Whole30 Day 3 Eating Out

Fogo de Chao- a chain Brazilian steak house, has come to Ptown. As a work perk, I was given the opportunity to check out this place aka eat to my hearts desire. Now, I have never been to one of these since it is a chain and when you have to pay for it yourself, it's kind of expensive.

E eats modified paleo, strictly no gluten, no sugars, limited fruits and nuts but he will still eat small amounts of dairy and legumes. Fogo de Chao is the mecca of meat so he said he would go with me and honestly neither one of us knew what to expect. We were in for quite a treat.

Fogo de Chao is a huge beautiful room on a downtown corner floor to ceiling windows. Upon entry there is a small bar and then steps that lead down to the ables and salad bar. We were sat at a table with a direct line of sight to the oven where all of the meats were being roasted and just on the other side of the salad bar. We were greeted by several people and offered our bottle of wine and explained how it all worked with our green and red tabs. And then I was all over the salad bar. charcuterie, palm hearts, marinated artichoke, beans of all different sorts and several actual salads- build your own Cesar, quinoa salads. One area that seemed to be neglected was the hot buffet where there were potatoes au gratin, baked beans and roasted vegetables.

After hitting up the salad bar, we sat down and flipped our tabs to green and meat on a stick just appeared out of no where- 17 different cuts, all but one flavored with simple salt and pepper and cut to order. Turn the tab to red to stop the bombardment of filets, ribs, lamb and enjoy some other tasty morsels. The Brazilian gluten free cheese bread (I have a recipe for when the Whole30 is over), fried plantains, polenta fries and garlic and paprika mash potatoes.

In short, eating out doesn't have to be difficult and restaurants will accommodate. Especially a place like this, it's a self controlled paleo's dream. I did not have self control and pretty much had to be rolled out but it was totally worth it.