Birch Hoboken — Restaurant in Hoboken

Went here for a Saturday Brunch with a few friends. DO NOT GO HERE FOR BRUNCH, OR FOOD, OR ANYTHING REALLY. We sit down at our table and there is club music playing. I enjoy club music, but it was so loud that we could not even talk to each other without screaming. For a brunch at 12PM on a Saturday that was completely unnecessary.

Then we order the bottomless mimosas. These were probably the worse mimosas that I have ever had in my life. Pretty much watered down champagne with a splash of OJ. Honestly it could have bee club soda for all we knew. I'm all for getting drunk but I would have enjoyed it to taste a little better. On top of that they serve the mimosas in a flute glass that is rimmed with icing and sprinkles. This was extremely odd and made it taste even worse. I will give props where props are due though. The man refilling the mimosas was on point. Although he should have been on point as it seemed like that was his only job and there were only 3 -4 tables of people in the room.

We are all extremely hungry so the server tells us that we can either do the buffet or order from the menus. We look at the buffet and it is all microwaveable foods. Mini taquitos, empenadas, sausage patties, bacon, and powdered eggs. YEAH NO THANKS. If I wanted that I would have stayed home and made my Jimmy Dean Breakfast hash browns and my own mimosas. So we all decide to order off of the menu. Keep in mind that we have no place settings or napkins, our glasses are all plastic, and we are still screaming across the table to talk to each other. Now it took our server a solid 20 mins to give us the Ipads with the menus on it. We all decide what we want and we had to flag the guy down another 15 mins later to place our orders.

Now we are all really hungry at this point, so 45 mins pass and we flag down the server again (still no place settings or napkins, and still screaming). He tells us that the food will be out in about 10-15 mins. They are backed up with all of the people. Okay, what people?? There are only another 3 tables of people in the place and all of them are eating the buffet. The waiter apologizes for the long wait and says that we go eat the buffet free of charge because of the wait. We say screw it, and all go to the buffet. We load up and begin eating, and it was exactly as you would have expected. TRASH. Another 15 mins pass and we flag down the waiter again (notice the common theme of us having to flag him down and him not checking in on us to see how we are doing?) to check on our food. He tells us that it will be another 10 mins. 15 mins later our food comes out. HOORAYYY!! I wouldn't cheer just yet. I ordered a Chipotle Burger and the meat was lukewarm at best. I also ordered loaded fries and those were soggy and cold as well. I was extremely disappointed.

They also put blue cheese on one of our friends buffalo chicken sandwich when she had asked for ranch, and over cooked another burger to well done when it was asked to be medium rare. It tasted like they made the food an hour ago and let it sit out until all of the food was ready and then gave it to us. If you do all the math her you will see that from the time of ordering to the time we received the food it took 1 hour and 15 mins.

Overall this is a garbage place to do a boozy brunch. There are so many other better places in better cities like Jersey City or NYC where we would have paid the same amount and had a wayyyyyyy beter experience. If you like extremely loud club music and eating microwaveable food for brunch then this is the place for you! I can honestly say that I had such a bad experience with the service, food, and drinks that I will never be attending Birch for...

WORST SERVICE EVER!! Had reservations at 9:30 but I arrived at 9:42 because finding parking was also bad especially in Hoboken. Well once we get there the ladys (servers) at the door asked if we had a table and we said yes. Well we go in and waited about 10-15 mins trying to locate the table to eat before enjoy our night. Well the lady who brung us in was confused on where to sit us so me and my friends just decided to grab the first open table available that could fit all of us. Well once we are seated, I’m guessing the manager comes in and questioned us to who gave us that table. I answered we have reservations and he just takes out his phone and says “it’s 10pm, no food is being served, are you ordering a bottle because its 1 bottle per 5 people inorder to have this table.” Mind you , no menus have been given to , nor do we expect to get 2-3 bottles. PRICES HERE FOR DRINKS AND BOTTLES ARE INSANE. I paid 61 dollars for 2 shots and 2 cups of henny with juice. Despite the long wait also at the bar the ladys only served girls who had cash in hand or only served guys who was buying drinks for a bunch of people. Well despite all the negative things that happened last night , the music choice of the dj was also TRASH. This whole establishment has to be reconstructed with better employees and service. When you go to Birch Hoboken , have cash and expect to pay at the door pass 10pm and don’t expect to find a table just grab the first one you see. Ohh by the way, we ended up eatting and getting food inside of the club which arrived at 11:20 and i kid you not, the server added a 20% tip to each bill w/o our concent. I was also pissed about that part . WORST SERVICE EVER the guy server was never at our table checking up on us. I would never go again to BIRCH HOBOKEN. (It should be called BIT** We-broken ...

Ive actually been here on two separate occasions. For the night club and for brunch. Below i will list my experience with each of them.

NIGHTCLUB: as far as the night club goes it was overall a pretty average night club experience in hoboken. They played good music, music you would find on the radio the dj was pretty good and they had props which was a plus. Its also best to put your name on the vip list online to avoid paying the cover. The place is nicely decorated. Will i return for the night club? Maybe but would not be my first choice. BRUNCH: so my friends and i follow them on instagram and saw all of the great pictures and brunch that was advertised so we decided to go. The service was not good, very very slow. It took about 15 minuets for them to bring our mimosas. They had about one server working for the brunch they advertised so well. Which i didn’t understand. The menu as far as food went was very disappointing. There is no brunch menu per say just the little appetizers that stick on top of the bloody mary and thats pretty much it. No brunch food at all. Highly disappointed because we had came with an appetite for brunch food. So that led us to have to order burgers off of there regular menu. The burger was good, good quality meat. Would i go back for brunch? Absolutely not. If your looking for a place to have bottomless mimosas and drinks with your friends and just have drinks. This place is a good fit. However, if you are looking for an actual brunch to accompany your mimosas this is not the place. There are plenty of other places in hoboken that serve a good meal and even have bottomless drinks on sundays. Wish my experience was different because i had high hopes according to how there...