M. H.

Overall great food. Awesome sausages, and the ground mustard sauce that they serve there is awesome. Don't think you can get that anywhere else. We got there almost 1pm on a Sunday so most of the bakery items are gone. So I think you should go earlier for a better selection. Also, parking was also difficult.

Maria Smith

I enjoyed the German pancake with apples. It is not like a Dutch pancake. It's more like a dense crepe. My hubby and my son ordered omelettes. They were decent. Nothing special about German coffee- tastes like any other house coffee. Their desserts and pretzels are so delicious, especially the triangular shape shortbread with a layer of raspberry topped with almond slivers and then the edge is dipped in chocolate- heaven!!! My hubby and I came back a few weeks later and tried the dishes in the photos below- amazing!!!

Familie Hong

Pretzels are really good (have to be eaten fresh), but their breakfast was rather average. German ingredients are a great touch, but overcooked eggs are dry, nonetheless.

+1

Didn't have any cooked meals, just came for coffee and deserts. Not enough spaces for parking. Ordered latte and 3 different kind of deserts. Unfortunately, none of them impressed me, one of them was highly recommended by the staff and it was the worst.

Y&N

Their Bratwurst Plate & Beef Rouladen were ok, fresh but quite basic. The seasoning seemed ok, maybe it was that the meats were not as juicy as other German restaurants or even Polish restaurants. Very disappointed they don't offer Sauerbraten at all. NYC German Restaurants serve amazing Sauerbraten, meat is actually soured for days! Can't find good, authentic, actually soured Sauerbraten in the Bay Area. They used to have these delicious chocolate dipped marzipan cookies which they no longer have. They should bring them back. *Note: Beer in Germany is served at cooler temperature than room temperature but not cold like here in the US.

Cecilia Chung

Interesting to try German food. We were here on that very hot day (~100F) and their AC was broken, so we sat in the patio, but it was also too hot. That made it harder to enjoy the dinner, specially since the water was also not iced/cold. A bit expensive, but worth it. Just didnt like the sides on the meats, would prefer potato or bread!

Lucille Stauch

I ordered 2 main dishes to go for $34 and got the values of max $20. (käsespätzle $14, Pork Schnitzel $20) A bit disappointed since it had good reviews! Won’t go again!

Esther Dunton

We’ve loved this restaurant for years! Tried again today and will never return. Nothing in the German chicken sandwich that tasted German. No sauce to taste. Belgian waffle was actually cold! Fruit bowl w granola (stale) yogurt (I paid, but it never arrived- didn’t have any! Didn’t offer to refund me the $3.) Must be new ownership. Awful, I’m sorry to report.

None None

Esther’s Bakery is no longer selling quality food: we were sold two reheated SuperPretzels, each priced as a box of 6 available at any grocery store, in a frozen section. These are not the delicious German pretzels knots we used to buy at Esther’s bakery or Piazza’s. And no, the pandemic does not justify reselling frozen pretzels at a premium price.

Nicholas Pun

Take your money and go across the street for better food and service. At $18 for a meal, I'd rather fill myself up with sugary drinks from Starbucks. For what it's worth (which isn't much) the food is fine. Nothing special though. It feels like they went to the butcher across the street, bought some sausages, boiled them and then slathered a bunch of vinegar on it. You can make this at home. (The pretzel was also definitely under proofed, that dough was pilling) The main problem is that these people don't seem to know how to run a restaurant. The front is empty consistently, the food takes forever to come out, and there were lots of angry people waiting around for their to-go orders. Man, I was excited to try this spot out, but that was insanely disappointing.

+9

yura hong

Wurst and pommes were good, however they don’t have many kinds of bread. Also they forgot our coffee so we had to go back and ask for it. And they forgot again to give us milk. Apfelkuchen was very disappointing. It didn’t use real apples .. i think they used some kind of creme.