Gainesville Restaurant Guide
Gainesville american Restaurant Reviews
Welcome to our Gainesville american restaurant reviews guide where you'll find top restaurants off the beaten path, both locally owned and chain. In fact, some of the best restaurants in the Gainesville just might be the little mom and pop operations flying under the radar. For some of the best picks in Gainesville, you've come to the right place.
Our Gainesville restaurant reviews guide can help you make sense of the thousands of options out there. Happy eating!
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The bang-bang shrimp were out of this world. And the chilean sea bass was wonderful.
(11/01/2008)
I cannot believe the service that I was given at this restaurant. We were sitting at the table for over 15 min before anyone came to get our drinks. After we got our drinks it was another 10 min before she came to take our order. I ordered a French dip sandwich (roast beef and melted cheese) and ...
Dined there Sunday afternoon, The food was terrible and the service was worse, I watched customer after customer told they would not seat anyone else before 3:30 and they closed at 4:00. The hamburger was under cooked and tasteless, the fries looked freezer burned and greasy. Will not go back
I would love to eat here. Unfortunately, I had to leave after sitting at a table for 20 minutes and not getting a drink, a menu or any sort of acknowledgement.
I noticed another table leave rght before us. They didn't get anyone to wait on them either.
They only accept cash. They didn't tell us until after it was too late. What kind of junk is that?
Cafe Gardens used to be a great place to hang out, enjoy finger food, and listen to good music. The service is, and always was, terrible, the worst in a town known for bad service. I used to play in a band there. The management used to actually get mad that our friends came and stayed and ate and...
This is your typical gainesville restaurant: mediocre grilled food for the student population who don't know a real restaurant and staffed by the local student population. There's also cheap beer, but there's a liquir store next door, so how cheap is debateable.
The service is terrible. The resta...
I worked here when I first moved to Gainesville and I totally agree with everyone who says the service sucks. I was a hostess and got very tired of having to track down servers playing frisbee in the back alley, or stand and wait for them to finish a conversation, in order to tell them I'd given the...
I love the fried mushrooms for an appetizer and the spinach wrap for an entree.
As long time patron of this restaurant, we are disappointed with the last visit. They really need to add more waiters for their lunch crowd, especially with what seems like an expansion of their outside dining. Our waitress was excellent but far too busy for all the tables she had to serve.
They ...
Great ambience. A little lacking with the rickety tables & plastic chairs. Very diversified burger joint, but fun place to sit outside and enjoy your friends and watch the passers by. Service is good. But the accompaniments like the steak fries definetly need improvement. All in all a nice place to ...
I have eaten at this restaurant at least once every week for the last five years and now i would like to take a stab at a review, as well as, comment on the previous reviews. The service is always a little sluggish. They do seem to employ a good number of college students as waitresses, but that sho...
I have been eating here for years, and have had mixed experiances but nothing horrible. Service can range from good not great to so so. I have never had to wait for 15 min to be served as some have said but at times my drink may go dry before I get a refill. Food is usually really good the sweet pot...
fabulous food, not fast, but everything was made from scratch and seemed so healthy. great place for a vegetarian or a meat eater.
This is one of my favorite places in Gainesville. it has very little to do with Greek life (unlike neighboring Swamp). also, anywhere with beer specials that include Red Stripe...count me in. I had the French Dip, and it was wonderful, the accompanying fries were delicious too. For sure, going back...
I love Cafe Gardens. I do not know what a previous reviewer was talking about when they said that they only accepted cash... the system must have been down or something, because I have been there so many times and used a card. The food is great - especially the burgers. I always have the hardest tim...
I can't really rate on the food because I never got it. The waitress just disapeared, never came back again, not even to re-fill. Realizing that everybody around me got their orders, including people after me, I went hunting for her to cancel my order. It was my first and last time. I am not recomme...
If they are known for their burgers, they should find something else. Nothing spectacular, nothing seemingly homemade. Overall it's a mediocre joint good for quarters with frat boys with a creepy owner to boot.
They have excellent sandwhiches!! The food is really great.
awesome grub, get the monkeys uncle. everytime i get food here it seems to get better.
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