Circa

Can someone confirm that it’s officially closed?

Great Location in the Marina.
The owner is very pleasant and very easy going.
Unlike most owners he will accomodate you for your birthday and even reserve a seat for you.
The cocktails are great and served in hard plastic glasses, usually I am a glass fan but the plastic is very solid and it looks and feels like real glass.
The upstairs area is great for VIP and birthday parties.
The music system is ok but hopefully this will be upgraded during their remodel.
The bussers and wait staff are fantastic they help you hang up balloons or any decorations for your bday party. The bartenders is hit and miss, they are very good looking but not always the most attentive in the world but that is always the case. A good bar lead could straighten that out in a SF heartbeart.
So overall the location, owner, atmosphere, are all a super 5 stars.
The reason is for 4 stars is purely technical: HD screens, subwoofers, and a bar lead and we are at 5 star location.
Also the Bottomless Memosas are fantastic, it is truly bottomless if you come with a group of 6 they will just give you the picture which makes me a feel like a kid and you order a milkshake and they give you the grey steel pitcher as a add on! Score!!!
Can’t wait to see the new re-​model. I am sure when I return the will get the 5 stars they deserve!!!

If I could give it a 0 I would. I bought a groupon and I kept calling for reservations they never answer the phone or messages. When you go to their site it forwards you to open table who doesn’t recognize the restaurant. I drove all the way from Sacramento and come to find out the place is boarded up and closed and under construction. The business next to it says it’s under new ownership and gives me the number to another restaurant that is co owned. I speak to the manager who called me back and told me they are not honoring any groupons under the old ownership. The groupon is not even expired this is completely unsat!

I’ve been calling Circa for weeks now trying to get a reservation but it would go straight to voicemail each time. No call back, nothing.
I tried open table but it’s a broken link (goes to error 404). I’ve been calling 415.351.0175 (per their website) and +1 (415) 351‑0175 (per Unilocal). Same number, I know but you get the point.
Any advice out there??? Did this place close down??? I checked online and it said it has new owners and this place will close/​revamp this summer with a new name. Help!

This review is for Sunday brunch.
We got bottomless mimosas. Unlike other places in town, they were truly BOTTOMLESS!
Warm cornbread was brought to our table. Mmmmmm
Music was AWESOME. All my favorite 90’s hits.
Waitress was very friendly and ON IT.
I got the lobster Mac and cheese and it was amazing.
Ill definitely be back for brunch. Thanks Circa!

Was here earlier for Circa’s New Year’s Eve, so this review is long overdue. It isn’t the best representation of their service since it was a holiday, but a few things to note that made the visit a little unusual. We arrived early for the early bird dining option at 6:30, and we practically had the entire restaurant to ourselves. No surprise, but at the bar the bartender informed us they couldn’t make anything containing fruit. Not good. My lady loves fruity drinks, yeah my lady. Not me. I only like MANLY drinks that grow hair on my chestnuts. OK I lie, I do embrace my feminine side once in a while and indulge in my lychee or pineapple infused drinks. Don’t judge! Anyway I ended up having a Raging Bull and several Long Islands for this old man to party the night away, and girl friend had to go with Moscow Mules.
We sat upstairs with our large group. The restaurant itself isn’t that big, so we benefited by getting there early as Circa didn’t kick us out at any point. Very roomy and the servers were always nice albeit not as attentive, but that didn’t bother us too much. The food was decent, and the company was good. I may just return for their happy hour or for a nice pixe fixe meal on a regular weekend.

I went to Circa for a large group brunch and thought it was decent but nothing to call home about. It was perfect for what it was — bottomless mimosas and food that filled you up for a cheap price. We went on a Saturday morning and it was completely empty, so I wouldn’t worry about making a reservation that far in advance. They put the pitchers of mimosa on the table, so you don’t have to worry about asking for refills which is great.
The first thing that kind of bothered me was the fact that they didn’t give us the full menu. There were only about 8 or 10 of us, and they didn’t warn us that there would be a condensed menu for decently sized parties, so we had to ask for the full menu. They were okay with giving that to us, but the service issues didn’t stop there. Even though the waitstaff was friendly, there were multiple occasions where they just weren’t doing that great of a job. Drink orders were forgotten, and they brought out food that we blatantly did not order about three times. It was so hard to get their attention which was surprising since, as I said, there were practically no other customers.
The food was okay. I had the «caprese» grilled cheese which had white cheddar, basil, and tomato. I know this is super nit-​picky and annoying, but calling it a caprese would imply that it had mozzarella, and it just didn’t. The fries also had no flavor. My friends ordered the lobster mac and cheese, and it was HUGE. I tried some and liked it but wouldn’t order it as a meal.
All in all, it was an okay experience. I don’t know if I would go back, but for what it was and the price it was at I had a good time.

The only reason I am giving two stars is because of the food and the decent brunch specials. Otherwise, the service was absolutely HORRIBLE. First, the «manager» who took our order was very rude. Rather than kindly asking us what we would like, he gave us a disgruntled «what do you want». Service is EVERYTHING to me, and nothing bothers me more than terrible service.
We ordered bottomless mimosas, the waitresses did not tend to our table unless we explicitly asked (mind you, it was not busy whatsoever). It felt as if we were bothering them, rather than asking for assistance. The majority of our table got our food promptly, however, two people at our table were waiting for a very long time. We had to remind the «manager» and a few other waitresses that we were waiting on the order. It took about four attempts to ASK (more so felt like begging) for the missing orders. Oh, and I almost forgot, they were also missing an order of fries and and two drinks + the two meals we had been waiting for. We ended up just canceling one order because a half an hour went by. Needless to say, we left disappointed. I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but this was just unacceptable.

I go during the HH, sit at bar and eat my sliders, mac and cheese and I’m out the door. Never had a bad exp. at all during HH. I come in at 5pm. Nice bartender during my visit.

I don’t know where to start so Ill start with what is good nobody is there you will hear why.
We made a reservation, once again you won’t need one.
The bar tender was also are waiter did ok
Appetizers were fries and salads three stars
The two star part was the dinner it took at least forty five minutes, I had a burger that look like it sat for a half hour, my significant other had some lobster tacos that tasted like rubber
Wait in line at Tacolicious!

We went to Circa on NYE. We got the dinner package which included a 3 course dinner, cover to the party and a champagne toast.
Pros — good music and dancing. Carlos
Cons — poor service the entire night. Our server was extremely inattentive. Drinks took 10 minutes to arrive and I had to get his attention for another round. When the food arrived, 3 dishes were hot but the Filet was cold. I will say that Carlos, the busser, was very attentive. He frequently came by to refill waters and clear dishes. After dinner, we went to the bar area where poor service continued. I watched the female bartenders work their butts off while the male bartender lackadaisically helped people. I gave him my card to open a tab. When it came time to close out, he could not find my card and did not seem to care in the slightest bit. Further more, the midnight countdown and toast was a joke. You expect the whole bar to join in on the countdown to midnight. Instead, champagne was passed around but there was no countdown. Needless to say, I will not be going to Circa again.

The worst brunch ever. It was so bad we’re still talking about it two days later.
We had a large party and made a reservation for New Year’s Day. I (regrettably) suggested Circa because I went to a fun brunch there a few years ago. It’s shocking how things have changed.
Main points:
— It took over 30 minutes to get drinks on the table, and over an hour for food to arrive after placing our order.
— Almost every entrée looked like it had been under the heat lamp for at least 15 mins. My grilled cheese was cold and hard. The lettuce had wilted on the burger, and the eggs were fully hard boiled on my friend’s benedict. Disgusting.
— We had to as 3 times for silverware. Our food was already on the table when they finally got it together. Other tables were laughing at us, it was that bad.
The positive: that cheap champagne was flowing like water!
The final, final straw: as we were getting ready to leave, my friend realized her phone was missing. She used Find my iPhone and shockingly, it dings that it’s still in the restaurant and a couple minutes later one of the employees tells us he found it in the men’s restroom — with the screen shattered!
At this point, there were no other customers in the section of the restaurant we were sitting in, so the three suspects are our server, the water boy and the bartender. I don’t want to blindly make accusations but seriously, there’s no possibility it could have been anyone else. So despicable.

Starting with a review of Circa as a nightlife option:
It’s a hit or miss, sometimes the crowd gets a little young and immature. Sometimes it can be an older more trendy crowd.
There is a dance floor if people want to dance the night away and it’s not so difficult to reach the bar for a drink.
Brunch:
Circa provides the option of bottomless mimosas! The food is decent, but nothing exciting.

I was expecting to be disappointed with this place after reading the reviews, but I actually ended up having a good experience. I met up here with my college friends to have a reunion brunch and although we took our precious time, we didn’t feel rushed and our server was nice.
I like the fact this place has an eggs Benedict sampler. You can pick 2 out of the 6 choices they have, and I ended up getting the Florentine (spinach, heirloom tomato, hollandaise sauce) and the Nova (smoked salmon, lemon dill hollandaise sauce). Out of the 2, I liked Nova the best. The eggs were perfectly poached and it was not drenched in hollandaise sauce. Thank God because the OCD in me hates any food drowned in sauce! It came with a side of potatoes, which I liked a lot, because I think it was roasted in rosemary. Portions are just enough so don’t expect to be busting out of your shirt.
One of my kids ordered only a side of bacon and it was a nice filling stack of it. The other child got the grilled cheese sandwich served with side of fruit. She loved her sandwich because it was really cheesy. I think it’s made with 3 types of cheese.
Few tips:
–Circa is located right on the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore
–They have bottomless mimosas for $ 10/​person
–There is a bar at the entrance if you don’t want to sit down
–Parking is difficult. Parking garage is on Chestnut and Pierce, closer to Lombard. $ 2/​hr during day, $ 3/​hr at night.
I will have to come back here to try their lobster mac n cheese.

Went here for brunch. The food was great but the service was bad. The waitress was rude and did not know how to multi task. Besides that though, it was an overall good experience.
Also If you go for brunch, definitely do the bottomless mimosas! They leave the pitcher on your table and let you pour it yourself… It’s dangerous but such a good decision.

Went here for brunch for a co-worker’s going away, and reservations were for a party of 15 (only about 10 actually showed). We were seated upstairs, and the only party there so we basically had the whole level to ourselves. They gave us a special brunch menu to choose from, and noticed the menu said we only had a 1.5 hour time limit. Ummmm, what? We waited another 30 min for the rest of our party to show, but were told the 1.5 hours doesn’t start until we order. The time limit was kind of a downer, but I guess most parties finish their meals within that time frame. Almost everyone had the bottomless mimosas (I don’t drink, so I skipped), which they said were really good and totally worth it for $ 10/​person.
People mostly got either the rancheros, breakfast sliders, grilled cheese, or eggs benedict. As bad as it is for you, I got the the eggs benedict since it seemed like the most appealing brunch item at the time. We had the option of the lobster mac & cheese as well, but that just seemed too heavy for the first meal of the day. For the eggs benny, I got one classic and one Florentine. The classic was the usual Canadian bacon, poached egg, and hollandaise sauce; the Florentine came with tomato, spinach, poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. All of the breakfast items came with country potatoes and an orange slice.
The English muffin on everyone’s eggs benedict tasted dry and stale. Even the egg plus hollandaise sauce couldn’t save it, so I was a bit disappointed in the dish. I didn’t get to try the sliders nor rancheros, but my friend said the rancheros was a lot better than the eggs benny (it looked like it tasted a lot better, too). I absolutely LOVED the country potatoes. It had the perfect amount of seasoning, and the pieces were to literally perfect bite sizes. They didn’t taste greasy, even though they were definitely shiny.
They provided us with cornbread when we were first seated, but I wasn’t impressed. It tasted kind of dry, and even with some butter spread on it was no help. I’m kind of obsessed with cornbread, so I admit I’m a little picky with that. However, judging by the fact that no one finished the initial round of bread just goes to show everyone felt the same as I did about it.
Overall, experience here was great but as everyone else has said, food is just meh. Their highlight is definitely the bottomless mimosas, and serving staff was very attentive. Great place to go if you just want to hang out, but don’t expect to be raging about the food here.
Happy eats!

Everyone raves about the Bottomless Mimosas, and I have to say that’s what drew me here to begin with. They literally gave me a pitcher — yes, a pitcher — of mimosa. At my table for me to pour myself as many generous sloshes as I wanted!
I love the concept of their benedict sampler! Why don’t more places do that?! I got the florentine and the nova. Neither were the best benedicts I’ve had, but they were decent. Did the job.
The cornbread they served with at the table was dry and bland — I’ve had better. You can book a reservation, but I came in on Sunday during brunch time and they were pretty empty.

Holy Moly. Not only did the majority of our food fail to impress (or arrive) but the restaurant itself is absolutely filthy and most of the staff is tactless.
Every couple of months I go to brunch with a gaggle of my Russian girlfriends. Our last brunch at Ironside was so awesome (my review:
) that it left me thinking brunch could never go wrong.
Alas, I put brunch on a pedestal. Honestly, I don’t think I even have that high of brunch standards because being a former waitress I understand everything that can go wrong and how busy restaurants get especially when the bottomless mimosas are so cheap. However, we are not a needy group; we just want to be fed and watered and be on our merry way to Union St fair, not that much to ask.
We arrived and were seated at a long table in the middle of the dining area, so in plain view of the kitchen and bar. Our waitress was nice and accommodating *at first*, bringing out our mimosas, taking our orders, the usual. There was some kind of stale /​salty jalapeño cornbread on the table to tide us over.
The brunch menu was unusually small, with only five options and no sweet dishes among them. I’m not a sweet breakfast kind of gal, so I wasn’t bothered by that, just thought it was odd. They were also out of several of the items, like *Lobster* for the *Lobster* Mac ‘N Cheese, which three of my friends ordered, and the soup that accompanies the Grilled Cheese Sandwich, which is what I ordered, but opted for a side salad since the soup was not available.
So we started to get hungry as it had been a *full hour* since we ordered and no one had checked back with us for a while, save to drop off carafes of mimosas at the table. One might think that being in plain view of the kitchen and the bar, some staffer might notice that we had no food on our table. My friend had to track down our waitress who didn’t really have any answers, and continued to attend to her other tables. The girls at the table across from us saw that we were sitting with no food, and mentioned that they had been waiting for an hour and half for their dishes, which had just arrived and was all cold. Eventually my friend got up again and inquired about our order, to which she was told that it may not have been put in, but they will now put a rush on it.
Nope. We were all aggravated, hungry, and getting drunk, so we asked to cancel the order, requested the bill for our mimosas, and leave. The GM came out, I suppose in an attempt to keep us, with three bowls of «Lobster» Mac ‘N Cheese, again, no lobster, and the tops of all three were burnt, the insides of each bowl cold. Really? I don’t want to think about how long they were sitting under the Salamander.
So while we waited for our bill, my friends and I made a pit stop in the restroom, which was atrocious. Obviously no one from the staff had bothered to check up on the state of the restroom, as the floor was covered in water /​piss, and one of the two toilets was clogged and covered in s – t. So we got out of there immediately.
Our bill came to $ 67 for our bottomless mimosas and we left a nice tip for the waitress. I just can’t believe this kind of service flies in a nicer area of SF. They could have at least checked back with us *OR BROUGHT OUR FOOD OUT IN A TIMELY MANNER* or even offered to comp our drinks. Nevertheless, I will surely not be returning.
And, please Unilocal,spare me the generic, damage control GM email. The service and state of the restaurant was unacceptable, and the experience a complete waste of time and money.

$ 10 bottomless mimosas with a brunch meal purchase! It was great for a weekend outing! I liked their corned beef and hash. Their eggs benedict and burgers, were pretty straightforward. Their truffle fries, however, tasted exhilaratingly marvelous! I kept munching on them nonstop!
My self discovery is that I can’t handle brunch and bottomless mimosas. It just doesn’t do me well. With loads of carbs and sugar from the juice and champagne, it’s a no-​can-​do dealio! I get groggy and sleep it off. I still feel horrible afterwards too.
Other than that, service and food, guarantees a fun time!
PS — They serve up dinner too!

2.4 only for bar experience
Mehhhhh — -not terribly impressed by Circa. Its once star chef left a few years back (believe he competed on Top Chef?), and the bar experience was bit of a hot mess.
Organization and a fluid system of serving en masse patrons lacking. For some, the entirely square bar area is a plus. Not for me, however. Outlived its star-​shining hours, methinks. Time to retire, is the overall feeling a I get.
Then again, I aint no Marina resident, so I am unawares of how they are on a nightly basis.

Got the groupon deal which included a bottle of wine, appetizer, main dish and desert from a fixed menu.
So for wine we had a choice between a chard and cab sauv. The were chilean and akin to three buck chucks. The chard was not bad but the cab made me gag.
The appetizers were good. Had the fried calamari and baked brie.
There were about 6 main dishes to chose from and we both got the flank steaks. It came with veggies, mashed tatoes, and something really spicy. They were pretty good and it was enough food to cover my lunch tomorrow.
For desert we could chose from a chocolate cake and bread pudding. Ive had a series of really bad bread puddings lately and this one was just as disappointing. Ok, maybe i should conclude that I don’t like bread pudding but I have had some really good ones before. I swear.
Bottom line, food is good, groupon deal is not worth it. Maybe you save a little but you get limited choices and cheap wine that can ruin the meal experience.

Oh circa… the twisted little affair that we share.
Lets get something straight before my rambling, as usual, review: I am not a marina bro.
There, I said it.
I moved back to the bay area a few months back and was in dire need of a fun brunch place to unwind with friends. Prior to leaving we had lime… which, lets all be honest with ourselves here, was a shitshow. People blacked out drunk at 9am, gay guys dancing on the bar, spark plug shots and overall shenanigans. While it was fun in that moment, the remainder of the day and Monday was good as ruined because we went to HAMM/​yolo… yes, I went there.
I have tried radish in the mission among others but the ambiance wasn’t just what we were looking for. far too mellow.
Circa is that happy median.
The atmosphere is beautiful (guys, check out the décor before chugging your mimosas), the crowd is pretty, the service is top notch (shout of to the bartenders who are always SUPER friendly) and the food is wonderful.
Notable mentions on the food are the grilled chicken sandwich (which is huge enough to share), the grilled cheese and the lobster mac and cheese. Bottomless mimosas are only $ 10 with a minimum $ 10 food purchase and the servers are extremely swift in keeping you refilled.
If youre looking for a Sunday funday while ENJOYING your food with prompt/​friendly service, look no further. Circa, you made me a believer and I now view the marina in a new light.
Id also like to note that the crowd on Sunday isn’t the typical «marina crowd»… it’s a mix bag of everyone which adds to the fun.
Cheers!
tips:
–bottomless until 3pm
–they had tv’s but play music if you want to watch a game
–reservations recommended for large parties