Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Samba Brazilian at Universal Studios City Walk

This past Sunday was our last weekend to use coupon for Samba. It's all you can eat Brazilian BBQ within 2 hours. Regular price if I'm not mistaken is $42/person. Coupon was 50% off. We've purchased a similar coupon about a year back and it was a fun experience since the restaurant itself is in universal city walk.

We made a reservation at 4, and decided to take the bus to universal, however we over estimated the bus service and called to change the reservation to 4:30. Upon reaching the last bus stop, we'll still need to cross the road and catch the shuttle bus to the park itself which comes by pretty frequent, which worked out perfectly.

We found the restaurant almost right away and got seated not too long after. After the server verify our coupon, we helped ourselves with the salad bar - not much to boast about but the cheese roll was awesome. I also got some salad, rice, mashed potatoes, couscous, some sort of pickled carrot salad and the mushroom salad was disgusting.
The servers would visit each table with the skewered protein and a knife. They started us off as follows - from bottom right with pork sausage, pork tenderloin, steak, beef rib, garlic toast, sirloin, garlic steak, more pork tenderloin, chicken leg, turkey wrapped bacon, cheese ball, grilled fish, and finished off with lamb. 


The servers will continue to come to your table as long as the indicator has green side on top. About an hour in, we had to put a stop since we were full and we've tried all the meats they have to offer.
A lot of the meats were over-seasoned with salt which made me chug too much water which in turn made me full sooner which in a way, helped me not to over-eat. The last visit, we were entertained by scantily-clad exotic dancers, I guess this time around it was still early for them to make appearance.

Walked a little around the City Walk to help with digestion and then catch the shuttle and bus back.