Bernal Bagels & Donuts — Restaurant in San Jose

The staff was very friendly and helpful but not too fast. This was acceptable because they were extremely busy for such a small place. The only reason for the 4 stars is the quality of the rather expensive doughnuts. While they were decent enough, they tasted heavily of the semi-burned oil they were cooked in. It seemed as if the dough was not cold enough when put in the fryer and was just soaked right up along with that taste. I am not sure if this is a regular occurrence or not, but I would like to hope that it is not, and so I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

A mixed dozen doughnuts with 9 regular, 2 apple fritters, and a cinnamon roll was 34$. Google says it is cash only, but they now accept cards with a 5$ minimum. It was pretty expensive for that day's quality, IMHO.

Overall, it seems like they did more business with their breakfast sandwiches, which, based on the menu and from watching the staff prepare them, seemed as though they would be quite excellent. Truthfully, these were not items that I was really expecting to find at a bagels and doughnut shop, but they seemed quite popular nonetheless.

I would give it another try, but from the doughnut perspective, I wouldn't yet recommend buying them there. Hopefully, that was...

This is a good place for a donut however the bagal......not so much. I always am greeted with smiles and they truly are nice but I got a "cinnamon raison" bagel that had only 3 raisins and no cinnamon flavor and the look of shock when I brought it back to ask them if they could put just a few more raisins in them next time was almost to the point of how dare you... I didn't ask for a refund or make a big deal about it, I even was going to wait till the customers in line were taken care of first. I replayed the scene from casino about the blueberry muffin....I could have but I didn't. Good donuts but the bagel...

Went on a mystery car run today, we met up near the doughnut shop. Of course me being a doughnut lover I decided to stop in and get a maple filled bar. The inside has plenty of seating, a refrigerator for drinks and a counter "doughnut rack" I ordered a maple bar and asked if I could get it cream filled? "She said yes" Ok now for the doughnut: unfortunately it was dry and the maple did not taste good. The cream filling had kind of a tang to it "like it was spoiled" so the service was ok 3 stars but the doughnut unfortunately for me it's one and done. Sorry I can not...