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Gallagher's Steak House

228 W. 52nd St., New York, NY, 10019
nr. Broadway
212-245-5336

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5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Décor: 6
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unbelievable

By squirtalah on 1/30/2003

  • Overall Rating: 10
  • Food: 10
  • Service: 10
  • Décor: 10
  • Yes, I would go back!

at the onset, maitre'd honored our request for a table in the main room. the waiter's were warm and friendly. one waiter suggested an off the menu selection of shrimp scampi as my wife is not a steak eater...and it was excellent. not as stuffy as peter luger's, not as snobby as rothman's

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My Dining Experience at Gallagher's

By antoninofidelis on 2/11/2010

  • Overall Rating: 9
  • Food: 10
  • Service: 8
  • Décor: 9
  • Yes, I would go back!

I have dined at Gallagher's for quite some time now and every time I go, I am constantly reminded of why I went there in the first place. The meats are wonderfully cooked, the service is great, and the decor of the restaurant is immaculate. I recently became a fan of their power lunch menu, which is a pre-fixe menu. The power lunch comprises three courses: appetizer, entree, and dessert. When I went there, I had their spinach salad, certified Angus beef steak, and a creamy NY cheesecake. For this three-course meal, I paid $28...now that's a deal! Gallagher's is a great steakhouse and my dining experience there just gets better and better.

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65 out of 134 people found this review helpful.

Great Food - RUDE service

By hh922 on 2/13/2005

  • Overall Rating: 8
  • Food: 9
  • Service: 8
  • Décor: 6
  • No, I would not go back!

Choose this place for "special" steak dinner in NYC ... GREAT FOOD and the food staff was WONDERFUL... the problem was after dinner we stopped at the bar to have a nightcap and watch a sports show on TV... RUDE bartender - couldn't be bother to serve us (and the place was EMPTY due to the Super Bowl)... Captain didn't care either. Next visit to NYC will NOT include this place , probably Frankie and Johnnies or someplace with no OLD FARTS serving at the bar! .

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305 out of 637 people found this review helpful.

PRICE

By IrishBronxBroad on 1/24/2003

  • Overall Rating: 8
  • Food: 9
  • Service: 7
  • Décor: 7
  • Yes, I would go back!

NOT ENOUGH BANG FOR DA BUCK, DECENT FOOD BUT AVERAGE PORTIONS AND ALA CARTE SIDES MAKE FOR A DAMES WALLET TO CRY

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260 out of 525 people found this review helpful.

Rude and abusive

By MichaelKoffler on 3/14/2003

  • Overall Rating: 5
  • Food: 6
  • Service: 3
  • Décor: 4
  • No, I would not go back!

Why take the castor oil, with no saving grace. Peter Liugers this is not.

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251 out of 535 people found this review helpful.

Very Disappointed!

By radley1 on 1/10/2008

  • Overall Rating: 4
  • Food: 5
  • Service: 1
  • Décor: 5
  • No, I would not go back!

Although we did arrive early for our booked table and at a busy time the elderly captain was not interested in taking our names - just waved us in the direction of the bar. Barman also elderly and very very rude to paying customers! After several reminders captain eventually acknowledged our existence and showed us to a table, where we waited and waited and waited - then as very fed up, decided to leave - so didn't eat!!! Then had to queue for 20 mins (!) to retrieve our coats. Prices on menu very strange - no dollar signs, just numbers - not at all clear. Have visited this restaurant several times in the past, which is why we returned but never again.

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147 out of 265 people found this review helpful.

AN ANNIVERSARY DINNER RUINED

By easyg1 on 6/9/2009

  • Overall Rating: 3
  • Food: 3
  • Service: 2
  • Décor: 5
  • No, I would not go back!

What a major disappointment!! I wasted a hundred bucks. It was our 44th anniversary, dinner followed by "Billy Elliott." When I made reservations, I said it was our anniversary. It went ignored. I'll never go back to Gallaghers again. We were barely greeted by a maitre'd, who acted as though we were bothering him. No smile. Tried to seat us in the bar. We said, no, the back room, which was almost empty. He seemed offended. My steak was small, tough. The service was lousy. The maitre'd should be working as a bouncer at a dance club. The steaks were laughable. Stay away from this place. Fast food is preferable. Gallagher's is living off its name. By the way, "Billy Elliott" was terrific.

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If only I had read previous reviews in this magazine . . .

By CitizenBob on 12/1/2008

  • Overall Rating: 3
  • Food: 3
  • Service: 2
  • Décor: 4
  • No, I would not go back!

. . . I would not have had to endure the horror that was Black Friday at Gallaghers. Food was poor to mediocre. My companion ordered the Rib Eye and I ordered the Chef Special steak. Fat and grisle were more than one would expect on a $40 - $50 steak. Service from our waiter was fair, but we had to remind him that we were ready to order. The other fellows in suits had this "grumpy old man" aesthetic and the room temperatue was uncomfortably hot. This was topped off by Rumplestilskin (this dude was barely walking; he should not be working in such a busy restaurant) messing up the credit card payments so that I got charged twice. The business manager has assured me that the charges will be removed, but I will believe it when I see it. The non-wait staff were pleasant and if not for them, I would have rated the service a 1 instead of 2.

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Major Disappointment!

By giantska on 3/27/2003

  • Overall Rating: 3
  • Food: 4
  • Service: 1
  • Décor: 6
  • No, I would not go back!

I'll make this short and sweet, mediocre food and unbelievably rude service(Apparently Our waiter is independently wealthy because he could care less what he makes in tips). And then the final insult, the bill. At Gallaghers, average steak, thrown at you, doesn't come cheap.

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286 out of 571 people found this review helpful.

Waste of time and money!

By kangurzyca on 3/31/2012

  • Overall Rating: 2
  • Food: 2
  • Service: 3
  • Décor: 3
  • No, I would not go back!

This restaurant's time is long gone! As the pictures on it's walls . . . We felt like a steak, and chose the place hoping for a succulent steak! We had some appetizers as well: oysters, garden salad, steak tartar. The oysters were average, but what was the first sign of poor care - they were not cut, and had lots of shell particles. I mentioned it to the waiter, and he said "the forgot to do it probably". Hmm! Salad consisted of some fox lettuce, and a (ONE) slice of tomato laced on top. Nothing else . . . Then we got our steaks. And the sides. The steaks were cold. When we brought it up to the attention of the waiter, they were taken away, and brought back after a while, rather burn on the outside. They were the same ones. Needless to say that at that point they were dried up, and very bland . . . The green beans? OMG! A pile of defrosted MSG-added green beans placed in a messy disarray on a plate. Cold, as well. And nothing on them - no butter, no bread crumbs. A school canteen takes better pride in the serving of food! In short - will not go back, and I wish that the poor NY visitors (they were a few of them at the tables around us clearly disappointed, as well) were warned not to continue to support this relict in need of chef Ramsey's attention!

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