319 Broderick — Restaurant in West Sacramento

Save your time & money; Broderick Est. 1893 is over-rated & SOOOO overpriced! $30 (!) burgers $21 (!) Caesar salad, $11 (!) plain fries $16 (!!!) cheesecake North Beach, San Francisco prices @ a remote grimy dive bar sporting a stinky out-dated interior serviced by a sketchy dusty dimly-lit pot-holed parking lot reeking of weed smoke.

Truly laughable is that "BRODERICK Est.1893" is the extent of their exterior signage... how those driving by are to know the artistically painted building is a restaurant is beyond me but all the missed business could explain the exorbitant prices.*

The chuckles were short-lived indeed... The kitchen lacks both a Thermapen & a digital order tracking timer as all 4 of our burgers were improperly temped (grossly well+) and served in an untimely manner. Big turn offs were cold plates, luke-warm product & patties excessively smeared with condiments & stacked high with soggy onion rings & veggies combining to make overworked burgers so tall that without deconstruction all were entirely unmanageable... greasy limp fries (change and properly heat the fryer oil!), lipstick residue on beverage glasses and hack tank-top clad servers = open armpits over plates of overpriced improperly-cooked food that took an hour to receive.

Verdict; we will not return.

(Ella Dining Room in downtown Sac is free of profane employees & offers an exemplary $19 lunch pepper bacon-Guryere cheeseburger w/ seasoned fries in a high-end setting with well-dressed professional servers)

*Sac Bizjournal magazine has many articles documenting Broderick Est. 1893 owing $4+ million in unpaid taxes, liens, legal fees, past rents; vendor's, supplier's, contractor's bills, former employees wages, banking...

I never leave reviews, but I will for this place because I was disappointed. I know things are different considering the pandemic, but the customer service needs work. I stopped at this location in the way back home to the Bay Area, so not knowing anything about this place I walked in the restaurant expecting a host or someone else to greet me and help me find seating outside. Instead I just stood there awkwardly for at least 1-2 minutes before anybody acknowledged me. Then someone finally walked up to me and bluntly told me that I have to go find seating myself and order inside. I thought that in itself was strange, but that’s fine I guess.

I finally placed my order and when I got my food, it just was not great. I ordered the bison burger and the Buffalo bleu fries. The burger was OK and the fries were decent, but somehow soggy and somewhat cold. I wanted to go add something else to my order and I once again stood there for a minute waiting for somebody to acknowledge me by the bar...is this how people are regularly treated walking in? It just felt like nobody cared that I was standing there.

I ended up adding the salted caramel shake to my order, which was pretty good. Customer service could use some...

We used to love this place. When it first opened years ago. The food was amazing, and always left you wanting more.

We had dinner last night for the first time in about 4 years and it was just terrible. The food was terrible, and the service wasn't great.

We ordered the Reuben and the Johnny Cash Burger. The Reuben came out extremely tuff, to the point where we were struggling to chew, and was on a bun instead of rye bread. I ordered the Johnny Cash Burger medium and it came out rare. Ended up being a $75 check for two subpar burgers and an appetizer.

Let's just say that we were less than impressed by the food as well as service, and just talked about how we probably weren't going to be coming here anymore. But, that's not why I'm writing this review.

The decision to write this review came from the third strike. And the third strike was that not 30 minutes after leaving Broderick's I began feeling ill, and nauseous. I ended up getting food poisoning and being up all night and had to call in sick the next morning.

So all in all, save your money, save your time, and save your stomach some pain and just go to In N Out...