See Us Eat: Dinner at Espetus, San Francisco, CA

Friday, June 22, 2007

Dinner at Espetus, San Francisco, CA

A friend of ours had a hankering for some meat, so we figured there couldn't be a better place than Brazilian BBQ. Well, it all started well and good, and it ended that way too, it was just the interim that was a bit iffy. So, we called at 8pm and got a reservation for 9:30. We thought, fine, ok, we'll play cards or something at the office until then. Mind you, we were told we had a reservation, not, an "if you come we might be able to seat you". In any case, we arrive at 9:25 and are told it will be a few minutes, which is fine, since we did get there a few minutes early. 20 minutes later we are getting hungry, and our table is nowhere in sight. We were keeping our cool however, until 10pm rolls around and a group of 10 strolls in and gets immediately seated before us. Then things got ugly. Let's just say that neither we, nor the staff of Espetus, were on our best behavior at this point in time. The result, however, was that we were finally seated at 10:15, a full 45 minutes after our reservation. We just kept thinking about that Seinfeld episode: "you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to keep the reservation". In any case, despite this rather terrible experience, we'll probably go back, but certainly not on the weekend. I mean, it IS all you can eat meat. Mundane detail: the all-you-can-eat meat and salad bar is $40 per person.

Mussels
Ok. Would have been better without the rice.

Roast Beef
A bit dry, but maybe that's because we got the edge.

Guacamole and Mozzerella
They always try to fill you up on the salad bar at thee types of places. We try not to eat too much from the salad bar so that we can get our money's worth with the meat. But these were nice condiments for the meat.