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Eat your hearts out...
Remember when the Brazilian churrascaria craze took Chicagoland by storm (perhaps Texas de Brazil, Brazzaz, Fogo de Chao, Sabor do Brazil or Asado Brazilian Grill ring a bell)? Well, Sal y Carvao -- which had the biggest suburban presence of the pack -- has relaunched its Downers Grove and Schaumburg locations as Zed 451, with the Chicago outpost to follow suit this fall. At $24.50 for lunch and $42.50 for dinner, the fixed prices are equally steep, and the concept remains essentially the same, with a salad bar (whoops, we mean "Harvest Station") and roaming servers, sans gaucho get-ups -- but with a much wider range of cuisine.
The press release we received says the all-you-can-eat concept "allows guests to be entirely in control of their dining experience," but with these sort of things, we usually end up eschewing all reasonable notions of portion size and just stuffing our faces. (Case in point: When my boyfriend took a blood test the morning after a trip to now-shuttered Rio de Churrascaria in Glenview, his doctor noted that his nitrogen levels were "slightly elevated.")
Anyhow, whole concept gets us a bit nostalgic about our childhood trips to Sizzler or Ponderosa (the latter, by the way, still has two Illinois locations, one in Aurora and the other in Waukegan), but with offerings such as parmesan-crusted pork medallions and braised short-ribs with coconut milk and lemongrass, the bent at Zed 451 clearly much more gourmet.
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