What you want is picanha, every other meat is inferior.
It’s pronounced Peek ahn ya, i think. I’m not good at phonetic spelling.
Good one. 
I went to one for lunch once. It was very filling and very delicious. Also, too salty for my tastes.
I suspect many Brazilian grills provide entertainment along with food. If you don’t like music and dancing while eating, best to call ahead, learn the schedule of events and plan accordingly.
Is “Gaucho” a term used in Brazil? I thought it was specifically Argentine.
Flip that card red side up if you are eating/full/indecisive, otherwise your table will soon pile heavy with meat, maybe not all of which you are willing/able to eat.
Try the chicken hearts. They’re more chickeny than hearty.
The salad bar is going to be good, try the palm hearts.
It’s where the Elephant Bar used to be, on Stevens Creek, in the Marukai Market shopping center, near the nearly deserted Vallco Shopping Mall.
One of my teachers was from Rio. The other was a Nordestina.
Granted, I’ve only been the the chains in Chicago (Fogo de Chao and Texas De Brazil), but every time I went it was a fairly quiet affair. Maybe some light background music but no live performances.
I don’t know if they all do, but at least some restaurants have a salad-bar-only price that’s significantly cheaper than the full-blown all-you-can-meat. 
In my experience (Fogo de Chao, Texas de Brazil) the salad bar and addictive bread puffs at table 
are quality food and more than enough for a meal, especially if you don’t want to pay the higher price.
I’ve been to one, and its very interesting.
Don’t be afraid to try a little of something, and see if you like it or not. I was honestly surprised that one of my favorite dishes was some pickled hearts of palm. It was absolutely amazing.
I tried all the different meats. I hate lamb, but the lamb that was served was amazing! There were multiple chicken preparations, and each one highlighted a different flavor.
It was very impressive, and the social aspects of eating with friends and family was wonderful, as the new foods gave us an immediate topic of conversation.
Good advice here. I’d just reinforce the idea that, if a particular piece of meat you’re served doesn’t appeal to you, don’t eat any more of it! Leave room for the cuts you like. You’re not there to gain admission to the Clean Plate Club.
Also, some of those items at the salad bar are pretty delicious, along with being unavailable anywhere other than at a Brazilian Steak House. So don’t rule out trying some non-meat items.
The one I was at had cold cuts at the salad bar - the prosciutto was really high quality, as was the parmesan. It was nice to have those and some olives and lil mozzarella balls and tomatoes to cut the various really intense meat flavors.
Seconding the ‘don’t clean your plate’ advice. Our friend that took me and my husband told us to try everything first, then only to really eat what we thought was absolutely amazing. Alternating between a hunk of super rare filet mignon and a lovely crispy fat-rendered lamb chop is one of my favorite food memories now. Sadly I was not fond of the park-crusted thing, but my husband was, so he valiantly took it off my hands for me.
Oh yeah! One more thing. Try Guarana. It’s a Brazilian soft drink that you could technically buy off Amazon (ha!) but should be readily available at any reputable Brazilian steak house. It’s delicious and quite unique.
The Texas de Brazil I’ve been to has lobster bisque at the salad bar, which is quite tasty. We’ve been three or four times. The only complaint I have is that the restaurant (in Orlando(ish), at least) was quite noisy.
We call it the meat buffet and will definitely go again.
It’s used in southern Brazil as well as Argentina and Uruguay.
Ah … Brazilian steakhouse, the ideal USA-style buffet – a buffet where you don’t even have get up to get the food.
I’m a firm believer in having a few bites of everything. Not just eating the steak, which is always awesome, but do enjoy the lamb and the sausages.
Save some room for a light desert. Strawberries in Porto is often on offer.
I once did that for a home barbecue. Not really Brazilian. But I did barbecue a variety of meats, plate it all up, and then sat down looking innocent until my family turned their cards to green. Then I got up and carved their choices off the skewers.
The only thing I have to add to this thread, is that my first visit to a Brazilian steakhouse actually was in Rio. I did a study abroad program there to finish up my Masters. I could have used this advice since I speak absolutely no Portuguese.
Proof of that happened when I was when I was trying to ask a man if I could use his bathroom at his store. I thought I was giving a perfect translation of ‘bathroom’ and finally had to mime me taking a piss. 
Dang It, Now i’m hungry for Brazilian steakhouse!
I went, and am only this morning starting to feel recovered from my meat coma.
We liked it very much. The salad bar was large and varied, the service was attentive and pleasant, and the meat was excellent and it came non-stop. My favorites were the ribeye and the leg of lamb. My husband liked the picanha the best.
It was quite expensive on the weekends for lunch. This is going to have to be a once-a-year at most kind of place for us.
Thanks a lot for all the advice; I went feeling prepared and didn’t fall into the rookie mistake of eating too much salad bar or taking some of every single kind of meat item that went by.
There’s one near my office. We’ll often go for lunch and just have the salad bar. It’s really good, has some meat items like shrimp and meatballs, and only costs like 1/3rd what they charge for the full rodízio.