"I absolutely LOVE Old City Hall Restaurant!! They consistently serve up great tasting food, and the staff members are always friendly and amazing. I’m intrigued with the building and nostalgic vibe.

They have a large menu offering starters, salads, house soups, beef, pork, chicken, Old City Hall Specials, seafood, pasta, sandwiches and burgers, wraps, kids meals, and tasty desserts!

Old City Hall has a full bar with dining, patio seating, and an upstairs area equipped to host the ultimate party.

I encourage you to give them a try!"

Janey Lee Caravallo Maciel

"We thoroughly enjoyed their excellent Grilled Salmon with Lemon Caper Sauce over Rice Pilaf! Fast, friendly service. Such a unique venue, well worth your visit. Be sure to check out their restrooms (former courthouse jail). Lots of various sizes of kid booster seats, covered outdoor seating as well as bar seating. This is such a a unique venue, well worth a visit!"

James Bray

"On a 4.5 hour drive back to LA after this meal, we struggled to find any redeeming qualities about Old City Hall. At least it gave us a laugh?

Food:
Terrible. The attached photos (aside from the burger) are before we touched anything. Everything looked physically thrown on the plates. And it's like, the food was wrong in both directions, in every case. The Cubano was burnt but underdone. The fries were undercooked and overcooked. The pasta salad had been boiled 40 minutes, chilled, then placed under a heat lamp. The "crostini" was dry but untoasted. They asked for a temperature on the smash burger, which is never a good sign, and indeed it was not smashed.
It was the kind of meal that makes you wonder if you're going to be sick later.

Service:
It took 10 minutes for a host to arrive to seat us, then another 10 for our server to appear. The first thing she said was that she was quitting, and the other table she had was complaining a lot. Usually I side with the staff on these matters, but I came to realize the other table probably had a point.
The restaurant was probably at 30% capacity, maybe 8 tables, and there were 3 servers working at least. And they were very clearly in the weeds. I don't know where the breakdown happened but something is not working here.
Also, look at the mustard bottle. That label has not been changed in years. Absolutely horrifying.

Atmosphere:
The exterior is the one place Old Town Hall has any positive. The building was once the Old Town Hall, and it has cool bones. But what they've done with the inside looks like the "before" of an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. It's ugly, brown, disgusting, outdated, and absolutely unwelcoming in every regard.

I hate to give a one star review unless something catastrophic happens but Old Town Hall is a catastrophe. What boggles my mind is it's featured in local "Welcome to Gilroy" printed materials and websites. Maybe it was once good, but as it stands, Old City Hall needs serious help."

Michael Guynn