Gaucho Grill Buena Park

This is my second time coming to Gaucho Grill with family and friends and I give this place five stars ???????????????? ???? .I had the rack of lamb medium rare and I must say I was blown away with delicious mouth watering flavor, cooked to perfection and the portion was perfect. order the full rack)I even had take out for lunch the next day. If you're going on the weekend, best if you make reservations because if you don't....you will wait awhile. The service was very goodand friendly. Eventhough I live in San Diego, I look forward to having dinner and meeting family and friends for here because the food and service is beyond excellent.

I have been looking forward to visitig this restaurant for a while. I love Argentinean cuisine. As I arrived with my wife we were impressed by the beauty of the architecture you can tell there was a lot of thought and attention to detail. Inside we found a lot of the same impressive beauty and the layout of the restaurant was wonderful. When it comes to service our server was cordial enough, seemed to know the menu really well but lacked a bit of warmth. It left me and myfamily feeling like he wasn't enjoying what he was doing too much. We ordered drinks I got to say that's where this restaurant truly shined for me tonight. The drinks were really tasty and perfectly balanced. Now let's talk food. This is afine establishment so when it comes to your expectation of them using some of the best ingredients you won't be disappointed. You truly feel that every item on your plate was made of the finest quality ingredients they could find. Thedisappointing part was in the taste of some of the dishes (especially the steak) it had a strong taste of charcoal so much so that it robbed the steak of its natural flavors. Honestly all you tasted was charcoal. The chicken wasunfortunately a bit flavorless for me it needed a bit more salt or some kind of seasoning. We also had the steak milanesa which is breaded meat with ham and cheese on top. Unfortunately my dinner was brought about 10 minutes after the restof my family and it was cold. For the good parts my wife had a choripan that tasted really good. My father had a pasta with sausage I am not sure of the name but it was absolutely delicious probably the best of everything our table ordered.Oh yes! Don't let me forget to mention the dessert we ordered el gran final which included all their available desserts. This was an absolute highlight of the night we couldn't get enough. Allow me to mention the portions of everything inthis restaurant are big so just a heads up bring a big appetite. When it came to paying apparently

Love Gaucho! And have been frequenting them often since they opened a few years back. This past trip service was extremely slow and all of journalist steaks came out rare. However the empanadas were perfection and I love their drinks. Hopefully tonight was just an off night. I’ll be back though.

Worst service ever, our server was completely rude, the host was also on a bad attitude

Meat was very rare/raw (ordered medium) and extremely gristly and fatty, potatoes were dry. The meat that was edible (the edges after cutting off the fat and gristle) was not worth the price. Came once before and the meal was ok, this second time was not good at all.