Churrascaria Near Me in Downtown Dadeland: Fogo de Chão's Newest Miami Room

Fogo de Chão's Miami Dadeland restaurant opened on February 17, 2025, at 8815 SW 72nd Place in Downtown Dadeland, directly across from Dadeland Mall, and its full churrasco costs $56 at weekday lunch and $75 at dinner. It is the chain's newest dining room in Miami-Dade, built around an open grill with a 360-degree view of the gaucho chefs.

Fogo de Chão began in 1979, when brothers Arri and Jair Coser, together with Jorge and Aleixo Ongaratto, opened a restaurant in the countryside outside Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. The brothers had trained as churrasqueiros since 1975. A second restaurant followed in São Paulo in 1987, the first American location opened in Addison, Texas, in 1997, and the company now runs from Dallas.

Dadeland was Fogo's fourth restaurant in South Florida and its third in Miami. At the opening, CEO Barry McGowan said the brand had been part of the South Florida community for 18 years, and the first week's sales went partly to Feeding South Florida, which received 10 percent. The room was designed with the agency Harrison, and besides the central grill it has a dry-aged meat locker, an indoor bar and private dining spaces.

The open grill is the reason to request a table near the middle of the room. Because it is visible from every side, you can watch the chefs salt, skewer and rotate the meat before it reaches you, and see which cut is coming off the fire next. From the same seats you can also see into the dry-aged meat locker, where the larger shareable cuts hang before they reach the fire.

The service format is the classic one. Every guest has a disc that is green on one side and red on the other. Green brings a steady procession of skewers, and red stops it. The official menu names picanha, the top sirloin with its cap of fat, plus bone-in ribeye, fraldinha from the bottom sirloin, lamb chops, filet and roasted chicken. Ask for picanha medium-rare and say no to the chicken until you have tried the beef twice.

The included Market Table and Feijoada Bar is a long self-serve counter of seasonal salads, charcuterie, exotic fruit, superfoods and black pepper candied bacon, plus feijoada, the black bean and sausage stew served with rice. Diners who skip the meat can order the counter alone for $42 at dinner. At weekday lunch, anyone ordering a single entrée can add it for $19.

Take a small plate: two slices of candied bacon, a spoon of feijoada and some fruit to cut the richness. The Infatuation's 2025 review of the Coral Gables branch singled out the chicharrones with honey, so ask your server whether this kitchen is making them too. Leave the bread and heavy salads for another visit, because the beef is the expensive part of your ticket.

Weekday lunch, Monday to Friday from 11:30 am to 3 pm, is $56 for the Full Churrasco or $78 for the Indulgent version. Dinner is $75 or $97. Weekend brunch, Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 am to 2 pm, is $59 or $81 and swaps in a brunch market table with an omelet station, Belgian waffles and braised beef rib hash. That counter alone is $39. The Indulgent tier adds one dessert and one enhancement, such as a butter-bathed lobster tail or roasted bone marrow.

Families get a real break: children 6 and under eat the Full Churrasco free, and ages 7 to 12 pay half price. A single grilled cut with the market table runs $56 at dinner and $45 at brunch, which suits a light eater at a big table. Brunch is the best-value meal here: the full rodízio for only $3 more than lunch, plus the waffles.

The indoor bar runs an all-day happy hour Monday through Thursday with $6 beers, $8 South American wines and $10 Brazilian-inspired cocktails. On the same days, bottles of South American wine priced under $150 are half off, which makes a bottle with a Tuesday dinner much cheaper than the same bottle on a Saturday. The regular caipirinha, cachaça shaken with muddled limes and cane sugar, is $12, and there are skinny and strawberry-hibiscus versions at the same price.

Desserts are priced separately: papaya cream $12, cheesecake brûlée $13.25, crème brûlée $14, chocolate molten cake $14.50 and tres leches cake $15. The papaya cream is the light finish after this much meat. The molten cake can wait.

Dinner starts at 3 pm on weekdays and 2 pm on weekends, and runs to 10 pm Monday through Thursday, 10:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, and 9 pm on Sunday. Fogo recommends reservations for weekends, holidays and larger groups and holds a booking for 15 minutes. Walk-ins are seated as tables open. Parties larger than 14 go through the group dining team. There is no formal dress code, and jeans are fine.

On a busy Saturday, the backup is across the street: Texas de Brazil, on the upper level of Dadeland Mall at 7535 North Kendall Drive, runs its own rodízio at $62.99 for dinner. Holidays are another option here. On Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the restaurant serves dinner pricing from 11 am to 8:30 pm.

Self-parking and valet are both available daily. Downtown Dadeland, centered on 7250 North Kendall Drive, is a walkable grid of shops and restaurants, and the Dadeland North and Dadeland South Metrorail stations are close by, so the train is a realistic way to arrive and avoid driving after caipirinhas.

After dinner, cross Kendall Drive to Dadeland Mall for a lap of the concourse before it closes, or stay within Downtown Dadeland's blocks for a slower walk. Either way, it is a quieter evening than a rodízio night on Miami Beach.

Address: 8815 SW 72nd Place, Miami, FL 33156, in Downtown Dadeland. Full Churrasco $56 lunch, $75 dinner, $59 brunch; Indulgent $78, $97 or $81. Market Table only $42 at dinner. Kids 6 and under free, 7 to 12 half price. Happy hour all day Monday to Thursday. Delivery and pickup run from 11:15 am daily. Opened February 17, 2025.