E-Cafe

This place is usually a solid choice for a good quick lunch — not today. Total $hiT show. 30 min for a simple wrap and once back at the office with only a few minutes to eat, the wrap wasn’t even put together properly. I didn’t even know that was possible!

I rarely ever write bad reviews on Unilocal but the food here is just horrible and I want to save you from it. I’ve been here multiple times with co-​workers and it’s consistently disappointing. They don’t seem to prep anything there themselves and everything seems to be reheated or come from a can. They take shortcuts like serving the gross canned pears/​peaches/​sugar you used to eat when you were a kid as a «fruit salad». Also, they use styrofoam like it’s going out of style (it is).
I went with a co-​worker last time and neither of us could finish our meals. I’ll usually choke down anything, like a human garbage disposal — so that says a lot.
With so many great places nearby that will make the effort to put together real food — like Globe Market, The Gourmet Store, The Washington Market, and Sue’s Deli — I can’t see why anybody would visit this place.

this place needs to serve REAL food! the «taco meat» is worse than fast food taco places! its all filler and has no taste! the soups are bought (ew). the «fruit salad» i ordered the other day? was Libby’s fruit cocktail from a can like you get in cafeterias! wait, that you got in cafeterias 20 yrs ago. even cafeterias at schools and hospitals have fresh fruit nowadays! they ought to be a shame of themselves. can’t stand places that take shortcuts and dont prep and make homemade food.

I was walking down Washington Street the other day, exploring areas I hadn’t been and turned up East Mohawk to head over to Fountain Plaza. There at the corner is eCafé. A sandwich board sign outside attracted my attention. Otherwise, I might have missed the place entirely.
Nonetheless about 6 whole minutes later I was sitting at one of their tables with my food and drink order already in front of me. The food is simple and good tasting. I didn’t sample a large part of the menu so I can’t speak for it all — or for the majority of it. I can’ only say that it tasted very good, was served lightning fast, and was very affordable.
Now that’s not a bad recommendation, is it?

Had a lunch-​work meeting at this spot and it was absolutely perfect for it. As we came in, the smell of bacon proliferated the entire room. Unfortunately, as we came to find out they stopped serving breakfast (yes​.it was 1p). While my friend ordered a club sandwich, I opted for a simple chicken noodle soup and a coffee.
The coffee here is your standard fare and although it won’t tickle the bean mans fancy, it’s still palatable to drink black which is most important for me (a coffee is instantly a loss in my book if I’m inclined to add cream to it). After the super friendly lady behind the counter took our order, we sat down at a table got out our laptops and began to work. As Steve mentioned, there are also PCs along the side windows set up for free use, which is really cool and retro. You feel like you’re at a ‘real’ Internet café with those things there (who uses PCs anymore??).
We weren’t aware the place had free wifi, so we were using a tethered connection when an employee walked up to us and asked if we could connect okay. That was awesome! I’ve never had someone come up and ask that before, most people in establishments with free Internet are afraid to ask that for fear that their spotty wifi indeed doesn’t work, but nope! We disconnected from the tethered line and connected to their wifi without a problem and had a solid productive hour.
Oh yeah. the food. I’m always apprehensive to order chicken noodle soup, because I’ve found a lot of places oversalt the behemoth out of this soup. Not here — it was perfectly salty, although I gotta say there weren’t too many pieces of chicken in here. Maybe I just got an unlucky scoop? At any rate, at $ 2 it was cheap so I’m not complaining. My friend seemed to enjoy his club sandwich. Our meal came to $ 10 for both of us and included: a full sandwich, soup and coffee. The best part is no one interrupted us or gave us weird looks for doing some heavy programming-​intensive work at this place for over an hour. I’ll be back.

I work downtown and I’m always in search for good lunch places to escape the office for a while. Especially anything along Main Street, as this area is in need of new businesses for the work crowd during the day.
I’ve been here a few times and pretty much have enjoyed anything I’ve ordered, and the prices are reasonable as well. E-Café’s strong points are the melts, free fountain soda Fridays, and free use of the PC’s (Internet) set up along the side windows. Though, I wish they had free wi-fi…they are called E-​café right? When the weather is nice they have tables and chairs set up along the Main/​Mohawk courtyard.
Ok, well back to lunch… The tuna and turkey melts are amazing! The sourdough melts are so big they need to cut it in three pieces, and come standard with tomatoes, choice of cheese, and dressing/topping…oh and pickles on the side. I’ve also had the Greek (Veggie) focaccia melt, which was very tasty but a little messy to eat… glad a fork and knife was provided. Had the chicken cordon bleu wrap, it was just Ok, a little dry and the lettuce ratio was high… next time maybe some salad dressing would put it over the top. The sub sandwiches and burgers look to be of good values based on the portions, and I’ll have to try them on the next office escape.

I intern right across the street from this place and always pass by when I am getting off the metro. My first visit I came in to get a cup of coffee. They just have air pots with coffee– nothing too crazy. But I noticed they had some awesome specials for students after 2pm.
I wanted to grab a quick lunch today and thought this would be a great place. Some of my coworkers asked me to grab them sandwiches as well. I ordered a student special, a cold cut sandwich with chips and a fountain drink. A roast beef sandwich, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato on wheat with herb mayo. It was tasty! The herb mayo was very flavorful and the sandwich all together was good. The service was friendly and fast and prices were very reasonable.
My coworkers got a turkey sandwich and a ham sandwich. Both reported back to me and said they were very tasty. I’ll be back for sure!