Gourmet Cafe

This place was fantastic! Friendly staff and food made from scratch. Great casual atmosphere. I’ll be back.

Awesome Chef, staff and food! Never disappointed!

Cute little café offering different types of gourmet salads, sandwiches, and pasta dishes. I was excited to give this a second chance and try something new. I thought maybe I had just ordered the wrong thing the first time.
I ordered the bow tie chicken pasta. The pasta had a great flavor, but the chicken was not edible. It was dark, hard and gummy with a strange taste. I immediately spit out the chicken. I had my husband try it, and he did the same. I showed and shared this with our server who went to the cook. They came back saying that nothing was wrong with it and everything is made fresh???
Clearly, by looking at the 20 pieces of chicken I pushed to the side, you could see something didn’t look right just by the texture and color.
They offered us a free dessert. We passed. Maybe it was just the cook on shift or chicken from the night before. Not sure, but was not worth the $ 17.99 I was charged for the meal at lunch. Disappointing.

Fantastic soups, unbelievably creative pasta dishes. A must to try!

Pasta night is by far the best night in this small restaurant. So many options for the pasta, toppings, and the sauce. The owner will even walk you through all the steps and suggest what you could have based on what you’re looking for. Several friends and I are regulars there. The prices are a tiny bit higher then normal, but the service is always great. Try the French onion soup!

The décor is ok but the food is consistently pretty good. Had a nice hangar steak tonight with a superb brocolli rabe. Their pasta nights (Fridays and Saturdays) are quite yummy… contrary to earlier comments, they still do the pasta nights.

The Gourmet Café is located in the center of downtown Glens Falls. Along with wonderful outside seating, the food is tasty and the service was excellent. I had the classic vegetarian wrap with an excellent tarragon mayo. The marinated red peppers and sprouts really elevated the sandwich beyond your standard vegetarian wrap. My husband had the spinach artichoke panini which was also very tasty. The potato salad was pretty forgettable. The menu is also a little long for my taste. To sum up, tasty food at a good price that could benefit from a pared down menu.

We frequent the GC as we like to call it. I have NEVER had a bad experience. We have gone on pasta nights, lunch, dinners, and just for dessert. All desserts are made on site and OMG tasty all the time. The Prime Rib on Valentine’s day was amazing. The meatballs are fabulous. The Chricken Parm is great. The soups are always tasty. Our fav place to go for sure.

Pasta night is the best! We look forward to coming here every time we are upstate! Chef Francis makes amazing dishes and the soup is always creative and delicious! Love gourmet café!

Not so special. Not enough variety. Boring, boring, boring.

This is not my first visit to the Gourmet Café, but my husband and I wanted to give it another try since the Family Style menu is no longer done. Our waitress Courtney was great. The home made dressing for both of our salads were equally delicious, Russian for him parmeasan pepper for me. He got chicken parm even though it was lunch, the chef made it for him, which was really nice of them to do. I had Alfredo but the rustic white bread MADE the meal for me. I am a bread fiend and will go back to a place solely for bread delicious-​Ness. We had planned on coming in for the Pasta bar but were about an hour too early for it, we will have to go back again and time it for dinner rather than lunch!

My wife and came back for another try and this experience was much better. The waitress was great. Very friendly, personal, and attentive and willing to work with us on requests. We were very happy that it’s not family style anymore and we both got to order individual meals… which were both excellent. The salads are good size and the homemade dressings are perfect. We were a little too early for the pasta bar but the pasta dishes we had with our entres were very good. We’ll definitely be back.

We were intrigued with this place while walking by about a year ago. A convenient opportunity arrived tonight to dine here before attending a performance at the Charles Wood Theater a few doors up the block. We passed up the opportunity to dine al fresco on the sidewalk because of the forecast for storms and a threatening looking sky.
The wine list was a page of whites and a page of reds. My wife chose a Heron Riesling ($ 6.50/glass) while I selected a bottle of Coopers Cave Stout ($ 6.75÷22 oz) from the local brewer. The wine was serviceable enough that a second glass was ordered when needed. The stout, on the other hand, was anything but a robust stout and I’ll try to remember to skip it if the opportunity arises again.
Our server Jill was very pleasant from start to finish. She promptly brought us a basket of hot garlic bread that was flavorful and tasted quite freshly baked. We ordered the Shrimp Brochettes ($ 9.59) for our appetizer — six good-​sized marinated grilled shrimp skewered on a bed of basmati rice with a pistachio chutney. The shrimp were properly cooked with a bit of snap in each bite and the very delicious pistachio chutney added another dimension with both flavors and crunch. The rice seemed to have a nice flavor of both an oil and butter. Definitely an «order again» dish.
Entrees come with a choice of soup or salad. There were four different soups to chose from and two were calling out to us. The Buffalo Cheddar was a bit disappointing. It needed some additional texture to go with the flavor of Buffalo spicing. The Three Cheese Broccoli was a real hit with us — flavors and texture abound.
My wife chose the Mushroom Ravioli ($ 18.99) — wild mushroom stuffed ravioli with boneless chicken breast, asparagus, sundried tomatoes and shallots in a light sherry cream sauce. Overall, a nice tasting dish, in spite of the chicken being overcooked, but nothing memorable or outstanding.
I opted for the Apple and Sausage Stuffed Pork Loin ($ 17.99) — two thick slices of center-​cut loin, each topped with Italian sausage, herbs, and granny smith apple, and a serving of roasted garlic mashed potatoes. The pork was cooked a bit longer than I typically like it, but it was not yet dry. The caraway seed in the herb stuffing added a very pleasant and unexpected flavor. A few young asparagus spears had been added to the dish and were just average as were the mashed potatoes.
Our server said that three of the approximately 10 items on the dessert list were made in-​house. Of those three I decided to try the Carrot Cake ($ 4.99). Again, this was just OK. I would have liked it to be more moist and to have had more frosting on it.
If the opportunity avails itself again, we would return to try some other items on the menu. Maybe a lunch with burgers, wraps, or sandwiches would be interesting.

We eat here probably once or twice a month. I became gluten free and was pleased to find out that they will make gluten free pasta– just call ahead and make a reservation (even if it’s only 30 min ahead of time) and let them know you are gluten free.
The pasta nights are my favorite. Though at our most recent visit we had made reservations for 7, with two being gluten free. The two GF ordered the unlimited pasta bar and by the time we went up for round two they only had enough GF pasta left for one. That was disappointing considering what we paid for an were expecting. I think next time I will just make a point to say that we plan on ordering the unlimited pasta bar.
I wasn’t super excited about the move to family style– as my husband (or a friend, etc…) and I don’t always want the same thing… and many times I’m the only GF person.
The garlic bread and spinach artichoke dip are both AMAZING!!!
Brian is a great waiter, other waitstaff is good too… we just haven’t had them as frequently.

Had the all-​you-​can-​eat pasta dinner before a hockey game. Could only eat one helping. The place is like a nice diner, but the food is way better.

We’ve been here numerous times over the past couple of years, and it’s by far our favorite calorie splurge.
We usually go on the pasta nights, where Chef Francis will create a dish based on what you want in it. He can make up to «40 different sauces», and my favorite is the basil pesto cream sauce with white wine. I am open to experimentation so I’ll let Chef Francis make a recommendation, and only seldomly do I get a sauce I’m not too fond of. (As a taste preference only).
I’ve also been here for lunch. The food is good and a great value considering you’d pay almost that much at a fast food restaurant these days.
For dinners, make sure you get a reservation (especially on hockey nights).

We walked in here, not expecting much at all. The décor is practically non-​existent, and the furniture looks like they grabbed it from a PTA meeting, but some of the food really surprised us!
What swayed me the most was that here we are in a restaurant that looks like a cheap diner (aren’t they all cheap?) and they had a mushroom consommé special. I’m thinking, yeah, whatever, mushroom broth. But the waiter explained to us what a consommé is, you strain out impurities using egg white, and I was floored. In here? A REAL consommé? For 5 bucks??? WOW. So we ordered one, along with the pumpkin lentil soup. Both were great, and yes, it WAS consommé!
My reuben was more average, too much cheese, and someone else’s burger was average too. The waffle fries were seasoned with spices so they were decent. Other deli sandwiches were, well, just average too. But all-​in-​all, it was a pleasant experience.

Overall a 2.5 Star bumped up because other people seem to love it.
Picked up lunch the other day from here.
Specialty Wrap was ok but not great. Kinda small for a $ 11 lunch with a 20oz soda.
Co-​worker was not overly impressed with his wrap either (his was a custom).

Great food! Ate there for the first time today. The food is phenomenal! Everything is homemade and delicious. Thursday through Saturday are all you can eat pasta nights. I can’t wait to go back. «Gourmet Café», the name says it all.

Did I say before that ILOVE THIS PLACE! The most amazing sandwiches!
Only gripe is that they’re closed on Sundays.