Gumbah’s Italian Beef

this business has been closed for over a year!

Actually, Gumbah’s has been closed for several years now. It’s a shame. At one time, they even had a second location in Benicia. Towards their end, Gumbah’s was rarely open, closing early. By so doing, they cut out any «dinner» crowd. Perhaps it was the closing of Mare Island that spelled the end. During their heyday, Gumbah’s served a killer combination sandwich, with a spicy sausage, covered with roast beef, and HOT peppers. I’d add cheese & mustard. Packing Doritos and milk from home, this sandwich made an excellent Saturday picnic, extra napkins required. Gumbah’s would even provide extra peppers to go in little cups. The walls were covered with baseball memorabilia, the place needed a solid cleaning… but the sandwiches were SO GOOD. Sigh, only a distant memory now. To get the same fix, one has to travel to Petaluma, to Roy’s Chicago Hot Doggery. They are filling the same niche for artery and heart clogging beef sandwiches. If you’re ever up that way, Roy’s in actually in the cattle auction sheds by 101, about the oddest location one can think of. No matter, just go someday!

I miss the old Gumbah’s! It was the best Italian beef I have ever had.

When is this m.f. place open?

This place two years ago would have received four stars from me. Bummer the old dude that owned the place sold out and went home — home to Chicago that is– where Italian Beef was invented.
This was a real hidden-​perfect-​funky off-​the –beaten-​path old-​school secret spot. It’s over though — sorry you missed it.
The new owners cleaned out the funky dingy old cob webby stuff they had in this gem and ruined the atmosphere! DUMB, DUMB, DUMB! You might run it for a while and see why your clients come before you change everything next time. Is this your first time running a restaurant? I’ll bet you thought you were doing a good thing huh? Not!
You ruined it! It was perfect and you painted it over you morons!
For Gumbah’s its too late…
Imagine if some corporation bought Tommy’s Joint in SF and cleaned it up, painted it over and got rid of all that old stuff — that’s how I feel with the loss of Gumbah’s. It is a real tragedy.