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Hot Brazilian Dining at New Samba Grill

Posted On : 8/17/2006 by Kirsten Noelle Hubbard

Downtown San Diego has become a melting pot for international fare. Spin the globe and stop it with your finger. Wherever it lands (unless you hit Antarctica or the middle of the Indian Ocean), there’s a San Diego restaurant, opening or established, dishing up that country’s cuisine.


Samba Grill, located in Horton Plaza, isn’t the first Brazilian restaurant to satiate San Diego stomachs—Rei Do Gado is only a few blocks away. But Samba Grill’s chefs know what they’re doing. The original restaurant, located in Salt Lake City, won the 2004 award for Best Downtown Restaurant, and the menu is the very same, as well as the presentation. The prime attraction is the “Churrascaria”, hunks of meat carved from enormous spits right at the table, a Brazilian specialty. Portions are enormous, and range from typical proteins like beef, pork and poultry, to rarer fare like lamb and occasionally, wild gator.


Dishes can be healthfully augmented by selections from a hot-and-cold salad bar, all of the Brazilian persuasion. After dinner, world travelers and homebodies alike will agree that Brazil is delicious. Next stop: Antarctica.


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Added 12/13/06
Samba

My husband and I tried eating here last week and loved it. the Churrascaria you mention is incredible, as is the lamb. I didn't expect to find such a delightful little place right in Horton Plaza, but I'm glad I did. Thanks for listing it.

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Added 10/07/07
stay away from samba grill!

Freaking nightmare, the worse experience ever here or Brazil. The meat was cold and burned and the beer warm. The waitress was totally rude and not necessarily forthcoming - she said there are all these kinds of meat cuts, but they brought 4 dishes total: "chicken cheese", burned tri-tip, home-made-pure-oil-pork-sausage, "filet-mignon wrapped in bacon" (no way that was filegt mignon). After we complained, they brought some microwaved ribs that stunk like old meat/dog food. Whenever she asked "everything OK here guys?" and we'd say "actually it's NOT", she pretend didn't understand our complaints. It was a total rip off paying more than U$ 25.00 for oily, old, cold or re-heated cheap food or U$ 10.00 for a "caipirinha". I've had way better meals at dirty bus stations in Brazil for a couple of bucks... Someone should close that place.

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