Villa's Brazilian Steakhouse & Grill at 137 South Main Street, Irving, Texas.

I did not want to give them 4 stars. The food was very good. The service was also good, I thought...until I started to notice some differences.

My niece and I walked into the restaurant. It occurred to me that we were the only African Americans in the place but it didn’t bother us. The waiter saw us in the doorway and came and sat us immediately. He asked us for our drink order and left the area. We got up and got some food.

The lunch options for sides and salads were small but everything was tasty. I truly enjoyed the black beans and cauliflower...fried cauliflower! Loved the flan and rice pudding as well.

The gentlemen came around with very tasty cuts of meat. All of which I loved. They even had grilled pineapple. Around that time, other people started to come in. They too were seated but we noticed something about everyone that came in after us...they were given baskets of bread and plantain. I began to look around at the other tables who were there before us...they all had baskets of bread. We did not.

Throughout the hour or so we were there, we had no less than 5 encounters with servers (waiter, waitress, meat servers) and at no time were we offered bread nor plantain.

Again, I don’t want to assume anything but the only difference between my niece and I and the other parties in the restaurant was our skin color.

The restaurant was nice enough, the food tasty enough and the overall service good enough...I just wish we had not noticed the difference in how we were treated.