A Gusto — Restaurant in New York

This place is interesting. It seems to be largely a coffee shop and I came here for lunch. I think it would be incredible in the summer to come here for a glass of wine and sit outdoors, they have a lovely space and it looks like they do it up well.

I will say that the prices are slightly higher for the food, given the average price for thai food, and while its not your typical street thai, its not all that upscale either to warrant the pricing. We tried the pad thai with king shrimp (its the only one that uses traditional thai noodles, the drunken noodles is made with the same skinny noodles which didnt seem authentic) and we had the pineapple fried rice- tasty, but a little overdone and a lot of turmeric. The pad thai was really good though, right mix of flavors, comes together well, really well prepared.

I also came here for breakfast another time and I will say that while they try to keep the flavors as authentic as possible the amount that you get for the price you pay is not adequate. Which I find very unusual for a Thai restaurant. I would say that for a better Thai experience I would go to other restaurants I would come here maybe for drinks and apps in the evening or do I enjoy the outdoors space that they have during the summer. I will say that the pastries and the tea and coffee are good and I would be another good reason to come here – think of this one is a café than a restaurant really.

I do recommend the desserts and the coffee/ tea here and perhaps the wine - will try and come back and do the wine on a summer evening. Overall, cute place, but maybe still trying to figure itself out. definitely check out the bathrooms! Great job on the interior of the restaurant as well...

I really wanted to like this place, having ordered from them a handful of times before, but my most recent experience has left me with a literal and metaphorical bad taste in my mouth. I ordered a green curry, gyoza, and "spicy" tom yum soup, and while the curry and gyoza were perfectly fine, the soup tasted like it had gone bad. Like, really bad — I've had tom yum soup a million times before, and had never tasted anything like the bland, salty, quite frankly, urine-y soup that they delivered. When I phoned the restaurant to request a refund or replacement dish, no one was able to help me, and simply said that a manager would return my call the next day...which did happen, but only to tell me that there was nothing they could do since their policy requires me to RETURN the soup to the restaurant for them to verify if there's something wrong with it. (Which is honestly more work than anyone wants, but I'd have been happy to do.) However, since the person I spoke to night-of seemingly had no idea of the policy, I threw it out without a second thought, leaving me without any "proof" to show them. Order here if you don't mind hit-or-miss food made by people who literally don't care at all about...

Our experience is a bit unusual but I don't recommend you this place if you like basic human interaction.

Let's talk about the odds here:

This is the second time I go there and see that it's closed between 4pm-5pm, yet it seems open on the maps search.

We waited outside with my kid about 20 min, they saw us waiting, it was 4:55pm and they did not care, did not open the door to invite us in. they waited exactly 5:01pm, while we were at the door waiting they prefered organizing some bottles instead. When the time came they just unlocked the door and step back, instead of pulling it wide open for us, it was very impolite. Since my son was really hungry, although I felt the temptation to leave upon their attitude, we sat there and gave an order.

They did not wipe clean the table it was full of dust in the garden.

We ordered 3 dishes: Thai rice was nice Clear soup was ok The seafood tempura was horrible but the sauce was ok. But they were fast, our dishes are served within 7 min.

Considering overall experience, I would never ever go...