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The best soups ever! My husband and I have eaten there 4 times now and have been very impressed. My sense is that those who call the food tasteless are simply used to lots of salt in their food. We were very impressed that they don't oversalt their food! We stop by whenever we're in that part of town.

Below average. Vastly overpriced. My date had the chicken marsala, which was good, but $25 for two thin chicken cutlets - vastly overpriced, zero value. I had the create your own pasta with pesto sauce - for nearly $20 I got a handful of pasta smothered in pesto and olive oil. After finishing my meal (which required a fair bit of salt to give it any flavor) There was enough pesto sauce left over to fill a pot hole or two on 6th Ave. I can't believe free range whole wheat penne is that expensive. Very over-priced for what they offer.

The food is totally tasteless and ridiculously overpriced. Using organic ingredients is not an excuse to serve food that tastes of ash, nor is it a reason to charge customers extortionate sums. Disgusto may have a vision, but we think it's pointless and a complete waste of time. Enough said.

So my boyfriend and I are always looking for hot spots to go and grab dinner. We found Gustorganics on the magazine of the plane so we decided to go. We walked in and there was no host to sit us down, I had the worst day of my life and was giving attitude even to my boyfriend. So were standing by the door on a Friday evening and even the place wasn't crowded you could see people just hanging around. Finally a server girl sits us down by the window. We finally get our server who greets us and welcomes us to the place, by the time I just replied we are ready to order, all we wanted was some salads and get out of there. Then he starts to sell us the baked mozzarella Sold! then about the Skirt Steak... Sold! this guy knew his business and he made my awful day gotten better... he even gave us an amazing desert which is limited and Loved it!! seriously we'll come back!! He was hilarious an as he described the cheese I give this description to him "fierce" Keep the good Service and Amazing Food!!!

I went there for a late lunch. The waiters were just hanging around; after a long 5 mins, then finally sat me down and ignored me for another 2o mins. Finally, a waiter showed up and told me that the waiter who was supposed to wait on me didn't feel like it. omg, how rudeThis waiter told me he had cold. All I can think was health dept. asap. Subpar experience.... Rude waiters... Even some of my friends experienced attitude and the food is not worth it, at all. Very disappointed....

after waiting 11 minutes to be waited on - strange, especially since the place was nearly empty - i ordered a spinach salad and water. everything else on the menu was quite overpriced for a simple lunch. the salad looked like someone had dumped half a bag of spinach leave into a bowl with 3 strawberries cut into halves and a tablespoon of pine nuts thrown on top. dressing on the side, as requested. this was not worth the 9.75 + tip that it cost. i was not impressed.

I frequent Gusto once weekly for lunch on a fairly regular basis. The fugazzetta empanada (mozzarella & onions) keeps me coming back and most of the soups I've enjoyed there have been quite spectacular & hearty. It's a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere and that Manhattan rarity: it's not too loud! (seriously, whoever designed the acoustics of the place should win an award.) Though it runs a bit pricey, the food quality seems consistently high enough to seem a fair tradeoff for the restaurant's dedication to organic and sustainable restaurant food. My only "but" (and it's one that gives me pause on occasion) is the haphazard management. "Controlled chaos" is probably the best description of the process of ordering a meal at Gusto (you can enter, choose your own table and then wait 15 minutes for the wait staff to notice you OR you can order at the counter, which inevitably becomes a process of staff unfamiliar with the specials advertised on their daily specials board or not yet trained to use their apparently brain-twisting registers). Had this happened once, I'd pay it no mind, but to have multiple staff confuse multiple orders on visits three or four weeks apart (nothing complicated, I should add, we're talking soup & salad or empanada & soup!) it's hard not to raise an eyebrow and think--"there's got to be a better way." I'd add that staff is friendly and courteous throughout--it's just confusing and occasionally annoying, particularly when the experience gets repeated. Overall: for good organic/South American eats Gusto gets my recommendation BUT not if you're in a hurry. Patience, they say, is a virtue and yours will get a workout at Gusto...but at least you'll be well fed if you can muster enough of it.