This past Saturday was Valentines Day and my wife decided that we should try some place new in Miami Beach. Of course by the logo you can tell where we went. This is a brief account of our experience there.
OK so first off we had reservations at 7:45PM for dinner. I raced down I-75 and I-95 to make it there on time and actually got there with about a minute to spare. There was a huge line just to get in the door and even if you had a reservation you had to wait to get to the front of the line to talk to the people arranging the seating. My wife called ahead and we knew that we would have to wait a little bit to get seated but not 45 minutes. Thats just crazy when you have reservations even if it is a holiday. We were also given the not so good seats at the edge of the restaurant near the front door so we saw all the people coming and going from the place.
Our server was polite and told us we could help ourselves to the salad bar which is one of the big things about Texas De Brazil. The salad bar didn't disappoint at all and there was quite a selection. I was all about the salami's and the cheese but I also had some sushi and the lobster bisque. Now the whole place is about the meats which is from sausages, to steak, lamb, pork, and chicken. My wife and I saw these people running around with huge sticks of meat but none of them would come to our table. We also didn't get the side orders that were supposed to come with the meal so we just kinda sat there for a bit until a waiter came over and asked us if we got our meat course yet. Of course we said "Nope we don't know how this works because no one explained it to us".
Apparently, the thing I was going to use as a coaster was an indicator for the servers to start bringing the meats around for us to try. An example is the one in this blog post. Green means yeah bring it baby I want meat! Red means Nope I've had enough for now maybe later. The thing with me and my wife is that ours were set to red which is why the servers were ignoring us for the longest time. Once we flipped those bad boys over it was on! We each had the steak and lamb (I'm not a big fan of lamb but I figured why not). I don't think we had the pork or the chicken but I know that I had the sausage links. The sides they gave us were fried bananas (yum) and some excellent mashed potatoes. It has been a really long time since I've eaten that much and I was definitely overly stuffed with food.
We ate so much that we had no more room for dessert. I wanted to try one but I thought better of it and I don't think it would have been a good to make myself even more full than I already was. There was some entertainment as well during dinner in the form of loud music and some Brazilian dancers. We couldn't get a good look at them due to our crappy table location. Although there were some tables that were set up by the kitchen which seemed even worse than where we were because you would see all the food just floating by you along with all the dirty dishes.
All in all, the night wasn't so bad. The food was excellent but the service needs some attention. One area I would recommend for the employees is to always explain what the stupid coaster like thing is for so your customer's don't sit there wondering why they're not getting any food at their table. Well that was V-Day in a nut shell!
OK so first off we had reservations at 7:45PM for dinner. I raced down I-75 and I-95 to make it there on time and actually got there with about a minute to spare. There was a huge line just to get in the door and even if you had a reservation you had to wait to get to the front of the line to talk to the people arranging the seating. My wife called ahead and we knew that we would have to wait a little bit to get seated but not 45 minutes. Thats just crazy when you have reservations even if it is a holiday. We were also given the not so good seats at the edge of the restaurant near the front door so we saw all the people coming and going from the place.
Our server was polite and told us we could help ourselves to the salad bar which is one of the big things about Texas De Brazil. The salad bar didn't disappoint at all and there was quite a selection. I was all about the salami's and the cheese but I also had some sushi and the lobster bisque. Now the whole place is about the meats which is from sausages, to steak, lamb, pork, and chicken. My wife and I saw these people running around with huge sticks of meat but none of them would come to our table. We also didn't get the side orders that were supposed to come with the meal so we just kinda sat there for a bit until a waiter came over and asked us if we got our meat course yet. Of course we said "Nope we don't know how this works because no one explained it to us".
Apparently, the thing I was going to use as a coaster was an indicator for the servers to start bringing the meats around for us to try. An example is the one in this blog post. Green means yeah bring it baby I want meat! Red means Nope I've had enough for now maybe later. The thing with me and my wife is that ours were set to red which is why the servers were ignoring us for the longest time. Once we flipped those bad boys over it was on! We each had the steak and lamb (I'm not a big fan of lamb but I figured why not). I don't think we had the pork or the chicken but I know that I had the sausage links. The sides they gave us were fried bananas (yum) and some excellent mashed potatoes. It has been a really long time since I've eaten that much and I was definitely overly stuffed with food.
We ate so much that we had no more room for dessert. I wanted to try one but I thought better of it and I don't think it would have been a good to make myself even more full than I already was. There was some entertainment as well during dinner in the form of loud music and some Brazilian dancers. We couldn't get a good look at them due to our crappy table location. Although there were some tables that were set up by the kitchen which seemed even worse than where we were because you would see all the food just floating by you along with all the dirty dishes.
All in all, the night wasn't so bad. The food was excellent but the service needs some attention. One area I would recommend for the employees is to always explain what the stupid coaster like thing is for so your customer's don't sit there wondering why they're not getting any food at their table. Well that was V-Day in a nut shell!
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