Sacramento, CALIFORNIA, Oct. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse, a Vacaville restaurant at 909 Merchant St, has passed 140 reviews on Google with a 4.8-star rating. Reviews at that volume and rating point to satisfied guests and support its reputation as the go-to Vacaville restaurant. The restaurant serves dinner Monday through Friday from 4 PM to 9 PM and opens at 1 PM on Saturday and Sunday. The Fogão Gaúcho brand was established in 2020, and its company address is the Merchant Street location in Vacaville.
Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse on Merchant Street, the go-to Vacaville restaurant.
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Reviewers on Google describe a consistent experience. They mention flavorful meats and the picanha in particular, a hot and cold market table with a wide range of options, and vegetables that are seasoned as carefully as the meat. Many point to staff who keep the cuts arriving without being asked and who stay professional through a busy dinner. Guests also mention a clean dining room, and several write about birthday and double-birthday celebrations. The reviews contain the same themes: flavorful meats, a varied hot and cold market table, attentive service and a welcoming room for celebrations or date nights. The restaurant replies to reviews on the profile, including those about celebrations hosted there.
How Dinner Works at This Vacaville Restaurant
Fogão Gaúcho is a Brazilian steakhouse built around rodízio, the churrasco style of service, offered as unlimited tableside service. A guest sits down and builds a plate at the hot and cold market table, a self-serve spread of chilled and warm dishes. The gaúcho chefs then bring skewered, fire-roasted meats to the table. Each cut is carved at the table. Guests accept the cuts they want and decline the ones they don’t, and the next skewer arrives when they are ready for it. Because the service is unlimited, guests can ask for more of any cut they like.
The restaurant’s menu lists several kinds of meat. Beef includes picanha, filet mignon, ribeye, flap meat, top sirloin and bacon-wrapped filet. Pork comes as ribs and tenderloin, lamb as chops, and chicken as drumsticks and bacon-wrapped pieces, with Brazilian sausage rounding out the rotation. Grilled pineapple and grilled cheese are served alongside. The hot and cold market table carries seafood, charcuterie, cheeses, salads and seasonal sides, and reviewers single out its seasoned vegetables. Desserts include crème brûlée, Brazilian flan, tres leches cake and passion fruit mousse, and the menu also lists chef’s specials and a churrasco mixed grill for guests who want a plated dinner.
The bar serves craft cocktails, including caipirinhas, the Brazilian cocktail made with cachaça and lime, and the wine list includes sangria and wines from Brazil. Happy hour is Monday through Friday from 4 PM to 6 PM. The restaurant is dine-in only. Weekday service starts at 4 PM, so the restaurant works as a dinner stop after work, while the 1 PM weekend opening suits early family meals.
“A lot of our Vacaville guests are celebrating something, so the pace of the meal matters to us,” said Bart Liriano, President of Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse. “We want the servers to notice when a table is ready for another cut and when it needs a break. Passing 140 reviews at 4.8 stars tells us guests in Vacaville see that.”
Fogão Gaúcho hosts birthdays, anniversaries and graduations and rents a private dining room for groups. A party can book one seating built around the rodízio, since the tableside service and the hot and cold market table suit shared meals. Guests can reserve a table in Vacaville on the restaurant’s website, which also lists the Elk Grove location with its hours and phone number.
The restaurant is owned by Bart Liriano, who serves as president, and Rosario Liriano, who leads the floor team. Fogao Gaucho LLC employs 15 people across its two restaurants. The restaurant describes its sourcing as hand-picked and its cuts as Prime grade, and it calls the dining experience elevated, with white tablecloths and polished silverware in the dining room.
Vacaville sits along Interstate 80 between Sacramento and the Bay Area, and Fairfield, Dixon, Winters and Suisun City are all a short drive from Merchant Street. The location gives diners in those towns a sit-down dinner option without a trip into Sacramento.
The rating also compares well with other Vacaville restaurants. In a Google Maps search for restaurants in Vacaville run on October 23, 2026, the other restaurants shown with more than 100 reviews were rated between 4.2 and 4.5 stars. Fogão Gaúcho’s 4.8 stars was higher than every one of them.
Anyone searching for a Vacaville restaurant for a celebration, a date night or a family dinner can read the 141 reviews on the Google Business Profile before booking. Each review is dated, and the owner’s replies are posted beneath it. Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse is located at 909 Merchant St, Vacaville, CA 95688, and can be reached at (707) 880-1750.
About Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse
Fogão Gaúcho Brazilian Steakhouse is a Brazilian churrasco restaurant established in 2020, with locations in Vacaville and Elk Grove, California. The restaurant serves rodízio dinners with tableside meats and a gourmet hot and cold market table, a full bar with craft cocktails, and a curated wine cellar. Fogão Gaúcho is dine-in only and rents a private dining room for groups. More information is available at fogaogaucho.com.
Fire-roasted beef carved tableside at Fogão Gaúcho, a meal customers love at this Vacaville restaurant.
Press Inquiries
Bart Lariano
info [at] fogaogaucho.com
(707) 880-1750
https://fogaogaucho.com
909 Merchant St, Vacaville, CA 95688
