Texas de Brazil - Memphis

This Texas de Brazil location did not live up to locations in other cities I have been to in the past. First off there were servers standing around all telling us they will be right with us. There were clearly open seats they could have sat us at quickly without an issue since it is a buffet. However, they waited until the manager got my number into the computer system to assign a seat. Which would of been ok if it did not take them like 5-10 minutes of standing there with 5 servers standing around that could of attended to us instead of all separately informing us they will be right with us. I am gluten free and vegan, so I got the lunch salad bar only option. The salad was good with lots of vegetables. The signs could have told ingredients inside the dishes in the hot bar or allergy warnings at least. The hot items on the salad bar were ok, but could have been better. The rice was a bit crunchy and not in a good way. The beans could have been better, and I found out after I ate them that they were not gluten free or vegan. The beans are cooked with meat products/Worcester sauce that has anchovies in it. In addition, the sautéed mushrooms have milk & gluten which is ridiculous. There is no need for either of those things to be in sautéed mushrooms. I really should have looked more closely at the allergy menu before eating here. My stomach was off for almost a week after this meal, and now I know why. Overall the food had good flavor and the veggies were fresh on the salad bar. They missed the mark on not providing allergy warnings on the signs, crunchy rice, having milk/gluten in items that usually don’t, and unusual waiting to be seated when it’s a buffet. They also state on website to ask for pineapple dessert that’s roasted, but they claim no dessert is included in the buffet price. They also said the pineapple on the buffet was the roasted pineapple, but it did not seem roasted.

I had a graduation dinner here. The staff was proactive to make sure to inform me what meat I couldn’t have. I could have almost all of it and the bread/ rolls are gf. I do not eat off salad bars, but it looked like it would be a good choice. It’s huge.