Gus's Restaurant & Tavern

The last time we went there the food was mediocre at best.  Then my sister, who just by looking at her, you can tell she is fighting cancer, brought her $100 <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.com&s=c5fe485af4df376130bee54f875814d79c4d7913e1258123b1206d2bdbf4873b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://restaurant.com</a> gift certificate in and they rejected it.  Gus's already got their money and now they won't take the certificates.  That is a terrible way to run a business and I will never be back to that place that cares more about money than the
customers.

The food is always great and I just love the feel of the place not fancy just a great neighborhood place. It's a classic Tavern with good food and good service.

We wanted to find an alternative to another German restaurant to the ones we frequent locally.  Unbelievably even living here for over 40 years I have never been to Gus's.  It was because their coupon in  Restaurant dot com that I decided to go here.  After this first time, I doubt I will return.  

First off, let me say that the food is pretty good.  It's not the best around here but everything was solid.  That's the only good thing I have to say unfortunately.  The biggest disappointment was that the menu prices are very very high for what you get.  Let me give you an example - Meatloaf (one relatively thin piece), mashed potatoes and turnips was $19 which included a house salad.   No side salads like potato salad, cole slaw, carrots, etc (note that a feature of most other German restaurants include a variety of these at no extra charge).  When I wanted to substitute Spaetzle for the mashed potato, they told me it was a $5 charge - talking about nickel and diming their already high pricing.   For dessert we ordered a dish of ice cream for each of us.  $4.50 for a scoop???

That evening there was a party going on and it took 70 minutes for our meal to arrive.  I'm pretty understanding so I'll chalk it up to a special circumstance but for the waitress to add a MANDATORY 18% tip to the check was an insult.  I thought the customer was the one to determine tips (which I always tip at least 15% even with marginal service)

This would be by far the highest priced german restaurant around - even with the coupon that I used it's more than 25% higher than what I would have paid at another German restaurant around here.  The portions weren't that big.  I'm a small guy and I didn't leave that stuffed - especially for what I paid for.