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food, restaurants

The night's not over until everyone goes asses up.
Last night was my first experience with Bacana, an all-you-can-eat Brazillian restaurant in Chesterfield.

In the planning, I mentioned being horrified/intrigued by the prospect of spending an evening watching a group of guy gorge themselves on as much grilled meat as they could hold--which led Bob to coin the term "horritrigued".

My experience last night on the Horritrigued scale:

Intrigued | | Me | Horritrigued | | | | Horrified

Mostly it was just amazing food, albeit in ridiculous quantities.

Here's how it works: On each table (about 1 per 2 people) there are little coasters. On one side is a picture of a green cow and the word "Yes", on the other, just the back half of a red cow and the word "No." When you're ready to eat, you flip to Yes, and when you get to "Please, I can't handle any more meat" you flip it to No.

They have guys coming around continuously with these giant sword skewers of grilled meat (and other stuff) and they cut off a strip for you. There are a BAJILLION different items brought around!

What I can remember (with the assitance of their website):

1. Sirloin - They used to call this tenderloin, and Jen asked after it, and the hot assistant manager brought to us directly.


2. Top Sirloin


3. Garlic Steak - Lots of people raved, I found it kind of tough. I'm also not the biggest garlic fan, so I'm biased.


4. Chicken Wings - I don't think chicken wings are worth the effort, so I declined this one.


5. Chicken wrapped in Bacon - Despite the theory that anything wrapped in bacon is delicious, this was rubbery and slimy. It made me feel gross in my tummy.


6. Sausage - the casing was kind of tough


7. Brazillian Steak - Yummy, but Katie disliked--she got a tougher bit


8. Spicy Pork & Salted Pork - I don't know if I had both of these, but I had some delicious pork.


9. Salmon


10. Shrimp - It still had the legs, which means it was not on Kim's plate.


11. Beef Shoulder - tough and flavorless


12. Lamb - this didn't have much flavor (my piece at least) but Bob & Jen said it was way overseasoned last time, so they thought it was great.


13. Pineapple - OMG, best thing EVAR. Pineapple sprinkled with cinnamon. Yum-tastic. Katie is installing a pineapple spit at her condo.


14. Bananas - Bob said they were plantaines, so I didn't get any, but Katie gave me a bite and it was delish.


15. Filet Mignon

I think that's all of them. The website said something about "famous cheese bread", but I didn't see it. I'm still full. I think I'm going to be veggie for a couple of days. That was ridiculous.

BONUS: In addition to the food, there's a veritable buffet of eye candy roaming around the restaurant as well. Top honors to our waiter, Victor, and the assistant manager, mentions to the server who reminded me of the guy from the Dirty Dancing crap-quel and Y tu Mama Tambien and the manager (from Katie & Jen, not me personally).

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