Brian’s Restaurant

Brian’s has delicious breakfasts! It’s a classic style diner inside, and has a great outdoor patio with umbrellas that’s set up when the weather’s nice. Make sure to try one of their omelettes as a scramble, or a stack of pancakes or French toast. Brian, the owner, is a very nice guy as well! This is a great casual spot for a meal.

What has happened to this place? You used to be able to get a nice breakfast at a reasonable price with decent service. Now you get cold and ill-​prepared food at jacked up prices served by rude waitresses.
For some reason, the price of food here has risen steeply while the quality of service has decayed. Several of the waitresses are just plain rude and in need of re-​training. And I’m not sure what the heck is going on in the kitchen, as you are guaranteed at least one mistake in your order every time. Do you like your eggs cooked a certain way? Good luck! Even if you clearly announce your passion for crisp bacon, you are likely to get a dark-​colored rubbery item that allegedly is bacon, but more closely resembles boiled licorice.
By the way, do you want a refill of your coffee? Fine, and it comes with a bonus: you get free exercise in your quest for refills as you often have to march up to the coffee station and ask for more.
Luckily, there are several other breakfast places within a ten minute drive of this place, all of which are markedly better than Brian’s. But even if there weren’t other easily accessible places, I’d rather suck the cold yolk out of a raw egg with a splintery straw than go back to the rude service that I’ve encountered here.

Brian’s is a very good restaurant, great breakfasts and lunches. The only complaint I have is their coffee. Whatever brand they use, they should switch.

Service is friendly, food is tasty and portions are hefty. That didn’t stop me. Locked that platter clean. Need I say more.

The food is pretty decent– I like their Ruben and their Benedict. The service is pretty bad, however.
One server asked if I needed anything so I asked for a side of ranch and some more water and got nothing. Someone eventually came by to fill my water and I asked for a side of ranch and got nothing. I could see the first server hanging out in the server area, not busy, just forgot about us I guess.
I finally got up and asked Brian for some ranch and he had someone bring it over.

Wow. I came here on my 21^st birthday, with my grandma and family for her 80^th birthday, we always celebrate together. We we’re sung happy birthday by the kind waitress (I wish I got names) and then later sung to again by request of the waitress from a sweet gentleman! I had eggs Benedict and hashbrowns, coffee = A+, everyone loved their food. I will definitely be returning when I am in the area. This was the best customer service I received on my 21^st birthday… and that includes the bar… so take in account this restaurant may be a hidden gem!!!
And… can I add I saw it was pet friendly?! I did not bring my pet because my visit was unplanned but as a dog owner of 10 and cat owner of 2 and never seeing that, well it is very pleasing! I think this restaurant needs more customers from San Francisco or San Jose, it really has great service and deserves better reviews.

I stopped coming to Brian’s several years ago — while the staff was good, the food was overpriced and the management was disappointing. Notwithstanding my better judgment, I agreed to meet a friend for breakfast there. Short version — the waitstaff was fine, the food was overpriced and the management refused to be bothered by a loud and poorly behaved child who made everyone’s breakfast miserable. He just sat at the counter and read his newspaper.

Consistent quality food. Work in area 1 time a month and always know your gonna get good food and outstanding service.

I didn’t even know this place existed since most of the brunch places are in downtown Los Altos, but it’s so much easier to park here. It’s actually a pretty big space and is an old school breakfast and brunch place (open only until 3pm).
We started with mimosas, which used fresh orange juice.
— Cobb salad: a big portion, lots of bacon, good grilled chicken that wasn’t too dry
— Curly fries: amazing! they reminded me of the Arby’s ones (yes, I loved those as a kid)
— Rancho omellette: I loved the ortega chilis in this, and it’s topped with lots of cheese (it’s like a flat round omelette). It’s topped with sour cream, guacamole, and salsa (I could have done without the sour cream). Homefries were crisped, but they could have used a little more salt /​seasoning
They were nice about refilling water.
It’s a little more expensive than what I expected, but it’s nice that there’s lots of space, and there was no wait nor issue with parking.

Located conveniently in Rancho San Antonio Shopping Center, this is an ideal location for a nice brunch/​lunch place. The bright orange umbrellas add a nice pop of color to the outdoor patio.
Like other reviewers said, the food is ok, but nothing to write home about.
We ordered the fish and chips and the huevos rancheros. The fish and chips were underwhelming: too greasy with a thick batter, with a side of tomato and lettuce, as if it was supposed to be a sandwich (but there was no bun…). A few hours later I’m still feeling the grease in my stomach.
The huevos rancheros had little taste and flavor.
The service met our expectations, nothing exemplary.
Would go somewhere else for brunch. I still miss the Los Altos Coffee Shop that they previously owned.

Great place to have any meal at anytime. Bring the whole family because you can be loud and not worry about your kids destroying your outing. Great patio dining. It does get very busy so please come with patience. Food is great quality and small business owners should be supported by the community. Do your neighbors a good deed by sharing our responsibility to help the lone ranger restaurateur striving to defeat the slow economy. Taste the OJ. Fresh squeezed daily. Delicious on a hot summer day and natural hydration with California oranges.

I like the food here, but wish they would offer a quiche without meat. Today during Memorial Day weekend it was very busy and noisy inside, should have taken a seat outside! Still it is convenient to church and always see people we know.
I ordered a short stack of multigrain pancakes with extra butter, yum, yumoink! Oink!

I feel like it’s hard to rate breakfast places because how can a breakfast place mess up on breakfast?! Brian’s is pretty big and has an old diner feel. The menu has every possible breakfast item on it. I got an egg white omelette with hash browns and wheat toast. It was all super delicious and super filling! The price of all of that was $ 13.95 I definitely would come back here for breakfast if I’m in the area!

I like Brian’s Special and some of the other omelet specials. They taste decently and it fills the tummy. Not to mention, the portion size is just about right.
What I think can be improved is the slowness of service and placing an order to go. Furthermore, with some of the waitresses their attitudes need to change. One waitress in particular – Elena – was rude and irritating. When she was helping the host place my to go order, she looked so frustrated and mad that he could not get the transaction correct. He was obviously struggling and needed help, and she was being pissy about it. She needs to have an attitude check. It’s as if she doesn’t enjoy waking there. Her poor people skills and attitude is not inviting. I would go here again, but would not want to be served by her.

It’s a typical coffee shop — nothing to write home about. I had the corned beef hash and was underwhelmed. Tasted the pancakes and they were nothing special.
Our waitress was great but the food at our table left a lot to be desired. My friend had the Hawaiian Loco Moto (eggs, rice, ground beef patty and gravy) and found it very tasteless — it didn’t remind him of the islands that’s for sure…
I would not make Brian’s a top choice in my book. Mind you, it was packed, but it didn’t meet my standards.

The food was really good. I got the sausage links with home fries scrambled eggs and a bagel. Our server was nice but we had like 3 different people helping us. It was very very loud in there. Overall it was good.

I decided to eat here for brunch because it was close to Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve.
I ordered the ham and egg scramble with potatoes and replaced the toast with bagels. I also ordered the pancakes with blueberries. I thought the portion size was average for the price and everything tasted average. Nothing wrong with the food, but nothing interesting either.

One of those unpretentious greasy-​spoon type diners, in a really unlikely neighborhood where you’d expect snooty servers and $ 18 omelets.
Definitely a great place to relax and have way too much coffee before a long day at work.

First impression when I walked into the door was that it was very festive with Halloween decorations and employees were friendly. My friend and I were seated right away. Seat was dirty with hash browns on it so I had to wipe it off before sitting.
Ordered the Waffle breakfast with choice of bacon, sausage, or ham with one egg and I added fresh strawberries. The food wasn’t bad (waffle was big, lots of strawberries, three small sausages), came out quick, and we had countless refills of coffee. Friend ordered the club sandwich which was ginormous. Outdoor seating available, is pet friendly which is a plus.

You know you’re in trouble when you enter a restaurant and the waitress gives you the «deer in the headlights» look. No greeting. She skipped off before she had to make contact.
We were seated by a very nice hostess at a table that still had the bill and a pile of cash from the previous diners. She set down the menus and a cup of coffee. That’s when the long long long wait began.
We saw the owner and a group of employees hanging around the counter. Again, no eye contact and no one came over to get our orders. We were never approached again. After close to 20 minutes, we added the price of the coffee to the stack of cash and walked out. No one noticed or cared.
Amazing that that at 10:00 am on a Tuesday morning, the idea of serving customers wasn’t part of the agenda.
My last visit was 5 years ago and I figured things would have improved. It was a very similar problem. Service is really lacking. It seemed like a good idea to try Brian’s again but I don’t know how they are still in business.
If you are looking for a place to be completely ignored, this is it.