Skip to content
  • Subscribe
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Email
  • Home
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Entertainment
  • Features
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe to Ray’s Clumns
Suburban Chicagoland

Suburban Chicagoland

Original News, Features & Opinion on local and regional news you won't find anywhere else

  • About
    • About
    • Advertise
    • Our Writers
      • Ray Hanania
      • Bill Lipinski
      • Biography: Aaron Hanania
      • Steve Metsch
      • Steve Neuhaus
    • Terms of Service
    • Privacy Policy
    • Reach Out
  • Sections
    • Events
    • Opinion
    • News
    • Features
    • Seniors
    • Comic Strip
  • Library
    • “MIdnight Flight” Online Book
      • Midnight Flight Book Overview
      • Midnight Flight Introduction
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 1
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 2
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 3
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 4
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 5
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 6
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 7
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 8
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 9
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 10
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 11
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 12
      • Midnight Flight Chapter 13
    • Villages, Cities & Towns
    • Federal Office Holders
    • County Officials
    • Legislators
  • Subscribe to Ray’s Columns
  • Comment
  • Podcast
    • Ray Hanania on Politics
    • Two Guys on Politics
    • Hanania on Tiktok
  • News Wire
  • Toggle search form
  • Orland Township Trustee Lena Matariyeh joined with High School District 230 Trustee and newly appointed Orland Fire Commissioner Mohammed Jaber to put a spotlight on its important role in helping needy families.
    Orland Township Trustee Matariyeh joins School District Trustee Jaber in showcasing Food Pantry food
  • 05-23-25 Jeffery M. Leving
    Leving team court victory protected dad from crushing debt Dads' Rights
  • Jesse Jackson Jr July 2025
    In response to draft effort, Jesse Jackson Jr. forms Exploratory Committee to consider 2nd Congressional District run Chicago
  • OFPD responds to fire at the loading Dock of Marshalls Retail Store, 101 Orland Park Place Mall. Photo submitted by resident
    Quick Orland Fire response prevents Marshall’s fire from spreading, no injuries Fire
  • Attorneys Jeffery Leving Arthur Kallow
    Leving Matrimonial Law Seminar – Defending Orders of Protection Arthur Kallow
  • Police Blotter
    Orland Park Police Department Investigating Fatal Hit-and-Run accident
  • Taste of Orland Park 2025
    Taste of Orland Park Returns to Village Center with Food, Fun and Festivities Events
  • Orland Park Mayor Jim Dodge
    Exclusive interview with Orland Mayor Jim Dodge says former mayor left huge debt breaking news
  • Chicago Wovles play the Rockford Ice Hogs, Feb. 23, 2025
    Chicago Wolves hockey unveil 2025-26 Season schedule Chicago
  • Cook County Treasurer Maria Papas
    Everything you need to know about your Property Index Number or PIN Blogger
  • Andrew Boutros US Attorney Illinois
    Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Threatening FEMA Employees and Law Enforcement Officers Crime
  • SeatGeek Stadium
    Chivas de Guadalajara and Club Leon to meet in Chicago Bridgeview
  • OFPD Trustee DJ Jeffers, COmmissioner Mohammed Jaber, Events and Safety Coordinator Betsy Dine and McDonalds Manager Doug Kwiatkowski join about 100 kids who participated at the Frozen with a Firefighter event Wednesday, July 9, 2025
    Frozen with an Orland Firefighter at McDonald’s Events
  • 05-23-25 Jeffery M. Leving
    Chicago dad’s court victory brought kidnapped daughter home Dads' Rights
  • Congresswoman Robin Kelly official photo
    Leading members of State’s Gun Violence Prevention Community endorse Robin Kelly for U.S. Senate elections
Texas de Brazil Churrascario serving meat slices at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall

All you can eat Brazilian steak houses

Posted on November 25, 2017November 29, 2019 By Ray Hanania No Comments on All you can eat Brazilian steak houses
SHARE THIS STORY
        2   
 
  
2
Shares

All you can eat Brazilian steak houses

One of my favorite restaurants is the Brazilian steakhouse where waiters serve the Churrascaria food selections on skewers one slice at a time with a huge salad bar in the background. Texas de Brazil is at the top of the list but I have enjoyed them all including Papagaio’s restaurant in occupied Jerusalem in Israel. Eating at a Brazilian steakhouse is an experience every human T-Rex should enjoy

By Ray Hanania

The first time I enjoyed food at an all-you-can-eat Brazilian steak house was while visiting relatives in Israel and occupied Palestine.

The restaurant was called Papagaio Restaurant and it was located in the Israeli controlled area of Jerusalem. The restaurant offers a salad bar, and other items off the menu but also waiters would bring meats on skewers and serve slices to diners at their tables as they ate.

That was in 1997, right about the time that a new fad of Brazilian steakhouses, called Churrascarias in Brazil, were sweeping America.

Today, diners in the states and in many other countries, can chose between several places to enjoy an endless array of freshly served meats. They are Fogo de Chão, one of the first national franchises to open. It was quickly followed by Chama Gaúcha and Texas de Brazil.

Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

They are even popular on cruise ships. We enjoyed the Moderno Churrascaria Brazilian Steakhouse while sailing on the Norwegian Cruise ship the Epic. We make sure to make a reservation at that restaurant every time, much like also enjoying the Japanese Hibachi restaurant there, too.

The settings and experience are similar. They offer a large salad bar and when you are ready you have a  flat disk that looks like a drink coaster. One side is Red and the other side is Green. When you want the Churrascario Waiters to serve you meats, you flip it to green. When you want the Churrascario Waiters to pass you buy, you flip it to Red. In truth, if you are with a large group, they are serving at your table all the time, so red or green you can ask to have a slice of meat if you see one you like.

Most Brazilian steakhouse restaurants serve about a dozen meat selections during lunch and even more with the best filet and steaks in the evening. The costs are basic, around $27 per person for lunch and $47 per person for dinner, depending on where you go. The salad bar is included and usually has 50 to 60 different fresh salad options, or you can go there just to eat the salad if you are vegetarian for $20. Costs increase on the weekends.

Texas de Brazil Churrascario serving meat slices at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Texas de Brazil Churrascario serving meat slices at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

Texas de Brazil is one of my favorites. They have two in Chicagoland including in Chicago and in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg where we ate over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It was a great place to relax and watch the crowds jam stores on Black Friday, an example of American retail depravity.

Soon, Texas de Brazil will open a 3rd location in Orland Park, but I hope it isn’t going to be a “mini-me” version of the restaurant, something that the Cheesecake Factory did when they opened a restaurant location in the Orland Park Mall. It’s too small, but the Orland Park Mall doesn’t have a lot of space. The new Texas de Brazil is going to open up in the Orland Park Mall so I am not very hopeful that it will be spacious or comfortable. There are a lot of better locations outside the mall in Orland Park, which has become a major economic hub between Chicago and Joliet in the Southwest suburbs.

As I mentioned after you sit down, you can grab a plate and check out the salad bar which has many great servings. Texas de Brazil is one of the few places that knows how to make Tabouli salad. Perfectly. It’s the best I’ve tasted.

But there is so much more.

Huge salad bar selection at the Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Huge salad bar selection at the Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

When you offer all-you-can-eat meats, you don’t want someone sitting at a table just eating the meat. You have to fill them up ab it otherwise, they will eat up all your profits.

The Churrascario Waiters severe many meats including chicken and Brazilian sausage, and offer a large selection of very narrow sliced cuts of meat off the skewers. It would take about 12 visits from the waiter to get even close to eating a 12 ounce steak.

But you enjoy it slowly.

Try not to think of what Aliens might do if they landed on Earth and started to consume people. I have a feeling, they would cook us the same way restaurants cook animals. There are times when you find yourself waiting for a Churrascario Waiter to bring you a meat serving.

Eating during dinner, which costs more, than eating at lunch, offers all of the available meats including Filet Mignon, Filet Mignon Wrapped in Bacon, Braised Beef Ribs, Lamb Chops, Pork Ribs, Brazilian Picanha, Garlic Picanha, Brazilian Sausage, Leg of Lamb, Chicken Breast Wrapped in Bacon, Parmesan Drumettes, Parmesan-Crusted Pork Loin, Flank Steak, Herb-Marinated Pork Loin, Brazilian Alcatra, and Chicken Sausage.

It wasn’t bad at all. Some of the meats were great. Some were ok. But the overall experience was great. It’s even better if you relax a bit and enjoy the food.

I really love their salad bar so if you are vegetarian, this is the best place to go, although you will have to watch meat eaters tear through selections like Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Texas de Brazil
847.413.1600
5 Woodfield Center Suite D312
Schaumburg, Illinois 60173

Side dishes mashed potatoes and sweetened bananas at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Side dishes mashed potatoes and sweetened bananas at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Table setting at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Table setting at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Plate of salad from the salad bar at the Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Plate of salad from the salad bar at the Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Tabouli salad at the Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Tabouli salad at the Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall serves the best bread rolls
Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall serves the best bread rolls

 

Meat selection at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Meat selection at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Meat selection at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Meat selection at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Flip the disk from Red to Green to start your Churrascaria meat experience a Texas de Brazil
Flip the disk from Red to Green to start your Churrascaria meat experience a Texas de Brazil

 

table setting at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
table setting at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Meat selection at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Meat selection at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

 

Texas de Brazil Skewered meat slices at Texas de Brazil rest Woodfield Mall
Texas de Brazil Skewered meat slices at Texas de Brazil restaurant Woodfield Mall

newswire info
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Ray Hanania
Ray Hanania
Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.  

His award winning columns can be found at www.HANANIA.COM Subscribe FREE today

Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

Email Ray Hanania at rghanania@gmail.com.

Follow RayHanania at Twitter
Ray Hanania
Latest posts by Ray Hanania (see all)
  • Orland Township Trustee Matariyeh joins School District Trustee Jaber in showcasing Food Pantry - July 17, 2025
  • Leving team court victory protected dad from crushing debt - July 17, 2025
  • In response to draft effort, Jesse Jackson Jr. forms Exploratory Committee to consider 2nd Congressional District run - July 15, 2025
  • Tweet

SHARE THIS STORY
        2   
 
  
2
Shares
 
2
Shares
 
 
      2    
Blogger, Commentary, Editors Pick, Entertainment, Opinion, Orland Park, Photos, rayhanania, restaurants, Suburban Chicagoland Tags:Brazilian steakhouse, Chama Gaúcha, Chicago, Churrascaria, Fogo De Chao, meat on skewers, Occupied Jerusalem, Orland Park, Papagaio Restaurant, restaurant review, Schaumburg, Texas de Brazil, Woodfield Mall

Post navigation

Previous Post: Arab Americans celebrate Thanksgiving
Next Post: Two garage fires in Orland Park

Related Posts

  • Patty Murphy, domestic violence activist with Pillars Community Health
    Obituary: Patty Murphy, domestic violence activist Health
  • Three sisters on the left and Elephant Butte on the right in Monument Valley. Photo courtesy of Ray Hanania
    Road Trip: Monument Valley offers amazing panoramic views Blogger
  • Congressman Sean Casten criticizes U.S. Postal Service for unexplained and continued delays
    Casten, Krishnamoorthi Lead Delegation to Address Devastating Chicagoland Postal Delays Federal
  • 34th Ward Alderwoman Carrie Austin. Photo courtesy of Carrie Austin Website and campaign
    Is there a double standard when it comes to “corruption” Blogger
  • Assault weapons, courtesy of WIkipedia
    Gun control debate and failure to impose severe punishments on criminals fueling American violence Blogger
  • Illinois State Police Badge http://www.isp.state.il.us/
    Illinois lowers flags to honor killed Trooper Chris Lambert breaking news

More Related Articles

Russian soldiers in front of the Kremlin. Photo courtesy of Steve hHarvey, LrwMuJNTIA unsplash Biden administration exposes how Iran is aiding Russia in Ukraine war Government
JCC CHICAGO HONORS 13-YEAR OLD STEVEN HOFFEN & SCREENS HIS AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY GROWING PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST AS PART OF NON-PROFIT’S SOCIAL JUSTICE SERIES (Screening Jan. 14th, 2022 / Q&A Panel Jan. 16, 2022) 8th Grader who founded Non-Profit to Further Tolerance will join Panel at Film Festival  Cook County
American Bald Eagle over Candlewick Lake. Photo courtesy of Ray Hanania Winter viewing of Bald Eagles best in Quad Cities region Editors Pick
Jordan Michalak MugShot 23-year-old Berwyn man charged in DUI related deaths Oct. 9 breaking news
Independent Orland Fire Protection District Trustee candidates (from left) Fire District Trustee Donald "DJ" Jeffers, Fire District Trustee Beth Damas Kaspar, and former Palos Heights Police CSO Bridget Tolan. Independent candidates launch social media and website for Orland Fire race Fire
Pope has Lyons needing win for playoffs News

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Login with your Social ID
Subscribe to Ray Hanania's column graphic

Enter Your Email to Subscribe to Ray Hanania’s Columns

  • OPINION COLUMNS
  • Cook County Treasurer Maria Papas
    Everything you need to know about your Property Index Number or PIN
    July 12, 2025
  • Jeffery M. Leving fights for your rights
    Chicago parents and other community leaders must work together to make sure this summer isn’t deadly for our children
    July 3, 2025
  • Cook County Treasurer Maria Papas
    How Technology Changed the Cook County Treasurer’s Office
    June 27, 2025
  • Attorneys Jeffery Leving Arthur Kallow
    Honoring Fathers: A Father’s Day Reflection
    June 13, 2025
  • Cook County Treasurer Maria Papas
    Understanding Cook County Property Taxes: A Guide for Homeowners
    June 13, 2025
  • 06-04-25 Two Guys on Politics Background Zoom LOGO with images
    Two Guys on Politics Podcast on Elon Musk, Trump’s Parade, LA Riots, and Middle East ban
    June 12, 2025
  • NEWS
  • Orland Township Trustee Lena Matariyeh joined with High School District 230 Trustee and newly appointed Orland Fire Commissioner Mohammed Jaber to put a spotlight on its important role in helping needy families.
    Orland Township Trustee Matariyeh joins School District Trustee Jaber in showcasing Food Pantry
    July 17, 2025
  • 05-23-25 Jeffery M. Leving
    Leving team court victory protected dad from crushing debt
    July 17, 2025
  • The-Kings-Pawn-Book-300-x-300.png
  • SPORTS
  • Chicago Wovles play the Rockford Ice Hogs, Feb. 23, 2025
    Chicago Wolves hockey unveil 2025-26 Season schedule
    July 12, 2025
  • SeatGeek Stadium
    Chivas de Guadalajara and Club Leon to meet in Chicago
    July 12, 2025
  • NEWS RELEASES
  • Orland Township Trustee Lena Matariyeh joined with High School District 230 Trustee and newly appointed Orland Fire Commissioner Mohammed Jaber to put a spotlight on its important role in helping needy families.
    Orland Township Trustee Matariyeh joins School District Trustee Jaber in showcasing Food Pantry
    July 17, 2025
  • Jesse Jackson Jr July 2025
    In response to draft effort, Jesse Jackson Jr. forms Exploratory Committee to consider 2nd Congressional District run
    July 15, 2025
John Kass Columns

Order the book PoweR PR; Ethnic Activists Guide to Strategic Communications

YOUTUBE VIDEOS

CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE TO RAY HANANIA'S YOUTUBE VIDEOS


Click here to view the video on YouTube or use the widget below.

Follow Ray Hanania at
Twitter
Facebook
TitkTok
BlueSky
RayHanania Columns

Creative Commons License
All works on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Do not edit original work. Give credit to the original source.

Categories

Copyright © 2022 Suburban Chicagoland & Urban Strategies Group

Powered by PressBook Premium theme