Gaucho in Cardiff

An excellent meal with extremely courteous staff. What a joy to have good food with a lovely friendly environment. Alex’s attention and polite manner was appreciated. Thank you for a lovely evening.

This is an excellent place to treat a wonderful lady. The waiting staff are all very professional, charismatic and friendly, and the folks in the kitchen really know their stuff my GOD, I have not eaten that well in a long while. Worth the price. Just sad I didn't eat more. They show you the cuts of meat on a board before you order to run you through it, Its very helpful. Just be sure to account for the costs of a taxi because I was too inflated to shamble home. 10/10 would put myself into a food coma again.

The rating reflects the cost . Obviously a great deal of capital expenditure to fit the restaurant out , which has created a pleasant ambience . The waitress was pleasant, very effusive , perhaps a little too much but did her job well . The steak is vastly overpriced , marinated Lomo at £63 for 350gms , cooked as requested , the accompanying side dish ie fries though was pitiful in quantity along with a green salad the price of which I could have purchased two and half bags Marks and Spencer’s largest baby green leaves. Dessert chocolate brownie which was a third of the size on their website menu appeared to have been one portion cut in three to share between two of us , the ice cream at least had not shrunk . The Malbec wine from Mendoza region was very drinkable but a £16 bottle at retail knocked out in the restaurant at a mere £59 . I appreciate the cost of doing business with wages and overheads is vast these days and despite the moans above I don’t really mind paying those prices if they are deserved . However there is a big but , with those big margins a service charge of 12.5% on top is a cheek , the waitress would have had a tip , but consider the wine for example already has a 268 per cent mark up and it has just been pushed up to 360 per cent . You can go and eat for less , a salmon Taco and Spaghetti would get you out the door for much less , it’s a steak house so why would you ? You won’t go ever and leave thinking the food was bad I’m sure , you will leave thinking your pocket is much much lighter and was it worth it ?

Visited here for the first time to celebrate our Anniversary. We were welcomed by a lovely from of house lady who wished us Happy anniversary on arrival. Goucho Cardiff, has a lovely set up, feels very cosy and welcoming. We had a free cocktail for signing up to their website, which was lovely. We chose the celebratory September lunch menu for £30 (minus sides), which includes a cocktail. I had prawns to start, and my husband had the sausage, both were very tasty. Our mains consisted of Spatchcock chicken, a sirloin steak,which was tender and tasty, along with 2 sides of fries a broccoli, all were gorgeous. My husband is lactose intolerant, and desserts are normally sorbet or nothing, however, our lovely waiter Shivakumar made sure that my hubby had a chocolate brownie with dairy free ice cream, which he demolished with delight. I had caramel pancakes with walnut ice cream, gorgeous! We also had a caraff of wine to accompany the meal. To top everything off, we were given an anniversary card from the staff,a thoughtful touch. This is a lovely restaurant, I have already booked to come back over the Christmas period, and I'm sure we'll be visiting before that. This is going to be a regular place for us, and have already recommended it to friends, who are going to join us on our next visit.

Very overpriced for the quality of the food, sirloin steak was average, small bottle of beer £7.50. Nice surroundings but very disappointed with the food.