Darla Cafe
14572 Big Basin Wy, Saratoga
(408) 868-9822
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Nice ambiance but food is pretty overpriced for the portion and taste. The shrimp congee was a highlight. The benedicts were regular. The crispy kale was a good idea but super greasy.
We sat on the patio which was nice to hangout with friends on a good day.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Good place. Can't complain. Food is good. 5 stars if their orange juice was available.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Nice quiet little dinner type atmosphere. Food was delicious and the staff was very attentive. I would go back without question.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Don't waste your time, money, and patience on this place. Terrible. Everything. Food, service, table. Ok, for starters, our table was kind of sticky. Nbd stuff happens. But everything else just exacerbated this point. We finally got to order after we were seated for a long time and it took well over fourty minutes to get our food. This wouldn't be an issue but there were only three other tables seated. This again, wouldn't be the most unforgivable thing in the world but 1 of our dishes was warm and the other was actually just cold and the other two seems freshly made. But like cold potatoes. No one wants to eat that. I was so taken aback that I forgot to even take a pic of the dish but you can kind of see it in the corner of one of my pics. It seemed like our food was done much earlier and our server forgot to get the dishes and that they're terrible at making the food so it arrives all at the same time for a table. All of these blips might be ok but this restaurant charges to $25+ dollars to give you cold potatoes. But even the food that was prepared here was basal. The flavors were fairly flat and under seasoned. The portions are small for the quality and price. And honestly, I found the comparable to iHOP. That's not a compliment.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Amazing folks, made a custom toast dish for me.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
On a quiet Saturday, my husband and I enjoyed the Asian fusion breakfast with cardamom orange infused coffee, yuzu custard ricotta pancakes and the jok koong Thai rice congee with shrimp breakfast. The congee was enough to share for two but the ricotta pancakes were too good to pass up. Highly recommend this place. Also has outdoor shaded patio seating. No pics cause I ate everything too quickly.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nothing more to say than this is the best brunch experience I’ve ever had. Everything was perfection. The food, interior design, service, everything - it was absolutely lovely.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cozy place, service was fast. I ordered steak and noodles. It was delicious, but for my taste it was too salty.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Stopped in for a late breakfast and was pleasantly surprised by the food. For one, it's very hard to find a place that serves congee for breakfast, let alone a Thai place offering jok! So happy to see that as we miss having jok in the morning when we are in Thailand. It was delicious and recommend if you are someone who misses it.
I ended up getting one of the omelettes, and while good, I kept getting drawn back to the potatoes cooked in truffle oil 😋.
Automatic gratuity added for a party of 5 on Mother’s Day.
I completely understand the busyness that Mother’s Day causes for restaurants, but I don’t appreciate an automatic gratuity when the service was extremely poor. My family and I are very understanding and patient people, and would have been happy to work with the servers had they mentioned being short staffed, behind schedule, or even just very busy.
Instead, they came by only to worldlessly take our orders, dropped off one or two dishes at a time leaving our table awkwardly staggered without any explanation, dropped off the wrong plates multiple times without apology, and never once checked in otherwise even to refill our empty water glasses. Then we got our bill and you want an automatic gratuity? Frustrating to say the least!
ON THE OTHER HAND, every menu item we ordered was genuinely delicious. We had Karaage both sandwich and benedict, softshell crab sandwich, pulled pork sandwich, and impossible burger all of which were beautifully plated, along side their truffle rainbow potatoes which were delightful. Our rose berry mimosas, lemonades, and aperol spritz were also refreshing and perfect for a warm May day.
OVERALL, I can’t say I would recommend this place unless the poor service was a fluke due to the holiday, which I sincerely hope is the case.
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Super slow service. Food was not good at all: you can taste baking powder in the pancake and you need loads of syrup to mask it; tofu scramble is very salty; fruits taste bland. With that price, I didn't expect the lunch there could be this bad.
We are on the outdoor patio and enjoyed all our dishes, including the desserts.
Enjoyed the food here. Took a while to come out.
If the restaurant did not offer discount and complementary waffle, I’d rated as 1 star. Super slow food and not delicious at all. The house Benedict “fusion” with a crispy kale and it took half the space of the plate. And the stem of it is not chewable at all, don’t get the point of this dish. The loco moco was also weird and took waaaaay tooo long to come, that’s also why they offered the discount and free waffle. The loco moco also doesn’t look like the other one we use to have and had a huge portion of rice.
To really find some positive things: bacon in my Benedict tasktes food and the place is clean.
Terrible Experience – Bad Food & Even Worse Service
Here’s a blunt and honest review
If I could give this place zero stars, I would. The food was absolutely terrible—either cold, undercooked, or just completely tasteless. To make matters worse, the service was just as bad, if not worse. The staff seemed uninterested, and the so-called “manager” was the rudest of them all. Instead of addressing concerns, she had an attitude and made the experience even more frustrating.
I would not recommend this place to anyone. Save your money and go somewhere that actually cares about its customers and serves edible food.
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