"Acai Supernova" by Oasis
How many special restaurants change?
How many dishes are pronounced strange?
Where were you while we were getting Acai?
Slowly walking down the hall
See the drinks, wanna get them all
Where were you while we were getting Acai?
Oasis is the primary reason why Boston went from "place I don't go to for food" to "place I break speed limits to get to for food." Yes, the BBB at Toscanini and the Gelato at Morano in the Chestnut Hill Mall are utterly incredible. But Oasis makes every other New England eatery seem bland.
What to get: Acai Na Tigela (aka Acai Bowl), Jugos, Caldo De Cana.
What else: The best Brazilian cafe outside of Brazil, and better than most in Brazil too.
Anything else: I'm not a fan of the band Oasis or of Manchester City, but being English, I couldn't resist the song lyric intro.
I thought Brazil would be heaven because of the girls. And boys. And such. Little did I know, it would be the drinks there that would rock my world most of all. As well as the only alcoholic beverage I actually love (Caipirinha), they have gems such as Acai Na Tigela and Caldo De Cana. And nobody, not even in Brazil, makes those 2 items any better than Oasis in Boston.
There are 2 Oases side by side, actually. Same owners, totally different interior. One is the Steakhouse, which is a weighed buffet of Brazilian food, and is a *must try* for absolutely everyone. I do believe you can order the items from the Cafe menu off the Steakhouse menu, so you should head over there if you're hungry. Or go there for lunch, and come in here for dessert and snacks. Brazilian weighed buffet is to the lower income people of Brazil, what Churrascaria is to the rich. It must be tried. Insanely good.
But this Oasis, the cafe, deserves a 10-star rating on a 5-star scale all of its own. Now I'll start by saying their Pao De Queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) and other pastries don't really do it for me. I don't come here for those. I come here for the Brazilian drinks.
When in Brazil, you go wild with the amazing tropical drinks. Every street seems to have a little juice stand or a shop making fresh Jugos and Sucos and Caldo De Cana (fresh squeezed Sugar Cane juice) and Acai Na Tigela (a bowl of Amazon berry slush with other goodies in it, if you want). These are some of the best things that will ever pass between your lips, if you get them from the right place. No dirty thoughts please. And if you are outside Brazil: *this*, my friends... is the right place.
Easily my favourite place to go in Boston. Their Caldo De Cana is simply the best I have ever had, tied with my very favourite back street juice bar in the NE suburbs of Belo Horizonte. That sounded obnoxious but it's the truth. Order it, and watch them pull out huge sticks of sugar cane and put them through a machine which turns the sugar cane into Caldo De Cana (Soup of the Cane). Holy crap it's so good. They will even cane you while you wait, and put it on an internet adult site for light family-oriented S&M, for a small additional fee.
OK the last part is false.
The only thing here better (or maybe just as good) as the CDC is the Acai Na Tigela. It's a crazy Amazonian berry, mashed up into frozen paste, and then they add Guarana Syrup (ask for less syrup), as well as granola and fresh fruits (ask for no granola). Sometimes they add "Vitaminas" too... ask for none of them. That way you really focus on the insanely good Acai taste. You can also get some frozen Acai paste (imported from New Jersey) for later, which is very very good too. I spent about $50 on a year's supply of them, I would know.
Also their Jugos/Sucos are excellent, which are ice-and-fruit blended up, either with or without milk. They're good both ways, and they have such wonderful choices as passion fruit, guava and mango. And the guy here is so cute, that every time he leaves the restaurant, everyone is like, "where did that mango?"
I've had CDC at maybe 20 other places outside Brazil and this is the only one that has been good at all. I've had Acai Na Tigela at maybe 40 places outside Brazil and this is the only one that tastes like Brazil. Some of the ones in Brazil are iffy, to be honest, and some are amazing. This, at Oasis, is one of the amazing ones.
Come here. Get the Acai. Get the Caldo De Cana. Be in heaven like I was, in Brazil.
And now my sister just walked in. Oh, hey, sis! read more