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Blackberry Bistro 

4240 Park Blvd. (at Wellington Ave.)
Oakland, CA 94602
510-336-1088
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GLENVIEW | This was my favorite breakfast place every weekend, until recently. After one-too- many half our waits for the check, we’ve decided that our time was more valuable than the half hour in line, the 20 minutes wait to order, and the half hour wait for the check. It doesn’t happen 100% of the time, but I would say at least 50%. The food is great. I love, love, love the banana bread pudding with creme fraiche. I would eat that first, before I eat my eggs. Of course, I’m usually almost sick by the time I leave due to over eating. Seriously though, their service is just so terrible, we don’t go there anymore.

Rating: Food very good. Service not so good.

Reader Comments (2)

 

03.14.2007 | shannon

just a quick note that the service has drastically improved and the food has stayed equally wonderful under new ownership - give them another try!

12.29.2007 | Lisa

My husband and I can’t figure out why everyone loves Blackberry Bisto so much. We gave it 4 tries and feel it’s overrated and not worth the wait. The food is mediocre at best. Everytime we ate there the eggs were over-done, the food was not brought out in a timely manner - one person had food while the other waited; and the service was not good. The last time that we ate there I stayed away from the eggs and it was okay.I’ll give credit to the male waiter (younger guy) that day, as he was best waiter/waitress we’ve had there. 1 in 4 is not a good track record.