Texas de Brazil Churrascaria: User Reviews

This place was really awesome! Upon walking in, it was apparent that this was a very nice restuarant: the decor, the staff, the smells all beautiful! Of course we had reservations and were seated promptly in front of the aerialist at the wine rack. She was just beautiful to watch! The salad bar was GREAT and one could eat from that alone for $30- I am a vegan so I did not have much to eat but I had lots of fun watching my husband as he was bombarded with some of the finest meats I've ever seen! The meat is prepared as you like it so you never have to worry about an undercooked or overcooked piece. My husband said the lobster bisque is to die for so don't skip this. Be prepared to pay at least $150 (without a coupon) for dinner for 2 (meateaters), drinks, valet and dessert. No worries because it is well worth it!!! The servers, cooks and managers were all very attentive. It was an awesome dining experience-

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Feeling for same meat in a date night with my wife and went to Texas de Brazil on a weeknight. When we walk in, I cannot help but keep watching the waitress on a bungee cord flying in front of the two story tall "wine wall" it is quite something, a MUST to check it out!! Service is pretty much the same as what you would expect from a Brazilian steak house, but now to the most important thing - the FOOD.... Um... too salty, what can I say. At first I thought it was the wine that make the food taste weird but even my wife without having the wine agree the food is WAY too salty. It is too bad that the food wasn't better, otherwise I think they have a lot of potential. Their upstair is huge and great for large private parties. Anyway, even they have the entertaining wine wall performance, I still vote for Brazzaz around the corner when it come to Brazilian steakhouse.

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Been to Fogo, been to Brazzaz. Had never been to Texas and so we gave it a shot. WOW!

First of all, we were pampered like VIP's. Second, they have a woman who flies through their wine case to pull bottles - literally! Who does that?! Their salad bar is on-par with Fogo, but Texas has better sushi. The meat was out of this world! MUST HAVE: Beef Rib! It is to die for!

Both managers visited our table multiple times, and were very gracious. We haven't had an experience like this since we went to Aria in the Fairmont for Valentine's Day 2008. We (my girlfriend and I) have made this our new "go-to" Churrascaria and will be bringing our friends and family. My compliments to the management and staff for providing an outstanding dining experience.

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We were impresses by the nice entrance at Texas de Brazil. It all went down hill from there. There was nobody waiting to seat us. When we did get seated, my wife felt a cold breeze and we were not even close to the front door. We sat right next to the salad bar. We tried a plate of the eats from the salad. It was just average. After the salad were were served rolls, bananas and mashed potatoes. We were ready for meat, so we turned the card to the green side and proceeded to wait and wait. We finally were served some meat... it was almost cold. We waited for more meat... and waited and waited. Basically we had to wait often for the meats and they were not very busy. We wanted to try the bacon wrapped Filet Mignon. We had to ask one of the servers to bring some out, which took 15 minutes. We will Not return. This place had poor service and below average food. Stay away!

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We will never go back. The food is horrible as is the service. The wine list is lacking in all areas as well. We had to ask for drink multiple times and never received cheese bread. The restaurant also lacked experienced staff at the front door, The hostess was very unpolite. Horrible experience!!!

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I'm a big fan of the Brazilian Steakhouses, so I was excited to try the newest addition to Chicago. Unfortunately, I found it to be a very mediocre experience.

First off, their Valet service is terrible. It's not located in front of the restaurant (Isn't that the POINT of a valet?!?!), so you have to drive around the corner across the street, basically right to the parking garage so you've already done half the work for the valets. But we still sat in our car like idiots for about 5 min. before we just gave up and parked in the garage ourselves (saving $1+tip) since we were already at it.

Second, we were running about 10 min. late, so we got there just before 7pm and there were only a handful of tables seated. Yet even though we had reservations, we still had to wait another 10 minutes before being seated, which was strange.

As for the food, the salad bar stuff was quite good and it was cool that they also had Lobster Bisque, which the others don't have. However, the bisque is as good as one would expect an all you can eat bisque to be (no contest when compared to Shaw's or the Palm). Their meats were all pretty standard, but with no list at the table of all the different cuts available, I'm not sure if we got to see/taste all of them. Their unique one I think is their beef ribs. I will say though that their Bacon Wrapped Filet was EXCELLENT. They do a very good job of getting the bacon nice and crispy.

Now my main eccentricity with restaurants is I'm a firm believer in bringing my own wine and paying the corkage fee instead of a restaurant's 200+% markup. This is where Texas really lost me. Their corkage is $30, although I didn't bother asking if it was per 750ml. Brazzaz is only $20 regardless of bottle size and Fogo is $25 per 750ml. Their markups on their wine list were way above average (although all the servers I mentioned this to disagreed strongly). Two good benchmarks of wine prices I use are Veuve Cliquot yellow label and Duckhorn Merlot. Their Veuve was priced at $119/bottle (retail is anywhere from $30-40 typically). Usually Veuve is at MOST $90-100 at the even higher end restaurants because there are a lot of idiots out there who will pay it because of the cache that the marketers have developed for the brand. Their Duckhorn Merlot (retail $40-50) was priced at $128, which is a 320% markup from retail! This was the highest I've seen for a bottle of standard merlot of the most recent vintage (2005). For comparison, Shaw's sells a 2005 ESTATE Grown bottle for $120 (retail $70-80) and Charlie Trotter's sells a Howell Mountain 2003 for $143 (and if you could find an '03 for sale, retail would probably be $80-90).

Overall, 2 dinners (-25% with online coupon), 1 corkage, 2 $8 glasses of wine, and 1 dessert cost $160, so without the coupon, would have been closer to $200 for two people. For that amount of money, I can definitely think of other restaurants that I'd much rather go to next time. If you're craving a Brazilian Steakhouse dinner, go to Brazzaz: same types of meat plus they have their shrimp skewers (which are awesome), cheaper corkage/wine markups, and better choice of desserts too.

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