Description

Churrascaria is a 250 year old Brazilian tradition developed by Gauchos (South American cowboys) who originally lived by hunting wild cattle in the Pampas. This area extended across Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. Today, inhabitants in the Rio Grande do Sul region of Southern Brazil are affectionately called gauchos. It is this region and its history that has inspired our RIO restaurant.A gaucho’s main diet was meat barbecued over an open fire and yerba mate, a special South American Indian tea made from Yerba tree leaves. The hard and often lonely life of the gaucho was celebrated in ballads, poetry and literature and came to symbolise honesty and independence.