Cafe Gaston

My mom has been wanting to try Gaston’s for a while and we just never made it there. Finally, we gave it a shot and I’m so glad we did. As soon as we walked in, we were greeted by a friendly waitress and the owner. He was very talkative and willing to answer all of our questions about the menu and such. With it being out first time, we were a little confused about what we should order, because everything looked so good. We asked for recommendations and the «regular» sitting near us had so many great things to say about the food. I decided to give the eggs Benedict a try. Oh my hollandaise sauce! They were so delicious!!! Not to mention, the bed of baked chicken the eggs are served on! My mom really enjoyed her spinach omelette, which originally came with goat cheese. The owner was very nice about offering to substitute with the cheese or her choice. (Definitely try it with feta. Two thumbs up.) As we indulged in the amazingness on our plates, we noticed the coolest thing… every single person that walked in the door, was greeted by first name. The owner knew every one of his customers! I thought that was amazing. It says a lot about a business when people keep coming back. I think it’s safe to safe we will be back very, very soon!

This was the worst Thanksgiving dinner ever! For medical reasons I could not cook dinner so we ordered catering from here. We ordered the catering package, plus an extra 5 lb. turkey breast for a total of $ 198. The turkey was so dry, especially the $ 40 turkey breast, my husband couldn’t even slice it-​it just fell apart! The gravy looked like yellow water & tasted terrible. The creamed corn was not very tasty either. My husband called & told the owner how disappointed we were with the food. He said he would talk to his partner & call back. Needless to say, he never called! We will never go back to this place & have told our family & friends to do the same.

Stopped here to try out breakfast. We ordered egg sandwiches. There was no flavor at all. The bacon was so hard my husband was afraid he would crack a tooth.
I watched the chef reuse the oil from potatoes which was kind of gross. once again the potatoes lacked flavor and all you could taste was the «recycled» oil.
I was excited to see my favorite soup on the menu so I wanted to try it. Cream of chicken rice with lemon. Once again, disappointed. Lacked flavor. I did not taste any lemon and barely any rice. It was a blah cream soup with a few chunks of chicken.
This place needs some serious lessons in making quality dishes with flavor.

I have to say I’m truly disappointed. After hearing so many great things and seeing it was on Chicagos best, I guess I was asking too much from the establishment to deliver decent food. I was able to dismiss the foul smell walking in, but I couldn’t dismiss the bad taste in my mouth. Save your money people! I’d rather use the money I spent on a nicer restaurant.

This is a quaint cozy French themed restaurant with a large menu. The food is made from scratch and is quite satisfying. My husband had the meat loaf and mashed potatoes with a side of fresh fruit. I had the chicken bow tie pasta which was huge and delicious. I will have leftovers for days. The server was friendly and accommodating. They have BYOB and charge a $ 2 bottle handling fee. The place is situated in a strip mall with lots of parking and the establishment including the bathrooms are pristine. We will be back.

My Daughter and I had chicken soup there that wasn’t hot!
That should have been the first clue to LEAVE… I found a small stick in my Blt and the sandwich was terrible! My daughter didn’t like her chicken sandwich said it didn’t taste right. i come from a family of 6 kids and don’t believe in wasting food so I peeked out the chicken from her half finished lunch, I ate it and we both got sick!!! Never to go back and all my friends have heard about it also!!!

The employees and service are good but the food is not so great. We were here for breakfast. I ordered 2 eggs scrambled, potatoes and toast. The eggs were like processed egg beaters or something and were disgusting. The potatoes and toast were fine. My husband had a waffle with fruit. The waffle was hard and the fruit wasn’t ripe what so ever. A little pricey for what you get. I’ve heard lunch & dinner are okay but I doubt we’ll be returning.

We have been coming to Café Gaston for years but will never come here again. Two completely ridiculous things happened when we last ate here
1) we had signed up for the coupons via text and planned to use it for our meal. The waitress brought us our check when we were finished eating and I brought it to the front counter where I was greeted by the manager/​owner?. I let him know that we had wanted to use a 10% off coupon but that the waitress had just printed the check before we could let her know we had one. He responded that the coupon would only take off $ 3.60 from our bill and that he would have to void the transaction in order to apply the coupon. He THEN SAID that he would charge me $ 1.50 for that voided transaction because he has to pay for credit card transactions, so therefore he let me know I would only be saving $ 2.10. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
2) café gaston is byob so we brought our own beer asking the waitress if it was still byob because we hadn’t been here in a while. She confirmed it was, and two of us each had one beer. We received the bill to find they had charged us $ 3.50 per person for a corkage fee. In the past it had been $ 1. We took the bill to the manager/​owner (unsure) and he replied that over in the corner there was a sign stating that the corkage fees were $ 3.50 and he also said he legally was not allowed to let us open beers but that he was making an exception. We replied that we would have never had the beers had we known we would be charging that much for a corkage fee. He pretty much made it out to be SOL and replied that he has a $ 3000 annual fee that he has to pay to the village for his byob liquor license. SERIOUSLY?! Instead of trying to please his customers this joker was trying to defend himself and continued throwing out numbers in our faces. This guy needs to go and if he is infact the owner I really can’t see this place being around much longer! Ridiculous how everything was handled!!!

Avoid the chains and give this place a try. I have a feeling you will be satisfied. I know I was.
Went here to try someplace different for breakfast. It is smaller sized restaurant but very clean and nicely decorated. Oh and by the way, the food is really good too.
I enjoyed the Gaston Omelette — avocado, bacon and cheese! It was very good. The coffee was very goodIf you want cheap go get McDonalds crap If you want a good breakfast at a fair price with friendly hospitable service, give this place a try.

Excellent meal. Nothing is pre made and that’s a huge plus. Waitresses was extremely helpful and quick with suggestions which didn’t fail me. I will be coming back repeatedly.

I think some of these reviews for this place are a little overcritical. I got the chicken salad sandwich on a croissant and added a cup of soup and a drink to it. The sandwich included potato salad and a pickle. It was $ 12 total everything was really good. Yes this is more than a fast food lunch place, but if you want a $ 5 meal, go to Subway and chance it with their mystery meat.

I’ve tried this place a couple of times because I’ve heard good things about it. Although I think the food is ok, I don’t think it’s worth the price. Service is good but I think you have better options for breakfast especially in the south suburbs.

Been going to Café Gaston’s for over 15 years. The food is of a consistently high quality. It is not a fast food kind of place with entrée’s partially cooked and sitting under a heating lamp. Rather, everything is fresh and cooked to order. There is no bar, but you can BYOB. There is nothing fancy about the seating. My favorite is the chicken bow tie, it is consistently very good. The blackened catfish is also good. Actually, everything my family has had there has been very good. For the food you receive, I believe it is a very good value. The owner/​chef is also very friendly. If you want good food at reasonable prices, the place might just be for you.

Do not waste your money here. Terribly overpriced for terrible food. I ate a chickn sandwich. which was ok but it came with.mashed.potatoes that appeared and tasted like the school cafeteria. My two yr old had the kids pasta which was $ 7 and was a plate large enough for me. Our bill for my daughter and I was 20. too much for crappy food. My friend had chicken bowtie pasta. The noodles were overcooked. like my daughters. and it had no flavor. She also had the pumpkin.soup.which.she ate. I thought it was tasteless. And her meal was $ 17. So after spending $ 40 for crappy lunch. we decided not to return. I work at a. steakhouse in oak brook and parties come in for lunch with 2 people and get a quality meal for 25 to 35 bucks. Which is where we shouldve gone.

Updated rating on this place… Change in food offerings, possible Muslim owner pushing religious beliefs on customers by no longer offering bacon on the menu. He’s pushing beef bacon. No pork sausages, just turkey sausages. No options, never notified his customers. Screw this place.

It’s OK. I probably won’t make the drive up from Roselle again just to go there, but might stop by if in that neck of the woods. Café style seating and service at full-​service restaurant prices. The food was ok. I got the shrimp bow tie pasta because I saw it on Chicago’s Best TV show. I was disappointed because the shrimp was overcooked. The artichoke, tomato, spinach, lemon cream sauce was interesting though, lots of flavor. I just personally think there was 1 too many strong flavors. The bread (sticks) were not great which was disappointing from a French café. Tasted more like ½ bread, ½ biscuit and came out a few moments after our dinners. My companion got the Beef Bourguignon (which I don’t like anyway but) he said it was great. The beef was very tender, I just don’t personally like brown wine based sauces. Their «red sauce» on the kid’s pasta was ok. Reminded me of one I’ve had from a jar but with fresher tomatoes but maybe that’s just for the kids pastas.
Anyway if I do find myself out there to try it again I’ll try something else and see if I’m more impressed.

This is a great breakfast place, but try it for lunch.
I had the ½ soup and sandwich and it was great. The menu is pretty diverse for a small local restaurant.
I will keep coming back for sure.

Unpleasant from the first minute until the last. The service was snotty and rude, at one point the waitress was mouthing off at me about where the menus are while I was attempting to say I already knew that and was ready to order. After bringing the food out we received a response that you would expect from a bratty, spoiled, 16 year old girl who’s daddy just told her she can’t borrow the car…
The food was laughable. I ordered the grilled cheese for my children to share, off of the adult menu, it was a joke. Do you call bread out of a toaster «grilled»?? At café gaston they do. Two pieces of toasted white bread with American cheese, not melted, thrown inside. My polenta, while prepared appropriately, was paired with a bland, metallic reminiscent tomato sauce and gooey, ugly, mushrooms (they were definitely from a can).
We sat outside, and while it was a pleasant day you are SO close to those dining around you that it’s frustrating trying to carry your own conversation. However, I am glad we were not sitting inside. The interior had less charm and atmosphere than a 24 hour Greek diner with lemon rice soup and waffles as their daily specials. The location is also odd, in a strip mall that feels more like you’re dining outside of your doctors office.
My opinion is that this place thrives on wannabes driving Audis and Cadillacs that they can’t afford and Ralph Lauren polos from the goodwill.
If you’re looking for a GOOD joke go to the comedy club as forget about this place.

Do yourself a favor, and get off the chain-​gang highway that LaGrange Road has become, and find your way to this cute little café situated in a strip plaza in this mainly office/​medical building area. You won’t regret the slight detour.
We came here for an early lunch, just missing the office lunch crowd that was here by the time we left. A nice dining room, sparsely decorated, but with a lot of natural light coming in from the front windows. You look at the flat-​screened menu boards to choose your food, place your order at the front counter, sit, and your server brings the food out to you. (Don’t sit at the table directly in front of the menu boards, unless you enjoy eating with someones ass in your face, as they look at the menu. My fault– totally.)
I started with an order of the baked French onion soup. Now this is one of my favorite soups, and has been the deal breaker at many a restaurants I have ordered it at. This place has it nailed! A flavorful but yet not too salty broth, caramelized onions, the perfect amount of cheese, baked to slightly browned perfection! Really, I could have ordered another bowl and called it a day, but I also had the sandwich and side of the day. Truthfully, I was so enamored by the soup, that I’m really not sure what that sandwich consisted of. It must have been good though, since I ate the whole thing without complaint. I also enjoyed the side of potato salad. It had an all white color, and a very smooth consistency.
This place is not exactly around the corner from me, but I know I will be back to try the four cheese and ham French pastry pie, and the Cajun chicken pasta dish also on the menu.

Café Gaston — 3 Stars: a nice find in Orland Park. This restaurant has gone through many ownership iterations since the original chef from a downtown Chicago hotel established his namesake establishment of food out in the south suburbs. Don’t know who owns it now, but this little restaurant (maybe 8 or 10 tables) retains much of the nice selection started by the founder. Breakfast is particularly good, and they have scones brought in from an outside vendor that are delicious. The small outdoor patio (maybe 5 tables) is nice also. Wonderful place for takeout as you return home from work off the Metra train.