Full of Life Village

Favorite place in the village. Delicious sandwiches, salads, and most of all, the woman who owns and runs it is one of the friendliest people you will ever meet!

I love this little place! Food comes out so fast and there are so many healthy options. Salads and sandwiches are so yummy and you can tell the ingredients are fresh. Employees are great too

Gross! I paid ten dollars for a nasty salad that I could not finish. I ordered the salmon salad it had no flavor and was just plain disgusting. The inside is dirty and unkept and I will never go back here.
I could have made better food at home. And the customer service was terrible.

Enjoyed Saturday brunch w/​my family. We had #30, #33 and Brie cheese salad! The walnut bread slices (comes w/​salad) and the french sandwich bread are the best! The dressing was one to die for. Plus, my child enjoyed taro boba drink A LOT since it wasn’t too sweet like other places!

My family has had their business in the Claremont Village for 23 years and a friend and I decided to try this place out.
I saw that they had Boba and thought id try it out. I ordered a Taro Boba. I handed the lady 5 dollars and she handed me my change. The Asian lady that took my order was very bland. Not the best customer service.
I have worked in customer service for the last 5 years and I was not impressed.
The lady that took my order first made the drink for the person that ordered before me. Once she got to my drink she did not rinse the blender out before making my drink. I did not notice it until my friend pointed it out. The person before me had a Thai Tea Boba. I ordered Taro. So when I got my drink it tasted NOTHING like Taro. My friend and I asked the lady if she could fix it because she blended another flavor with mine and it did not taste good. She then pointed and shook that jar of Taro powder pointing out that it was Taro. We told her that we understood that she made the drink correctly but because she cross contaminated the two drinks it did not taste the way it was supposed to.
All we asked her was to re make the drink in a rinsed container. She rolled her eyes at me and sighed.
I told her if it were that big of a deal then she can just give me my money back. She went over to the register. Took the money out. Set down the dollar bills and threw the coins at me!
I looked at her and said «You did NOT need to throw my change at me!»
So my friend and I walked out and she yelled for us to come back. We turned around and she picked up the drink and said «THROW AWAY YOUR DRINK»
UM, EXCUSE ME!!! She first rolled her eyes at me with a HUGE attitude and then threw my change at me and then she asks me to throw away MY drink?
NO, she gave me my money back. I told her that is YOUR drink now. YOU can throw it away!
Working in customer service the past five years, if someone doesn’t like something and just wants it changed because it was cross contaminated, then you bite the bullet and make a new one. Regardless if you disagree or not. NO ONE IS GOING TO PAY FOR SOMETHING THEY DON’T WANT! THEY WANT TO GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR!
I was SO sweet to her until she threw my money at me! If she were to have just remade my drink I would have probably went back another day and tried something else on their menu.
BUT I WILL NEVER GO THERE AGAIN!
And I will NEVER recommend this place to anyone.
Should have just given me what I paid for.

Best sandwiches the the Claremont Village. The bread is warm and fluffy because they bake it themselves in the shop:) The salmon salads are also really tasty! I always take out of towners here because it’s a small, intimate place with really great food.

EGGCELENT!
This is one of my favorite small town places here in Claremont. We usually come for lunch, but today, as you can tell, we came for breakfast and it is wonderful! The staff are always very nice and recognize us even though we only come here once every two months or so. They are also very vegetarian friendly, which I definitely appreciate!

Initially planned on going to Dr. Grubbs for lunch, parked and found out it was closed. Seeing that this café was open, I decided to give it a try and glad I did. Customer service was warm and friendly, and the sandwiches were delicious. Would definitely recommend this place!

This place is so cozy and the food is super natural, the 2 Korean owners are so kind and our daughters love them. We are Italian and look for tasty natural food. You can’t go wrong with Full of Life!!! Arrivederci!

Great place for breakfast. Love the tofu omelet. Place is clean, easy parking and great to relax and enjoy breakfast after a good work out! I will definitely being going back. One minor issue is that they don’t have a restroom.

AMBIENCE: It wasn’t really a café. I did not like the ambience it gave off. It just seemed like another restaurant. At the same time, it was hot.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: It isn’t that good.
FOOD: Their dishes are something that I can make at home. It didn’t wow me.
The restaurant doesn’t represent their café name «Full of Life.»

By far one of the greatest small businesses in Claremont :) Owned by a very sweet Korean lady and her family!
Light and healthy food, a balsamic dressing that is to die for and better than that everything is homemade. Delicious bread and amazingly wonderful service!
If you like feeling like you are at home this is the place to be!

Wow. Unbelievably rude. I stopped by for a coffee and a bite to eat on a Sunday morning. The doors were open so I naturally went in. I was looked at like I committed a crime or something by some rude Asian lady with zero customer skills who rolled her eyes at me and said «we’re closed» and then turned her back to me. This was my first and last visit. I will never come back. Would it really been so difficult to serve me? Here is a hint, if you are closed, then don’t have your doors open!

If you enjoy the taste of coffee and espresso do not go here for those things. Worst latte I have ever had in my life. And I’m pretty sure there is no caffeine in it.

Mom and pop restaurant. You can make better food at home. Very expensive for what you get. Plates from the kitchen and silverware are cheap, food is plain (salad greens and balsamic in plastic cup are your side salad… no toppings, just greens) panini barely any meat and coffee is not tasty at all. Won’t come back.

This place is a RIP OFF!!! Do not come here if you want your life to be saved. I absolutely NOT recommend this place. Claremont has so many little cute places do not come here. I payed over $ 9 for two poached eggs that are sitting on top of this toasted stale piece of «French bread.» It comes with «fruit» which is three pieces of Apple slices. For $ 9 bucks I can guarantee you that you can get a much better quality breakfast somewhere else. They do not give good customer service either, the lady was rudely waiting for me to pull out my bill and she kept stating the obvious even though I was not asking her anything. This place is frustrating. A sandwich croissant cost $ 8!!! Something you can find at other coffee shops for half the price. Bad service and its over priced. I took a picture of my «breakfast,» so you can see. I seriously could have gone anywhere else and for the same price I would have at least been treated better.

Chicken pesto was delicious! I will most definitely be returning. Service was ok only downside is they need more tables outside. Other than that food was great!

Awful milk tea. It is pricey, too sweet, like a slush, and poor boba. The girl doesn’t even ask how you want it. I’m not going back.

Interesting health food restaurant in downtown Claremont.
We got the veggie club which came with arugula, fire roasted bell peppers, baba ganoush, onion, tapenade, and avocado on walnut whole wheat bread. $ 7.95. We also got a tofu sandwich which came with tofu, whole grain mustard, tomato, arugula, and avocado on walnut whole wheat bread, $ 7.95. We also got the mango boba and a couple of bags of sun chips.
The store is family run, friendly, and caters mostly to students in the area.
The overall flavors of the sandwiches were okay although I found the bread didn’t quite hold its contents together. The sandwiches also lacked texture, specifically it was missing crunch because the veggies and the tofu were soft which is why we decided to buy the chips. The side salad and the dressing were okay and didn’t stand out either in my opinion. Finally, the mango boba was refreshing although some of the tapioca balls were still frozen.

I have mixed feelings about this place… the sandwich was good and the owners are clearly trying… but the prices and the slowness of the service make it hard for me to consider coming back. I know I am getting greens with the sandwich… but the prices seem sort of ridiculous to me. I got the Prosciutto sandwich… and while it was good (the bread was very good), I feel like I have had similar sandwiches for 6.50 or 7 rather than the 9 something I paid for this one. It just seems pretty steep for a place like this. I should say that I just moved to CA so I don’t know how the pricing works here, but I moved from a very expensive east coast city so it seems unlikely that this is a normal thing. My suggestion to the owners would be to have the greens be a separate addition… that way I don’t feel like I am paying for something that I don’t actually need.
Another thing, I didn’t get the impression that most of the sandwich meats were prepared in house, which is fine… but don’t charge so much if I could make it myself with deli meats from the store. Hell… I am ok with paying 13 dollars for a sandwich if the portion is large, it is homemade, and it is fantastic (for example, a certain Boston pastrami place). Here though, I couldn’t help but keep thinking about the gourmet sandwiches from somewhere like Mendocino Farms for the same price.
As far as the service goes, maybe this is just the way they run the place but I feel like only having 2 (maybe there was a 3^rd but I don’t think so) people at lunch time in a place this big is a disaster waiting to happen. Things seemed a little unorganized and we ended up waiting quite a long time for sandwiches that didn’t even require cooking. I don’t know… I am sure they are doing it for monetary reasons, but cutting corners like that ends up catching up to you business wise. If I am in a hurry, I won’t even consider stopping here for lunch. and I am guessing I am not the only one.