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Gourmet Foods, $$, Local Favorite, Lunch Spot
E A T Gourmet foods is a fantastic place to pick up some sandwichs or other prepared foods. The prices are high, but the food is really good. The bread is the most fantastic and famous part of the Eli Zabar family. You won't be disappointed. I've been told that their tuna salad sandwich is the best in the world. How can you not run over right now and try it?
Posted 11/03/05 | Report Abuse
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market side overpriced as well
by noahd1
One reviewer said that you are better off on the market side than the restaurant side. It's just as expensive. My girlfriend ordered chicken salad, bread salad and a loaf of bread and it came to $77. Our mouthed dropped when she told us how much it was - we just left. What's in the food, the body of Christ?
Posted 03/31/07
Please don't go to E.A.T.
by spacenuke
My friends and I decided to give E.A.T. a shot cos it was close to the MET Museum where we were going and really regretted going there. The decor was kinda cool, but the food was so ridiculously priced. Expensive food is ok if it's good, but their food was definitely mediocre at best.
We walked past a diner on our way there, and we were left wondering why we didn't just go to the diner as we were walking out of E.A.T.
Pros: Ambience, proximity to the Met Museum
Cons: Price, bad and slow service
Posted 02/19/07
Ridiculously Expensive for Unappealing Food
by nycgrli
We ate in the restaurant one day having been satisfied with the deli previously. Wow we really should have stuck to the other side. First I asked the waitress for a Strawberry Lemonade, which I passed on the way in and she said they didn't have any, I was tempted to go to the deli side and get it myself, then my boyfriend ordered a grilled chicken salad, which was just that, literally a small piece of chicken on nothing but lettace for $18.95 unbelievable! Our bill was $80 for a simple lunch that we did not even enjoy. We will NEVER return back, the wait staff was not very pleasant either. Having eatten at hundreds of NYC restaurants I can honestly say this is one of the first I have been extremely dissapointed with.
Cons: Way overpriced, Disappointing Food, Unpleasant Wait Staff
Posted 06/10/05
way over rated!
by ahiatus
and way over priced!! i think that says it all. oh, and if you're there for drinks at 3:30 on a weekday afternoon, when the place is empty - and ask for a bread basket - they'll charge you $6. even though our drinks came to close to 20$ and the guy next to us ordered a 7$ bowl of soup and got bread included. where's the logic??
Posted 11/20/03
Good, not great
by jay
Ate breakfast on Sunday. Food was average. Service good. Nothing extraordinary, except the prices.
Better off buying from the market side instead of eating in the restaurant.
Pros: nice market
Cons: average food, above average prices
Posted 06/15/03
Too Expensive
by pixframe
From the time EAT opened it was overpriced.
There are many places in the surrounding area that
are just as good .. if not better ... that cost less.
Posted 08/24/02
E.A.T. H.E.R.E.
by cathy_in_ellijay
Wonderful gourmet salads, sandwiches, deserts...It is a great place to get lunch during a shopping marathon.
Posted 08/10/02
