The Oasis Cafe

Nice place service was great — fast — tons of food and was good — had the omelet plate = outstanding — prices were very fair

Always fresh, with several specials plus a nicely creative menu. Service is always friendly (although the pace tends to lag a bit). Baked goods available to go.

Just spent the week in Siesta Key and the Oasis Café was on our radar as usual! We stopped 4 times this week. Three times for breakfast once for lunch. Jim does a great job creating new and different items on the special board. The spicy bbq meatloaf quesadilla was the bomb! Melissa & Ashley are always there to make sure everything is perfect! Melissa’s Pumpkin bars are amazing! I would highly recommend The Oasis Café!

I drive by Oasis Café frequently and have seen good reviews. Thought I’d give it a try on a Sunday morning at 10:15 for breakfast, my favorite meal of the day. The menu is somewhat limited and the atmosphere is nice. Very mom & pop /​local feel. Service was slow and the servers were not engaged at all. We shared a cinnamon roll which was great. However, the bacon and home fries were obviously premade and came to the table barely warm. I had high hopes for the place but probably won’t come back.

Their pancakes are so fluffy and delicious! It’s a cute little place for breakfast or brunch– first time I went service was good but the second wasn’t as great…

We ate at Oasis for the first time this last weekend. All I can say is we have found our new favorite breakfast spot. The food was amazing. Highly recommend this place.

Great food! We had a fabulous breakfast and was treated very well by the staff. The food was wonderful! Our server was attentive without being overbearing. We had dined on a weekday and the pace was a little more leisurely than on the weekends. The only down side that I could see was that the décor was a little cheesy. The owners need to spend a little money on the tables and chairs. Our table was the one with the annoying wobble (hey guys, a folded up napkin isn’t the solution!!!) So, if you want a good meal, this would be one to visit.

First off I would give this place zero stars if I could.
When we walked in I thought this was going to be a good experience. It’s a cute little place. But.…
I asked for water and my Mom a coffee. They brought out our drinks mom asked for cream for her coffee and the server said ok and left. We still weren’t ready to order. That server never came back with the cream.
So up walks Sara. (Or so that’s what she told me her name was at the end of this story when things had gotten bad) she takes our order. Simple. I got two eggs over medium with bacon and sourdough toast. My mom got two eggs scrambled and sourdough toast.
This place wasn’t very busy. About 20 minutes later our order comes out. She sets our plates down in front of us and you can see in the pics that the bread looks just like it did going into the toaster. It was barely warm and not toasted. It must have been on the fastest setting going through a rolling toaster. Server left. We had to flag her down to ask for butter as the toasts were both served dry. So by the time the butter came the toasts were completely cold. My mom ended up eating hers but I sent my back. I asked for wheat toast this time and for them to TOAST it as I had already buttered it. I also had to tell her that my moms scrambled eggs were not cooked all the way. My mom had one bite and couldn’t eat anymore. She had lost her appetite. No big deal. Just take them back and take them off the bill, right? That’s what one would think. She told us theamager would come out and speak to us. Well the manager never came but Sara came back out with a plate and asked my mom if she wanted them to throw her eggs back on the grill. My mom told her no she was done. She didn’t want the eggs anymore. Around this time this is when Sara’s attitude started to show. While I waited for my new toast I ate my eggs and bacon. Well fast froward to 10 mins later my eggs and bacon are done and I’m still waiting on my toast. Finally the burnt toast arrived. We asked her to bring the bill out. The server was being very bitchy so of course I got pissed. I held back though as we were in public. The bill had to come back to us twice because she didn’t to take my moms eggs off the bill. Finally she took the eggs off and said I’m going to get in trouble the manager doesn’t want me to take them off. Well the manager should have come out to talk to us instead of letting his or her waitress do the dirty work. But the waitress was had been being nasty to us quietly so now she was saying I’m trying to help you out loud enough for the whole place to hear. When she walked away I apologized to the table behind my mother because they heard everything that was going on.. She had our money in her hands and I had to repeatedly ask her to just go get us out change so we could leave. Finally the last time I had to tell her I said just bring us our f’n change so we can get the f out of here. I was so mad at this woman by this point I was shaking. She finally came out with my moms change and sat it in from of me and LOUDLY practically screaming counted the change back to me all while placing it in the table. Had she actually had the correct change would have been nice but she shorted me 5 $ so she had to go back and get me the rest of the money. Then this B had the nerve to ask me to count it back to her all after trying to make a fool out of me. I said oh hell no b. I need $ 5. She gave me my mothers change finally. My mom and I got up to walk out the door and this lady was still being super rude so I told her all loudly that she was the rudest waitress ever while walking pasta her to get to the door.
This was absolutely the worst experience of my life at a restaurant.

We eat there every time we are in Sarasota and have taken friends. We have tried many of their specials and been very satisfied. Their pastries are to die for and would recommend Oasis for breakfast or lunch.

Service is non-​existent. The food is acceptable but nothing extraordinary. The baked goods are amazingly delicious. Come pick up the sour cream crumb cake or the muffins. I keep hoping the staff will get trained but clearly that is not on the mission statement. With two bussers and plenty of tables that are dirty, there is no explanation.

Oasis Café in Sarasota is a treasure! The food is always delicious and I especially recommend whatever is on the daily special board. The breakfast wrap with sweet potato hash and croissant French toast are to die for! It’s always impossible to resist the array of fresh baked goods available with your food or to go. One tip– daily specials can run out, so try to arrive early to take advantage, especially during tourist season.
My only complaint is the service. There seems to be a lack of staff and the servers can be slow and not attentive. The consistently delicious food overcomes this, though, and I will always return!

We took our four children here and had a terrific breakfast. Very clean restaurant with kind, attentive wait staff. The food was great from breakfast wrap to pancakes to baked goods. We’ll definitely be back.

If you’re looking for a down home, quiet restaurant where you can order all your favorite comfort foods, look no further than Oasis Café.
It’s not fancy. It’s not pretentious. It’s the kind of place where what you get looks like what you though you ordered. You can very creative plates on every corner of Sarasota. It’s refreshing when your plate looks familiar.
Fast, friendly service, great prices, best breakfast option south of Main Street.

The interregnum between summer and Season means we can observe native Sarasotans undiluted by exotic species. Just as in the Masai Mara, prime wildlife spotting coincides with sun-​up and sun-​down, and for guaranteed success be near a water-​hole.
Apropos then is a place called the Oasis. At opening time on a Sunday you will likely bag the following big game:
~ The lone octogenarian man who has just finished his egg on toast and single mug of decaf. How did he order and eat so quickly?
~ The Ferrari-​driving sixty-​something who knows all the staff by name (and their net worth and that of everyone he lays eyes on.)
~ The fussy grandparent-​types who decades ago gave up on original conversation and now limit themselves to wondering — aloud — whether that is milk or half-​n-​half in the jug.
~ Golden-​aged couples grateful for early church services so they can get down to the real business of winter Sundays: breakfast and football.
Hemingway territory this is not. All our meals might have been made more lively had he busted through the door with a loaded elephant gun clutching a recently dead wildebeest… but no such luck. Instead, everyone ate their oatmeal and eggs, sipped their tea and coffee, and quietly broke their fast.

Baked Goodie Heaven!!!
Walk through the door and you’re greeted by the sample du jour, in our case Peach Crumb Cake. Delish!!!
We had a combination of breakfast and lunch at the table… Nothing but praise and rave reviews.
Service was outstanding and friendly.

I Unilocaled a good breakfast spot while visiting Sarasota and came up with this. What a terrific find! From the moment hubby and I walked through the door and received a sample of some delicious banana frosted cake to the polite and attentive service we received to the varied selections of made from scratch specials. It was a party in our mouths. We loved the Oasis Café and we will be back! (and yes, the goat cheese and herb biscuits are a must try!)

Always a delicious experience for breakfast. The food at the oasis Café is a delight to the taste buds and the eyes. They have quite a variety to choose from.
Great service too.
Definitely one of the better breakfast restaurants in town.

Awesome! We are locals here in Sarasota and this is one of our favorite breakfast spots. They have daily specials that are creative and always delicious. And don’t forget the dessert, it’s always amazing, good enough to make you forget your diet.

What a surprise! This café is tucked into a strip mall (near one of the best places for burgers) and is really cute. I’ll start with the specials. Don’t bother to look at the menu just order off the special boards. Holy Toledo! I had the poached eggs on herb goat cheese biscuits with grilled tomato and chipped beef gravy. Simply amazing and the fresh rosemary sprinkled in put it over the top. I normally would not order something like this but it just sounded so good. My mouth and tummy were very happy!

One of very few awesome places to go to breakfast in Sarasota. Great variety on the menu, lots of fun specials on the chalk boards, and if you like their FB page, you will get updates as to what they will be serving that day.
Truly amazing Eggs Benedict special today, not for the faint of heart… smoked sausage, spinach, Vermont cheddar and Hollandaise and poached eggs… thank goodness for the pile of fruit served with it, or I would have felt guilty.
I love their corned beef hash as well (totally not from a can), and their incredible potatoes are… incredible. Not to mention your eggs will always be perfectly cooked, and if you have a sweet tooth, they are sure to find a way to make it fall out.
GO HERE FOR BREAKFAST, BRUNCH, OR LUNCH!
Staff is super great too!!!