4040 Easton Station
Suite E 105
Columbus, OH 43219
(614) 470-5900
https://texasdebrazil.com/
Monday - Wednesday: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM; 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM; 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Texas de Brazil is advertised as an Upscale Brazilian eatery featuring all-you-can-eat grilled meat carved tableside & a salad bar. As usual, your mileage may vary and the sleeves will ride up with wear.
On Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, I had dinner with friends at Texas de Brazil. The gimmick is that everything (meaning all the meat) is cooked in the traditional Gaucho fashion - on a spit over an open flame. Maybe so, in which case I submit that the Gauchos in question allow progress to move them up to modern appliances.
To begin with, the place is as noisy as any boiler factory. The drop ceiling has been removed and the clamor of friends, families, and screaming children distorts any semblance of peace and quiet in a six block radius. It's deafening to the point where no one at our table could understand the wait staff, over half of whom had an English vocabulary of fifty words or less. I'm betting the arrival of an ICE truck would have turned the entire kitchen into a Chinese fire drill.
The place has an extensive salad bar and a full desert tray, which the management is hoping you'll patronize in earnest, lettuce and sugar being cheaper than meat. You'll get a poker chip on your table, which when flipped over indicates you'll want servers to come by and offer you a slice of meat on a skewer. One server dumped a portion of my dinner on my pants, leaving a nice grease stain. No apology offered or accepted.
You can check the menu at menu to see what's offered, but in our case the steak and lamb were tough. Even the filet mignon was tough. We tried a little of everything, and the clear winners were Brazilian Sausage and Barbecued Pork Ribs, with the filet mignon coming in at a borderline mediocre. When you could get it, that is.
We had problems with the service, and I don't mean just a few. Servers would deliberately bypass our table, and wouldn't even look in our direction. When the manager stopped by with the obligatory 'How is everything?' we explained the difficulty, and it was corrected. Mind you, if the servers know you like something, that's the last time you'll see it. You have to ask for the item constantly, and eventually it will reappear.
I won't be going back to Texas de Brazil, and not just because of the poor quality ambiance, service, and food. It's the cost that really pushed my criticisms over the top. I can get a superb meal with great service in a dozen other restaurants in Columbus for the same or slightly lower price, and not be deafened by the crowd - think ball caps, tee shirts, and jeans.
In summary:
Ambiance: 3
Service: 2
Food: 7 (due to the ribs)
Overall Rating: 4
2 comments:
I do not get how servers act like this. It's their livelihood- but a lot out there like to eat into their paychecks like that.
Some people aren't generous with their gratuity and the servers get sour. I'm told that tables of women are stingy with their tips and demanding of service, while families come in a close second. Tables of diverse groups are the absolute worst.
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