Review Guiso Latin Fusion - Healdsburg

Wonderfully creative take on Latin cuisine. Amazing flavors, textures and presentation. The "soupy" paella is outstanding - a must try! Staff are very friendly and helpful.

Every aspect of this place was fantastic. Sat at the bar overlooking the kitchen. The food was prepared literally 3 feet from us. The cooks were skilled and it was very entertaining to watch. The chef is 32 years old and was a pleasure to talk to. He has done a great job with the place. Food - 5/5 no question. Fresh, interesting, flavorful. You see it come off the stove, onto a plate and then placed in front of you. No heat lamps. The vibe of the place is great. All the staff were wonderful. We chatted them up the whole evening. The space is small but it works so well in this place. Definitely has a family feel to it. Price was actually cheaper than I would have thought based on the location in Healdsburg and the top notch food/experience. I would love to come back next time I'm in the area. Highly recommended.

Came here for lunch to celebrate our anniversary, and I can't wait to go back! This place is hands down one of the best places my husband and I have been to. The food, atmosphere, service, and just overall vibe is top notch! Food is like home, it's full of flavor and the menu is such that you can try a bunch of different things. The food is brought out as it is ready so we had a few different dishes at a time, and it's family style - which I love-. My favorite was the Cachapa, Papusa's and Papas de Camote...but honestly everything we had was amazing!! The service was probably some of the best. The service was attentive, nice, warm and welcoming. You have a view of the kitchen and chef Carlos is right there and is so friendly. Everyone who worked there was so nice. We celebrated our 18 year anniversary and there was a nice card on the table and they surprised us with sparkling wine, so thoughtful! I love that most of their menu is GF and specifies such. Make a reservation even for lunch, they get busy! Can't wait to go back!

A solid 5 stars all around for an amazing family style dining experience. I'm not typically a fan of small expensive dishes, because I favor good quality and great quantity. However, I make an exception for this restaurant. Their food is excellent. Their service is great. I had the oysters, shrimp guiso and burger with white wine. They serve you one dish at a time, apparently to appreciate each item individually. It worked for me

Just Wow! The most beautiful, authentic food prepared by loving hands and served with a kind smile...what more could you ask for? Everything was so perfect...texture, temperature, seasoning. Still tasting and dreaming about the sauce the shrimp was served in,as well as the perfect texture on the octopus. Dearly wish we had saved room for dessert! We can't wait to return..

Hands down one of the best restaurants I’ve eaten at, and that’s saying a lot. Small quaint family owned restaurant, with all homemade Latin food. We reserved a table ahead which I recommend. The days leading up, we kept hearing so many people say we should try this place out and I see why! We ordered tapas style and shared, Passionfruit Ensalada, Oysters, Pupusa, Cachapa, Papas de Camote, Chilaquiles, and Quesadillita Salvadorena for dessert. The flavors were vibrant and well balanced. The food was plated beautifully, every very dish just kept getting better and better. Our favorite was the Cachapa, A must try! The staff and chef (who is also the owner) were exceptionally welcoming and friendly. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see this restaurant earn a Michelin Star in the near future.

OMG! Get the pupusa! Or any of the family recipe dishes from the owners mama. The atmosphere is warm and friendly and the food is cooked within sight of most tables. Service was seriously nice and several people who contributed to our excellent experience were also members of the owners family. I think my favorite thing was the dessert menu-don’t miss out on dessert!

What a wonderful experience! So creative, tasty and perfectly made. Lively atmosphere and warm and attentive service. Definitely a keeper.

What owner and proprietor, chef Carlos, has created at at Guiso is truly wonderful. The food is spectacular. It’s a family owned / operated place so there is true passion and respect in the very well thought out plates they are serving. We sat at the “bar” which backed up right to the kitchen. I initially thought it would be detrimental to the experience, but it offered an up close viewing of their process and also lots of chatting with Carlos. Amazing guy, staff and restaurant - one of the more memorable meals and experiences I’ve had. Highly recommend it and I will be back next time I’m in Northern California.

Very small restaurant but magnificent food! Everything was very unique and great uses of spices. The papusas revueltas were amazing. Try this. You won't regret it.

What a great journey of flavors, colors and cultures. Guiso’s menu will surprise you with thoughtfulness, clear concepts, great variety and unexpected fusions. Not your stereotypical Latin food for Americans! Great service by the way!

We enjoyed our experience, thanks for the warm welcome Chef. It's a small space, so reservation is a must. We got our reservation at 530pm. We ordered sliders, lamb chops n paella. The sliders were out of this world. Lamb chops were not medium rare as we hoped, but had good flavors. Paella was good but slightly tangy for my taste.

The fusion of flavors and techniques excites all of the senses. Great service. The staff know what they are serving and are attentive and happy to provide great service. One of the best dining experience’s ever.

Wonderful!!! The food was absolutely delicious! My husband and I started with the Pupusas and they were perfect. We got one of each flavor and each one was so distinct but went well together. We then shared the sweetbread and paella. First off I could have taken home a whole bag full of that bread 🤣. The paella was beautiful and tasted amazing!!! We finished with the Aeros con leche with coconut milk and it was yum! Also we have to mention Fernando who took wonderful care of us and had great suggestions for food and wine. All the staff made us feel like family and we WILL be back in the future!!

I came from Michigan to try this food and I have to say, I was blown away. The staff is super friendly and attentive , the food is amazing. 5 stars all around you won’t be disappointed!!!

Alright folks, believe the hype. We were recommended to eat here from friends in Texas and every single local said we had to stop. We were lucky to snag an early dinner reservation same day but definitely recommend planning ahead and adding this to your itinerary as it’s a small space. The service was fantastic, food incredible. What a treasure to have this restaurant in Healdsburg.

Fantastic Latin Fusion restaurant. Great attention paid to each dish, as well as seevice. Very small interior, with a couple of tables outside. Don't go without a reservation!

Wow, this food was truly incredible! The fish tacos and the chilaquiles were exceptional. This is a great place for a unique and delicious eating experience.

Guiso! (pronounced [EE-soh]) From the time that we walked through the door until the moment we left, we felt like part of Chef Carlos's extended family. The Good: Lets start, for once, with the staff. Valeria, our server, was such a friendly and fun person that we felt more like we were having a meal with friends rather than at a restaurant. Don't get me wrong, she was professional and efficient, but made us feel completely at home. She explained the menu and the concept behind the restaurant and told us a few of her favorite menu items. We also met Chef Carlos later in the meal. We had been watching him move through the open kitchen all evening, and it was nice of him to take the time to come to the table and say hello. Now on to the food. The first appetizer we had was the Brucelas con Chorizo. There were so many interesting flavors popping up through this dish between the house made chorizo and the crema and the jerk flavored butter, that every bite brought a new, welcome layer to dish. We shared it between 3 people, and while it started out with everyone being willing to share, it rapidly turned into a mini brawl to see who would get the last spoonful of brussel sprouts. Now when is the last time you could say that?! Next there was the Media Noche Sliders described as mojo marinated pork shoulder, smoked ham, homemade sweet pickles, mustard, and Swiss cheese. These were good, but not quite the wow factor of the brussel sprouts. We found that for our tastes, if we pulled one of the two pickles off each slider it dropped the acidity level to a more pleasant counter note. The pulled pork was a little on the salty side, but the homemade rolls were soft and delightful. Last appy was the Guiso Vegetariano. This is a don't miss menu item in my opinion. Valeria described it as vegetables in a tomato based stew, but I don't think that really describes it well enough. The vegetables in the guiso vary with seasonal availability, and ours contained potatoes, sugar snap peas, baby squash, and a few others that all tasted so fresh and well prepared that I thought they might have come out of someone's garden. But the real star of this dish is the guiso/stew base. This isn't just another tired ragout. There layered flavors in this stew that that go way past tomato sauce and add delicate cumin and chile spices that dance around the vegetables celebrating their freshness. DO give this a try. Evidently he uses the same guiso base for his shrimp appetizer, but since I don't do seafood (unfortunately) we did not get that one. The stew base was so good that we ordered the house made rolls JUST TO SOAK UP ALL THE GUISO LIQUID IN THE BOWL! The entrees were also quite satisfying. I ate the After Church Burger which was small but very tasty accompanied by tarragon roasted potatoes with a really tasty yogurt chile sauce for dipping. I'd order it again just to get that sauce. My table mates ordered the Paella Caribena which was more soupy than the dryer rice-heavy versions I have seen elsewhere. I mentioned earlier that I don't eat seafood. I wish I could because most of it looks very appealing, but the smell usually causes my stomach to turn. The paella arrived with chicken, linguisa, prawns and clams looking more like a cioppino than a paella, but it smelled absolutely wonderful. Even my sensitive nose couldn't detect any seafood smells whatsoever. By my table mate's accounts, it tasted as incredible as it smelled. The Bad: Nothing. The Mediocre: There were no pupusas that night because the chef's mother, who makes them, had just arrived back from traveling from El Salvador. How dare she take personal time to recover from jet lag instead on making me a pupusa?! Such Nerve. Overall: This is a very nice, comfortable, homey place to enjoy a meal that uses Salvadorian spices and influence to elevate their food. I can't tell you the last time I enjoyed a meal this much. So run, don't walk to see chef Carlos and his family at Guiso!!!