Douglas Aberdeen

Art neavau brunch vibe with french posters. Breakfast until 2pm on weekends. Popular but a lot of tables. I enjoyed the classic eggs Bene, bit my partner thought the crouque monsieur was missing a decent cheese to give it taste. County potatoes were great. Service was fast and courteous.

+5

Ahmed Shehata

Our family sat in the outdoor seating area and was immediately greeted and took our order. However, the food was very mediocre and not worth the overinflated prices. We ordered 2 burgers and 2 glasses of orange juice and a side of fries and it was $100! The burger was okay, a bit dry and the sweet potato fries were way too soft and had an odd smell/taste to them. Would not recommend.

Max Kay

Ambient is with French style cafe furniture and strings. Waiters are responsive and polite. Serving size is generous American size portion. Large variety of great brunch, sandwiches and drinks! Located a corner lot with large space for indoor and outdoor seating. It has a decent size parking lot but street parking should be available too. Great for dates or weekend brunches.

+3

Edd Rustrian

Waited to seated 20mins not bad. I ordered the Jolie favorite scrambled eggs , potatoes and chicken sausage. It was a good portion and good. My wife ordered the eggs Benedict but the ham was just a deli slice not the regular baked ham. The holiday sauce wasn’t good. My son ordered the French toast and it was good. The lavender latte is delicious. The beignets were ok. Needed something.

+1

Samantha Jackson

Stopped by as my mom wanted to try the place again. In this visit we found the service to be slow. Just like what other reviewers noted too. We had to flag down a server to check on our food. Once they went back to the area to check on it we saw that they were carrying it out with in a minute. This means our food was sitting ere for a while. The place wasn't busy as there are a few open tables but we still waited for a table. We counted the number of guess and looked at the number of workers. They had a good ratio. Not sure why it was so slow. When the food arrived it looked good. Instagram ready. Flavors were okay. Overall its a 3 star place, but with a 2 star service. If you want to try out the place make sure you have extra time.

Shalece Stevens

This place was cute. Food was ok. Belini were decent priced. I like my pancake golden, the one I received was dark brown. The country potatoes seem to be old and no season and the eggs were bland. Great company with my Lil sis.

+1

Jim W

I can see why the current total rating is 3.8. The plate presentation is nice. About a 15 minute wait. Food was ready in less than 15 minutes. They use metal straws. For a standard brunch it is just fine. The Kitchen staff was working consistently and as a team. They don't do reservations. They are tight on the substitutions. The omelet section says "Please No Substitutions". The waitress was gossiping about other workers to another waitress with a full restaurant. Nothing special or exciting about the brunch food; it's basic. It's cold inside as well.

+2

Jason Pribush

Unfortunately my family and I did not have a good experience here. Our food just didn’t come out right for us. Our bacon was burnt and mostly everything was cool to the touch including our French onion soup. My entree seemed like it got forgotten about as it came out several minutes after. My wife asked for well done eggs and they came out runny! The waiter was very nice though. We did however go to this restaurant on a Sunday which is a fairly busy day. I’m not sure if I would drive that far away to return to this restaurant again.

+10

Norma J. Ross

Update: April 2024- Not sure what’s going on,but this place is falling through the cracks. It’s been understaffed, under stress and the quality of the food is going down as well. I’m not recommending it to anyone I know anymore. Old post: Nice atmosphere and good experience for brunch. Super friendly staff, best latte coffee and french toasts.

+2

John

Just had their Salmon Florentine, which over 95% stayed on the plate. Before I start last time I ate here was over 10 years ago with family. The poached eggs were the only highlight on this meal and anyone can poach an egg at home. The soggy English muffin was covered with an overly salted red onions that were pickled there-but poorly, and the cuts were huge and horrendous. The greens atop of the muffin were old & some of the purple lettuce was spoiled as well as some parts of the greens. The country potatoes had no seasoning at all and were sad to say the least. I ordered the bacon as backup not knowing how the smoked salmon would turn out and it was older than the bacon, which looked absolutely hammered and had tons of grease. The salmon was smoked but it had already turned bad. As a person who worked in restaurants and being a person who likes to fish and occasionally smoke fish, it takes quite sometime to turn smoked fish bad. The chef covered the salmon with the poached eggs and tons of the onions to mask the disaster. The waitress asked if everything was good, but I sensed as she looked at my plate that I was not happy. However she didn’t ask to remedy the meal which further cemented my opinion of this place. I quietly nodded “yes everything is ok” and here’s why. I’m not talking about eating at the French Laundry or Chëz Panisse, a simple breakfast is all I needed and I live here in town several blocks away from this establishment. That being said if this was their attempt to make a good impression what is the point to send something back to the kitchen they couldn’t get right the first time. It never comes out better in places like this. Never. The last time I ate here was with family. This was thee last time I eat here. Go to Oakland, maybe there’s something better on Park street options are slim at best for breakfast. Grab a donut next door and a coffee you’d be better off.

Ana Maria Sanchez

We really wanted to like this place! We just moved to Alameda and this was our first meal outing for breakfast. We were majorly disappointed with the service. Our server took our drink order and did not return to our table until over 30 minutes later, without our drinks and had forgotten what our drink order was to begin with. After 30 minutes, we flagged a different server to take our full order and bring our drinks. Our food came about 15 minutes later but only for 2 of 3 from our party. One person in our party did not get their order and we then had to flag someone else down to let them know. Once we received the final food order, the rest of us had already finished eating. We then ordered drinks to sip while our other guest finished their meal and the server brought the wrong drink. All in all, the food was alright but the service is what really made this experience. So many mistakes back to back made this experience so comically difficult. We wish we could say we’d come back but we are left with a bad taste after this.