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Good Food, very fresh salad bar, service is a little bit slow. The place is very crowed and small but i like it. I need to come back and try something…
Daniel P
Gaucho Brazilian Barbecue
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All the cost of Bolero, none of the payoff.Salad bar is very limited, as are the meat options compared to other Brazilian gaucho restaurants in Calgar…
Jason Kempton
Gaucho Brazilian Barbecue
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An all you can eat Brazilian BBQ with servers bringing as much meat as you can handle until you say stop. Great concept, pricey, but worth it. With it…
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Gaucho Brazilian Barbecue
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10 Reviews on “Gaucho Brazilian Barbecue”
Gaucho is a pretty good Brazilian BBQ spot that serves up quality meat. My wife and I found all the beef to be similar in flavour, mostly just salty. Everything else we sampled from the salad bar (they have one of the best caesar salads) to the dessert was pretty good. Service was attentive and prompt.
For the number of staff members and guests crammed into a small space, and a messy service (Gauchos serving meat while getting the juices in the table and not cleaning it up) I rate this restaurant a 4.0 However, the staff is friendly, the salad bar had excellent choices for sides, and the meats/flavors were great. The service of the Gauchos could definitely have been better, especially paying a higher price. I reccomend this restaurant for the food and friendly staff only!
This place is one of the best restaurants in Calgary, with wonderful service, and great food and drinks, I highly recommend this place. It is pricey in the evenings but definitely worth it.
Overall experience wasn’t as expected. I think a $43 Rodizio was very expensive for the quality and service provided. The food was served as fast as they would, I felt pushed all the time and like they needed the table for someone else even dropping the pieces of meat on the table and inside the drinks we had. Food was good in general but I would try some where else for Brazilian food. I doubt I’d come again to this restaurant. Not the best place to come with kids because there are no options in the menu for them. The buffet was good with few options of salads. Beef and other meats had good flavor but sometimes too fat.
Came here for my boyfriend’s Christmas party a few years ago and this place is excellent. If you haven’t already been, stop what you’re doing and go there. Now.Since we were there for dinner, we had the dinner menu, which includes a salad bar for you to frequent as much as you choose. I only got myself one salad to save room for dinner and it tasted light and fresh.I tried everything except the chicken hearts (weirds me out) and it was so exceptional. Perfectly cooked with just the right amount of seasoning. I could eat the bacon wrapped chicken and garlic sirloin forever and never get bored with them. The BBQ pineapple was definitely a nice and light dessert option after all the meat I put in my stomach.The atmosphere inside is good too, the wait staff are incredibly friendly and it feels exciting to be there.
Just go eat there. Thats it. Spoiler warning, its amazing. You dont need to read any more. If you dont live in Calgary, move, and if you cant, I weep for your very souls. And if youre in Calgary, why are you still reading this? Unless youre already heading there by some form of rapid transport, you should stop doing what youre doing immediately and eat at Gauchos. Raise your children tomorrow. A good job will wait for you. It is awesome. What more needs to be said. Its as good as restaurant like it can be, and thats really good. Just go. Put down the tablet, phone, or computer and go Okay, Im paid by the word count (umm, youre not paid at all) so I better start padding. Gauchos is an economical idea made even better by amazing food delivered in an amazing way. Meat is brought to your table skewered on a sword. That is awesome, as awesome as ocelots, King Ghidorah, andwell, the universe. I mean its not exactly a sword, its a skewer. But its three feet long, solid steel, with a sharp point, so when I claim it sword-like, enough to proxy in pinch, I believe Im on solid ground on the claim. The menu is brilliant in its simplicity, with barely a dozen options. Really, its just one, the seven meats. Thats right, seven meats–rump steak, garlic top sirloin, rosemary pork loin, gaucho sausage, herbed chicken wings, Parmigiano beef and spicy garlic brisket. Its a proper comparison equating those with the seven summitsthe highest mountains on each of the continents, and seriously almost an esteemed achievement. The sweats kick in about half-way through, and you feel like youre about to run out of oxygen, but you soldier on. Why? Because theyre there!Okay, seriously, Gaucho is fantastic in its simplicity, a chain or franchise would muddle the waters with complex ideas and padded, compromised menus. This has one ideaa salad bar saddled with BBQ meat brought to the table via sword delivery. You are presented with a two-colored cow-shaped card. As long as one side is up, the meat will keep flowing to your table. When youve had enough, flip it over to stop the line. Simple. I challenge everyone to finish, because they are all worth it, especially if fortunate to arrive before the lunch rush, insuring youll have first cut. And I usually hate salad bars. I find any place requiring the same level of plexi-protection as what guards the Pope from assassination is probably not for me. If food is locked away behind an inch of Formica, I generally move on. This was good, and attractive, not just for a salad bar, not in the way we compliment ugly children, legitimately appealing. Like the baguettes on wooden boards with an inviting knife for people to cut. The varieties of salad ranged from the simple to the sublime. Its after youve taken your filled plate to your table does the journey begin and the first sword delivered. They shave, you pinch with your tongs, and they give you a moment before returning again. You can say no to anything offered, and can have repeats of what you like the most. So yeah, I was not a huge fan of anything with bones still in place, so sorry chicken. The beef however, was astounding as were the sausages. Between servings, you can take in the adorable restaurant, shockingly upmarket considering the cuisine. I especially liked the fire hazard of a central chandelier. Seriously, whose ideas was this? It had to have been intentionalwith seven rustic bulbs mounted on the outer rim of a wagon wheel; each bulbs lengthy cable wound clumsily around the central pillar until plugged into its own socket in the ceiling. If you saw that in your friends house, you would mock it, the result of an insane DIY projects no architect in his right mind would endorse. This had to have been intentional, with the eight power plugs and the forty feet of cables wrapped around the pillar. No no, dont cut them, just wind them maniacally around the center. Its so obvious, it had to be deliberate, so in a way, its also kind of brilliant. If this was a crappy Canadian pub only serving hot wings and beer nuts located in the demilitarized zone of Prince George, you would shake your head and walk out. Here, its adorable. Did I mention the meat is served on a sword? You still think Im jokingthe skewer is not a rod with a pointIt has a flat edge and fuller. Its a friggin sword. And at $20 at head during lunch time, its a steal. The staff was awesome, the dcor was funky and functional. Thats it, just go. Gaucho skirted possible negative stereotypes and created a great location and one worthy of anyones money. Go now.Food: 5/5Service: 4/5Presentation: 5/5Value: 5/5Recommendation: 5/5
Just been here for the 3rd time, its aninteresting place, great style of serving food and its a positive enviorment to visit,unfortunatly I cant get as excited to the degree some of my fellow reviewers have below, but I will say I was well fed andI certainly enjoyed the place, but as some noted below I found a lot of the stuff on the salty side and some items seemed to be almost over marinated, the tastes were good and the self serve portion of the evening was good,I would visit again.