{"id":19149,"date":"2013-04-11T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2013-04-11T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:53:54","slug":"day-101-fazenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/day-101-fazenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 101: Fazenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is Mrs Pitts’ birthday so we went for a meal<\/a> to celebrate tonight – a little unusual I grant you, but Leeds on a Friday night is not a place we wanted to be. Plus the restaurant we wanted to visit, Fazenda’s, is more expensive on a Friday!<\/p>\n

We’d heard about it through friends, and researched their website:<\/p>\n

Fazenda features continuous table side service of fifteen different delectable cuts of beef<\/a>, pork, lamb and chicken. Our concept also offers a sumptuous buffet of gourmet salads and fresh cut vegetables, and a variety of traditional side dishes to complement the meats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Customers control their services with a small green and red-side chip. The green side signals the gaucho chefs to bring out skewers of sizzling meats to the table, while the red side indicates a stopping point. To resume service, simply display the green side again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, the system works well. The chefs make sure that each\u00a0piece\u00a0of meat you receive isn’t too large so that you can experience many different types. In all, I reckon that I had around 10 different styles of meat,\u00a0including\u00a0chicken hearts.<\/p>\n

Alongside the meat, there is the well stocked salad bar<\/a> which caters for all kinds of tastes – dried apricots anyone?! – and there were some hidden gems too. The coleslaw tonight was lovely!<\/p>\n

Our meal was finished off with a complementary\u00a0caipirinha, which I got for Mrs Pitts (I don’t drink) by checking in on FourSquare<\/a> (they do the same offer for checking in on Facebook<\/a> too). As well as this, I was reminded to make sure I claimed it as they tweeted me mid-meal! You can’t beat that for service.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>I’ll be honest, it’s not the cheapest of places to go – you would have to be there for a special\u00a0occasion\u00a0rather than a quick lunch – but we will certainly visit again in the future.<\/p>\n

To top off a lovely evening, there was a geocache within 100m (GC2E8FW), and today was a gap in our calendar. Perfect!<\/p>\n

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