Great customer services, quaint place, picked up tasty bagels to go, I’ll have to come back and try their other offerings and coffee and hang out
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Milton C.
The restaurant is not crowded but the music is very loud. Employees on break sit in the dining area and use speaker phones to listen to music or for phone calls. The chopped liver is very dry. It needs some fat and browned onions. The potato pancake is not traditional and perfectly round. It's time for Wise to change its recipes and add flavor to its dishes. Its bagels are ok.
Nina Martin
Wow. The best vegetarian Ruben I've ever had.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
YEIMI MUNOZ
all the food is very
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jose Manuel C.
Showed up for breakfast and for some bagels . Bagels look good, will devour later. The breakfast tacos are fire, the French toast is awesome! Coffee is wonderful and staff is cool! Will return sometime soon!
Greg L.
Great breakfast sandwich with chicken sausage. The cheese was American so not my favorite but the pickle brine hot sauce was the star of the show.
Theewurl Prince
The salmon bagel is was good but overpriced. Cashier was a black female with a nice smile. Refreshing to see. Would go back if the value was there but I’m sure where it’s located they don’t have a problem selling expensive bagels.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bagel & Shmear
Dan Grover
I've previously been a fan of this place specifically for their breakfast burrito. It's huge, distinctive, life-changing, even, the best breakfast burrito I've ever had. However, the past couple times I've ordered it, the recipe seems to have been altered: instead of generous hunks of pastrami, it seems to have no meat at all and a load of mushrooms. The other food is fine, but that was the star attraction for me.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 4
Joe R
Decent Jewish food in the heart of the
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Matzo Ball Soup
Elli O.
Rude staff, dirty bathroom, confusing self checkout. Expensive. First and last time going here.
I ordered take out Matzo ball soup ... and a plain pastrami. And a side of coleslaw. The soup was good but not great( not as good as my homemade ) and i asked if it was a quart or a pint . I was told a quart it was not! The pastrami was really good as was the rye bread! Coleslaw was just perfect!
Ryan S.
New lows in customer service. When we told them we wanted to sit in and eat lunch the staff gave us dirty looks like we were crazy, then pointed to a self order station on the other side of the room. No staff spoke to us the entire time. We sat at one of the dirty tables in the restaurant and eventually someone dropped our food on the table. The customer service was so bad I probably wouldn't go back.
Mike Davis
I have had bagels in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Manhattan. Wise Sons’ bagels are some of the best I have had. A great find in Oakland, thank you.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Secret Society
The purist: its meh, pretty dry without the condiments, which they did not provide me despite it being in the descriptionMatzo ball soup: bad, the ball and the herbs ruin an otherwise generic, decent soupThe OG Reuben: pretty goodBabka slice: its okay
Food: 3
Amira Y.
Our first visit ever to Wise Sons, and we will not return. One star because the lox and bagel were good. * Other Food: Latkah was average, looked like it had been defrosted. The Purist was a mediocre pastrami sandwich, coffee terrible. * The staff was inattentive, unprofessional and focused solely on take out orders. * Inappropriate sloppy casual clothing, you couldn't tell if someone worked there or not * Hot food wasn't hot. * All the sides were in little plastic containers. If we're paying for dine in, we expect dine in service and dishes. First, upon arrival, with two other people in the place, I picked a table and it was covered in crumbs, wiped it down myself. Non-intuitive kiosk makes it difficult to order (evidently you order your lox and bagel without onions and then add onions on the side). The counterperson took my order, read it back to me and I paid. I didn't get a receipt thinking that I didn't need it. At $40+ I figured that covered our lox and bagel, 2 coffees, a small French toast, the Purist, and a single latkah. Here's where our experience really got bad: * the $4.00 cup of coffee (!!!) was acidic and bitter and there were grounds at the bottom * had to go to another table to find flatware * pastrami purist was room temp when it arrived at the table * upon asking for it to be rewarmed, we had to find staff people and they didn't seem thrilled about the request * the challah French toast never arrived and the staff asked to see my receipt which I didn't have They couldn't look up my order to confirm French toast without the receipt. Someone at the other end of the line found the print out and there was no French toast on it even though the staff person who took my order confirmed it verbally back to me. They kept saying, "You never ordered it." Okay fine, we re-ordered, paid, and got a receipt this time. When the French toast finally came out it was barely room temperature. I thought it was weird the butter wasn't melting on it (which also looked coagulated) so we asked for it to go on the grill. After 10 minutes it wasn't back and when I asked about it, I got a very curt and overly loud response, "WE'RE HEATING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR YOU". Now we were done. Had to track down someone to get a refund for the French toast as everyone seemed to be ignoring us, seriously no eye contact and faced the other way. They asked for the receipt even though it was the last order taken, we got the refund, and got out of there. Won't be back.
Great customer services, quaint place, picked up tasty bagels to go, I’ll have to come back and try their other offerings and coffee and hang out
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The restaurant is not crowded but the music is very loud. Employees on break sit in the dining area and use speaker phones to listen to music or for phone calls. The chopped liver is very dry. It needs some fat and browned onions. The potato pancake is not traditional and perfectly round. It's time for Wise to change its recipes and add flavor to its dishes. Its bagels are ok.
Wow. The best vegetarian Ruben I've ever had.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
all the food is very
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Showed up for breakfast and for some bagels . Bagels look good, will devour later. The breakfast tacos are fire, the French toast is awesome! Coffee is wonderful and staff is cool! Will return sometime soon!
Great breakfast sandwich with chicken sausage. The cheese was American so not my favorite but the pickle brine hot sauce was the star of the show.
The salmon bagel is was good but overpriced. Cashier was a black female with a nice smile. Refreshing to see. Would go back if the value was there but I’m sure where it’s located they don’t have a problem selling expensive bagels.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bagel & Shmear
I've previously been a fan of this place specifically for their breakfast burrito. It's huge, distinctive, life-changing, even, the best breakfast burrito I've ever had. However, the past couple times I've ordered it, the recipe seems to have been altered: instead of generous hunks of pastrami, it seems to have no meat at all and a load of mushrooms. The other food is fine, but that was the star attraction for me.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 4
Decent Jewish food in the heart of the
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Matzo Ball Soup
Rude staff, dirty bathroom, confusing self checkout. Expensive. First and last time going here.
Restaurantji Recommends
I ordered take out Matzo ball soup ... and a plain pastrami. And a side of coleslaw. The soup was good but not great( not as good as my homemade ) and i asked if it was a quart or a pint . I was told a quart it was not! The pastrami was really good as was the rye bread! Coleslaw was just perfect!
New lows in customer service. When we told them we wanted to sit in and eat lunch the staff gave us dirty looks like we were crazy, then pointed to a self order station on the other side of the room. No staff spoke to us the entire time. We sat at one of the dirty tables in the restaurant and eventually someone dropped our food on the table. The customer service was so bad I probably wouldn't go back.
I have had bagels in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Manhattan. Wise Sons’ bagels are some of the best I have had. A great find in Oakland, thank you.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The purist: its meh, pretty dry without the condiments, which they did not provide me despite it being in the descriptionMatzo ball soup: bad, the ball and the herbs ruin an otherwise generic, decent soupThe OG Reuben: pretty goodBabka slice: its okay
Food: 3
Our first visit ever to Wise Sons, and we will not return. One star because the lox and bagel were good. * Other Food: Latkah was average, looked like it had been defrosted. The Purist was a mediocre pastrami sandwich, coffee terrible. * The staff was inattentive, unprofessional and focused solely on take out orders. * Inappropriate sloppy casual clothing, you couldn't tell if someone worked there or not * Hot food wasn't hot. * All the sides were in little plastic containers. If we're paying for dine in, we expect dine in service and dishes. First, upon arrival, with two other people in the place, I picked a table and it was covered in crumbs, wiped it down myself. Non-intuitive kiosk makes it difficult to order (evidently you order your lox and bagel without onions and then add onions on the side). The counterperson took my order, read it back to me and I paid. I didn't get a receipt thinking that I didn't need it. At $40+ I figured that covered our lox and bagel, 2 coffees, a small French toast, the Purist, and a single latkah. Here's where our experience really got bad: * the $4.00 cup of coffee (!!!) was acidic and bitter and there were grounds at the bottom * had to go to another table to find flatware * pastrami purist was room temp when it arrived at the table * upon asking for it to be rewarmed, we had to find staff people and they didn't seem thrilled about the request * the challah French toast never arrived and the staff asked to see my receipt which I didn't have They couldn't look up my order to confirm French toast without the receipt. Someone at the other end of the line found the print out and there was no French toast on it even though the staff person who took my order confirmed it verbally back to me. They kept saying, "You never ordered it." Okay fine, we re-ordered, paid, and got a receipt this time. When the French toast finally came out it was barely room temperature. I thought it was weird the butter wasn't melting on it (which also looked coagulated) so we asked for it to go on the grill. After 10 minutes it wasn't back and when I asked about it, I got a very curt and overly loud response, "WE'RE HEATING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR YOU". Now we were done. Had to track down someone to get a refund for the French toast as everyone seemed to be ignoring us, seriously no eye contact and faced the other way. They asked for the receipt even though it was the last order taken, we got the refund, and got out of there. Won't be back.