Amazing food and excellent service!! The several items of meat selection that is table side is fabulous on its own! But then.... The salad bar! Unlimited deliciousness and variety! I was beyond impressed! They even gave me a flourless chocolate cake slice for my birthday!! Definitely recommend for all things food and happiness read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Unlimited salad bar goodness - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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Lots of meat. Salad bar impressive. Pineapple was super tasty! Meats were good but it's a little overwhelming to have men walking around with skewers of meat. Too much meat! Absurd amount of meat and not done properly. Friendly staff, 2nd floor dining area nothing too fancy no parking and expensive. read more

First-- expect to spend a good $70+ per person if you have anything but water. This is an upscale version of an all you can eat buffet. They have four sides, double-decker for cold dishes. A huge variety of pasta, veggie, salad options. They also have another wall of shaving dishes with soups, potatoes, and other rotating hot items. The meats are carved at your table, and they come by pretty frequently if you have the green up. The variety of meats, seasonings, and cuts are superb! The grilled pineapple is to die for! It's my absolute favorite each time I come here, I don't even touch the desserts. All I want is the grilled pineapple! The cocktails are well crafted, and very reasonable. Most of them around the $8 to $10 range. Tonight I had a blueberry basil that was just fantastic! read more

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Came here to say for Mother's Day brunch and it was a nice choice. We had 11:30 reservations and it was t crowded and all the food options were widely available. About $65 per adults and $20 per kid. Likes the experience. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Sirloin - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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We came here for my son's birthday. It was absolutely amazing! The salad bar was so delicious with upscale items, the meats just kept coming and were flavored so well. We will continue to come here as our celebration place! Seating was very comfortable and our waitress was so accommodating and friendly. read more

The ambiance was amazing the restaurant was super fancy and yum. The steak was cooked perfectly, and that cinnamon pineapple was to die for. My favorite soup has been clam chowder so I was so happy to see that that was the soup of the day. Their mashed potatoes are also perfect. I was there later so the service was very attentive, they were quick on checking on us, refilling water, and replacing our plates. Overall great experience our server Adam was super nice and welcoming. Would go again!!!! read more

Dine in | Dinner | $50-100 First time here and absolutely enjoyed our time! The price is great for the endless amount of meat that comes around along with plenty variety at the salad bar. The location was clean, inviting, great service and reasonably quick. Meat came around often, I had to turn them away because I was still trying to finish the food on my plate. We also went on a Saturday which tends to be busier according to the restaurant, however service did not skip a beat! I highly recommend. read more

The holy trinity. The picanha, the top sirloin, and the pineapple. This restaurant is immaculate. The service is amazing, staff is so friendly and personable! The salad bar? Insane. So many amazing options, such a diverse selection. Highly recommend this establishment to anyone! read more

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Samba was great! The service was great; the host and servers were very nice. The food was great. The salad/pasta bar was fresh and had a great spin on the classics. The meat was really good. It was tender and flavorful. Lots of garlic, I love it! The building is beautiful. A few good place for a date night. read more

Tonight I dined at Samba Brazilian Grill and have mixed feelings about my experience. The atmosphere of the restaurant is fantastic, with a lively and vibrant energy that adds to the overall dining experience. The decor is amazing and I love the different levels and seating arrangements there are. The staff were friendly and attentive, and the service was prompt. However, I was a little underwhelmed by the food. The majority of the food was only average and lacked the bold flavors I was expecting from a Brazilian grill. Also, the buffet was mediocre. Not bad but also not good; very mixed vibes from this place. The meat was cooked well, but not as flavorful as I had hoped. It all kind of tasted the same and I didn't like how you couldn't pick where you wanted your meat cut from (medium, medium well, etc). I'm not sure I would rush back to dine here again. I mean, the place itself is cute and cozy but the food just isn't to quality standards. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - a view of the restaurant from the table - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

AWESOME.... Okay my first time there. Went friday night 06sep2024 to celebrate my birthday with my misses. So we arrived. The lady up front sat us. I made a reservation quick and easy.. our waiter, Andy??? Was awesome explained how it works. First course is the salad area... and second course us the meat. First I have an irreverent sense of humor. So when he explained the meat course. I said... I may need some special alone time and he enjoyed the laugh. So the salad bar... Greek olives. The goat cheese to die for, the cheese filled bread rolls... all kind of salad makings.. sure, I had a little.. just to say yes. I had some greens. Then came the meat. You turn your marker green and all these people would ask.. sirloin. Yes Leg of lamb yes.. andouillie sausage yes.. flank steak.. yes. All cooked perfectly. No piece of meat was shoddy. Each cut perfect. I should have binged and purged just so I can eat more meat Okay the ambiance. I love it. Had a nice cozy feel. Wait staff kept the water glass filled. When came time to pay the wife let it slip it was my birthday. And low and behold a huge slab of cake with a candle. You will find me in a corner somewhere recovering from a diabetic coma... but... yes... it was worth it. So far if I'm on death row and this would be my last meal good. That is how good it was. read more

Never tried Brazilian bbq before so was interested to try at Samba! Overall quality of the food was decent but not sure if i'd go again considering the price. Enjoyed the diversity of options at the salad bar, some meat cuts were definitely better than others-- i recommend the andouille sausage, the pineapple, and the top sirloin. Service was intermittent but I didn't mind since i'm more of a slow eater. Wish there was more lighting, felt like I was gonna trip walking back to my table lol read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - salad bar + meats - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Friday night was my first experience dining at Samba Brazilian Grill. The lighting is good for a steak house. The salad bar was not your standard salad bar the vegetables I noticed was a zucchini salad, hearts of palm and lettuce. There were four types of dressings. There was a cold noodle salad, A cheese cube and meat spread, a cold pulled chicken in sauce, three types of salsa. Candied almonds, candied pecans. Three types of warm soup were offered & warm white rice. A large basket of home made Brazi Bites was waiting at the salad bar for anyone who dare try. There was also sourdough bread available. I believe I tried all of meat, and cinnamon pineapple it was all quite delicious. Move over apple pie! I would highly recommend this for meat eating friends! read more

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I understand inflation is real, the owners have tax cases and things cost money but I walked away flabbergasted that there's no way anyone can justify this place costing the same as Texas de Brazil or Fogo de Chao. I was confused as I never recall paying $45/pp. I've returned a few times each time I'm in town and will HIGHLY RECOMMEND Sunday brunch. I will say it's nice to have such a place in town versus driving to Chicago even Milwaukee. Nonetheless, I saw if you're redeeming a GroupOn they'll access a 20% tip and I get that and support it to ensure the staff is properly compensated. So, 5 stars for keeping the pineapple on the grill. 2 stars for not working harder to keep the fruit flies away as I swatted too many last night. 5 stars for the place and free parking. Although, there was a street event 8/9/19 and I had to pay for parking. 2 stars for the service. I thought the place closed at 10p. I got on Yelp and see it does close at 10p yet they started shutting down at 9pm and although everyone stressed we didn't have to rush... the check being tendered proved otherwise and the guachos stopped walking around. A direct request for things was honored and they brought pina over. I'd still recommend this place in a heartbeat. I'll host events here as I still like the venue. I know I'm getting older because I felt more light would be great yet they the sexy date night lighting, in effect. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Brunch is $25/pp now versus $15 it used to be. - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

My first time ever at a Brazilian steakhouse and this was a great first experience!! The sugar/cinnamon grilled pineapple slices are DIVINE. They are very sweet, yes, but so tasty and fresh, especially the edge pieces that have both crispy and soft parts. The meats were on the more medium rare side but well seasoned and marinated. The salad bar was also great, so much variety, even hearts of palm. The chimichurri sauce and soup were also surprisingly great. Servers were very friendly. Would go again. read more

Top notch. Excellent salad bar. And the meat. Lord the delicious meat. I also suggest the pineapple. Samba is in my top 3, possibly my favorite. read more

Not sure why all the hate on this place. It seems like a good but not great Brazilian steak house to me. We went with a group on a football weekend and had a reservation. Yes its a little pricey but - meat! I thought the salad bar was a little lacking and didn't have anything there that I thought really tasted good. The meat selections were pretty good. I liked the flank steak the best, wow was that tasty. Others were alright too. The meat was a bit salty however, and was able to keep hydrated with fairly frequent refills of water glass. Sometimes there was a bit of wait between meat courses, maybe 5-10 minutes at most. If that's annoying to you... ok. Service was ok. Waiter was friendly but he really doesn't do much and was a bit hard to find. Gaucho's were generally friendly and usually came around fairly frequently but there were a few gaps in service. Water refills were frequent. Generally the experience seems similar to other Brazilian steakhouses I've been to. Maybe a little lacking on the salad bar. read more

Except the flap steak, all others were good. Excellent salad bar. Excellent service. Nice ambience. Bacon cheeseburger soup was nice; I had two cups. $48.99 per person (as of 3/3/2023) - dinner. Free private parking read more

Food was great!! Could have been a little more seasoned but overall for the everyday person it was perfect. Good options between rare and well meat for peoples preference. Several non beef options! Nice spicy sausage as well! Pineapple was great. Emma was above and beyond helpful and kind to us, especially considering we were a little confused and kind of a large party super patient for our drinks and our dessert options. Ambiance was good but a little dark imo, not sure if that's just kind of an expensive restaurant thing, but I did struggle to read the menu. Didn't take photos because of the nature of the restaurant I think photos of food you plate yourself kind of looks silly. Overall a great experience, would come back just for the salad bar if they opened it up a little bit!!! read more

Service was okay. I've dined at brazilian steakhouses before and thought it was odd how the waiter didn't ask how we wanted our steak, as I've usually been asked this before. All the meat options are served rare to medium rare so if that's not ideal for you then you should probably just skip this place all together. I made reservations about a month in advance and listed the occasion as our anniversary and this was never acknowledged by the hostess or waiter. Meats came around pretty fast but the service was super slow. We were sat at one of the smallest tables that barely held our 2 plates each, our waiter took forever to come around and remove them so we had to stack them up constantly to make room which is unfortunate for him as his tip had to suffer. The salad bar was pretty limited as well. Overall it's an okay experience and fancy interior but I feel like we could've gotten more and better service for the price we paid. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Plates after visiting the buffet area - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Food is fine but not amazing and reservation means nothing they made us wait half an hour for a table after reservation and there isn't enough parking took forever to go find street parking read more

My wife is Brazilian, as such we have made it a custom to frequent Samba for our anniversary. I made an online reservation and arrived at the restaurant as we normally would per the past five years . The staff was great and we even encountered a native Brazilian to seat us. All was great until we started receiving food. The meat was severely undercooked, even though I like a rare steak. Severely undercooked. Just trying to get it on the floor. The feijoada was without any flavor. We both ordered a caipirinha. Drinks were good but we'd only taken a swig of our drink when I asked to talk with the GM about the food. I really love this restaurant but felt that the quality had fallen precipitously from last year and as a frequent guest wanted to let them know that we weren't pleased with the quality of the food. When she arrived at the table she was accompanied by a gaucho that proceeded to yell at my wife and I. I told her that the feijoada didn't have any flavor and the meat was undercooked. I have lived in Brazil for over ten years so I know how these establishments work and the baseline quality required. She proceeded to yell at my wife and I that no one else shared our opinion. I tried to assure her that my opinion was only in the interests of the establishment but was berated in the dining room nonetheless. We got up and left. We waited at the front desk to pay our bill when she appeared and told us that we couldn't skip out on our bill. We told her we were waiting for our bill and would pay in full but she continued to yell at us and called us drunks, an obvious attempt to alleviate her own responsibilities for their food quality. She also asked my wife to speak English when trying to explain the situation to the host who spoke Portuguese. We told her to look at our drinks on the table that were full, not because of the drink quality but because we simply hadn't had a chance to drink them. In the end, we were humiliated and castigated as frequent guests for trying to call attention to the fact that standards had fallen and we weren't pleased. The staff, aside from the GM and Guacho that threatened my wife, were great and got us squared away but with a heavy heart, as a frequent patron who has frequently supported our only Brazilian steakhouse, I will never again go to Samba and for anyone else considering the establishment, there are other places in the state street area that will better receive your patronage. I really love what Samba was and hope they can get back to the great Brazilian cuisine that they served but based on the experience my wife and I had during an anniversary dinner we'll never go back. Just to clarify, we were paying with gift cards that we receive for Xmas every year from my parents so this was not about money, although pricey, and this was not the fault of the staff who treated us very well but the fault of management that has let this prestigious and one of a kind establishment fall into mal repute. We will never go back read more

Absolutely a great meal! Friday and Saturday evenings you will most likely need a reservation. Dinner includes a remarkable salad bar (all you can eat) along with the huge variety of meats brought right to your table. Meats include: marinated flank steak, top sirloin steak, chipotle flavored filet steak, New York strip steak, lamb, turkey breast wrapped with bacon, Parmesan pork tenderloin, and chicken leg. Meat keeps coming until you signal them to stop. Grilled cinnamon pineapple is a must that provides a little sweetness to clear the palette between meats. All of this and great service in an old theatre read more

There is a very relaxing environment, the salad bar could be a meal in itself with the delicious varies to choose from. The variety of meat selections and taste is superb and mouthwatering. As for the servers are ready to serve and polite. Reasonably priced for what you are getting. read more

Minimal chicken options. Drinks were underwhelming. Do not order the tres leches cake!!! The meat over all just didn't taste seasoned. Service was okay. read more

The place is so nice and cute but the service is horrible. It's not $50 per person plus 20% gratuity worth. They don't have many variety of meats and what kind of Brazilan restaurant don't have Caipirinha. Especially when they don't make your drink right and asked to fix it, they will charge you extra fee. And for the house vodca $5.50, ridiculous. It shouldn't be extra charged when the bartender made bad drink. The manager came out and basically he yelled at us. And the bartender was so pissy when we left, he was pouting. For one table (4 persons) cost almost $300 fine restaurants do not treat your customers like that, especially it's local business. I do not recommend this restaurant at all. The service is very poor amd "UNPROFESSIONAL"! I will rather be hungry than go back to that place. Y'all don't waste your money. read more

Food was amazing and the service exceptional! You will drop a bit for the experience but well worth it. It was a cozy place with mood lighting and yet you could clearly see all the food options. And the grilled pineapple TO DIE FOR!!! So good! read more

My son and I were turned away from this establishment and given no other reason than that 'they couldn't serve us for tonight'. We came at around 6 pm, well before their closing time at 10pm, and weren't even given the option to wait if they had a fuller house. My son even tried calling later and confirmed that they did have seats open for the night. Which begs the question why we couldn't be served and I can't help but default to our minority Asian status. We came from New York and have never had such an uncomfortable experience of being turned away from a restaurant potentially on the basis of my race. I would love another explanation but we felt very unwelcomed here, other Asians should come with caution. read more

Okay. This review is compared to other restaurants in Madison, not other Brazilian Steakhouses/Grills. Also---this is a review of their Brunch. I was willing to give this place a chance despite the reviews. I always try a place once unless multiple people got sick from their experience. They have their own parking lot! There were plenty of spaces at 11am on Sunday. Unfortunately, after 11am the parking situation is not ideal. Good luck finding street parking too. You can make reservations online, which is convenient. This is a large space. Seating is available to the left and right and upstairs. Selection. So they have a flank steak, ham, sausage and cinnamon pineapple (everyone's favorite). I would definitely suggest that you get the ham and pineapple together (if you do eat meat). The pineapple is great alone too. There is a lot to choose from the "buffet' section. They always have scrambled eggs, bacon, and potatoes. It seems like there is also always popcorn shrimp. One time I went they had waffles and another time they had chicken empanadas. I'm guessing that they change up one of their selections each week. There's salad (variety of greens and other veggies), fruits, yogurt, and desserts. Drinks. Mimosa all the way. It was so strong and delicious. It made the meal more enjoyable. I would definitely recommend getting a mimosa with brunch. Do it! Service. Decent. I would say that they do a great job on refilling waters and taking plates away. If you are taking new people there, they will provide a thorough explanation of how everything works. Overall, the brunch experience is great and affordable (more affordable than the dinner). I haven't tried the dinner yet and will update the review once I try it out. Enjoy! read more

We went for a birthday celebration last weekend. Like many restaurants, they seemed short-staffed but our waiter made periodic appearances and there were plenty of guys with meat on sticks coming around too. I only had the buffet and it was plenty. Same salads/choices as pre-Covid. My partner and friends had the meat course, and partner said he thought the best meat on the menu was in the black bean stew available on the buffet. read more

Honestly, I am extremely disappointed by this place. Came here on a Monday evening with my SO for our 4 year anniversary. There is a parking lot outside, but it was full so we parked across the street. We had waited a few minutes to be seated but that was fine (we had reservations but they didn't seem to be necessary). After we were seated, we again, waited a few minutes. We had been to all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouses before, but this one was new to us. The concept is you have a marker indicating whether you would like to continue to be served ("green side") or you would like to be left alone to eat or you're finished (green side). We were told there were nine items on the grill. We began perusing the salad bar, which, while interesting and necessary next to the meats. It was a little lacking in options though for the picky eater. Again, I must compare it to the other Brazilian places similar to this I've been to before, and those offered a wider variety of items. Among offerings there were several different types of salads offered, from fresh greens to seafood salad. In addition, there were items such as soup of the day, rice, cheesy potatoes, and stews. The cheese selection, while small (3 types of cheeses), was pretty tasty. Overall, the service itself was extremely slow. Maybe it was because it was a weekday night, but we found ourselves waiting about 5 minutes or more between each meat we saw. Overall, the meats were alright, the top sirloin being our favorite. Other items include: chicken legs, cinnamon-apple lamb, linguica (pork sausage), bacon wrapped turkey, flank steak, a tenderloin, grilled cinnamon pineapple, and a few other items I can't recall. The top sirloin itself was delicious, but several of the others fell flat, including some very dry/overcooked pieces of meat. The bacon wrapped turkey was also good, though not the type of food I would come to a place like this for. In addition, when we were almost finished with our meal, we finally received cheesy bread rolls. Although they were decent, they just fell a little flat and were just a little disappointing. The grilled pineapple was juicy and a good finish though (you have to catch the servers walking around with that, so time it right!). In the end, we were disappointed with the overall meal and were full just from waiting so long in between. We ended up not getting a dessert, as it was just time to leave. It wasn't a special place to go for a four year anniversary, but maybe it was an off night. If you haven't been to a Brazilian steakhouse before, this might be worth the experience, but for the price and for our occasion, I wasn't a fan. read more

It was OK. Probably would not go back; just nothing special about it enough to return. The gauchos didn't come by very often and when they did it was with the cheap stuff (the chicken legs and the pineapple). Only saw the tenderloin once, picanha twice, flank steak twice and sirloin once. The salad bar choice was adequate, but again nothing to write home about. I was there for about 70 minutes and it seemed like one gaucho about every 7 minutes. The caipirinha was damn good though. read more

I am very disappointed with my experience, the gauchos were very slow bringing the meat and when they came Around to your table about every five minutes you would get a small piece of meat the size of a chicken tender so for the most part you would sit with an empty plate waiting! The salad bar was nothing to be desired also not a lot of variety Very overpriced for what you get! If you use Groupon you'll notice that there really is not much for savings because you will find out that whether you like it or not you will be forced to pay a 20% gratuity on the full price not the discounted price If you have ever eaten at the Fogo day chao in Minneapolis you will know how poor the service and selection is at this samba read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Gratuity is taken by them not given by you and it is based on the full price not the discounted price using Groupon - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Go hungry! We tried it for the first time and were expecting to be full. We definitely left stuffed! We were seated at our reservation time. The server explained how to access the salad bar and how to indicate we were ready for the meat to the gauchos. The salad bar was good typical salad fare along with some unexpected items such as Kalamata olives. We loved the cheese bread. They were kind of link tiny cheesey popovers. Yum! Then the meat came...and came... It was fun to try all the different choices. We surrendered much early than I had expected as we were unable to eat more. You let them know you're finished by flipping a green/red table prop. We loved the steak and the pineapple was a huge hit with us. It tasted like warm apple pie with cinnamon. We would go back for a special occasion. read more

If you are a red-blooded carnivore like I am, then this is the place for you. I went with 4 other people who more or less agreed with me. The atmosphere here was pretty good. If you have never been to a Brazilian Grill before, this is a good start. They walk around with skewers of meat and you say whether you want it or not based on a "traffic light system". Green means go, red means stop giving me more meat. After they see your table has a green, they stop by with a skewer of meat. They ask you if you would like some and then give it to you or they don't, depending on how you respond. The food is delicious. The have rack of lamb, duck, parmesan breaded pork chops, honey pork chops, flank steak, top sirloin, sausage and some others that I am probably forgetting. I was not impressed too much by the honey pork chops, but they were still good. The rest was mouth watering, especially the top sirloin. The hostess was very kind. It seemed like a busy night and we were told initially that we would have to wait nearly 2 1/2 hours to get in. She said immediately after that she would try to get us in. Not 5 minutes later, we were sitting down. The waitress was far below par. It took nearly 5 minutes for her to show up and then the drink delivery was even worse. Three of our drinks came within 10 minutes. Another 2 came about 5 minutes later and then the last one we had to ask for several times. We were halfway done with eating when it finally came. We also had to ask for water each time we needed it and when you are eating more meat than you have seen in your life, you need a lot of water to wash it down. There was also a salad bar, which they must have put in just to ease people's minds that they were eating as much meat as they could handle. They had several cheeses that were declicious, but they were out of bread, so I had nothing to eat it with. I did not partake in the actual salad portion, so no review there. It is also very pricey, 33$ for a meal, 17$ for just the salad bar. Drinks weren't too outrageous. They had tap beer for anywhere from 3$ to 6$. They had a very extensive wine list, but I also did not partake in that. This would have received a 5 star, had it no been for our horrible waitress. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - A Goucho - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Some friends and I went here for restaurant week since a few of them have never been to a brazilian steakhouse. For first timers, I'd recommend for experience but, I would honestly drive all the way to Chicago for Fogo de Chao. During restaurant week, it was $35 yet, they did not have 2 cuts of meat available. The food was good. The skin on the lamb was crispy and tasty, the sirloin was fantastic, and the sausage was delicious! The pineapple adds a nice touch to the meal as a whole. The cheese bread was also extremely good! But one of my favorites was that beef stew. The rice unfortunately was undercooked and the salad bar was underwhelming. My problem with this place was the service. There was only one guy, Marcel, who was very kind and actually conversed with us. Some of the gauchos were very rude and seemed irritated whenever we'd reject certain cut of meat. Some at our table do not eat pork and every time we'd flip it to green there was 18 rounds of sausage and pork loin. The meats were already limited for restaurant week so there wasn't a good variety. The atmosphere was great though and overall it was an ok experience. Would not return but would recommend for those wanting to experience a brazilian steakhouse in Madison. read more

As long as you're ready to drop some change, you're going to LOVE Samba. We decided to do brunch here, because it's almost half price, and after checking out the website, I thought it was almost the full experience, anyhow(just not as many meat choices). The minute we walked in, I was totally in love with the interior. A little dark, with rich colors and nice design...and PLENTY of seating. We were immediately seated, and our waitress came over soon after. Although the drinks looked tasty(I would imagine that a place like this would do kick butt mojitos, and the mimosa selection was fun), I decided to just get coffee. Our waitress explained how the experience worked, and left us a basket of Po De Queijo, which is almost like a cheesy popover, with bits of spicy peppers...YUM. We started off at the salad bar, which is much more than just salad. For brunch, they had Yukon gold potatoes, and a variety of grilled, steamed, and marinated veggies. There was also a variety of fresh fruit, and a parfait bar with yogurt and oats. If this isn't enough, you can also grab some delicious Spanish cheese and roasted nuts to top your plate off. I can see why they offer a salad bar only option at night, you could easily make a nice meal out of just that! BUT, we were going full out...so bring on the meat! After we finished our first course, we flipped our "pillar of meat", and soon after the Gaucho brought us our first selection, which was a spicy sausage. We also tried the flank steak(delicious, although I wish my cut had come from further in the slab, because I like it a bit more rare), and the leg of lamb was AMAZING. There was also a country ham, which we didn't try. Another favorite of ours was the cinnamon-sugar crusted pineapple that they grilled. So good. My only complaint was that I had been looking forward to the jazz music they advertised, but the band came in to set up just as we were finishing our plates. We were seriously stuffed...and I had to laugh when the waitress came to apologize that she had not told us that they offer fresh waffles(blueberry, plain and chocolate, I believe). I also overheard her telling another table that they make scrambled eggs, too. It didn't matter, because there was NO way we were going to be able to eat anything else. All in all, Samba has a great atmosphere, delicious food, and attentive staff(even if the waitress DID forget to offer us a few items). I think that it was well worth the $20 a plate price. Is it somewhere I'll go every Sunday? No, but I'll definitely be back! *I'd also like to try the Cabana Room downstairs, which is their "everyday" restaurant. It had a nice outdoor patio, and the menu looks good. read more

Samba Brazilian Grill - Brazilian Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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A solid Brazilian steakhouse experience. The interior is really nicely decorated, service was a little slow when I went because of a groupon deal they had going on but that was ok because I couldn't eat meat that quickly anyway. The food was really good overall.They had a lot of different choices. The flank steak, filet mignon, and lamb in particular were tender and flavorful. Nothing was too dry or overcooked, though some of the garlic or parmesan crusted pork and chicken were a little too salty for me. The salad bar has some good options for cleansing your palate and adding some crunch to your meal, and the grilled pineapple and cheesy rolls were awesome. It is a bit pricey, to be expected, but I would come again the next time I want to splurge a bit and eat until I can't move. read more

I am familiar with Brazilian steakhouses and this was just what I was hoping for. The building that houses it has a lot of character and was an unexpected plus. The food was great. The selections on the salad bar were spot on. Our server Jess was a delight. Highly recommend. read more

This used to be a good spot to celebrate a birthday or just anything major in general. We came to celebrate my wife's birthday this evening and for the price ($44.95 per person) they charge this restaurant has taken a step back. The waitress was terrible. Didn't come to fill our waters but once and had an attitude the entire time. The temperature of the food was luke-warm. Nothing was amazing like it used to be. Next time, we'll go to an actual steak restaurant and get our bang for our buck. read more