Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse
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Start with the salad bar's hearts of palm and imported cheeses to line your stomach, then keep your card red for the first 20 minutes while others fill up on cheaper cuts. The servers rotate every 30 minutes, so timing your green card with fresh staff gets you better cuts.
Insider Cue
Come hungry and pace yourself early — the rodízio service means the gaucho chefs keep bringing cuts to the table. The picanha is the cut to wait for. Flip your card to green and ask specifically for it.
Insider Cue
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The churrascaria experience here actually justifies the premium—servers work the room with grilled meats carved tableside while you control the pace with their token system, so you're not drowning in meat unless you want to. Skip the salad bar unless you're starving, and go straight for the lamb picanha and filet mignon; the quality cuts are genuinely better than what most steakhouses in Dubai are pushing.
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