before they are seated.
Fogo de Chao
Fogo de Chao is part of a small chain that serves in the Brazilian gaucho style, where diners start their meal at the salad bar. Guests signal the waiters by placing the green side of a card up to tell the waiter they are ready to eat. Waiters bring meat to the tables and carve it for the guests. Besides the salad bar and hand-carved meat, the waiters bring mashed potatoes, polenta and cheese puffs to the tables automatically. The restaurant charges a flat fee for meals. Fogo de Chao has an extensive wine list.
Em Chamas
Em Chamas serves food much as Fogo de Chao does, except Em Chamas has four different tiers for dining, based on pricing and type of food served. The first tier is salad bar only, the second tier includes the salad bar and chicken, sausage, ham and specialty cuts of beef. The third tier provides guests with better cuts of meat, and the four tier, the gold level, allows diners to choose from pork or beef tenderloin, salmon and receive a free dessert. Em Chamas uses wood fires to roast the meat slowly.
Brazilian Food
The type and style of serving food in these restaurants is based on the traditional Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American style of cooking and serving meat. The meat is grilled on skewers and whoever serves the meat cuts it off in fine slices. The style is called "churrasco" and the homes and restaurants that employ this technique provide many different types of meat to choose from and the gatherings or dinners are all-you-can-eat
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