The family and I are in Southeastern Pennsylvania to visit Sesame Place and decided to start our vacation out right by having a really nice dinner. We did a little internet searching and settled on na'Brasa in Horsham. (http://www.nabrasa.com/)
Our research included the standard places-yelp, chow hound and trip advisor. na'Brasa was the #3 restaurant in Horsham on Trip Advisor. (The #2 restaurant listed is closed, just FYI).
Reservations were made using Opentable.com. The restaurant had low lighting, linen tableclothes and napkins and a very relaxed feel. If you have never been to a Brazilian Steakhouse here is the basic premise-you pay a premium per person for dinner (in our case $34.95/pp) as you have the opportunity to litterally eat pounds and pounds of quality meats and sides. There is always an enormous salad bar with 20+ options that you start with. Each person has a stone, token, button or other marker in front of them and you turn it to "go" or "stop". When you turn the marker to "go" the fun starts. Gauchos ("cowboys") start bringing skewers of roasted meats/sausage/chicken to the table and slice you off a hunk right there. They will come about 1 per minute each with a different option to try, so you need to turn your marker over to "stop" so you can eat and catch up. You can go on like this until you have had your fill.
So na'Brasa met the basic mold of a Brazilian restaurant. In our case the salad bar was more of an antipasti bar with assorted cheeses (goat cheese encrusted with pistachio, dill havarti), salumi's, tomato boccancini salad, cold marinated vegetables. Everything I tried was great. I of course think that if you are allowing me to consume slabs of goat cheese then you are the best restaurant around...The cheeses and the salumi selection were surprisingly high quality for a non-Italian place.
While we filled our plates for the salad bar we were brought a few small tapas style dishes at our table-cheese puffs (tiny savory cream puffs filled with aged cheddar) and miny meatballs. Zoe went to town on those meatballs, but their texture didn't quite work for me. They tasted a little mealy to me. I could have snacked on those warm cheesey bites all night though (and I sort of did..)
The whole time we were eating the salad Zoe kept asking if she could turn her marker over. Finally, all 3 of us did at the same time and within 1 minute we had 3 or 4 types of meat on our plates. Highlights for me were the filet in garlic sauce and the sausage. The filet was like buttah-no knife needed and the garlic sauce was luxurious. The sausage (which we waited a long time for, but it was worth it) had a good char on the skin and once it cooled enough to eat I noted a nice heat to it. It was a kielbasa style sausage and it had some bite.
Other faves at our table included the lamb and the chicken or beef wrapped in bacon.
Kids 6 and under eat for $5 and we ate enough to be completely full without sickened. You could easily go whole hog here and try all 14 types of meat including the salmon. If in the suburbs of Philly I highly recommend na'Brasa. (Casual attire is just fine!)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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