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How to find good Brazilian food

Most Americans meet Brazilian food as a churrascaria — endless skewers of grilled meat carried to the table until you flip a card to red. That format is real and it is also about a tenth of what Brazilian cooking is.

What separates a good one from a bad one

Picanha carved at the table — The top sirloin cap, fat layer intact, salted and grilled. It is the cut Brazilians care about and the one to judge a churrascaria on.
Rock salt and nothing else — Traditional churrasco is seasoned with coarse salt, full stop. Heavy marinades are covering something.
A serious salad bar — At a good rodizio the cold bar is not filler — hearts of palm, farofa, vinagrete, cheese bread, feijoada on the side.
Feijoada on Saturdays — The black bean and pork stew is traditionally a weekend dish. A restaurant that runs it Saturdays is following the tradition rather than the tourist schedule.
Pão de queijo made there — Tapioca-flour cheese bread, served hot and hollow. From a freezer bag it is dense and sad.

What to order

Picanha — At a churrascaria, wave the rest through until this arrives.
Feijoada completa — Black beans with pork, over rice, with farofa, collards and orange.
Moqueca — Bahian coconut and palm-oil fish stew. The best thing in Brazilian cooking that Americans rarely see.
Coxinha — Teardrop-shaped fried chicken croquette. Street food, and a good bakery test.
Caipirinha — Cachaça, lime, sugar. The national drink and hard to get wrong.

How Savor Scout looks for it

Brazilian searches distinguish churrascaria from Brazilian home cooking, which are two different meals at two different prices. Mentions of picanha, feijoada and moqueca in menus and reviews point at the second; rodizio and salad-bar language at the first. The matcher uses whichever your search implies.

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