Oculto - Castro Valley

Three of us eating, two more tables of two and one handful of people at the bar. cocktails took quite awhile, barkeeper seemed busy chatting with bar mozen. then they told of three Entree elements (similar, bark and vegetarian) they had only hugging and veg and had no substitution shell. the huh immediately order what we advise takes 45 minutes to cook, and ordered numerous small teller. waited for over 40 minutes and received no food. but came a group and seemed friendly with the bartender. they saw how they immediately receive food. then the ordering machine broke and the kitchen did not get our small plate order at all. after sitting without eating for an hour approach. we are guaranteed that the small plates were fast so that they would soon get, so we stayed. we finally got the little tellers we had ordered and observed that table of the people who did in at least 30 minutes after we did and who seemed familiar with the barkeeper, get the chicken dish. essentially they received the huh we had ordered and we had to wait for the next. that was probably the worst experience I had in a restaurant and was very disappointed. the chicken is delicious, the kartoffels and cocktails were also good. but not good enough that I or someone in my group is interested in return.

We need to try out their first brunch service and it was impeccable. At first we were very surprised to find a selection of mocktails available, and the two we tried were excellent. the menu is concise, but covers all the brunch needs with a Latin American flare. our schedule was to get everyone a hearty breakfast, then a few horchata french toast for dessert, but we don't have it that far! we shared the chilaquiles with rinderwange and steak and eiern. the thick chips stood perfectly on the mountain of the beats and the bark cheek is incredibly tender. the steak was boiled to a perfect medium, rare as it should be without asking for tempo preference and was quite big! it was supplemented with fingering kartoffels, well-kept wobbles and 2 eggs, which were cooked in advance. we are happy to go back and try the French toast, huevos rancheros, oaxacan breakfast hash and especially the eier benedicto!

We were in oculto many times and always loved their food, service and ambiente. However, there was a large private party the last couple times when we were there, and we waited quite so long for drinks (approximately 20 minutes,) to start eating (15-30 minutes,) and the main (40-45 minutes) to be served. I suppose eating will take much longer than usual if there is a big group this day.

Everything was delicious. we will definitely be back in the new year.

We always love the food. That day there was a large private party a sweet but I experienced waiter we felt forgotten several times. Had to request our main about 20 minutes after finishing our small plates. Had Togo to the desk to request dessert. Had to request check. We’ll still go back