THERE’S nothing dainty about an acarajé. Peeled and mashed black-eyed peas are fried in palm oil, after which the fritter (pronounced ah-cah-rah-JEH; $5) is sliced and stuffed. Overstuffed, inevitably, with vatapá, a creamy paste flavored with seafood and nuts; caruru de quiabo, an onion-and-ginger-laced okra gumbo; and bacalao salad. It’s a taste of Brazilian summer, down to the last licked finger. Though rare in New York, the acarajé and the similar, boiled abará ($5) are common street foods in Bahia, the coastal state in northeastern Brazil where Elzi and Erli Botelho Ribeiro learned their craft. On the first Saturday of each month, the Ribeiro sisters — who opened their Queens restaurant, Point Brazil, two years ago and share duties in the kitchen — also serve a “taste of Bahia” ($12). This sampler includes vatapá, caruru de quiabo and bacalao salad, as well as the fish stew called moqueca. All have an undercurrent of palm oil, a culinary connection to Bahia’s West African heritage. Alas, the Bahian specialties are available only on first Saturdays. The Ribeiros’ enticing hot and cold buffet, however, is offered all month long. One measure of the sisters’ cooking prowess is the satisfied conversational hum — animated by young children on weekend afternoons — that fills the simply decorated, sunny dining room, day in and day out. (Many conversations are in Portuguese, though everyone speaks English, too.) The buffet’s greatest strength is not vastness — though there’s plenty to choose from — but freshness. Rarely does a pan run low.  

At breakfast ($5 a pound), the buffet offers fresh fruit, scrambled eggs and potatoes, to be sure, but also fried polenta, boiled plantain and yuca, sweet tamale-like pamonhas and rabanada, a condensed-milk cousin to French toast. “Açaí in the bowl” ($7.50), available on request, is a chilled smoothie blending the purplish fruit with strawberry and banana, caffeinated by guarana syrup, and decorated with granola and sliced banana.

While lunch and dinner bring healthy chopped salads and glistening collard greens, it’s impossible not to glance past them to the weightier options, which change daily. Standouts include baked chicken, fish stew, lasagna, a logjam of pork ribs and feijão tropeiro — collards tangled with pinto beans, fried egg, bacon and pork sausage. Weekends only, you’ll find feijoada, too. Point Brazil’s rendition of this national dish has no nose-to-tail mysteries, only ample measures of pork sausage, bacon and dried beef, stewed with black beans.

The price of the lunch and dinner buffet ($6 to $8 a pound) depends on your indulgence at the churrasco station, where the counterman slices and un-skewers grilled meats, at your bidding. Best is rare, succulent top sirloin; saltiest are sausages made of chicken or pork; chewiest is chicken heart. Bacon-wrapped chicken breast appeals to all comers.

Of the savory pastries, the coxinha (co-SHE-nya; $2.40), a delicate fried teardrop with seasoned shredded chicken, and the beef pastel ($2.40), a brittle half-moon encasing ground meat and green olive, are exceptional. These are ordered at the counter (ideally, before you hit the buffet, since they’re not cooked in advance), as are tropical juices like tart passion fruit and slightly sour cashew. A self-serve refrigerator is stocked with American soda, iced tea and juice drinks, and Brazilian beverages flavored with coconut, yerba maté and the ever-present guarana.

In concert with companions willing to share desserts, you won’t have to decide among passion fruit flan, tapioca cake drizzled with condensed milk and the prune-topped coconutty pudding called manjar ($3.50 to $3.80). For takeaway, banana and cassava cakes ($2.75 each) travel well; so does an orb of “carrot candy” ($1.95). But beware: the eye-catching orange coloration betrays an infectious sweetness. One bite, and you may discover an irresistible urge to return.

 NOTE -We do not delivery food from the buffet. It is only for eat in or take out. Minimum charge for delivery is $ 10.00 for aluminum container of 8" .We offer a specific menu for delivery as follow

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