{"id":212,"date":"2007-08-25T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/08\/25\/brasilianville-cafe-and-grill-astoria\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:54:15","slug":"brasilianville-cafe-and-grill-astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/08\/25\/brasilianville-cafe-and-grill-astoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Brasilianville Caf\u00c3\u00a9 and Grill, Astoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;q=brasilianville&#038;near=Astoria,+NY&#038;fb=1&#038;view=text&#038;latlng=40755501,-73918366,11802469682449337636&#038;dtab=3\">Brasilianville Caf\u00c3\u00a9 and Grill<\/a> in Astoria, Queens.  It&#8217;s a kilo restaurant, of the type that&#8217;s very common in Brazil, although it bows to America&#8217;s Imperial sensibilities and vends food by the pound.  Food from the salad and steamer bars is $3.99\/lb; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Churrasco\">churrasco<\/a> (Brazilian barbecue) is $6.99\/lb.  I had a very sad encounter with Diet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guarana.com\/home.html\">Guaran\u00c3\u00a1<\/a> Antarctica&#8212;a pale shadow of the real thing, which I found at a nearby convenience store&#8212;and the food from the steamer table, although it hit a soul food spot, probably wasn&#8217;t the best I&#8217;ve eaten.<\/p>\n<p>The steak, though&#8230; and the lingui\u00c3\u00a7a (a type of sausage)&#8230; mmm.  I could taste the fat, and it was wonderful.  At just $7\/lb., even taking into account the &#8220;subway tax,&#8221; the meat made for a worthy meal.  I have been enjoying my food coma this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That area of Astoria had lots of interesting-looking food: we passed Ecuadorian, Bosnian, Bulgarian (well, that was a liquor store) and other Brazilian restaurants.  Good trip.  I&#8217;m going to try some Jersey-made guaran\u00c3\u00a1 I picked up, and I&#8217;ll report on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had lunch at Brasilianville Caf\u00c3\u00a9 and Grill in Astoria, Queens. It&#8217;s a kilo restaurant, of the type that&#8217;s very common in Brazil, although it bows to America&#8217;s Imperial sensibilities and vends food by the pound. Food from the salad and steamer bars is $3.99\/lb; churrasco (Brazilian barbecue) is $6.99\/lb. I had a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","tag-brazilian-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}