Brazzaz

One of my favorite places, if you like meat this is haven. The salad bar is really good although beware salad bar get make you full. The 17 different kinda of meats, lost track after the 7th kind.

Wait for the try tip steak, it's the star of the meats, the others are just first acts. You will know when the try tip steak arrives (3 circular steaks). I didn't understand the BBQ pork ribs, Brazilians think it's a crime to cover the meat with any source, I agree but I think it's more to please the crowed. I would skip anything with BBQ because your here to eat steak and good meats not BBQ. Eat the pineapple when they come, the acid will help breakdown the food.

If you like wine try the wine from Argentina, it's bold and full body compliments the food.

Lackluster describes my last and final visit here. The main attraction is "supposed to be" the meat, yet each selection tasted like a Milli Vanilli replay.

I was there when Brazzaz debuted on top. Now, I find out that the main stars are outclassed by background items, such as shrimp, chicken salad, and apple salad. What?!?!

This is a steakhouse, but the meat lacks any defining flavor or consistency. I had to use salt and pepper. I feel betrayed. "Girl You Know It's True," I used to love you.

So long.

This was my favorite fine dining restaurant. The food was superb, needed, wonderfully flavored, succulent, savory, scrumptious, sumptuous, a banquet, smorgasbord, buffet, and best steakhouse ever. I will always love the memories of my time in this excellent establishment. It was our pleasure to patronize here. Hopefully, Brazzaz will take the hint and reopen with that exact same vision and business model so we all can finally come home.

This was the end of an era.

Having been to several different Brazilian steakhouses for the Churrascaria experience,
I was looking forward to checking the offerings at Brazzaz. Our waiter who oversaw our dining experience was friendly and checked on us during the course of our dinner.

As like our Brazilian steakhouses, there are salad bar selections that are part of your dinner, but as a meat-eater, I was focused only on the skewers brought out by the Gauchos. They offered 18 different varieties of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, shrimp, beef ribs, pork ribs, sausages and pineapple. The skewers of meat that were brought around were ok, but we never saw the filet mignon, rib eye and rack of lamb. I asked our waiter about these skewers and he said they are special requests and that he could have the Gaucho bring these out.

The Filet Mignon and Rib Eye were brought to the table. The Filet was good, but the Rib Eye was well done, hence the meat was not moist. The rack of lamb, no opinion, because it never made it to the table.

Overall, the servers were friendly, but some of meat offered was just ok. The better cuts of meat shouldn't have to be specially requested and should be brought around like the other cuts of meat. Also, the dining room floor was little slippery, probably due to the grease from the skewers of meat carried around by the Gauchos. Given the price charged, I expected a better dining experience.

Took my fiance here for his birthday and had a blast. all you can eat for $50 a person seems a bit much, but it was worth it. They had a like 15 different meats to pick from and they were so good. Also a salad bar with over 100 items to pick from. They walk around with the meats and serving you constantly . We love meat so we didn't do much of the salad bar. I will recommend this place for all of my meat lovers! this is so for you.
One thing though, the drinks were overpriced!

There are so many Brazilian steakhouses in Chicago - it's hard to keep track of the good versus the bad (or if they're any different from each other at all!). I don't go to these often, but I cannot resist the siren song of Zed 451 because it is OMGfantastic.

I expected good things from Brazzaz as well. And they have shrimp! And, more importantly, my friend and I had a Groupon.

The interior is nice and inviting, pretty classy overall. But the first sign I observed of Brazzaz being a poor imitation of its similarly-priced counterparts is the salad bar. It looked somewhat cafeteria-like, without anything looking particularly seasoned or unique to the restaurant. I should admit, though, that the shrimp in tomato sauce (?) were great, especially with the cilantro.

My friend and I soon encountered what Ron Swanson would call a "meat tornado." The service is very quick in the sense that you will get meat brought to you almost immediately after switching your table card from black to orange. Ah, but quality and quantity...it is sometimes hard to get both. (Example: Here.)

Almost all of the steak and beef we had was well cooked and decently seasoned, but it tasted like the metal poles/swords skewering the large roasts. These supposedly premium meats, for which people (without Groupon) pay round $50 a head, taste like pure metal. Maybe, though, the shrimp would be good! But no, sadly. The shrimp were insanely overcooked and gummy. They were so damn salty that it was hard to get that taste out of my mouth. And another selling point is supposedly its grilled pineapple. I got some pineapple, but apart from the gimmick of it being carved for you individually, it was like any other pineapple - that is, I'm not sure where the appearance or taste of grilling was!

Zed 451 is roughly the same price and blows Brazzaz out of the water in terms of quality and innovation. Even with a Groupon, my friend and I felt ripped off. I am pretty sure I could taste salt and metal for the rest of the night, too...

It had been some time since I went here.

My friend asked me if i wanted to go earlier in the day which is a good thing because you dont want to eat too much BEFORE you get here.

This is the first time I noticed there was a salad bar. At the salad bar they had some sushi but they did not explain what it was so I did not eat it ( my only complaint ).

They were going all out as they always do because right behind the salad bar there was four other pots that included rice and one that included chicken quesadilla's.
WOW. I did not eat that though

Dr Atkins would have been proud of me as I stuck with only protein. No need to have copious amounts of rice while you gorge yourself with the grilled remnants of cows and sheep.

If you overdo it, it should be noted that the nearest hospital is Northwestern at 45 E Chicago :)
This is my morbid sense of humor.

NO they dont have any hebrew national hot dogs here. If you were looking for just a hod dog you are in the right place.

I have been here like 6 times in 2 years and last night it was packed because there was a groupon available which allowed people to eat for half off. Alas I did not take advantage of this because i found out about it too late. But I had a great time.

Tip: order tea at the end...It will help settle things after the large meal

Restaurant Review
Meat lover's paradise! Now that Texas de Brazil is closed my business has migrated to Brazzaz for the time being. The salad area is smaller compared to TDB, however you can still get your spread of fresh mozzarella, seared ahi tuna, smoked salmon, salami, and more! In addition you get the great palate cleansing caramelized bananas, mashed potatoes, and cheese poppers. The beef of course is the prime selection and I would have to say the best cuts are the filet mignon, bacon filet, ribeye (yum!), and pineapple (not a beef but love it grilled). Servers are attentive and quick to come over when you flip your card. If it wasn't for the price and the fear of a heart attack I would eat here everyday!

Pros- quality meats, large salad bar, friendly service

Cons- very expensive, can't have it everday

Hidden deals- Check your local mailer for BOGO that offers great savings

Love coming here for special occasions. I took my boyfriend here tonight and the music was nice, the food was wonderful. My favorites from the salad bar:
Four cheese tortilleni - nice and creamy
The salads were really nice with all the fixings, blue cheese salad dressing was creamy and thick just how I like it.

The meat selections were nice, I personally loved the butter garlic shrimp which went nice with the tortellini, the garlic sirloin, bacon wrapped chicken and the grilled pineapple is the best.

It's a must try.

*flips disk on table to go go go*

OMG! Are you kidding me?! Sure I want that! I need another plate! Do I want to try that?! Sure give me more of that! I need yet another plate! OMG so good! OMG so full!

*flips disk on table to stop stop stop*

I had a two for one coupon and decided I wanted to check this place out. I think that you really either love Brazzaz or you don't. There's really no in between. I went in fairly open minded because I don't eat a lot of red meat and am not the type to order steak when I go out to eat but OMG this place was good. I think I liked it so much because I got to try man different meats and that really helped me decided what I like and don't like. Besides they give you small enough portions that if you don't like it you can move on to something else.

There salad bar was a wee bit disappointing but there was still a lot of stuff on there to try and try I did. I was also a wee disappointed because it took our waiter about 10 minutes to bring our drinks back out to us. I was without my wine and my partner without his beer for what seemed like forever! But then again that set the tone for the rest of the meal service wise. The meats were always there but our service was not and it was rather slow. A little disappointing there but when they came around they were very accommodating.

So for my first meat-o-palooza I'm giving it 4 stars! With the possibility for one more if the service improves!