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| - I came here on a Monday at around 7:15 pm, no reservation. It was really busy, but there was a table. However, the environment was extremely cramped, with about 6 inches between each of the small wooden tables -- not optimal.
The service wasn't amazing. Our server did offer suggestions when we asked, but he was slow to take our orders and when he did, he was busy trying to make an app work on his phone. It may have been a serving app... all I'm saying is he was clearly giving IT more attention than US.
We ordered:
The grilled octopus - I loved it, my friend thought it was too charred. The meat was perfectly tender.
The Kale salad - Another winner. The kale was chopped up in small, easy to chew, pieces. Pine nuts, and currants gave the salad a very nice flavour.
The beef carpaccio - This dish looked amazing, but it was nothing special. I never thought I'd say this, but there was TOO MUCH truffle oil. I love truffle oil, but it was the only ingredient I could taste in this dish. It might as well have been truffle oil on top of rice paper.
The Rigatoni with lamb - I'm not a huge pasta eater, so I can't give this dish a fair review. In my opinion it was fine, nothing special. If I went back and had pasta, I'd order the mushroom fettucini, it sounded delicious.
I don't know if I will return to Gusto, I really didn't care for the ambience. However it has a large patio, so maybe I will find myself back there eating octopus and Kale salad in the sun.
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