TL;DR: Gallagher's has been using their "A" Grade sign from 2019 despite getting a "C" rating from the NYC Health Department in May 2023.
My hubby and I went to Gallagher's for a pre-theater dinner recently and he looked up the place before we went on r/foodNYC and found this post.
We thought no big deal and went anyways and enjoyed our dinner. He noticed that the restaurant had an "A" posted in the window. So naturally we assumed that they fixed whatever was wrong and got a new rating from the Health Department. My husband, being the nut that he is, looked up Gallagher's on the NYC Health Department site and saw that they're still "C" rated.
This became a minor mystery to us so we set out to investigate. We report our findings here.
The grade "A" sign that Gallagher's posted at their window (as least as of May 2024), was from May 6, 2019. It is unclear whether the "C" grade was "lost in the mail" or the restaurant just never bothered to post their hard earned "C" grade. This concludes our silly little investigative report.
by Alert_Iron_6744
29 Comments
That has to be illegal right?
Getting a C is egregious, that’s fucking wild behavior
“You said it must be displayed. You didn’t specify which year though…”
Will not be going there again
I assume most do this
I get that the post is about putting a B when they may still be a C.
I would prefer to steer away from C rated restaurants in NYC. I would not ever go back if they fell to a C there is a problem.
That’s going some and do not go back until it’s fixed or ever. There are plenty of other better choices.
Just out of interest, why would you bother going there?
Disgusting and so wrong.
I reported them to 311 for this
How much poop needs to be in the kitchen for a C?
GALLAGHERS COCK
Wow I just looked up so many places, this is way more common than I realized
This is shady AF but not even remotely surprising from a restaurant owned by Dean Poll…
Wow they have a good reputation that’s crazy they have a c and on top of that they are being shady about it wtf!!
They are reinspected after they fix those issues and pay a fine.
WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE
Damn
Is the ice in the men’s urinals not cold enough? Who goes here regularly for anything other than the heavy pour at the bar?
Is there any recourse for patrons that dined with the false posting? I went for the first time and had a bad experience. Anything for my money back!
How do you get these ratings? And where from? I will check everywhere I eat from now.
I like my restaurants like I like my men – D displayed proudly.
🤮 🤮
Wow this is literally a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode
And I just ate here last week, how wonderful. No wonder the steaks tasted terrible, probably used dirty ass rotten meat.
r/curb
[Yet another reason to only eat at the best restaurant in the city.](https://imgur.com/JfkQ7fR)
Meh. If I only ate at A Rated places, I’d have to cross out most of the Asian eateries I go to. Nor would people ever eat from amazing street food places in Asia. (I just made my mouth water thinking back to Asian street vendors. Sooooo good.)
God dammit I was supposed to go here for my birthday next week, cancelling my reservation now 🤢
This would be more distressing if it was a good restaurant. We ate there recently and found it completely underwhelming. Steak was undercooked, overly chewy, and not delicious. That’s three strikes for a place with a fancy air-drying locker filled with thousands of dollars worth of beef.