El Gaucho

Room for lots of improvement....................... Very disappointed in the new El Gaucho since it moved to First Avenue. A far, far, far cry from it's prior location in downtown with regard to service. Actually the food is still excellent, it's just the cooks don't know the true meaning of a rare or medium rare steak or how to judge thickness when cooking these steaks for the customer. HINT: go to Jak's and take a lesson on how to cook steaks.

Service very uppity and slow (unless you plan on having a 4 hour dinner with more wait time than eating and relaxing).

As for the women with the baby complaining about the extreme kissing couple - El Gaucho may be listed as a family friendly restaurant - but it's NO place for an infant. People that go to nice and expensive restaurants go to relax and enjoy the company their with - not to be entertained by a fussy crying baby from across the room. Use you brain lady!!…

Overrated; cold staff. You expect so much more from the place, but it doesn't deliver. Go somewhere else. Too dark, too loud. My fish was good, but others' steaks were not - overcooked and dry. Primary server and host definitely not warm or friendly. Had a great time anyway, but that was mostly due to good company!…

Worst Experience Ever at Steak House. For the amount of money my fiance and I spent (over $500) for dinner, one would think they would've acknowledged the over-cooked steak without having to have an NFL like "review" of the slab to determine it to be just that - over-cooked. by the time I got my steak back my fiance was almost through with hers. The salad was supposed to be a ceasar salad - and our server was so incredibely snotty that we were actually making fun of her by the time we left. If we weren't en-route to the opera and off to Hawaii the day after we would have excused ourselves and cut down on the bill much earlier, but we are blessed and life is good for us - even when the food or service isn't. But if we were strapped and if i was trying to impress business partners - I would be writing a letter to Mackay Rest. Group rather than reviewing them on City Search. From the hostess rolling her eyes at us, to our snotty waiter, and to the GM who disappeared after saying he would comp items off our bill - that were never taken off and couldn't be approved otherwise - a thumbs down expereience. Truly dissappointing. go to the met, or Ruth's Chris, or Daniels, or Jacks, or Sizzler for that matter.…