NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — For all-you-can-eat meat served off a
skewer, try the township’s new churrasqueria.
The new Brazilian-inspired restaurant, Baig’s Grill,
located at 776 Route 1 in the Brunswick Zone center, serves flaming
barbecue meats off a sword-sized spike and delectables to suit almost
any palate.
The style of skewer-grilled meat is called churrasco,
and a steakhouse serving it is a churrasqueria,” owner Mirza M. Baig
Jr. said. “The meats are brought out on the table on the skewer and
carved directly onto your plate.”
The grill’s specialty, all-you-can-eat grilled meats
for $18.99, comes served hot off the restaurant’s Brazilian-style grill
called a rodizio.
A window at the back of the restaurant’s dining room
looks into the kitchen where lava rocks heat the slowly turning
skewered meats.
“Because the meats keep rotating as they cook, anyone
enjoying the rodizio entree enjoys a rotation of a vast variety of
mouth-watering, tender and perfectly marinated flaming grilled meats,”
Baig said.
Those who choose the all-you-can-eat entree can try
12 differently marinated meats, including top sirloin steak, shish
kabob, marinated chicken, ground meat and salmon. The entree comes with
a house salad, Turkish bread, french fries and a gyro.
In addition to rodizio, there are other items to
satisfy customers’ tastes and appetites, Baig said.
Entrees range in price from $9.99 to $13.99 and
include meals such as roasted tomato and basil braised salmon, kabobs
and beef short ribs with a choice of rice, fries or sautéed vegetable
medley.
For lunch, or those with smaller appetites, Baig’s
offers five different sandwiches ranging in price from $4.99 to $7.25.
Sandwiches, which come with french fries, include a vegetable wrap,
zesty chicken sandwich, steak sandwich, gyro or a fish sandwich.
To complement any meal, Baig’s offers custom salads
and appetizers, including mozzarella sticks, Caribbean chicken
quesadillas, blue water crab cakes and hummus. To complete a meal, the
restaurant has desserts such as Baig’s Paradise, a house specialty of
roasted coconut, chocolate and ice cream.
Baig’s motto for his new restaurant is, “We don’t
just serve food, we serve our customers.”
The North Brunswick resident opened the grill’s doors
Nov. 14. Baig said he fashioned the Brazilian/Mediterranean restaurant
after he tried similar cuisine on Broadway in New York City.
“It was heaven for a meat lover when the server at
the restaurant brought me all of this meat to eat off a skewer,” Baig
said. “My restaurant imitates that, but the food costs much less than
$45 per serving and the meats are more flavorful.”
Although Baig has an engineering career, he said
owning a restaurant has remained a lifelong dream of his.
“I used to tell my parents that when I grew up I
would own a restaurant,” Baig said. “I got my education and two
degrees, and after I did all they wanted me to do, I knew it was time.”
Baig said his father, Mirza M. Baig Sr., designed the
restaurant. The atmosphere suits both casual and formal dining with
Tucson beige-colored walls, flanked with floor to ceiling mirrors and
pastoral artwork. The low-lit dining room seats 80 in dark-wood,
cross-back chairs and large tables suited for the unique serving
techniques of the specially trained waiting staff.
After living in North Brunswick for the last three
years and getting to know the community, Baig knew it would be the
place to fulfill his dream.
“Even the first few weeks have been great,” Baig
said. “I have always wanted to be the kind of person that serves
others, makes them happy, gives them what they want and so far the
feedback has been wonderful.”
(Content Source: The Sentinel )
Editor's note:
The grill serves lunch between 12 and 3pm and dinner between 5
and 10 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdays Baig’s serves lunch and dinner
from 12 noon until 11 p.m. Sundays it serves from 12 noon till 10pm. Mondays it is
closed.
Interestingly, Baig's happens to be the only restaurant of its kind in
New Jersey that uses Halal meat. But that is just incidental because
the owners happen to be Muslims. However, this fact have been drawing
the Muslim crowd for an unique array of "Westernized but halal
meat" options. Baig's may well be on its way to creating a niche for
itself.
Web site:
http://www.baigsgrill.com/
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