A note on the words: churrasco is the Brazilian way with meat — whole cuts salted, run onto long skewers, cooked over coals and carved straight onto your plate at the table. Picanha is the cap of the top sirloin, the cut Brazilians prize most; rump is the piece next to it; harami is the skirt steak, the flat muscle from under the ribs; shintama, the knuckle, is the lean round cut from the top of the leg; and hatsu is heart. All-you-can-drink is a fixed-price option Japanese restaurants attach to a set course, with a time limit rather than a drink limit. A highball is whisky with soda, and in Tokyo it is the default thing to order first.
Charcoal Churrasco GOSTOSO on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hey, this is Hangover Meshi. So, dinner this time is at a churrasco place in Azabu-juban, “Charcoal Churrasco GOSTOSO.” I’ve known about it for ages, but there are plenty of other churrasco places around Roppongi, so I never quite got as far as this one in Azabu-juban. Anyway, I headed straight to the restaurant, and I was lucky — they took me without a booking.
Charcoal churrasco 100-minute course — 5,566 yen
Charcoal churrasco 100-minute course with standard all-you-can-drink — 7,986 yen
5,566 yen! And adding all-you-can-drink still doesn’t take it over 8,000 — that’s cheap! Around ten dishes come out, apparently, so the standard 100 min plan looked like it would be more than satisfying. So that’s the one I chose!
Right, the first thing to order has to be a highball!
And at the same time, the set with free refills comes out.
This salad, you see, is fresh and crisp and good. And the fact that you can have as much as you like is lovely!
I think I ended up asking for about four refills.
The rice and the starters with the beans and so on can be refilled too, apparently. The meat is what fills you up, so I went easy on these.
Sauces and bread come out at the start as well.
What came out: picanha, rump, pork shoulder loin, two kinds of harami skirt steak (salted and seasoned), shintama knuckle, and garlic steak.
It’s a relentless procession — they just keep bringing it. Well, that’s what happens when the style is to bring each thing out as soon as it comes off the fire.
At most churrasco places it tends to be all-you-can-eat, where they keep coming around until you tell them to stop, and with that style the same cuts keep coming back around, so you fill up on those or end up turning them down. Here everything comes out one kind at a time, so that side of it is easier. The prices are reasonable too, and it struck me as a good place for a noisy meal with a group.
So there you go — churrasco in Azabu-juban. Good value, is how it feels. That said, if what you want is a sense of luxury or a calm place to eat, there are churrasco restaurants around Roppongi too, so it might be worth comparing.
Charcoal Churrasco GOSTOSO (Churrasco / Azabu-juban Station, Roppongi Station, Akabanebashi Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.3
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
