Subscribe

()

Imagine food heaven, where the meat keeps coming without end to your table. And it keeps coming until you cry "Enough!"

That’s how it is at Rodizio, a Brazilian restaurant just down the street from the cathedral in Bamberg, Germany. Rodizio is a style of meal offering several types of meat served at intervals throughout the feast for a fixed price. One of the few traditional Brazilian restaurants in Germany, the Rodizio is a place to not only experience this food heaven, but also enjoy a relaxing view of the city.

Rodizio offers excellent food with a great variety of cocktails to keep you dining for hours. Whether you choose the buffet for 14.80 euros or the rodizio for 19.80 euros, you will leave with a full stomach.

Though there are plenty of other dishes on the menu — including steak and tacos — I recommend you go for the restaurant’s namesake, the rodizio.

If you order the rodizio, you will be presented with eight types of meat, served at intervals throughout the meal, a different meat offered each time. Each skewer of meat spends about 20 minutes rotating in an oven, giving the meat its exceptional grilled flavor. When each round of meat is served, you have a choice of one or two pieces, but keep in mind that you will be served eight types of meat in all. I started out opting for two pieces of meat. When I realized I wasn’t going to make it through all eight, I had to cut the servings down to one piece.

The rodizio comes with the buffet, but, again, be careful: If you want to try all eight meats, then you don’t want to fill up on the stuffed peppers, curried chicken, shrimp and varieties of salads on the buffet.

Though it costs a pretty penny at 19.80 euros a person, the hungriest of appetites will be satisfied by the variety of meats: Brazilian sausage, pork, chicken, ham, beef, lamb, ostrich and, my favorite, the turkey meat wrapped in bacon.

Those who don’t want such a variety can choose a specific meat to have served the entire meal, which winds up as an all-you-can-eat spree that leaves you begging for the check.

The meats will usually be served about every 15 minutes, so you have time to recuperate your appetite before the next serving arrives.

While many customers spend several hours enjoying the buffet or the rodizio, seats are plentiful at Rodizio, although there is limited seating on the second-floor patio. The first floor belongs to the BrauStubla, a small beer brewery owned by the restaurant owners.

I recommend sitting on the patio, where you will have a decent view of the surrounding city. The chairs are "really comfortable," according to my pregnant wife, and are closer to the buffet and kitchen.

The inside is decorated in bull skulls and dimly lit to help the cocktail, candle-lit-dinner mood if you’re on a date.

I wouldn’t recommend bringing young children during the evening hours because naturally you will spend a lot of time eating. However, children up to 7 years old eat for free and children ages 7-14 pay 1 euro for each year. So, if a child is 7, you will pay 7 euros for his meal.

And here’s an important note: Make sure you tell the server when you are done eating, or the meat will keep coming.

Rodizio

Location: Karolinen Str. 24, 96049 Bamberg.

Directions: From the Bamberg cathedral, walk down Karolinen street and you will see the beer garden on your left. Restaurant entrance is the first building on the left next to the BrauStubla.

Hours: From 11 a.m. until the last person leaves, closed on Tuesdays. Rodizio also offers a very popular Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for 15.80 euros.

Food: Brazilian entrees, Brazilian buffet, the rodizio and steaks. Buffet starts at 6 p.m. daily, costs 14.80 euros per person. Lunch buffet is served 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday, at 8.90 euros.

Drink: Cocktails for 5.80 to 7.80 euros; beer and nonalcoholic beverages, 2.60 euros to 3.20 euros. Happy hour for cocktails is 5-7:30 p.m., cocktails cost 4.50 euros and 3.50 euros for nonalcoholic. After 11 p.m., cocktails cost 5 euros.

Dress: Casual, but not sloppy.

Clientele: Mostly Germans, some Americans and tourists. There is no English menu, but the servers spoke good English and were very helpful.

Sign Up for Daily Headlines

Sign up to receive a daily email of today's top military news stories from Stars and Stripes and top news outlets from around the world.

Sign Up Now