Hoffman’s is proud to present our FULL BAR!  Brunch, Booze and JAZZ!!!  Delicious Bloody Marys, Mojitos, and a specialty cocktail list that will knock your socks off!  Come in after 3pm anytime in May and receive a FREE BAR BITE off our menu!

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Happy Holidays to you all! 

We will be open until 8pm on Christmas Eve and CLOSED Christmas Day. 

 Come in before the New Year to get a FREE $10 Gift card when you purchase $50 in gift cards (any denomination). 

Thanks for choosing Hoffman’s Downtown for all of your full service restaurant and bakery needs.  Hoffman’s is located at 1102 Pacific Ave, in beautiful Downtown Santa Cruz California.  We are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week at 8am with spend thrift specials throughout the day.  We proudly feature a variety of local jazz bands that rotate through the week, starting every night at 6:30pm.  Hoffman’s bakery makes everything in house from Ed Hoffman’s famous scones to decadent wedding cakes.  We can’t wait to have you join us soon!

Ed’s Famous Turkey Cookies… Gobble, Gobble.

Make your Thanksgiving reservations and order your pies before it’s too late!  (831)420-0135

SANTA CRUZ — There is no typical shoot for the Food Network program “Restaurant Impossible.”

Each struggling restaurant the program remakes in 48 hours on a $10,000 budget poses its own set of challenges.

Monday, the television show, including celebrity chef host Robert Irvine, invaded Hoffman’s Bistro and Patisserie in downtown Santa Cruz. Along with Irvine, designers and a construction crew worked around the clock to revamp the restaurant’s decor, menu and service.

Tuesday night, the restaurant reopened more than two hours behind schedule. When Irvine finally emerged at 9 p.m. the patient crowd waiting to dine cheered and snapped photos.

“This was the biggest and toughest job we’ve ever done,” the chef said. “I think there is blood on everything.”

Even after opening, the renovation was kept under wraps with plastic covering the windows. However, it was clear that the gold paint still on the facade had been replaced inside with walls painted in white and varying shades of olive. Wood paneling was laid over the floor tiles, and the long chain of bakery cases was gone.

Read the article in the Sentinel

The line to get into Hoffman’s Bistro stretched down the block Tuesday night – not because people wanted to get a glimpse of famous TV chef Robert Irvine – but because the makeover for the Food Network television show “Restaurant: Impossible” was hours late.

People with 6:30 p.m. reservations were being served at 9 p.m. and a crowd of diners lined Pacific Avenue, some starstruck and many hungry.

“It’s really good,” said Bob Smith, who sat outdoors with his wife, Donna at 10:15, only an hour past their reservation time. “I thought he catered to Santa Cruz, the town itself, with a lot of healthy choices like fish and hummus and salads.”

The couple had eaten at Hoffman’s before, but mostly preferred breakfast and lunch there. They said they would return for more dinners like the one they were eating of duck sliders, halibut chowder and the trio sampler of hummus, quinoa and tomato cous cous.

The English host with a checkered resume had been fired from the Food Network for embellishing some of his accomplishments but was hired back a year later, contrite after falsely claiming to have been knighted, to have been close to the royal family and to have cooked in the White House for presidents.

Read the article by Brad Kava in SantaCruzPatch