Gusto Grill Reviews Summary
Category: American restaurant East Brunswick, New Jersey
Food Quality
Pros:
- "The fig and goat cheese pizza had a tasty profile."
- "The burger I had was delicious."
- "The food is fresh and thoughtfully prepared."
- "Very fresh and quality ingredients!"
- "The Shrimp & Avocado Spring Rolls are back - and they are EXCELLENT."
- "The Harissa shrimp and fried goat cheese were fantastic, and the Fig pizza were really good as well."
- "Everything was cooked perfectly."
Cons:
- "The onion presence was somewhat overpowering."
- "Of the 7 steaks ordered at the table, 0 were the cooked to the right temp."
- "This steak was absolutely cooked from frozen, overcooked, tough."
- "It tasted like expired ginger. The rice was like wrongly cooked minute rice."
- "The food was just awful. All of us got different items in a party of 5, and it was just so flavorless and bland."
- "The chicken Parmigiana had cold chicken cutlets with cold cheese on warm rigatoni covered with warm vodka sauce, not very appetizing."
- "The steak sandwich was dry and bulogaga bowl drenched in soy sauce."
Service
Pros:
- "Our server Cole was efficient, unobtrusive and helpful."
- "The staff is fast and friendly and very attentive."
- "Staff attentive & friendly! Recommend highly!"
- "Service was good. Reservations recommended."
- "The staff serving our party was very attentive and so friendly."
- "Service is always great, with a friendly and attentive staff."
- "Brandon was our server. He was really good and attentive."
Cons:
- "Our waitress was nice, but not too attentive."
- "We were an afterthought and the restaurant was maybe a 1/4 filled."
- "Not once did she check on us or ask how we were doing even when she brought us our check."
- "Service was not so good AND slow."
- "Plus our waiter was not attentive. There was a lengthy wait for every item we ordered, even drinks."
- "Our waitress was less than friendly or attentive."
- "The waitress we had wasn't attentive at all."
Atmosphere
Pros:
- "The atmosphere were awesome."
- "Gusto Grill had a convenient location for us."
- "It's back to a great place again."
- "We enjoyed the ambiance."
- "Nice atmosphere in the restaurant and outside on the terrace."
- "Good ambiance, good food."
- "Clean and comfortable atmosphere."
Cons:
- "The atmosphere is really the drag here, changes the whole feeling of the dinner."
- "There is NO atmosphere what so ever. Room was open and blah - not warm or cozy."
- "The vibe is a bit weird; there are randomly only two small TVs."
- "But, not a lot of people there, and I was there on a fairly nice Saturday night. This definitely takes away from the ambiance."
- "It was a bit chilly in the dining room but it was bitter cold outside and ceilings are high."
- "Try to avoid the loft because it's a bit noisy and hard to hear your table mates."
- "This is honestly one of my least favorite areas of the state."
Value
Pros:
- "The drink menu is extensive and also reasonably priced."
- "The entrees are $25-35, but the portions are excellent and worth what you pay for."
- "The prices were fair for the quality of the cuisine."
- "Also this place is so very affordable."
- "Prices are in line with similar places."
- "The food is good and reasonably priced."
- "The prices aren’t crazy so you can bring the whole family."
Cons:
- "The prices were on the high side considering neither dish were extravagant."
- "It was $20 for one tentacle over a small salad! Little disappointed in that!"
- "Again, $15.00 for 3 small pieces of pork belly is over the top."
- "I thought it was a little over priced."
- "The prices are really high and the quality and portions do not reflect the prices."
- "Had to return a chicken entree, average fries and HIGH craft beer cost."
- "We ordered drinks which took about 15 minutes to come out, which wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't so expensive."
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