October 28, 2013. Cancun, Mexico. Ipanema.

Dinner was delicious but unusual.  Ken and I ate an enormous amount of beef.   The Ipanema restaurant is a Brazilian steak house.   We have been to them before and don't usually repeat the process because we eat too much.  The meat just keeps coming and we keep eating!   But of the five restaurants  at our resort, two are buffets and as we prefer to be waited on,  the other three will be where we dine.  Last evening we chose Ipanema.

Normally, in a Brazilian Steak House, you eat vegetables and salad first,  then the meat is delivered to your table on big spits, right off the fire.  The carver gives you what ever you want, but they bring around pork, sausage, beef, chicken, turkey, all in order.   When full, you turn over the green sign to red, indicating that you are full.

We eat salad after the main course, so we asked the waiter to bring the meat immediately, which he did.  The first meat was roast beef, which was delicious.  Mexico is not known for tender beef.  In fact, we never order beef in Mexico but this beef was different,  so we kept ordering beef and we asked the waiter to forget turkey, chicken and sausage.  Three cuts of beef were served to us.  We passed on the flank steak.   Why would we eat flank steak when we can enjoy top sirloin and prime rib?

Finally, when we were sated, we visited the salad and vegetable bar, but we took only a tiny portion.  It was a delicious meal of beef and wine.   It was politically incorrect but fun.