![]() ![]() Upon completing the application on the site, I hit “send” and got a message saying I was now included in the Tucanos database. By the way, at that same Website (), you can sign up to receive a free birthday dinner, as I did. ![]() All this is yours for $19.95 at dinner and $11.95 at lunch (although the Tucanos Website states lower dinner prices). In addition, there are hot and cold buffet bars with everything from hearts of palm and hard-boiled quail eggs to Brazilian feijao com arroz (rice and beans) and even stroganoff (which, for reasons I can’t fathom, is always a fixture in these places). Servers rotate through the restaurant offering various cuts of grilled meats, poultry and pineapple served from four-foot long sword-like skewers. In case you’re unaware, a churrascaria is a Brazilian-style all-you-can-eat restaurant with a big focus on meat. Now, if only some of that energy could be channeled into the restaurant’s service. The owners-including Brigham Young University grad CEO/president Stephen Oldham, formerly of Rodizio Grill-have done a bang-up job creating a lively, attractive place to dine. Well, there’s no trace left of Samba Grill the space has been given a total makeover and now it’s an energetic, eye-catching eatery with a focus on the huge buffet in the center of the restaurant, decorated with gigantic brightly colored faux flower petals. I remember Samba Grill as being cavernous, dark and without much eye appeal-particularly when empty, as it often was. Tucanos is a Brazilian-style churrascaria located in the same upstairs Gateway space that another churrascaria, Samba Grill, had occupied. But Tucanos Brazilian Grill offers customers a free meal on their birthday, so I thought, “Why not?” ![]() Since I, too, am suffering in this crappy economy, I’d decided to have a birthday dinner at Tucanos, rather than supping at a restaurant where I’d really like to celebrate: Cucina Toscana, Mazza or Metropolitan, let’s say. With most midlevel and upscale restaurants suffering under the weight of a lousy economy, I was surprised to see Tucanos bustling, it having been open only a month or so. Utahns love an all-you-can-eat buffet-which is why, I suppose, Tucanos Brazilian Grill in The Gateway was mobbed on a recent rainy Wednesday evening. ![]()
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