13 Brazilian Buffet and Churrasco Locations Around Orlando

The words Brazilian all-you-can-eat tend to suggest a particular dinner. A server arrives with a skewer. Somebody turns a little card green. Another slice of beef seems like an excellent idea.

Orlando has plenty of that dinner. It also has Brazilian restaurants where you choose a cut at a grill station, or help yourself to rice, beans and a changing spread of home cooking.

The Brazilian restaurants in our Orlando-area collection offer plenty of reasons to explore beyond one familiar steakhouse dinner. Along International Drive and into Kissimmee, the choices include home-style buffet cooking, freshly carved meats at a counter and long, sociable meals with skewers arriving at the table.

Begin with the meal that needs no skewer

Camila’s Brazilian Restaurant on International Drive is a self-service home-style buffet. Rice, black beans and farofa provide a familiar Brazilian foundation, with salads, changing hot dishes and sweets making a complete meal around them.

Salpicão de frango is a good reason to give the cold section proper attention. The chicken salad combines shredded chicken with a creamy dressing and raisins, finished with thin potato sticks. Saturday feijoada brings pork-rich black beans together with accompaniments such as greens, orange and farofa. Other days can offer a different selection of stews, meats, fish or Brazilian comfort dishes.

The appeal is being able to make lunch from that whole spread. Churrasco is one Brazilian tradition of abundance; everyday dishes and a generous self-service table are another. Camila’s gives the latter plenty of personality.

Choose your meat at the counter

Cafe Mineiro Brazilian Steakhouse offers two complete unlimited meals. The base buffet includes hot dishes, salads and selected meats—sirloin, sausage and chicken—with carving near the hot counter. The Brazilian Experience, also called Rodizio Premium, adds the broader tableside meat service.

The base buffet makes a full lunch of Brazilian beans, rice, salads and freshly carved meats. The Brazilian Experience gives a steak enthusiast the wider cut selection and circulating skewers.

BR77 Brazilian Steakhouse in Kissimmee gives the guest another kind of choice. Its meats are available at a dedicated grill station, where you choose the cut and ask about doneness. The churrasco menu ranges from picanha and maminha to beef ribs, lamb and beer-marinated chicken thighs, with the salad bar and hot dishes accompanying the meat.

For someone who already knows which cut she wants next, the attraction is obvious. You can return to that cut without waiting for it to pass through the dining room. The buffet-and-carving arrangement keeps the meal flexible while retaining the freshly sliced meat that makes churrasco so appealing.

When the carving comes to your chair

BoiBrazil Churrascaria on International Drive puts Brazilian family cooking beside tableside skewers, in a room with a particularly visible fondness for football. Picanha, garlic beef and other cuts rotate through the service; the hot buffet supplies beans, rice and Brazilian accompaniments. The meal can be a proper steakhouse outing without losing that family-table character.

At H&H Brazilian Steakhouse in Kissimmee, picanha and maminha begin a substantial meat selection, with lamb, poultry and the changing Farm Table widening dinner. Weekend brunch has its own base cuts. Filet, ribeye and lamb chops belong to standard dinner but require a prime-cut upgrade at brunch, so the meal period makes a real difference for a diner with a particular steak in mind.

Divina Carne Brazilian Steakhouse on Carrier Drive adds a particularly broad self-service and kitchen selection to its continuous carving. Picanha and other beef cuts lead the rodizio, while the market table, sushi and made-to-order pasta give companions other things to pursue. Mozzarella-stuffed gnocchi can be a perfectly reasonable source of enthusiasm in a steakhouse.

Two Adega Gaucha locations

Adega Gaucha welcomes diners at Adega Gaucha on Crystal Clear Lane in Orlando and its West Irlo Bronson location in Kissimmee. Full Churrasco combines tableside meat service with the Gourmet Table and accompanying sides.

You can try a small serving of a cut, enjoy it while it is hot, and decide which one you would like again. Between carvings, the Gourmet Table supplies prepared salads, vegetables and other accompaniments. For someone happier concentrating on that spread, a Gourmet Table-only meal is available separately.

Adega’s Gourmet Table and full churrasco meals give the table room for different appetites, from a meal of prepared salads and sides to the complete skewer service.

Familiar names, different reasons to choose them

Fogo de Chão serves its Full Churrasco Experience at International Drive and Vineland, combining fire-roasted meats with the Market Table and Brazilian sides. Picanha and fraldinha introduce two Brazilian beef cuts, while lamb, pork and chicken give later servings variety.

The Market Table makes a substantial course of its own, with smoked salmon, cheeses, vegetables and changing prepared salads. Weekend brunch adds morning foods and beef-rib hash alongside the full churrasco option.

Texas de Brazil on International Drive combines charcoal-roasted meats with a wide cold spread and hot accompaniments. Garlic picanha, Parmesan-coated preparations and Brazilian sausage offer different flavors across the skewer service. Lobster bisque gives the hot selection a recognizable specialty beyond the meats. Drinks and desserts are separate orders.

At Rodizio Grill at Pointe Orlando, the Full Rodizio includes grilled meats, pineapple, the salad bar and hot sides. Brazilian family dishes give the buffet more interest than the word salad might suggest. Grilled ham and pineapple offer a different pairing between servings of beef, while feijoada and other hot preparations bring a home-cooking dimension to dinner.

Chima Steakhouse on Sand Lake Road gives the meal a polished steakhouse setting and a broad Complete Rodizio. Its grill makes room for seafood as well as beef, lamb and poultry: salmon with passion fruit sauce or pesto and seasoned shrimp offer alternatives to another slice of steak. The smaller Select Rodizio limits the unlimited service to the chosen protein group, so it is worth understanding which experience you’re buying.

A little attention makes the meal better

A home-style buffet, a favorite cut at the carving station or a leisurely rodizio can each make a satisfying Brazilian outing. Follow the kind of meal you enjoy.

Leave some appetite for the beans, salads and sides too. A favorite steak can make a fine evening, but the food around it tells more of the story. Brazilian generosity has several ways to fill a table.