The French Corner Cafe

The sandwiches are very good and the prices are affordable. With that said, stay away from the food bar area! I’ve tried the pizza, the lasagna, and the grilled chicken breast with rice and vegetables. The pizza and the lasagna are definitely the cheap-​frozen kind. I was horrified to realize that I had just paid $ 4 for 6oz of STOUFFER’S lasagna. I ate way too much Stouffer’s in my younger days and you can’t fool me.
Now, the sandwiches. The very first time I walked in I noticed 90% of customers bypassing the food bar and heading straight to the sandwich kiosk; I should have taken the hint. The Tuna Salad sandwich is really good; much better than anything Subway can offer. The Chicken Salad sandwich was OK. It was too sloppy and greasy; they need a better recipe, but a decent attempt nonetheless. Overall decent place, but nothing special.
The cold sandwiches are $ 4.50 and the hot ones are $ 6.50.
On another note, the little park outside the shop is beautiful; I love having lunch there. Enjoy!

Tried the location at UCT today, it was horrible! After all these times of smelling the great food. I has the French Dip panini. It was cold and cheese not melted. The au jus was greasy. Worst of all I felt sick afterwards. Waste of $ 7. I’ll go hungry next time or walk to the hospitals.

The day we came here they had Greek dishes on the menu. Hummus and grape leaves were good. The serving is ample. I have to agree though. No customer service. We came the second time since the first time was alright. I asked what kind of meat they are serving (pork? beef? chicken?); it was hard to tell with the sauce all over the meat. The dude pointed the meat and said he didn’t know. Uhmm. Okay. I opted to get chicken salad. It was tasty but rather rich.

They have the friendliest staff and excellent variety in their menu (some yummy Mediterranean and vegetarian options!). Great for UTHSC students and not as pricey as the surrounding café’s of MD Anderson. UTHSC students get a discount if they show their ID.

Weird hours, so, good luck actually eating there. There’s nothing French on the menu except the fries. Wait staff wouldn’t get off her cell. It took 10 minutes for two cold soggy sandwiches.

I ordered a panini here and the guy just starting making it without asking me one question or telling me what was on it. What did I get? I got a poor excuse for a vietnamese (banh mi) sandwich! Seriously? There wasn’t cheese or much on it. Not very good. dry chicken. Would recommend walking a little farther to get something that tastes good!

I actually like the food here. TWU Student Life always gets their food catered from here and I very much enjoyed what they prepared. They even catered Mexican food before and it was delicious! Much better than some of the mexican restaurants in Houston as a matter of fact.

If I wasn’t in nursing school, I’d probably never eat here. The food is the same every week… booooring! Breakfast tacos are disgusting. After taking two bites, I threw mine away. The salsa is Pace picante sauce. No bueno.
There are better options in the Med Center. The Methodist Hospital has an amazing cafeteria. Go there instead!

Just a walk down from the sky bridge is this little café in the UT Nursing school.
I like to get my Hazelnut flavored Seattle’s best coffee in the morning for just an even dollar with taxes. They even have the different flavored creamers which is a lot better than what I pay for at Starbucks. For lunch, you can’t beat the daily specials that they have. They have kabobs, lasagna, fried shrimp and more. The salads and fruit are always fresh and the price that everything is listed at is much better than many other cafeterias we have in the hospitals.
The waiters are always nice and helpful.
They have lunch boxes which are marked with the type of sandwich is inside which makes it easy to just grab it and go.

Not sure why George chose to name this place the French Corner when there is nothing French about it! Anyway, consistently good food and at a reasonable price.

Open until 3:30 PM… but they might as well be closed by 2:30 PM. I came here today for lunch with a friend and I was expecting something french… everything was sold out. So I got 2 slices of pizza and a salad. The prices aren’t bad but they didn’t have much selection by the time I came. I’ll give it another try maybe at an earlier time. Their pizza was a little better than the villa pizza on the skybridge of the CCC building. And that’s not saying much.

I really didn’t like French Corner in SON (School of Nursing) at first, because I thought all of the food was kind of blah. But after working in the TMC for 3 years, I have come to appreciate the consistency, freshness, and chicken salad at French Corner.
There are hot entrees daily, usually some kind of pasta or perhaps enchiladas (random, I know), as well as pizza and calzones. They have a daily special with either the hot plate option+drink+side or pizza+side+drink for $ 5ish (I’ve only gotten it a few times). There are ready made sandwiches (roast beef, veggie, chicken salad, tuna salad, turkey), and ready made salads available a la carte such as chicken salad, greek salad, spinach salad, pasta salad, fruit salad, etc. My favorite at FC, however, is the salad trio. You get to pick 3 salads from the salad bar for $ 5.99, I usually get the chicken salad, greek salad, and fruit or hummus. The chicken salad is so good because they use strips of chicken, not chunks. And it doesn’t have too much mayo!
The owner/​manager (I think his name is Ahmed?) at this French Corner location is super nice, you get a 10% discount if you are a student. They also have Zapp’s chips (YESSSS!!!), including my all-​time favorite flavor of salt and black pepper. They have some desserts, usually brownies and cookies, available by the register. The only downer is that today I noticed that they started charging for water, $ 0.50 a cup! Wow, the economy must be hurting.