Here in my city Sao Paulo, usually we go out every day to lunch.
We have some types of restaurants:
per weight, the preferred: you can choose what you want and pay by weight, you can found many foods: feijoada, meat, legumes, salad, past, some people mix everything in plate:
feijoada, pasta, rice, beans, salada, usually they have small caipirinha, coffe and tea for free with some cookie or “rain cookie”
You can choose you dessert by weight too.
“prato feito” like a tradicional meal: rice, beans, salad, eggs, some type of meat and french fries, I don´t have any picture because usually it is so much food to me
a la carte, usualy in lunch time we don´t go in this restaurants because delay so much, you can choose japanese food, feijoada, pasta, etc
eat as you want: you can eat everything you want eat and pay just one price
“rodizio”, to some type of food, like for example pizza, you pay one price and can eat all type of pizza, or meat, you eat all meat you want.
Some restaurants like this: rodizio and “eat as you want”, have diferente price to woman and man
We have another types: fast food, food truck, the famous “eat and died”, I will write more about Brazilian food.
@alexandradias in my city I usually have lunch at home because it’s near of my workplace. Sometimes we go out to lunch on the weight type of restaurant and off course always the caipirinha is offered in the restaurants of my city too.
Hi @alexandradias , here in Buenos Aires people mostly bring food from their houses to work because it’s cheaper and maybe easier. I try to do that everyday but there’s a Japanese place near my work that’s too good… it’s a take out only and it’s always full of people, but it’s worth it.
We also have all of the types of restaurants you mentioned, but the eat-as-you-want kind isn’t so common, and the rodizio one is really uncommon, I think.
On my very short time in Brazil (I crossed the border just to visit the Iguazu Falls) I ate in a eat-as-you-want restaurant, so I can imagine how common they must be there.
Thanks for sharing this, it’s interesting to know!
@alexandradias in Cúcuta, Colombia, is common that every popular restaurant has an “executive dish” for lunch with a single cheap price specially design for people who work and there are so many in each corner of the city. It’s not expensive at all and you can eat protein, rice, salad and juice or soda for only 2$. Generally, the workers bring their own meals to work in little containers and they call that lunch “coca”. Inside those boxes (cocas) can hold pasta, rice and beans, soups, salads, or simple home made dishes that they are hotted in in microwave that are in many public offices or even in universities.
In Cúcuta there are also rodizios and restaurants with dishes that are weighed and then paid according to their weight.
The Cucuteño prefers eat roast chicken at lunch. Is the dish more popular and cheap between big groups or large families.
Nossa que maravilha hem. As fotos são do mesmo restaurante? Pois há muitas veriedades de comida. Aqui o mais comum é o a la carte. Há também varios restaurantes de todos os tipos. É muito comum você ter um cardápio só para saladas, só para pasta, só de pizzas e às vezes há opções de pratos que vai carne de porco, frango e peixe. Aqui também usamos muito o delivery, os restaurantes praticamente cobrem quase a cidade inteira para entregas.
Há também muito restaurantes aqui que você paga por porções, talvez o mais comum utilizado para almoços pelo o pessoal que trabalha. Já por quilo que é muito comum no Brasil, eu só vi uma vez por aqui e era somente para saladas.
