Herbivores beware! Fogo Vivo is one restaurant you'll want to avoid! Sure, they have a nice salad bar, but the whole experience is one big Meat-A-Pa-Looza, and for carnivores like me, that's one step short of Heaven.
Fogo Vivo is described as a Brazilian Churrascaria, which roughly translates to Brazilian barbecue (the name Fogo Vivo translates to "Live Fire"). For this particular establishment, that means an endless parade of rotisserie-cooked meat delivered to your table on skewers - beef, pork, chicken, lamb, duck, shrimp and salmon. There's also vegetables, potatoes, and finger food like bread and French fries.
The way this works is they give you a small card with a green side (to indicate "Go") and a red side (for "Stop"). When you keep the card turned up to the green side, the meat keeps coming. If you feel you need a break, you flip it over and show red.
Another way to take a break from eating is to get up out of your seat and boogie with your friends and a couple of lively Brazilian dancers to some fun Tropicalia tunes. This is one area where this restaurant differed from other ethnic places around town - the women were authentic to the establishment, not just Thai girls dressed in Brazilian attire.
And so it went throughout the night: the waitstaff brought the meat and I consumed it (all but the salmon - I'm not much of a fish fan).
When it was all over, I flipped my card over to the red side to indicate that I had surrendered (at least with the meat), but I still had room for two trips to the dessert table.
If you like cooked animal flesh combined with a fun atmosphere, you really can't go wrong in Bangkok with Fogo Vivo.
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