City Night #1

Working on the road entails quite a few nights (every night) eating at a restaurant or some other food providing establishment.  Well, since I am working a mere 1.5 hour drive in good traffic from New York City, I took it upon myself to organize dinner trips to the city.  The rules are simple – carpool in, try different types of restaurants and enjoy yourselves.   The first type of food selected for this group outing was a Brazilian Churascerria.   This is the place where you indulge in more meat that should be acceptable.    You basically sit at your table with a small coaster size device that is red on one side and green on the other.  When you are ready for the waiters carrying kebabs of meet to stop, you show the green side.   They will bring many varieties of beef, pork, chicken and lamb for you to try.  When you have your fill, you simply display the red side.   The key to this is to pace yourself.   Otherwise you can become easily overwhelmed and end up eating way too much.   However, this is a very fun experience.  The first dinner group totaled 10 people and a good time was had by all.   Part of our experience was enhanced by having 3 Brazilian Portuguese speakers with us who are very good critics of their homelands food.   This language benefit also aided us in getting better service from the predominantly Portuguese speaking waitstaff.