Espadas de Brazil — Restaurant in Austin

Not authentic Brazilian food.

Meats: Meat doesn’t taste anything like Brazilian BBQ. Ordered the Picanha sandwich and the beef meat was blend. It also didn’t taste like picanha, it tasted like an extremely tenderized beef. Order the daily special with chicken and sausage. Sausage is not linguiça, it’s cheap cabassa sausage. We don’t even have cabassa sausage in Brazil. Chicken has no flavor.

Rice: Rice is not seasoned like Brazilian rice or prepared like Brazilian rice.

Salad: Salad comes topped with ranch. We don’t even use ranch in Brazil. Salada should be offered with the option of topical Brazilian salad dressing which is a simple mixture of olive oil, vinegar, and salt, or ranch and it should come with dressing on the side, not on top.

Fries: Fries are the topical frozen fries, but they ruin it by dumping lots of their spicy sauce on top of fries on every plate. The sauce is a simple mixture of spicy ketchup and mayo, or regular ketchup, mayo, and something else like sirisha to add spice. We do deep fried and other finger food in this ketchup and mayo mixed sauce in Brazil, but we don’t dump loads of this sauce on every fries we eat. Sauce should be offered on the side.

The picanha sandwich also came with a lot of the sauce on top, the sauce’s taste is overpowering and not everyone wants that on top of their steak sandwich. I had to remove most of the sauce with my finger. Maybe it’s to hide the fact that the meat doesn’t have much flavor…

Service: Service was good. The two guys working there were very nice and polite and helpful, but neither one of them were Brazilian. There were no Brazilian employees working there. It’s like having a Mexican food truck with only Chinese employees and having a Chinese cook make you tacos.

Portion: Portion size was good. The sandwich came with a lot of meat and so did the gaucho plate and the special plate, but again, meat was blend and boring. I would choose to take a plate with less meat if the meat tastes authentic over the plate with the large blend meat portion.

Summary: Large portions. Good service. NOT AUTHENTIC. Doesn’t taste Brazilian at all. Too much sauce on everything. Meat is blend, sausage is not linguiça, chicken has no flavor.

If you are looking for big portions and settle tastes go here. If you want traditional Brazilian food and expect your food to taste authentic you will be disappointed coming here just like I was. I ended up getting traditional Brazilian pastel from the neighbor trailer which ended up actually tasting pretty authentic and made the trip...

Not quite sure how the food is coming straight off the trucks or trailers, but we got served this atrocity today for our catered lunch. Choices were "grilled" chicken, a 5 oz sirloin, or some massacred translation of a vegetarian dish, with something that resembled blended artichoke hearts and an assortment of random body parts from The Swamp Thing. Chicken was either baked or boiled and the "sirloin" looked like strips of beef jerky that had been partially chewed and then spit back into the rice. I've had authentic Brazilian food, and this was nowhere close to it. Also, you don't put hot and cold food items into the same to-go container. Heat transfers and spoils the cold items and adds unintended moisture to the supposed "crispy" fries. A tablespoon of some assortment of salad and cucumbers was in the small portion side of the container, fries were soggy and moist, and the chicken was very salty. Rice and the meal altogether was bland other than the salt, which was abundant. There was plenty of leftovers, which is extremely rare with the employees of our company, so I snagged one hoping to treat my cats to a little. One of them growled at it, the other squatted over it and urinated on the offerings. They wouldn't touch it. Not a good sign. Not sure if they mean Brazil as in the country, or Brazil as in the town in Indiana. The food offered would be more reflective of the mid-west bland and salty palette's cravings. Ingredients-ton of salt, boiled or baked chicken with even more salt, Uncle Ben's Instant Boil-In-A-Bag Rice, Johnsonville Smoked Sausage, Ore-Ida crispy fries with even more salt added, a WalMart bag of spring mix salad, and some hurriedly chopped cucumbers slathered in a watery mix of ranch dressing. Poor attempt at...

Bad food for the money you pay. This isn't an authentic Brazilian food neither gaúcho culinary. Sticky rice, left overs meat, eggs badly prepared and a sloppy food presentation. The kid serving the food had no hygiene manners... I hate to be the one giving a bad review but this one I had to...if they ever improve the quality of their food and really represent our food at a higher standard I will revisit my review and maybe change it... for now that's what I have to say.

Obs.: I had the gaúcho plate... I don't do Mahi and I never spoke with the lady, the owner...you're definitely confusing me with someone else ...so, when a customer leaves u a review pay attention to their feedback and don't take it so personal... that's not how u run a business...that's not how Amazon got to the top... they improve and make sure their customer satisfaction is their top priority... the kid you guys are training should be wearing gloves specially now with this pandemic thing...you're dealing with people's food... dang!!!!!! anyhow, I'm not here to hurt anybody's business... I'm here to help them improve and pay attention to very important details like cleanliness, hygiene and the quality of the food they serve... that's how capitalism works: if you do a good job your customers give u a good review... u do a bad job u shouldn't be rewarded for it, instead receive the review u earned... $47+ 6 tip isn't a bang for the buck for 2 gaucho plates......