Samba brazilian steakhouse los angeles
Lot parking with validation.Ĭost: Buffet lunch: $8.95 Monday through Thursday, $12.95 Friday through Sunday dinner $19.95 Monday through Thursday, She says she’ll teach us samba too, if we like. If caipirinha isn’t your thing, Samba’s wine list has 20 choices, from a local Fess Parker Chardonnay and a Rosenthal Cabernet from Malibu to Bodega Lurton’s Pinot Gris and Malbec from Argentina.Īs we leave, Tati invites us to come back at 8 on Friday night for a salsa lesson (there’s dancing on Friday from 9 p.m. And the mashed potatoes are better than many I’ve been served in far fancier restaurants. Even the fried zucchini and cauliflower passes muster. The feijoada (a black bean soup with various meats) is thick and velvety. The greens in the salad bar are fresh, the dressings well made. They’re not strong on presentation here, and some of the dishes look a little tired, but, in fact, most of them are pretty good.
Meanwhile, there’s a buffet set up in another area.
Turn it to red when you want to say basta, enough. Turn it to green and the meat will keep coming. The waiter sets down a wooden dowel painted green on one side, red on the other. And in the three-tiered dining room that gives every table a view, passadores (servers) go from table to table with long metal skewers, slicing leg of lamb or skirt steak right onto your plate. (The marina view outside the window more than makes up for any lapses.)Įven walking from the parking lot, you can smell the char of beef. But that looks to be the extent of their decorating budget. They’ve painted the cavernous space in tropical colors - lime, orange, pink. The owners of the South Bay restaurants Aioli, Breadstix and Trio are entering exotic territory with Samba Brazilian Steakhouse & Bar.
A new restaurant right on the water is worth noting, but a churrascaria where you eat unlimited amounts of meats grilled over a charcoal fire, Brazilian cowboy style, may be a first.