Gobo

I tried few dishes there: appetizer - some fried spinach dumplings (oily and tasteless), some regular fried egg tiny ommelete masked under some exotic name with tiny bits of mango.. thenn spinach nori Tofu in red curry, red curry was tasteless, watery sauce nothing to do with curry,, my friend had some tough mushroom which was fried and loaded in black bean goey sauce and I tried also fried rice which you can get in any cheap chinese restaurant for much less. Overall I was very dissapointed, food pretends to be exotic and healthy but I think it is complete opposite. and above all. it was all bloody expensive for what was it! I am vegetarian but would never go again!! (sorry Gobo...)

My partner and I absolutely adored Gobo. We were wowed by the avocado tartare, the scallion pancakes, an excellent beet salad, and hearty Malaysian curry with coconut rice. My gingerbread cookie with soy ice cream and spicy berry compote was a perfect ending to the meal. The only misstep were the "highly recommended" seitan skewers. The sauces were too bland and the seitan a bit too soft. However this hardly made a dent in the way we feel about Gobo and and cannot wait to go back to bring our friends.

I love the food at this place!! its amazing...I usually go to the upper east side one, where the service has almost always been sub par except for the one time when the host was actually the manager filling in for someone!! However, the one time I went to the west side one, the service was excellent. I say, if you go to the one on the upper east side, go when its not crowded, but still expect to wait around for awhile to get your check! or do what I do and order in!

I have been to Gobo over 10 times and have never once had bad service. Everyone there is so warm and friendly and knowledgable, even if I just go in for a bowl of soup and a tea. The food itself is incredible- I recommend the spinach and soy cheese wontons, the braised tofu and the spinach pistachio roll. I guarantee you'll love this place.

i've never tried the westside gobo, only the upper eastside. maybe because i wind up going there for lunch, it's never crowded or noisy. my experience with the service staff has been very good. the food has never disappointed and i recommend it to everyone. i would have rated all a 5.0, but i have yet to be there for dinner, so i thought i would give a margin for error. the taro & yucca fries rule and the soy/spinach wontons had me dreaming of my next lunch excursion. my husband has the organic red wine and sez its wonderful; i have the dry sake and it is just as wonderful. the wait staff is unobtrusive yet responsive when beckoned. it surprised me to read unfavorable accounts, but perhaps that's the swing of the pendulum. as a vegan it is a sensuous luxury to find a spot like gobo, one to be indulged! now can someone teach me how to make those wontons?

I went to this place on a Saturday night at around 730. It was fairly empty and I was seated immediately. My fiance is a vegetarian; I am not. This place was an excellent accommodation for both of us. The scallion pancake with the mango chutney was so damned good and the fried shitake caps were incredible. We also got the spring rolls and the seitan skewers, which were decent, but not my superb. For a large dish, we split the Vietnamese stir fry noodles which were delicious. Our server was a little blasé, but she left us alone and brought everything on time. The one caveat is that we got caught on the wine. We should have brought our own, it was just overpriced. That being said, the total cost for the meal was reasonable and I would definitely go back.

What a great find! Finally, something different from all the Italian places here on the upper east side. I can't wait to go back and try more of the delectable quick bites. Service was excellent and recommended some great dishes.