Brasiliero

For my birthday, my bosses gave me a gift certificate to Ambiente restaurants (www.ambi.cz). Ambiente is a small group of restaurants in Prague, expensive but with a reputation for excellent food. Several of these have some kind of all-you-can-eat option, which doesn't usually go with a classier place. However, when the waiters walk around wielding skewers of meat offering them to customers at their tables, it takes a bit of the trashier element out of it. After some deliberation, we agreed to go to Brasiliero, not because either of us is a big fan of meat, but because they have a very gourmet salad and seafood bar. Arriving at the underground restaurant on a rainy and chilly evening made it seem even cosier. We selected an Italian wine and began the feast with some sushi, which a chef was preparing on the spot. On our next trip, we tried some of the salads. They had a very pleasant potato salad, mung bean sprouts with raisins, prawn salad in cucumber cups, mozzerella and tomato stacks, steamed carrots and beets with chevre, and room temperature potato halves smothered in sundried tomato paste. After repeated trips to the bar for seconds and oysters, we finally had more sushi for dessert. Upon leaving, we discovered that three hours had passed in a blink. Highly recommended.