Rose's Cafe — Restaurant in San Francisco

Update: Since my last visit, the service, cleanliness and overall atmosphere has been great. Thank you for very much for the great times and amazing food.

Food is great, latte is over the top sweet. The breakfast hash is great, we come back on the regular for this. The booth couches are a place to avoid, you can literally feel the spring coils ripping through material and assaulting you like you an unwanted city tax. The service is beyond shocking, they rarely clean the tables or chairs, we got there first thing in the morning as they opened and had to wipe down the chairs that had accumulated food from the night before. Wait staff have no time or training to even engage with customers in small chit chat, it's basically a transaction to them and nothing else.

Overall, great food, terrible service, terrible atmosphere. Management need to spend more money on refurbishing and making the place feel like a great corner cafe instead of the run down cash...

Came here on a Sunday morning and ordered the smoked salmon, crème fraîche, and scrambled egg breakfast pizza and an arugula peach salad with ricotta salata. Food came out quickly, which was good. The rest of the experience... far from good. The very expensive pizza was offensively bland and boring, with a crust akin to a soft cracker, skimpy on the crème fraîche, and awkwardly arranged with a tiny pile of flavorless scrambled eggs in the middle. The arugula salad was uneven and, despite its well-meaning combination of ingredients, utterly unremarkable. We ordered a side of toast to put the smoked salmon and eggs on instead of the pizza crust, and it was marginally better, though the toast was partly burnt. Service was great, so it's too bad that what they serve their customers isn't. SF has so much great brunch food that I really can't recommend this place. Maybe it's better for dinner... I'm not going...

Came here on Mother’s Day hoping for a great meal with family. The restaurant wasn’t busy, which surprised us, but we’ve had good experiences here before and were optimistic.

Unfortunately, the food was underseasoned. My smoked salmon breakfast pizza, my son’s chicken sausage with polenta, and my husband’s soft scrambled egg sandwich all needed help from hot sauce or salt and pepper. Service was friendly but a bit forgetful—we didn’t get sugar and cream for our coffee until it had gone cold.

That said, we still enjoyed our time because we were in great company, and thankfully, there was no rush to leave. Even though the food didn’t shine this time, I’m giving the restaurant a 4/5 because I remember how wonderful it once was. I’m hopeful this was just an off day, and I’d love to see the kitchen return to the well-seasoned, memorable meals we’ve had here...