Made fresh with your choice of dressing.
Gus’s Drive-In where your gastronomical satisfaction is our goal, following a belief in using the freshest, finest quality ingredients cooked to your order. Gus' opened in 1961 serving Texas City BBQ for several decades before being purchased by current owner, Mike Tucker. In 1980 Mike fulfilled his dream and purchased Gus', giving him the opportunity to have full creative control over his menu. Mike expanded the menu greatly and began implementing the recipes that were passed to him from his mom. You will taste and feel the freshness while indulging in delicious creations, knowing that we take great pride in providing wonderful healthy alternatives by frying in zero trans fat vegetable oil, while breakfast and grilled items are prepared with nature’s wonder food, the most cherished Olive Oil.
Smoked sliced ham served over a large garden salad.
Gus Cafe & Grill
Grilled Chicken breast, sliced HOT & served over salad.
Fresh shrimp grilled & served over a large garden salad.
Fresh shrimp or chicken breast grilled or blackened served with fries.
3/4 lb. sirloin steak ground fresh daily. Served on a homemade bun with fries.
6oz sirloin patty served with fries.
A grilled or blackened chicken breast. Served on a homemade bun with fries.
A grilled chicken breast, topped with swiss cheese & applewood smoked bacon. Served with fries.
A juicy USDA Choice rib-eye served on a homemade bun with potato salad or cole slaw.
Our house specialty! Our most tender steak, wrapped with bacon to enhance the natural flavor.
USDA cut from the eye of the prime Rib
Choice center cuts only!
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USDA choice steak, ground fresh daily.
Grilled or blackened jumbo shrimp served over rice pilaf with a salad.
Jumbo shrimp hand-battered & fried golden brown. Served with fries & salad.
Grilled fish, topped with delicate crab, shrimp, cheese & mushroom cream sauce. Served with a side salad & rice pilaf.
Grilled fish, topped with delicate crab, shrimp, mushroom creamy wine sauce. Served with a salad & rice pilaf.
Catfish filet grilled or blackened. Served with a salad & rice pilaf.
Fresh crawfish simmered in our own spicy sauce served over rice & served with a salad.
Catfished grilled, fried or blackened topped with our own crawfish etouffee served over rice with a side salad.
Large catfish hand-battered & fried golden brown. Served with a salad & rice pilaf.
Tender chicken breast panned golden brown & topped with a lemon, wine & mushroom cream sauce. Served with rice pilaf & a roll.
Two chicken breast grilled or blackened. Served with rice pilaf.
Center cut pork chop served with a side.
A tender chicken breast hand battered & fried golden brown. Served with cream gravy & french fries.
Hand battered chicken strips fried golden brown with creamy gravy & fries.
Gus Cafe And Grill Santa Rosa
Plaque to Gus Petersilka, near Gus's cafe
Gus' Place in September 2017
Coordinates: 35°16′39.92″S149°7′55.00″E / 35.2777556°S 149.1319444°EGus's cafe is a cafe located in Civic, Canberra, Australia. It opened in 1969 and later became the first outdoor pavement cafe in Canberra. It is one of the oldest and best known cafes in Canberra and one of the first European-style cafes in Australia. It has both outdoor and indoor dining areas.
The cafe was established by Augustin 'Gus' Petersilka (20 July 1918 – 23 October 1994)[1] who emigrated to Australia from Austria in 1951 and arrived in Canberra in 1962. Petersilka had difficulties with introducing this new style of dining to Canberra as it was against the regulations of the time for people to sit outside in a cafe or restaurant, and he had several well-publicised clashes with bureaucrats.[2]
A plaque on the pavement outside Gus's cafe marks the occasion of Gus Petersilka being made the Canberran of the Year for 1978. It reads:
Gus Cafe Versailles Ohio
Gus epitomised the emerging soul of Canberra. His constant representations on behalf of the people of the city produced the establishment of the outdoor Viennese cafe throughout Canberra. He was the scourge of the establishment and a crusader of the people. His friendly hospitality and fierce determination has been indelibly stamped on the character of Canberra. May his energy, vision and laughter live on in this city.
Petersilka was commemorated on 14 November 2002, by having a street[3] named after him in the Canberra district of Gungahlin.[4] The cafe was heritage listed in 2011.[5]
On 11 March 2011, Gus's was added to the Australian Capital Territory Heritage Register.[6]
On 9 March 2012, Gus's was temporarily closed down by the ACT Health Directorate for serious food safety breaches and risks to the public.[7]
The cafe closed in late June 2016 and was sold.[5] It re-opened in September 2017 as Gus' Place.[8]
References[edit]
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- ^ACT Library. Retrieved 27 March 2018
- ^Condolence motion on the death of Mr Gus Petersilka at 'Death of Mr Gus Petersilka'(PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. 8 November 1994. pp. 3771–3774. During the debate Mr Stefaniak said: Gus went through various jobs and businesses until he went to his famous Cafe Gus's on Bunda Street. He had a lot of fights with bureaucrats there. One morning he found that his tables and chairs had been taken away on the back of a Department of the Interior truck. As a result of the public outcry, those tables and chairs were returned. .. In 1974 he had further problems with the department in relation to some awnings and some poles which did not have the correct approval. Again, the department did a raid; this time, I understand, a pre-dawn raid. Again, there was an outcry; and those goods were returned.
- ^Petersilka Street
- ^'Schedule: Public Place Names 2002, NO. 11 (Street Nomenclature - Gungahlin) - Division of Gungahlin: Australian Industrialists and Aspects of Industry, Gungahlin Pioneers'(PDF). ACT Government. 2002. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
- ^ abThistleton, John (18 July 2016). 'Canberra's heritage-listed Gus' Cafe in Civic will re-open with new owners'. The Canberra Times. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^'GUS' CAFÉ at Bunda Street, Civic'(PDF). ACT Heritage Council. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-11/popular-canberra-cafes-closed/3882080
- ^Hogan, Jill (8 September 2017). 'Gus' Place cafe on Bunda Street reopening with all-day dining, and dinner to come'. goodfood. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
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