Seen as I gave Reds a bit of a 'grilling' I thought I'd balance it out:)
Fazenda in Leeds was an awesome experience! It's a Brazilian restaurant with numerous types of meat cooked over coals on a Rotisserie.
It's £25.90 a head on Sunday-Thursday and £27.90 the rest of the time. We were immediately attended to by the staff as soon as we arrived and was shown to the bar whilst our table was prepared. We ordered a drink and sat at our table. We visited the salad bar which shouldn't really be called a salad bar. More like a buffet and there were some tasty foods available which created a meal in themselves.
On your table you have something which looks like a beer mat. It's green on one side and red on the other. There are many staff wondering around with huge skewers of meat. Flip your mat to green, stating that your hungry and you get a gentle trickle of waiters brining you their offerings of cooked meats. They usually tell you what meat it is and how it's cooked (medium, well, rare...etc). If you want some they slice you a chunk off. If you don't they disappear. It sounds like you may get hassled all of the time but actually it's quite subtle and un-intrusive.
We tried everything:-
Picanha (Cap of rump),
Filet mignon (Fillet),
Maminha (Tail of Rump),
Beef Skirt
Bife Ancho (Rib Eye),
Alcatra (Rump),
Costela (Beef or Pork Ribs),
Bife de Presunto (Gammon),
Cordeiro (Lamb),
Frango (Chicken),
Coracao de frango (Chicken’s heart),
Linguiça (Sausage),
Morcela (Black Pudding)
The service was excellent, the food was excellent, the restaurant atmosphere was excellent and not too expensive considering the experience. These guys really know what they're doing.
Don't get me wrong........if you took your £27.90 and just spent it on a Ribeye or fillet at a good steak restaurant you'd probably get a better, tastier piece of meat but considering you could have all of the items above it was worth every penny and still a very good, tasty meal.
I'm going again! Check it out! It's a real meat fest.