Buffets and all-you-can-eat restaurants are great for spending a few hours with friends and gorging endlessly on food. The only downside is the inevitable food coma that comes afterwards from massively overeating. You want to get your money’s worth, so of course you’re going to eat way more than usual. Bring on the expensive stuff! Don’t fill your stomach with the cheapies like the potato salad.
Or a one liter bottle of San Pellegrino, as I did yesterday.
We went to a Brazilian steakhouse called Galpão Gaucho, featuring unlimited cuts of grilled meat and a full-feature salad bar. Time limit is two hours. There’s several locations in the Bay Area, we went to the one most convenience to us: Cupertino. Price on a weekend is about $63 dollars. Drinks and desserts are extra. That one liter bottle of Pellegrino? Five dollars.
It’s worth it because if you don’t constantly hydrate throughout the meal, you’re going to be drinking lots of water afterwards. The salt content is no joke, though the steaks are absolutely delicious, seasoned just correctly. My favorite cuts are the bottom sirloin, and the ribeye. Rather disappointing though the restaurant did not offer prime rib, in my opinion the best cut of them all.
Obviously, none of us could eat like we used to back in the college days. I purposely did not go to my limit (this isn’t a hot dog eating contest) because I still had errands to run afterwards. It was still a decent amount, and for the dinner that followed I only ate a peach and a banana. I’m going to be swearing off cow meat for this week, though honestly I’m more of a pig and chicken person anyways.
For a good time and properly done (unlimited) steaks, I highly recommend Galpao Gaucho.
A tradition unlike any other.