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The shittiest service EVER!!!!!!!!
My experience at All You Knead tonight was unfortunate. I have eaten here many times, both breakfast and dinner. I have never had a complaint about this place before.
Our server was rude from the moment we sat down. It took forever for her to come to our table. Then when the food did come, the grilled cheese was burnt and cold and the fries I had ordered with my sandwich were chips. But I did get the side of ranch I ordered.
I took two bites of my BLTA and realized that my boyfriend wasn't eating. His grilled cheese sandwich was a total joke-cold and burnt. The server never came back to check on us. I had to walk up to the counter to get her attention. I told her everything that was wrong with our food and asked if she could please pay us a visit at our table. All she did was stare at me blankly.
My boyfriend asked if he could keep his fries and just send the sandwich back. Our server snapped the whole plate from under him and walked back to the kitchen. But she left my sandwich with the chips. We didn't understand her logic of taking the fries away. There was nothing wrong with the fries.
In these types of situations, you never know what happens to your "new" food when food is sent back. As we pondered that thought, we noticed that the entire kitchen was having a discussion about the sandwich my boyfriend had sent back.
It was the final straw that broke the camel's back. We got up and walked out of the restaurant. I have never done that before. The service was THAT bad.
Our server's parting last words were, "Fine! Leave! Don't come back!", shouting them at us right in front of all of her customers. Another fine example of her exceptional customer service.
I understand shit happens sometimes. People have bad days. Things don't go right. But when you work in the service industry, your job is your stage. People are paying YOU for a service. We were a table full of service industry experience (bartender and hair stylist). We, of all people, know how things can go, but there was no justification for the type of service we received at All You Knead.
I get better customer service at a place where the wait staff doesn't even speak English then I did at All You Knead..
Worse. Place. Ever.
Crappiest service I've gotten anywhere in San Francisco... there were tables open Sunday afternoon, and as we waited patiently for one of the staff to grace us with their holier than thou presence, I got more and more annoyed. I've eaten at All You Knead before, had a great time and never SAT THERE FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES WHILE THERE WERE EMPTY TABLES AND STAFF IGNORING YOU.
We finally ended up seating ourselves, and at that point, I felt it was gloves off time. We got intercepted right at the booth by some simpering staff and I was channeling my mother at that point (gee, thanks, I love it when I channel Mother) asking her if there was somewhere else we should sit, maybe by the door and she'd come fetch us in half an hour..
it went down hill from there. I can't even write about the food, because the crap service overshadowed it.
At the end, after waiting half an hour for our incompetent waitress to deign to pick up the check and money, I finally left her with a 10 cent tip.
I'll never go back. Ever. I'd rather fish food out of a trash can than pay to be treated like someone's unwanted relative.
I'm writing this review from the bathroom, fuming. I figured instead of squeezing one off while reflecting on my displeasure, I'd take this time to share my thoughts about All You Knead's shittiness, that put me here in the first place.
Hungover, all I wanted was simple breakfast. The tall, balding man I assume was the owner or manager skulked around hating his life and borderline glaring at patrons the whole time I was there, eminating displeasure for the people who pay his rent. This would have been excusable (everybody has a bad day every now and then) if the food had been close to good and decently priced. Unfortunately it was neither. My lukewarm eggs, pancake and floppy bacon taunted my alcohol addled self with every bite. It was like the chef had put an entire can of whole, unpeeled fuck-you in the recipe.
The server was really cool. Cute, kitchy girl from wisconson with big glasses. Two thumbs up to her.
In closing, I would recommend graffitiing the bathroom - it'd be incredibly cathartic after the horrible dining experience that is All You Knead.
All you "knead" to THROW UP!
All you "knead" to THROW UP! is so on point I hate this place on Haight. Then need a better menu and food with flavor not a pile of grease
Absolutely horrible.
Waitperson rolled her eyes as soon as my boyfriend, sister and I walked in. Each and every one of our dishes were cold. Never checked up on us.
Spend your money elsewhere.
Oh yes, I see a lot of reviews mentioning the"grey haired balding man. He treated us very badly as well. I had to listen to his constant complaing about all the stupid hippies in this "damn" town and his distaste for the influx of faggots. How to people like this get hired? He has to own the place right? speaking as such with customers;" As if this travel back in time to the 1800's saloon experience wasn't enough", we were also quite entertained by the constant yelling that kept coming from the waitress station, i'm not sure what was happening exactly, but our waitress,( a blonde hair girl with glasses, another reviewer politefully called her kitschy), was screaming each time she went back there, and when she returned(every 20 minutes or so) she would bark orders at us as if we were somehow rude enough to interrupt her social hour.
We went back a second time as we always do, just in case the restaurant had a bad night, and to try the pizza everyone always talks about. This time it was a weekday, Wednesday or Thursday maybe. The entire place was empty, we sat ourselves, and 15 minutes later recieved a menu, and two very dirty glasses of water(my boyfriends glass had a fly floating in it), and a very complacent Daria type figure mumbled a meager "hey" to us and left for another 15 minutes. We ordered a pizza that took approx: another 45 minutes and grazed on our two salads. The 1.95 cans of coke we ordered finished very quickly we anxiously looked around for our waitress. We were very excited to spot our pizza sitting on top of the kitchen counter and knew she would be back soon. We were wrong, very wrong, after giving her a couple mintues to do whatever to bring us our food, we walked up to the counter to see if it was indeed our food, and it was! only she didn't notice, because she was too busy eating her own. She never apologized about the cold pizza, didn't even offer a discount, and had to be hunted down again to get the bill, because she was too busy eating something else, on a bucket, behind the counter. where noone could see her.
A table which came in shortly after us became so fed up, that they left. and i'm sure she never even knew they were there.
Never again...
As a waitress myself for 5 years I believe the service alone is enough never to step foot in there again. That manager is very lucky we are such a forgiving town.
-MY ADVICE-
ORDER TO GO, KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN, AND WATCH FOR FALLING GRENADES
To the proprietors of All You Knead:
Get a fly strip, a bug zapper, and a hair-net. Immediately.
The service at this place is so bad I am never going back again. I had two different waiters and they were both horrible. And yes, one of them was the middle-aged, tall man. He seems to get special joy in treating people like shit. Even when he wasn't serving us we couldn't escape his wrath. He constantly stared at our table, rolled his eyes and looked annoyed. We weren't sure at what: seemed like he was annoyed at the fact that we were there...
I love the booths, the old furniture, the old-time greasy look. I wish there more restaurants that have character like All You Knead. Too bad, bad attitude comes with the character at this place.
The food is good but you can get the same breakfast (or a better one) and still be treated like a human being someplace else.
Why did I eat here?! I've walked by this place several times since that ill-fated evening that I dined here with friends and I always ask myself that.
I chalk it up to peer pressure.
Seriously, I can spot a shitty restaurant from a mile away and I totally saw this place a-comin' but my former roommate and his friend from Los Angeles thought it might be a decent place to fill our tummies.
Ok, I grant you...My tummy was filled. I ordered some kind of southwestern crepe that proceeded to fall apart all over my fucking plate. I spent about an hour trying to navigate the lil' bastard into my mouth and swallowed it down dutifully. I might be a skinny girl, but I can eat! Not to mention I'd just thrown down $8 bucks for that crap so you can bet yer ass I was gonna eat it.
But oh, it was so gross! I was really hoping that the promised "spicy salsa" would kill all the taste of everything else, but alas, no such luck. It tasted like this place smelled.
Have I mentioned that yet? Yeah, it smells like your grandma's house in there. No, not the sweet grandma that lives in the suburbs and always bakes peanut butter cookies, but the weird grandma that chain-smokes those little cigars. You know, the one with a giant blind German Shepard named Thor that is always pissing in the corner, all over Granny's mothballs and yarn.
Yeah, that's what it smells like. It kinda looks like that too. Hey, I like clutter and vintage decor too but this place takes it to a whole new level, and that level is: ew.
I can't say a good or bad word about the staff because they were hardly present enough to make any sort of impression on me. I'm guessing they were probably in back, giving Thor a bath in rusty water that they would later serve to their patrons.
Food was bad, service was bad, overpriced, and the cleanliness is debateble. Not coming back, ever.
The portions were huge, and didn't taste good anyway. The home fries was the only saving grace of our brunch. I was feeling expermentative when I read the vast variety of choices on the menu, and went with a tofu scramble, which was boiled tofu with steamed veggies -- very bland. The artichoke, mushroom, olive, basil, cheese omlette was mediocre. I wouldn't go there again or recommend it to anyone.
This place blows so hard
depressing atmosphere
slow
just terrible
I was in love with the warm open-faced sandwiches until I saw the roaches. Yes, plural.
found something resembling a blond dreadlock in my breakfast home fries, flagged down the waitress to ask what it was, she took my plate to kitchen to ask and came back and told me it was part of a potato sack. didn't even comp me on the breakfast, how sanitary does that make them?
This was the only place in the neighborhood I had yet to try. So today, we gave it a go.
And, I don't think we'll be going back. The servers were very nice and attentive. However, it doesn't matter how nice your service is if the kitchen can't back you up.
They do give you a lot of food, but it arrives looking like a giant trough set for a farm animal. Sloppy and wet looking.
My roommate ordered a fruit bowl, and even that was messy looking. The fruit was piled upon of a bed of lettuce (weird) and barely sprinkled with granola, while yogurt looked like it was barfed on top.
I had a scramble, and the eggs were quite runny, which sat awkwardly next to my dry potato hash.
I also heard the people sitting next to us send back some of their food because it was not cooked.
Understanding that they have been here for several years, they must have at once done something right. But for this consumer, it was a BIG miss.
All you knead to do is AVOID. Lets go through the list of suck.
You're a breakfast place and your coffee is weak? Ok -- that's rather disconcerting. Oh, and you're not on top of the refills either? That's another bad sign.
I sure do loves me some sticky table when I'm eating brunch. Sure, they're probably not all sticky, but after seeing the HOBO counting his cans on the table in front of me, I just have to wonder how this particular table got so icky.
You know what's nice? A happy little glass of water. Too bad my water at All You Knead the water tasted as though it were infused with plastic and sulfur.
The sign of a great restaurant is an enormous menu because it means they can do everything... or wait, from my experience, it means they've got a huge selection of food to make like crap.
And BY THE WAY you can't split the check because it's "highly inconvenient." And, that little note in the bottom of the 20 page menu stating as much gives the waitress quite a bit of moral authority over you and your evil check splitting ways. Then again, being a fattie and a hipster gives her quite a bit of moral authority anyway.
Total crap fest.
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A complete disappointment! I've been here a few times and have always loved it. Sure, the tables are too close together, its not very clean and the service is a little slow at times. But usually the servers are kind and the food is good. Well, our last visit there will certainly be our last visit. For whatever reason, we were cursed with an awful server Sarah who gave us attitude from the start. To make a long story short, she served people seated after us before she even acknowledged us. We waited nearly an hour for our food. When we asked about where our food was, she sneared that it was coming. Our food finally arrived to us but she dropped all the plates at the end of the table and told us to pass them down. In addition, the food was completely cold. When we told her, she commented with a smirk, "Gee, that's funny." She had purposely left our food out on counter to get cold. That was the last straw. Needless to say, one of our people got into her face for being rude and providing us with awful service. We couldn't figure why she chose to hate on us. Another server needed to come by and cover for her. Oh and get this, there is no manager on staff! And who knows where the owner is. Trust me, we asked. We have never had anything like this happen to us here or at any restaurant for that matter. I wouldn't have even given them 1 star but that was the lowest rating possible. Readers beware! There are so many other great place to eat...this just isn't one of them.
The stars are based on the service. I thought our server was not friendly to us at all and he seemed rushed in his service. We were hardly done with our food and he gave us our check. As for the food, I ordered the veggie sandwich with fries which was good! I ate mine up! (Then again, I might of been just hungry!) This place will be a one time deal...
I eat at All You Knead maybe once a month. And I've found the food decent and the prices very reasonable.
Recently, I stopped in on a Saturday morning, waited to be seated. A young man came up. "Just one," I said. He looked around. While there were several open booths, there were no tables for two. I understand the restaurant business. I worked in it for years. I didn't expect a booth for me. However, the young man wanted to seat me in a booth that would have seated maybe six. I pointed down the way a little to one of the other booths that only sat four. "This way I won't feel so piggy," I said as he set down the menu.
I waited and waited for the server. When she came she told me I'd have to move. A smaller table would open up soon. I explained that I didn't seat myself but was told to sit here. She said we have treat you like the others. There will be a table soon, she said. I went back to the front and waited. After another wait...and noticing there were now five booths open...I was taken to a smaller table. En route I said that there were five booths empty. She sat me down, came back in a few minutes and said "I'm your waitress, do you know what you want?" I did, but before I could get it out, she said "you are rude." I said she had pretty much cornered the market on rudeness...and, I thought to myself, I didn't want her spitting in my food. So I left.
I think the restaurant would do better if they would spend a little time thinking about the customer and less time trying to be a Southern Sheriff. I'm sure they won't feel the loss of my occasional visits, but I will be steering others away as well.
Ok. Yelp, you just went off the deep end. I know you were at a loss for clever pun named restaurants to put in your weekly emails, however you should never under any circumstances recommend this place to anyone. It is flat out awful. It has really taken a nose dive into total crap of late. However it was never more than mediocre to begin with.
Far superior breakfast options across the street (pork store), down the street (squat and gobble), down the street and around the corner (reverie, zazie). The only other thing that you might go there for, ie. a burger, is again blown out of the water by nearby Magnolia or Burger Meister a few blocks away.
I am shocked this place is still in business to be honest. Just don't pay money for this poor level of food. You could pick food out of the trash that is fresher and more nicely presented. Seriously. I would give it 0 stars if I could.
And in response to Adam X and Morgan M who think their french onion soup is good: processed american cheese has no business anywhere in the vicinity of french onion soup. Bleah!
Oversized portions don't make up for mediocre cookin'. One waitress has two speeds: slow and stop.
This place is OK. I got a very cafeteria vibe: loud noises, blah decor, so-so food. I have to say, though, their bacon is tremendous. Just don't expect much from the rest of the food...if you do then go across the street to the Pork Store.
Fourth best spot in the upper/lower haight for cheapass enormous piles of underseasoned potatoes.I think even the frenchtoast comes w/ a side of these potatoes!no joke.I forget what they pride themselves on here,maybe their mural.Guys,next time,save money on the paint,and fly back east to learn how to make homefries from people who use salt and pepper.Then,come back to SF,and rule the barren landscape that is the breakfast scene in 94115.You will be a god,and no doubt,everyone in the city will copy you and forget about halfass crepes,tofurkey scrambles,and sprout sandwiches.
This place is the poster-child of bad San Francisco breakfasts. Why can't we have more decent and fun greasy-spoons? This town used to be full of them! The Patio - gone. Kate's - not what it was. Church St Station? Now that was really really scary and drug-fueled but in a fun sort of way that Sparky's will never match.
All You Knead has a couple of black marks against it. The food is perfectly adequate "diner breakfast", but:
It's dark. There's not much natural lighting.
It's hard to see outside. Because there's no natural light, it's hard to peoplewatch. And the booths make it even more private.
As such, this is a great place to be if you want privacy or have a hangover. Otherwise, you're better off at the Blue Front or People's.
How could I have forgotten to review this dive? Probably because the only thing memorable about it was my resolve never to return. I have a vague recollection of being served a mediocre meal by a surly waitress in a dark, dingy atmosphere. It sounds like little has changed in the ensuing years.
If I wanted a bland meal that takes far too long to prepare served with mediocre potatoes with a weak cup of coffee in a building with bad lighting and dirty walls, I'd go home for the weekend. Oh SNAP, Mom.
hmmm. i found a pube in my fruit. because of that, i have a hard time being impartial.
The food is good but the service is lousy, and it's gotten worse. I've been going here for the past 2 years and my last visit was the last straw. They are very short staffed to the point where they would have only 1 waitress on weekdays and 2 on weekends. The last time, my table had to wait about an hour and 15 minutes for our meal (2 of the entrees were a bowl of soup!). After an hour and 15 minutes, our waitress comes around asking if we wanted our check! After she learned that we had never gotten our meal (including a simple coffee), it turns out that our order was skipped. Ridiculous. Right when we were about to get up and leave, finally, our food came. The past few times I've gone to All You Knead, I've been really patient. However, this was the worst and I will not be coming back.
The food is kinda crap. Since Thai food is apparently too exotic for most of the assholes I take to the Haight, I end up here more than I care to. Too bad the only palatable place in the whole area is Best of Thai.
The lesson here, I think, is to avoid the Haight.
The cheese blintzes are so good I crave them. Everything else is mediocre.
My general rule of thumb is: if I could make it better at home, I wouldn't want to go out and pay for it.
This is food I could have made at home. The service was good, the place is kind of cool and divey, but the food was just mediocre. If you don't cook at home and like to get comfort food in a cool neighborhood, go for it. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this place.
When I first came to this place, I really liked it. Every time since then in the past year or so, it's gotten worse. The service has always been pretty pitiful but now the food is matching it's downhill slide.
Where to start? It's mediocrity all around. My first question to the fellow Yelpers, where the hell do you work that makes you think All You Knead is "cheap"? Everything on the menu is overpriced for food that isn't all the great. Yap yap all you want about how it's "diner food" but I've eaten in plenty of diners that taste 50 times better and are 50 times dirtier.
I absolutely despise home fries and these are no different. So bad, in fact, that I substituted french fries which were decent. The Eggs Florentine were nothing to write home about and neither was the high price tage. Boo! I could say at least they kept the coffee coming but I had to wait for that too.
The last time I went there, our waitress was decent but she looked overworked as she was only one of two waitresses in the whole joint. Which made us wait about 20 minutes before our order was actually taken. An older gentleman (tall, skinny grey haired) was a total jerk to us, I'm thinking he was a manager of some sort. I came with a large group which automatically got us some attitude. That sour attitude automatically made me want to leave. Throw on the crap I ended up eating and I'm avoiding this place like the plague (good cliche, no?) I knew I should've tried harder to get everyone to eat at Pork Store.
This was a second choice place, as the line at the Pork Store was very very long. I think next time I'll just wait in line.
Service with an attitude, neglectful, and, overall, obnoxious. Hey servers: I know it's important to be all hipster-mixed-hippy and aloof on the street, but when you're serving, throwing in a smile once in a while will increase the tip.
The food was cold and the toast was burnt. Overall, waiting in line across the street now doesn't look so bad.
Plusses: lots of table that are generally empty. One of the easiest places on haight to get a table for breakfast. Serve sandwich menu in the morning.
Minuses: mediocre sandwiches, so-so pancakes, and sub-par pizza. Blah decor and uncomfortable booths.
I really want to dig this place - it close and less crowded than other nearby restaurants. I've been here ~8 times, and shame on me for continually frequenting a place that continually disappoints.
This place may be all YOU need. All I need is a good diet and a personal trainer...
Some days I embrace my inner fattyfattyfatso, especially after midnight. Most days I prefer to embrace my inner anorexic. For the days I wish to spend in a carb-coma, there is All You Knead. Their breakfasts are so HUGE that even in emotional-overeating mode, I can't finish more than half the plate. The food I've managed to put away here has all been okay but never transcends mediocrity, with the exception of their soup. I've had eggs, potatoes, pizza, sandwiches, and salads here and it all kind of tastes the same. The surroundings do nothing for me. It's always noisy and feels packed. Service is slow and not really all there. The interior is big and sterile and, in my opinion, lacks character. Bathroom situation is a nightmare- it's located up a precarious set of stairs that I will not even attempt to climb with a massive hangover. Learned that lesson the hard way.
It's kind of crunchy and I'm not into hippies. I'd say it's good for big groups but you have to have a lot of time on your hands. It reminds me of a college dining hall and well, that wasn't so great either.
Another eh. I guess I am liking that as a descriptor these days.
Met my friend Ian for lunch there the other day. He had soup, which he seemed to enjoy. I opted for a turkey and cranberry sandwich with french fries. So here is kinda the weird thing...I asked the waitress for no mayo and dijon mustard. She was happy to oblige however, 2 minutes after taking our order she re-appeared at out table saying 'the chef wanted to me to make sure you really want dijon mustard AND cranberry sauce on your sandwich?"
Um yeah that is what I ordered right?! And it was a good thing I did given the turkey had some weird rubbery consistency. If I didn't know better I might have thought they ran down to the Cala foods and picked up some processed turkey. And hey with a name like all you knead shouldn't my sandwich have been on "homemade" bread?
Two stars for my french fries and Ian's soup, which he liked..really one star for each item, but 1 + 1 = 2.
This is one of my fall back places which basically only provides a good vantage point for all of the poor fools waiting in line on a Saturday morning to get into the Pork Store. While Pork Store is not worth the wait when you are super hungover, wearing your business clothes from Friday which are now covered in your friends cat hair, your hair is not brushed, your eyes are bloodshot, you have the shakes and just want some food pronto, this place will do, I suppose. This place will provide your weary everything a place to sit, bring you large portions of sightly below average food that does a decent job of curbing your hangover and, if you are a paying customer, they will not even charge you a dollar to use the restroom. But somehow that isn't quite enough to make up for the craptastic food.
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