Brasa

greetings and salutations,
Eight (2 rookies) enjoyed canada's finest foreign food at Brasa Brazilian Restaurant last night. As someone said afterward, "meat is back on the menu boys!" i am still so stuffed that we may need to avoid buffets in the future.
here's the deal with Brasa: all you can eat.
here's the rub: you get a buffet featuring baked salmon (good) along with 70 + items (salads, cheeses, potato dishes, rice, beans, cold cuts, etc.); 'gauchos' (for all intents and purposes, south american cowboys) serve various meats (also grilled pineapple) off a skewer at the table: chicken legs, pork sausage, lamb leg, beef tenderloin, beef rib eye, beef rump, beef short ribs rump steak, chicken breast in bacon, beef bottom sirloin and filet mignon wrapped in bacon. The gauchos come by the table and bring the meat when your two-sided 'tag' is turned to green and pass you by when your tag is flipped to red.
I had the filet wrapped in bacon (awesome), pork sausage (very good), chicken wrapped in bacon (good), bottom sirloin (excellent), top sirloin (awesome), lamb (ok), pineapple (with a brown sugar, cinnamon glaze - delicious), rib eye (ok) and rump steak (ok) - in other words, cholesterol heaven! i will say that most of the meats were much better when initially tasted than when tried a second time.
apparently the meat (and the small buffet portions I tasted) wasn't enough for me last night as i decided to have dessert - cheesecake factory-made chocolate cake ala mode (good).

the Brasa experience was not for the faint of heart or in other words 'Caveat Vegetariat' - vegetarians beware. if you like meat and a lot of it you will enjoy Brasa, if not there's always fallsview casino across the street. I happen to like fish, fowl and other former living beasts. although i lost $100 in 5 minutes at the casino afterward explaining the nuances of blackjack to certain vegas-bound friends, it was a good night. regardless of my gambling loss, i'm giving Brasa an A.