All-you-can-eat Brazilian churrasco at Victoria Gardens — gauchos, tableside skewers, and the green-red card game.
Fogo de Chão runs on the churrasco system, and the system is the show: gauchos circulate with skewers of fire-roasted meat and carve tableside for as long as your card shows green. Flip it to red to breathe; flip it back and the parade resumes. Picanha, the signature sirloin cap, is the cut to hold out for.
Strategy matters here. The Market Table of salads and sides is genuinely good and entirely a trap — treat it like a warm-up lap, not the race. Pace past the starches, stay disciplined through the first easy skewers, and still be standing when the best cuts come around.
Fogo de Chão is at 12240 Foothill Blvd, inside Victoria Gardens.
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