Iron & Oak Restaurant and Bar — Restaurant in Oakland

The menu seemed to be changing seasonally, according to the information on the menu. So this comment is only based on my experience in Dec, 2023. We came to this restaurant because of the tempting photos on Google Map. The service is good; atmosphere is nice and cozy. But the food is disappointing. We ordered pizza, burger and creme brulee tart. I understand that all businesses cheap out in some ways at some stages and unfortunately, our meals included the food items they cheaped out aggressively. If a restaurant switched to cheaper chicken, the customer might not be able to taste huge differences. Our meal was not this case. I think the pizza base (the dough) was probably store bough and it was so dense. If not store bought then it really took some effort to make it so bad. It almost tasted like the pizza dough was not able to rise. And the toppings were just not enough to cover the whole pizza. I believe many local pizzerias could make pizza much more mouth watery and satisfying with lower price, and with properly made base. The burger was fine. The creme brulee tart was supposed to be creme brulee in a tart (I guess?) . But it was just so dense, not soft at all. Was this cream stay compact in a container for too long? If this was not located in Marriott Hotel it wouldn't be that frustrating. Maybe they think the travellers in this hotel are just too tired to care about the food quality. Also the plates we got somehow had a layer of grease (?) on top. I am sure they were clean but the restaurant just seemed to cheap out in dish washing. Actually our dessert plates were so not shiny that one of the staff mistaken them as used plates and tried to take them off the table while the plates were just given to us less than 10 min ago. (We weren't paying attention until the staff made this mistake.) With everything going on in Bay Area, I just...

I came here for a incognito meet up due to a request from a client. Located on the second floor, it has a full bar and numerous seating options including lounge booth. Our waiter was courteous and friendly making sure we had everything we needed. When I requested to be seated in a more quieter area he acknowledged and help us over. Televisions are good, but not good when you're trying to close a deal. My client treated me to a meal and his expense. I went with a burger and wings, but held back on any alcoholic drinks. Burger is made medium-well with good char taste. Really enjoyed it as I was pretty much suprise with the quality. Wings were just regular wings more like frozen thaw out and tossed in fryer. I would consider coming back myself getting drinks and watch a game or so while catching up...

Served cold, ROCK hard fries and the turkey blt sandwich was tasteless and just unpleasant. I could not eat it. Cost $17. I also had a bad customer service experience when I called about the fries. They said they were too busy to come give me fresh fries but could take $2-4 off my bill. $2 off of $17 is not reasonable, neither is saying you’re too busy to deliver food when you offer food delivery as room service. I picked up my order and they weren’t that busy. Don’t take a chance on them like I did. I’m going hungry instead of eating the food they served as it...