Fogo de Chão

You open the wine list at a Brazilian churrascaria famous for tableside meat swords and find exactly five bottles, every single one priced at $6 a glass. That's not a wine program — that's a placeholder. The effort here starts and stops at 'we have wine.'

The list is five bottles deep and leans South American, which at least makes geographic sense for the concept. You've got a Brazilian sparkler in the Salton Brut, an Argentine Malbec from Alamos, a Chilean Chardonnay from Calina, and a rosé from Montes alongside The Seeker Red Blend rounding things out. That's the whole story — no reds beyond the Malbec and the blend, no old-world presence, no depth whatsoever. For a restaurant built around big, fatty, fire-kissed cuts of meat, the absence of a proper Malbec with any pedigree or a single Cabernet-forward option is a genuine miss.

Every wine on the list is by the glass, which sounds generous until you realize there are only five of them and they're all $6. There's no rotation, no seasonal shake-up, no flights — just five permanent residents who've been there long enough to know the busboys by name.