On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> There are lots of restaurants in this model. You pay a fixed
> price, then you can eat until you die. I imagine the only
> rule is that you are forbidden to throw up [like the Romans]
> to get more food.
>
> They charge about US$ 15.00, plus two to four times
> the price of the drinks.
>
> And it's not only meat: you can grab any ammount of
> non-meat that you want.
>
> We call them "Churrascaria Rodizio" =~ "Rotating BBQ"
There's a Texas BBQ place here in Austin, County Line, that offers an "all
you can eat" option, but if one person gets that, everyone else at the
table has to get it. We've only done that option once when I was there;
it's stupid to pay extra for me to have "all you can eat" when a platter
that costs less will provide me with plenty of food. (I end up feeling
guilty every time my parents-in-law pay for me to do an "all you can eat"
because my father-in-law won't be getting his money's worth out of my
appetite....) Dan and an out-of-town visitor demolished something like 4
or 5 platters of beef between them once on the "all you can eat" plan
there, and he wasn't hungry for anything besides a salad 24 hours later,
and didn't resume normal eating until 2 days after the pig-out.
My favorite "all you can eat" sort of situation is Mongolian BBQ (which is
nothing like any of the BBQ discussed anywhere else on this thread), where
you pile as much of the stir-fry ingredients you're going to want into a
bowl, pour the sauces you want over the pile, and get it stir-fried. I
love getting exactly what I want and nothing that I don't want with that,
and it's fairly healthy if you don't pile a ton of beef or pork onto your
bowl (and both are lean enough that it's probably not too bad for you even
if you do). It's also quite affordable -- $6 for lunch, $1 extra if you
want iced tea, $1.25 extra if you want soda, and that includes the tax.
Drool.
> But they had their zenith around 1990. Now they are
> being replaced by the cheaper "Pay by Kilo", where
> you make your dish and pay proportional to the mass.
That's a good setup. That's one where it wouldn't be throwing money away
to take me there.
Julia
who is actually somewhat hungry and ought to go find some fruit or veggies
in the kitchen to munch on soon
