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A Guide To All Of The Meats At A Brazilian Steakhouse By Brian Boone Aug. 18, 2025 5:40 pm EST

A night at a Brazilian steakhouse is more a sensory experience than just a nice dinner out, and diners will enjoy two culinary traditions from that South American nation. These houses of meat worship utilize the churrasco method, in which huge portions of protein are grilled over open-flame cooking pits on sword-like metal skewers. Then, servers called gauchos wander around the steakhouse's vast dining rooms bearing those very swords of meat, going from table to table and slicing off as much as diners would like of each meat. This style is called rodizio, which translates to "rotation" in Portuguese.

As gauchos keep coming up to the table with their swords of

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