El Molcajete Cocina Mexicana

Came for brunch and sat in the parklet. It was a windy day so the waiter turned up the heater and partially closed the door to help. They had high chairs available. Service was a bit slow and shots were on the pricier side for some standard drinks but overall okay and the presentation was nice. Food was good. I like when places have house made tortilla chips which were still warm

I found it!!! The search is over. I found an Authentic Chile Relleno in the Bay Area!! Now I have to move to Oakland. I have not been posting the failures of every other Mexican restaurant to produce a Real Relleno! I can't wait to try everything else on their huge menu! Their Mojito hit the SPOT!!! SO MANY DRINKS TO CHOOSE FROM, EVER FLAVOR MARGARITA!

This place is one of the best I've been to for genuine Mexican food! The shrimp cocktail was the best I've had in years and the drinks were super good! The carne asada we had was tender and juicy with made the overall meals really delicious! I highly recommend going here to try if you are ready for a genuine good meal!

You know that feeling you get but don't understand...well this place gave us terrible service. Food was good but the treatment was horrible. Drinks sucked, not strong enough to even warm you up. They didn't want to serve us a drink because we weren't ordering food with it even though we had just paid the $250 bill for the food we did eat. They purposely didn't have a working heater, yes purposely because they were confused if it didn't work or who can actually turn it on. So they just figured they wouldn't turn it on...oh but other customers were nice and cozy near theirs. We weren't offered inside seating until we complained about how cold it was. We were just automatically escorted to the non working heater. Now going back to the bad feeling...with the police at the corner & cameras everywhere, we were robbed. This place is just bad all the way around. Bad area, bad service & just terrible all around. By the way if you need the police they don't come out. Yes even if they are parked at the corner. They don't help. This is normal for the area (we told by many) and they have literally brushed off any crime in the area. But if you need help you can always go online and fill out a form that will get lost in a stack of papers. It has been a week I have not been contacted. Oh by the way a security guard watched the whole thing go down but because the police don't do anything he was to scared to do anything but watch our car get robbed. At least he gave us the info on what he saw...but who do we tell when the police don't care. Add on: it is hilarious that you (the owner) would say less drinking when we couldn't even get a drink from your bar. For the owner to respond like this kind of proves my point. This place has no respect for their customers. This place is exactly in the area it deserves. Trash. The bottom line is that the service was terrible and had we just left we might not have had a problem. Our mistake was staying and wanting to feed our kids after being in the city all day. Less drinking haha is the funniest part of the reply. I have never known a place to say only 1 drink...especially when they serve weak drinks. By the way the receipt is proof of how many drinks were bought.

On Sunday evening it was busy, but not full, which was nice. They sat us easily and we requested to start with guacamole and chips. We added drinks and main dishes, crispy tacos and chicken fajitas. The service was attentive throughout and wonderful. The food was delicious and if I'm back visiting Oakland I will come back to try their burritos. Prices were a little higher than what we saw posted online but not outrageous.