De Paula opened the restaurant with his cousin and business partner six months ago after working at an Italian restaurant in Kingston. While focusing on Italian food for five years, De Paula saved money to open a restaurant that has a Brazilian focus. We put in more stuff. Stecei says she has had no problems finding any ingredients for her recipes because they use foods usually found in the supermarkets, as well as the specialty stores. While many of the same ingredients appear in Brazilian and American food, the similarities end there.
Brazilian cooking favors more ingredients in each recipe.
Americans take a piece of meat and put salt on it, then put it on the grill. Or like a potato salad. It is the same in America, only in Brazil we put in more stuff. While she likes to stick to recipes that are authentic, Stecei says there are some foods she has found in the US that she can't live without. Sometimes I will also serve a Caesar salad with dinner, even though it is not Brazilian.