chicken hearts, grilled pineapple and flying cutlery
Since the first time I went out with the Chowhound dining group went OK , decided to check out their January destination Friday night. This month's pick: Red Violin , a Brazilian BBQ at Danforth and Broadview. The evening got off to a rocky start, when I went into the wrong resto. I briefly lost the ability to match the sign above the correct door - I entered the Latin restaurant next door, left a puzzled maitre'd when none of the names I rhymed off were on the reservation list, then finally noticed a review in the window. After heading next door, all was good. FIRST COURSE To start, they offered up a salad/seafood bar. Not exactly your offering of limp iceberg, the spread featured hot and cold seafood (great shrimp in tomato sauce), a variety of cheese, slices of guava paste, various vegetable salads and addictive thumb-sized cheese bread. All delicious. MAIN Soon after, servers came around with large skewers, each with a different type of meat. They came to each perso...