Restaurante da Graca: brazilian steak house

Very casual place for a quick dine in, but better as a take out. I tried their buffet and while it was good, not much for entrée options, though. I also thought it was a bit pricey. I ordered take out for dinner one night. I ordered one of their «skillet» entrees. I ordered their chicken. I was not impressed with the chicken. It was dry and had no flavor. Luckily, I got a side of hot sauce, which helped. The vegetables we’re very fresh and I liked the yucca and plantains. I think it’s a bit pricey for the lack in taste and quality of chicken.

Love this place, great prices and amazing food. Flan is to die for. Legit acai drink for only $ 3.

Really good lunch option. Friendly service and hot skewers. The young man is great who weighs the food and takes payment. Really on his game and calls everyone «my friend». Very refreshing to hear that. Reminds mi of the Rio places I used to visit. Great selection and outstanding freshness as well as preparation. Wish I didn’t live so far away!

I took my Dad here for his birthday because he really wanted to go. The guy who runs it is super nice but the food is just bad. We went in for lunch around 12 and everything was cold. I didn’t think their meat quality was too good either. Pieces of meat I got were chewy.

good food. worth the walk

I come here at least once a week for lunch. They have a good selection at the salad bar and hot food buffet, but the thing to come for is the traditional Brazilian churrasqueria. Cost is by weight and very reasonably priced. Statf is friendly. A great edition to SoNo.

Delicious lunch option in SoNo. Believe it or not, works for vegans and vegetarians as well as meat lovers so it is an office favorite. Incredibly friendly service. They supplied the food for our 85-​person wedding and our guests thought it was fantastic. Great value to boot!

The owners were very friendly, and the food was fantastic. The sirloin had great flavor like a dry-​aged fancy steak and was one of the better pieces of steak I’ve had in a while. And the price is very reasonable for the quantity/​quality of food you get. One of the best Brazilian steakhouses I’ve been to, I’ll be going back for sure.

Had some hot bar and some meats on the skewers every bite was better then the last
Even my 4year old loves it and she’s VERY picky
Wonderful great prices great food nothing bad to say.
Eat here and enjoy!

This is my favorite lunch place! Very warm staff, also very knowledgeable about their steaks. I will highly recommend this place for someone on the go.

Great meat but also lots of vegetarian and gluten-​free options. Keep them in mind if you need catering for a party — very affordable and crowd pleasing!

I moved to Norwalk from Mid-​Town Manhattan and have tasted my fair share of steaks. This place is right up there with some of the $ 100+ meals I’ve had in NYC but at a fraction of the cost! I’m really debating whether to even mention the price in case they see this review and raise the cost… Basically you can get what you would pay $ 50 – 100 for in NYC for the price of a McDonalds meal. But as I mentioned before, at the same level of quality as an NYC steakhouse. Really crazy.
Unbelievably great tasting steak and the buffet selection is great as well. I go here a few times a week as I find myself constantly craving their steak (even in the middle of the night). Staff is also really friendly and is one of the best family run restaurants I’ve come across. Not to be missed!

Great buffet. The salads and vegetables are always fresh and tasty. The meat is always done however you like. The bacon wrapped grilled chicken is fantastic. Great location and the price can not be beat. Perfect place for a quick tasty lunch.

Simple, yet DELICIOUS. Loved the smoked/​grilled sausages and chicken w/​bacon. Add in the friend plantains and I’m golden. Never been here before, but will def be a regular since I work nearby. Very friendly service. I’ve been to a few «real» Brazilian steakhouses, which are fancy and rather expensive. The prices here are very reasonable for the buffet. Keep it up, guys!

I moved to Norwalk from Fairfield a year ago where right next door in Bridgeport had the best mom and pop Brazilian places you could ask for! I was surprised that Norwalk did not. So I am super happy this place opened and I don’t have to drive to the BPT as much (although they still top the charts with their food)!
This restaurant is right down the street from my home and definitely worth it! The owner is super nice and the food is fresh and delicious. The churrascaria was good, some pieces were a little dry but the sausage was excellent! She makes feijoada on weekends and I am SO excited to come back and try it; it’s my favorite!
If you’re craving Brazilian cuisine (like I do at least once a week) definitely go check this place out! It’s delicious!

OMGGGGG so good! My sister, her boyfriend, my 2 year old nephew and I went here after being at the aquarium to get quick food and we were BLOWN AWAY!!! Everything was juicy and tasty. They have cheap fresh squeeze juices (we had 3!). There’s casual seating in the back which helped with the 2 year old’s inability to sit. It doesn’t look like much but everyone is very happy and full… GO AND GET THE TOP SIRLOIN with rice and pinto beans!!!

My wife and I go probably every week or two for their take out buffet. Great selection and the steak is delicious. I hope they stick around.
Beware, the do close early on very slow days as it is a family run business. I don’t mind, they make up for their great service.

You’re a restaurant in SoNo at 9pm on a Friday night. Your sign says Brazilian Steakhouse. You are open for business. I’ve been in your establishment for several minutes now. You wait until after I come to the grill counter with my to go container of plantains, rice. & beans to tell me that you have no meat left to serve that isn’t cooked to boot leather. Perhaps it would have been more professional to let me know that meat selections were less than limited when I walked in the door. Had you done that I would have said no problem and tried you another time. It’s not like you have any hours posted on the door either. And the «good deal» you were going to make me on the side dishes really is no consolation in a so called churrascaria.
You probably won’t be open much longer & you will certainly never ever see me again. Good luck with that steakhouse thing…

This is a lovely, family owned Brazilian Churrascaria, or steak house. I prefer this place over any of the other Brazilian steak houses I’ve tried in the past because you only pay for what you want to eat instead of the typical all you can eat.
Basically, you pick what you want from their buffet and then select from their grilled meats; your selections are weighed and you only pay 7.99 a pound. I’m already a big fan and I adore how their buffet features different selections every day. The owners are very welcoming and I look forward to returning often.

I was happy to see that a restaurant had finally filled the empty store front where Jeff’s Cuisine used to be (there was another restaurant after Jeff’s but it had a very short tenure). It took me a couple of weeks to work up the nerve to actually walk in — I had some trepidation about entering because even though the sign said «Brazilian Steakhouse» it looked like a buffet from the outside. One Saturday night after catching a flick at the SoNo Regent, I finally decided to give it a shot. I walked in with my wife and… it was a buffet. I saw lots of fresh vegetables and some unique Brazilian dishes, including a few meat dishes such as roast pork, but nothing that gave the place the right to call itself a steakhouse. Though the food looked good — it wasn’t exactly what i was looking for on a Saturday night — I was strongly considering making a run for it. Fortunately, the nice Young Man (I didn’t get a name and will have to get it next time, for the rest of this review I’ll call him YM) behind the counter greeted us and said, «Grab a plate or takeout container and take food from the stations. Once, you’re done there select from the Meat Nirvana that is positioned so that you can only see it once you are well into the restaurant and happen to be looking at it from a very specific angle.»
Clearly I’ve embellished a tad, but behind the counter in the kitchen area is a fire pit with a wide assortment of meat: top sirloin (Brazilian style with the nice strip of fat going across the top), brisket, bacon wrapped chicken, sausages, etc… I’ve started drooling just remembering what is a carnivore’s dream! After gaining a better understanding of the food options, staying for dinner was a no-​brainer. We loaded up on some veggies, rice, and beans and then made the quick trek to the counter to select our meats. The YM was super helpful with recommending cuts, selecting meats to the right level of our desired doneness, and giving us our requested amount of meat. We went with the top sirloin, brisket, and bacon wrapped chicken (recommended by YM — super yummy!). He weighed our containers at the end and I was shocked at how little it cost at the end — barely over $ 20 for a TON of food.
The meats are the star of the show — very flavorful due to the seasoning and cooking method — and are perfectly accompanied by the rice and beans that are available. Restaurante da Graca is a great new addition to SoNo that is unique to the many restaurants area due to the cuisine served and the low cost of its food. For both of these reasons, I’m giving it 5 stars.
Also, don’t forget some of the hot peppers at the counter — they are hot but tasty!