Welcome to Rio de Janeiro. Today we are taking you for a Brazilian steak street food style and also
five-star all-you-can-eat buffet style. It's going to be a great episode so make sure you stay tuned
until the end. Let's go eat some Brazilian food. Honestly this would cost like, I don't know, $150
in Canada. Yeah, here it's only $10. Maybe a minute goes by and then there's another kind of
And another cut of meat. This is meat. Meat heaven. So we've come to a roadside grill barbecue
And this guy is known as a gaucho. Which is a person who comes from the region of Brazil that borders both Argentina and Uruguay
It's a very flat region. So the meat that comes from that region is known for being very fatty and
The cows can just kind of graze on the plains and walk
Across this very flat land so they get really fat Versus the other parts of Brazil where a lot of beef comes from which are mountainous and hilly
The beef tends to be a lot more lean because the cows have to you know work out and exercise a lot more
So really flavorful. This is a really cool stall. He's just grilling everything on charcoal. He doesn't just have the beef
He's got see some sausages on there some chicken wings Everything's on charcoal and then people just set up right on the side of the road with the red chairs plastic chairs really really cool spot
All right, well taste test. Let's try it out My god
Fresh off the charcoal it was so juicy. Oh oh my gosh it's just full of juice
which cut is that? this one tri-tip tri-tip oh my gosh that is so good
just seasoning with rock salt just salt rock salt rock salt yeah
i love it man i love this guy i love the seasoning
simple so good flavorful meat No
And the grill guy is not the owner. He just works here. He just works here
Yeah. So good luck finding it. You're going to have to come with this guy if you want to come to this place
Because, yeah, you're not going to find this place on your own. And we literally just have a pile of meat, a small mountain of meat
And what are the different? We've got a couple of different cuts here. What do we have, Gil? Tri-tip, ribeye steak, pork ribs, sausage, chicken
Chicken wings, yeah. Yeah, it's all seasoning only with rock salt. It's just salt, yeah
And he goes generously with the salt. And you were telling me that the region that he comes from, what is that called
The Pampas? Pampas Gaúcho. Yeah. Yeah. Pampa is like a name of a bayon
So basically they stay in the plain. Right. Right. So basically the cows are like fattier. Yeah
And they like to have their meat cooked pretty well done down there
Usually, yeah. It depends. But it's really like personal taste. But usually, yeah
They like well done. I'm going right in. some whatever I get in
okay I've got a sausage and then you gotta have it with this with the cassava
flour which is the farofa. Toasted cassava flour which is really interesting I didn't even
really know about that before coming here but it's served with all the meat here
yes and then you put some of the sauce which is a green bell pepper chopped tomatoes
and chopped onions that's a tri-tip really good huh? I love it man
it's just simply delicious like just smoky salty and like you can add this also but it doesn't even need it
like the little piece he gave us as a taster it's good just as is and I love
it that you know it's a really kind of crispy from the outside so and here's
only on the weekends right like from Friday through Sunday yeah you have to
show up really early after 2 p.m. it's sold out it's gone yeah what do you like to drink
I'll take a beer. Beer. Servedina original. It's going for a chicken wing
And the cassava doesn't really add a whole lot of flavor, but it gives a nice little texture. Apigado
Let's try this. Really good, huh? Yeah. Yeah, bro. I love the way he makes it so simple, you know
And it's right on the street. Look at that. Only locals attend this place
I love this. This is what we call condom. A condom? Condom beer. Condom beer
Yeah, we call it camisinha. It's just like a piece of styrofoam hollowed out to keep it nice and cool. Insulator
And the meat here in Brazil is just phenomenal. Can't go wrong with meat
I love it Just a plate all these different cuts Oh the condom heats it nice and cold too Well protected I love it bro It super good I love it when you go to a bar like this
and it's all like classic tables and chairs, you know. Right on the street, you know
The real focus here is on the food, on the flavor of the food, the quality of the meat
Is he actually bringing this meat up from his region there? He buys here, but it comes originally from there, yeah
Yeah, and cooks it in their style. Yeah. His style is like to get some really big chunk of ribeye steaks, like that size, like three kilos
and just cook right there over the charcoal. Through the map on the charcoal, yeah. So even though there's like a bunch of different barbecues and meats here in Brazil
they're all kind of different in their seasonings and their style and their cuts, especially their cuts
Yeah, but mainly Rock South, right? Rock South, yeah. Yeah, that's the Brazilian style of cooking meat
What's the cassava flour for? Well, it's just to eat with the meat, you know
We believe it has like a really good combination, you know. And then the sauce is just to hydrate the flour with the meat
So all together, I think it's really good. Yeah, it does. Honestly, this would cost like, I don't know, $150 in Canada
Yeah, here it's only $10. okay yeah we're working our way through the different cuts pork rib here it's
all about the protein yum even the pork is tender do you think we should let the girls eat now before
we finish it I don't know if they're gonna eat I think they come just to see us to watch us eat yeah hmm you guys enjoying
That was some incredible Brazilian meat
Man, you can't go wrong with meat in this country. And we've come now to Celeron Steps, a very famous tourist attraction here in Rio de Janeiro
And this is named after the artist Celeron. He was a Chilean artist who came here and then covered these steps in tiles
And since then, people have brought tiles from all around the world
There's something like 65 nationalities here. We saw one from Canada. We saw one from Thailand
And they just covered these steps with their beautiful, vibrant-colored tiles. And it is just so packed in here
You guys need to be really careful when you visit this spot. Just be careful of pickpockets
Be careful of everything here in Rio de Janeiro. Keep your head on a swivel
So we are heading up to one of Rio's most famous sites, Sugarloaf Mountain
We have to take a couple cable cars to get all the way up to the top. Beautiful views already
I'd say as far as big cities go Rio de Janeiro has to be the most beautiful one I've ever seen
It's like everywhere you go you get a new stunning view. Look at this
You got Kreis the Redeemer up here and then you've got the beautiful bay
Botafogo beach over there. The airport. And it just goes on and on and on. Beautiful. Stunning
So we are on top of Sugarloaf now. It took two cable cars
I always find it funny that you go on top of the most beautiful thing in the city and then you can't see it anymore
But of course you get this incredible view. But honestly, I think the view from Christ the Redeemer is even better because you can see Sugarloaf
And you get all the vultures flying overhead. It's about to rain, it looks like
So the weather has actually cooled down a little bit. What do you think, Mink? I think it's really cool
like breathtaking wheel you can see like bird eye wheel kind of thing like 360
yeah it good like fresh air what did you say about the sugar love man it like a big rock yeah it a big rock Bro they call Sugarloaf because we used to export sugar to Europe right And we used to storage the sugar into those huge blocks that has like a spiral pyramid format made by clay
So that's how we used to storage and ship to Europe. And they claim that this little recipient has the same format of the hill
That's why we call sugar loaf. And you know what I love about real landscaping, man
It's just the silhouette, the format of the hills. It looks like a painting, like a drawing
So every time I see this view, I get excited, boy. And I'd be very thankful for the opportunity to see this view
Every day. Imagine we came from the weather that's like minus 27
Plus 37. Plus 37. Down here you can see Copacabana Beach, the most famous beach in the world
It's Sunday and it just looks like literally a million people on that beach
Massive beach, just packed full of people. Wow. And the mountains just like go on and on and on
Such a cool city, so beautiful. So tonight we've come to Churrascaria Palace here in Copacabana
This is a all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse. This concept has become very popular around the world and I needed to try here at this source
So this morning we had the Brazilian steak street food style and this place is total five-star luxury, all-you-can-eat
So we're gonna eat a ton of different meats. I'll show you the buffet section. They have more than just steak. There is so much to try here
But first I'll let Gilhor may tell you a little bit more about this place. The theme of the steakhouse, it's about Bossa Nova, right? It's music. Right
So it's the new samba. Yeah, I see. So if you pay attention to the decoration, it talks about Bossa Nova, it talks about Copacabana
So the idea is to sell like the Brazilian, right? So the other steakhouse, not only in Rio, but in the entire Brazil, they're focused more on meat
And here, besides the meat, they also give you an opportunity to join food from different regions of Brazil
So maybe sometimes you come here and you have like an Amazon fish, for example, right
So I think it's pretty cool because we have an opportunity to try different foods from different parts of Brazil
We can also have Brazilian cheese and Brazilian wine. So this is like the buffet section
We've got soups and salads and there's some meats there. They have a ton of cheeses, olive oils, honeys from different regions across Brazil
They've even got a sushi station, which is kind of crazy. But you've got to go light on this stuff because you want to save it for those premium cuts
You've got to pace yourself. one thing at a time, you want to taste a little bit of everything if you can
We might actually be able to check out the kitchen. So we're in the kitchen here, they've got all the different cuts going on the, kind of like a rotisserie actually
and then they just take it out into the kitchen and up
This is the beef ribs. Pork belly. Pork belly, oh nice. They have a ridiculous amount of different cuts of meat
And then they take them out into the dining room, slice it off at your table
and you can enjoy all this beautiful, beautiful meat. Oh my god, Brazil is just meat heaven
So he's skewering up the most famous cut of meat, the picanha
We definitely got to try that out. There you go. That's how you do it. Nice
What do you want me to do? Okay, I don't know what I'm doing, but apparently this is a bottle crusher
Push it down. That's fun. So we just fought our way through the buffet section, managed to get some veggies and
stuff and we've also got a cheese plate here they all Brazilian cheeses except
they're gonna put down all right but the other ones are all Brazil you should start with this one the gold cheese yeah and then you dip into the honey yeah I
think it's a very special cheese man and they won one of the competition cheese
competitions in France yeah and they have like you know variety of raw honey
right mm-hmm yeah that's actually really good I think it's a good start you know
lot of people think oh I'm going to a steakhouse I show you only me but no if
they have like displaying you know cheese Brazilian cheese why not don't
try I do want some meat let's do it the famous Brazilian cheese bread been
looking forward to trying to see look at that oh yeah yeah see these are the dangerous ones These ones will fill you up really quick One at a time right
Yes, as well as the polenta. I love this polenta. Fried cornmeal
Similar to the one we had in the panera. Milo frito, they called it there. Yum. Crunchy
I got a bit of more game. Oh my god. Special
So they just came around with two different cuts. First was the ribs
Yes. And then the picanha, which is like the most famous cut
And it's kind of cool. You use these little tweezers and they slice it at the table and you can grab as much as you want
It's all you can eat. Let's try the picanha. It's cooked perfectly medium rare
Look at that. This was salt. Simple seasoning. So juicy. Oh my god. Yeah
It's like so beefy. Let's try a piece of the rib here. Nice chunk of fat on there as well
That's like roast beef. It melts. The picanha is like really lean
The rib, nice and fat. I honestly think I like the ribs better. A lot more fat
Some beautiful Brazilian wine. We're in for a night of meat eating
That's cool. It's cool. Thank you
So this place is all about different cuts of beef. This is a popular Uruguayan cut called ancho
It's the cap, right? No, it's a rib steak. Rib steak, okay. Rib steak. cooked medium rare
More fatty huh? Yours is looking a lot more rare than mine is. Yeah. Fatty. Good? Yeah
It's amazing how much different the cuts can be, like in terms of flavor
Like the rutanya tastes totally different than this. Prime rib. That's my favorite cut
So it's literally every two minutes another cut is coming out and our table is just full
of meat. This is the prime rib. Oh yeah. Look at that. Beauty
like two minutes not even like maybe a minute 30 goes by and then there's another cut of meat
and another cut of meat and another cut of meat it's crazy this is meat meat heaven so this is the
prime rib Gil Hermes favorite let's try it yeah it's my favorite cut now you understand why
everything's so juicy yes just salt perfectly cooked look at that I'm just kind of taking the beauty of the meat
Yeah, bro. I like it. The Prime Reap. I like it. I like it a lot
Do you like it? I like it a lot. Do you like Prime Reap? It's good. It's different
It's good. It's good. I can't remember everything, but each piece of meat
is a completely different cut so I got one two three four five six cuts of meat
and then this is a little cheese pastry super hot whoa super creamy cheese in the top
Okay, this is filet mignon with parmesan cheese on top
It seems really weird to be honest, but let's try it. Steak with cheese
I don't like the cheese. It doesn't go together. Right. Like eat cheese by itself? OK
Eat cheese by itself? OK. On top? No. They have 40 cuts
They have ostrich. Ostrich? Uh-huh. Ostrich. Really? Do you want to try? No
They have a duck heart. Duck heart? Duck heart. Wow. Yeah, there's some crazy things over here
I don't know, they have like 30, 40 cuts. There's 40 on there
40, yeah. One bite. One bite. OK. I'm being egged on to have this in one bite
This is the dessert. One bite? No, no, don't do it one bite. No
No, no. Don't do it one bite. No. No, no, don't do it, don't do it
I don't know if I've ever eaten so much beef in one sitting
I'm literally in the middle of dessert, and they're coming out to offer us more beef
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