Gaucho Grill

Recently renamed, Carvao Grill - please note -

I have frequented Gaucho Grill over the last 5 or 6 years, and have never been disappointed. One of the best steaks I've had was there (the best ever being St. Louis, '04) Service is always wonderful, the salads are excellent as well.

Bartender makes a killer Mojito, you've gotta try it there if you haven't had one yet!

letter wriiten to owner of gaucho grill: PLEASE READ

I attended your restaurant on 11.17.07 for dinner (party of 6)
on a scale from 1-10 ...I honestly gave you a 2, I'll explain why:
I ordered 2 parillas (mixed meats) for 4 persons, 1 veggie soup & 1 steak with crumbled bleu cheese.
for starters our mashed potatoes were brought out super cold as well as our zuchini/squash
our meats were pretty low quality @ best. the chicken was very dry & tastless, our steak with bone
also was tastless & almost burnt!!! the ???sausage which 4 of us agreed....was a pretty bad, and what
made it worse was that it was oozing all under the bottom of our meats, we were trying to clean ???sausage off our meats. the other meats were just as bad they seemed old and not fresh @ all. The soup
my god...the soup! was terrible no taste at all whatsoever it was bland, no salt, it seemd super watered down. my wifes bleu cheese steak was better than our parillas , I gave that a 5 on a 1-10 scale. My entire
family agreed that we would never consider going back....strictly based on quality and TASTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I regreted taking my family there. On the way home 2 of us got sick, our stomaches were both grumbling
pretty bad. I can only come to one conclusion...and one only ...FRESHNESS ! the food cannot be fresh.

P.S.
the party sitting behind me returned a shrimp dish
because it had a bad smell.

Anderson

This by far was the best steak experience I have had in the OC. I ordered a filet mignon which was cooked perfectly. This steak house beats every other steak house I've been to in the US and I've gone to a lot of steak houses.

We first tried Gauchos in Santa Monica in the Promenade and stumbled upon this one in Brea. The food there is excelent the restraunt is a bit small but the times I have been there have never been too crowded which is always nice.