Gomez Restaurant & Bar

I could not wait for this place to open! Stopped in with a friend of mine for lunch on opening day, which I was a little leery of, because I'm sure there are kinks to work out. It wasn't terribly busy, the busy lunch crowd had come and gone. But we were greeted warmly and asked if we were dining in or carrying out. We wanted to dine in and were told to sit anywhere. We chose a booth by the window. The service for the first day was spectacular. Sweet, smiling servers eager to meet our every need. We first ordered water and a margarita while we looked at the extensive menu. They are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with a bar. The quickly brought out chips and salsa. The chips were crispy and there was a small bowl of a greenish salsa, good flavor, but a bit too hot for me. There were 2 bottles of sauce as well in the little cart the other salsa came in. I tried each of those...again, good flavor at first then the burn. I had to keep eating plain chips and drowning my tongue in water. I alternated between my water and the frozen margarita I ordered. I feel like the menu was a bit more authentic than I'm used to, so I asked our server for something with steak. I don't recall the name of it, but it was nicely seasoned, thinly sliced steak, onions, jalapeños and tomatoes fried together served along side reddish rice and beans with a bit of cheese sprinkled on it, a side undressed side of lettuce and tomato salad. I asked them to hold the tomatoes in the steak and they accommodated.. I immediately dove into the steak... tender with good flavor. I went for the rice and beans and my beans were cold. The server came around asking how everything was, I told her the beans were cold and she immediately apologized and brought me some fresh refried beans, they had no cheese on them, but they were piping hot. So much better. My friend ordered a chicken burrito, she said the chicken was really flavorful and tender. My margarita was frozen, and you can request them either way, frozen or on the rocks. It had some kind of red spice sprinkle on it, maybe Tajin? I've had never had it that way before. Not much tequila, it wasn't strong at all. We had to ask for more napkins as there were none at the table. Otherwise servers were very attentive. The prices were average, but I would have liked to see lunch specials on the menu! I will try it again in a few weeks.

Stopped in here for lunch. Had the tacos they were excellent ambience is really cool. The building is really cool as well. It's from the 1890s and it is very clean and very well done. Combined with friendly service, I have to recommend!

Don't bother going here until they've been open for longer (if they last). Nobody knows what they're doing and I don't think it's their fault but it seems whoever opened this restaurant thought that opening asap was better than having a well trained wait staff and kitchen. The food is not good enough to make up for the lackluster service. Actually the food wasn't good at all. Everything came out at different times and different temperatures. Never in my life have I had such a bad experience in a restaurant. I downloaded yelp and made an account just to post this review in hopes of others seeing this so they don't waste their time like I did. I give this place 6 months before they close and that's being generous.

I have friend of a friend, that works here. The food is amazing this is my second time going the carne asada is cooked perfectly not to chewy not to hard . I personally like my meat a bit over well done . The place is always cleaning and they always have a smile when you come in. Service was 6/10 checked up on us a good amount. Brought all our food out together was all warm and not sitting out getting cold . The only thing was they brought out drinks one by one . But overall I give this a 8/10 -Manny G

Excited to try this place, we decided to try it on a Friday night. Got a table quickly, drinks were brought. My drink never came, nor did my guacamole. The waitress stated they were waiting on more chips. We ordered our food, 10 minutes later still no drink or chips/guacamole, waitress runs over and says they were out of el pastor. I switched to steak. 25 minutes later, still no drink or guacamole. And the waitress comes over and says it'll be 45 more minutes for our food. It was 8:30 we got there at 7:30. I said no thank you we couldn't wait any longer. I figured she'd comp our 3 horchatas and I never got my drink or guacamole which I mentioned 3 times. She brings a bill for almost $13. There was not a breakdown of what we were charged for, but we only received 3 horchatas and 1 ice water. I have no idea how the food was but the chips were ok and the salsa was super spicy. Very disappointed, won't go back.