Esther's Kitchen & Beer Garden

The Jägerschnitzel was absolutely delicious. The cream of mushroom sauce was light and perfectly complemented the homemade spätzle.
What I love about this place is that the food tastes truly homemade, not like something out of a jar.
While the staff was very friendly, I do feel there’s room for improvement in their training.
I’m definitely planning to return to try their German breakfast!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Great food and coffee. I recommend trying the biscuits. Alex’s salad is the bomb. Now that Starbucks has fewer seats it’s nice to have Esther’s as a place you can sit and have coffee while you work or study. I would come here more often if there was a price break on coffee refills or bottomless coffee.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Decent basic brunch in a cozy atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

It was a good local family brand and they made great bread. Now it’s a dump fake German cafe where they reheat the canned food and try to scam you out of your money when they think you’re not paying attention. Lady at the counter tried changing us $21 for 2 bottles of beer that go for $2 apiece at BevMo next door. Don’t risk ordering fried food, they don’t maintain the fryer. I would give zero stars if I could. I saw a similar review posted 7 months ago so this is not a new development, this is their business model. Places like that should be out of business immediately, but it’s Bay Area and people either have no taste buds or don’t understand the value of money.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

unfortunately food is very disappointing not german at all not very fresh service takes very long

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

A good find for kaiserschmarrn in the bay area! Sadly, I live just far enough away that I can't come all that regularly, else I would.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Checked online for hours of operation. Made a special trip up from Lis Gatos. Went there at 10 and a note on the door said, closed.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

This is my favorite breakfast place in the area. The pfannkuchen is just delicious and the farmers scramble is just a really good scramble. I can't speak about lunch or dinner, but it's an easy recommendation for breakfast! I've walked away full and happy every time.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Apple Pancake, Pfannkuchen

Parking: Some spaces available in front, by the street, but additional parking in the back.

Wheelchair accessibility: Entered through the front, no steps involved and it would be easy to pull up a wheelchair at the tables.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pastry

Really good food and service!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Beef Rouladen

A nice place, where the music in the background is pleasant, the food is delicious and the beer is very good. Cheers!?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Don't get the sandwiches. They literally buy the cheapest wheat bread you can find in a grocery store, the cheapest processed meat, and the cheapest processed cheese, with mediocre vegetables.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 5

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.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Currywurst

Always a pleasure to pop into Esther’s for a bite. We leave with an entire bread basket to savor at home for days.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bratwurst Plate, Coffee Cake, Lox Potato Pancakes, Roll, Apple Pancake, Potato Pancakes

Great food pretty authentic, good service too. Not many people sadly so the atmosphere is a little empty.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5