Experts' Choice Award Gunshow
What the experts agree on
Kevin Gillespie's inventive dim sum–style restaurant serves ever-changing creative dishes from rolling carts with no preset menu, letting diners choose as chefs explain each plate at your table.
“At this charmingly boisterous eatery, chefs plate their freshly made creations on trays, stopping by each table to explain and offer the dish.”
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Gayot14.0
"Challenges every notion of the traditional dining experience, with a format-free menu that changes weekly and a design that brings patrons into intimate contact with the preparation process." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Inspired by Brazilian churrascarias and dim sum–style dining, chef Kevin Gillespie's one-of-a-kind eatery features rolling carts of creative, ever-changing dishes and communal tables." Full review
Tasting Table "Gunshow's approach is akin to modern dim sum, with the chefs themselves (Gillespie plus two other talented chefs) cooking then bringing out creative ever-changing dishes to each table." Full review
The Infatuation8.4
"There’s no real rhyme or reason to the menu, which changes regularly and makes any meal here a complete mystery until you actually arrive." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "This freewheeling Glenwood Park restaurant offers no menus, instead wheeling around cartfuls of tapas that diners may choose or forgo." Full review
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Sometimes the staff can pull strings and make sure the dish rolls your way first.
Fodor's "Experience a range of tastes at this Southern-style dim sum outpost founded by former Top Chef contestant Kevin Gillespie." Full review
Afar Magazine "After helming Woodfire Grill, starring on Top Chef, and writing his first cookbook (which was nominated for a James Beard Award), chef Kevin Gillespie opened Gunshow in 2013. He named the..." Full review
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