Intel Cafe

Although the food in the Intel café isn’t free, the prices are low enough that I don’t feel totally ripped off. You can get a hot breakfast, including bacon or sausage and eggs cooked the way you like them, for under $ 4. For lunch, the prices range from about $ 3 to $ 8, but most of the entrees are around $ 6. The salad bar is pretty standard, with a decent selection of protein besides grilled chicken. There’s usually a few types of beans and cruciferous, and sometimes they have salmon or turkey.
I’ve liked everything I’ve ever gotten from the carving station. The Mediterranean plate and the Mexican station (they do a better job cooking the chicken and the pork than the steak) are pretty safe bets, but the buffet station is a little iffy. By later in the lunch hour, you can really tell the food’s been sitting there for awhile, and you can start to see pools of grease.

Well I work at Intel, so there is not much choice for convenient lunch. I will say this is not the best tasting food or even best café due to the crowding during lunchtime. However, I really like the people here. The cooks are friendly, and they even try to remember your orders if you become a regular. As much as I don’t like the crowding, I enjoy running into friends and colleagues during lunch time and eat with different people every day. For me, this is home away from home :).

This is for the SC12 café – edible, but definitely gone down hill. I used to always go to the «Bowl» station and choose a chicken terriyaki dish. Then they changed it to be the same food for everyone, changing the dish every day. Okay, I can live with that… but then they started pre-​cooking it and letting it sit under a hot light until you get it. It’s gross. It loses it’s flavor. Oh, and sometimes they have meatloaf. Mind you, this is the «Bowl» station. I’m unfortunately picky and it’s now to the point where I can’t guarantee that there will be something I’ll like in the café anymore.

I am very sad to say the quality of the food was gone downhill while the prices are going up. First they changed the prices on salad from all you can get in a bowl to $ 0.40 an ounce. I have seen some salads go to $ 15 dollars which you mine as well go to Sweet Tomatoes for half of the price.
The Mexican station has definitely gone down hill, the chili chipotle sauce is sometimes watered down or perfect, so it is ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. I use to love getting the nachos, but unfortunately the cheese tastes awful now. They are putting less on the food in there like meat, but more rice and beans. The food has gotton disgusting to be honest. Today I had my fish and chips, but unfortunately the batter was not tempura and not crispy, it was pretty gross.
I am wondering why the Oregon café is so much better, but yet from the some company.

Came by for lunch the other day and the Café was surprisingly poor in terms of quality. The café is run by Bön Appetit Management Company. My understanding is that Bön Appetit tends to promote farm to fork… I guess not here?!?
Came by during the lunch rush and the line was long…10−15 minutes long. Ordered the daily special with fish, onion rings, and steamed vegetables and it left a lot to be desired…
…the fish was overcooked and dry… wasn’t fresh at all… The onion rings were burnt and seemed frozen?!? …the steamed vegetables seemed to have been sitting out for too long as they didn’t taste fresh…
…aye aye aye…

I don’t find much a variety of foods here. But the Mexican and grilled foods are very nice. after having Indian food for some days, I felt bored of chicken curry. I prefer Indian food on Fridays as they have special Indian curry. Once I had awesome south Indian food-​idli and bisbelabath (sambar rice). Waiting for it for long time .I find very limited choice for breakfast.
More over I like free drinks and fruits: P

The café is open to employees and invited guests who clear security. The café looks very good, bright, cheery, but the food is overpriced. Why Intel can’t subsidize the cafeteria like Adobe, Cisco, Oracle and other high tech companies is beyond me.
They have a nice salad section with tofu and produce that is generally fresh. Also have a mexican section — where you can have burritos, tacos, tostada’s, etc. This is a nice change. They have a pizza corner where you can order a slice of pizza, cheese breadstick, or a personal sized pizza, sometimes they have macaroni and cheese. Then you have panini section, where it does taste good, but you still feel hungry afterwards. The soups are sometimes good, I like Spinach and Broccoli. Next you have stir fry section (noodles, rice, broccoli, bell peppers, mushroom, tofu) and the grill (burgers/​fries, etc). They occasionally have Indian food, but is overpriced and they never get the lentils right.
The layout is quite nice, seating can be a problem near noon when the rush hour hits.
The soft drinks, coffee and tea are free, but who needs the sugar and calories, right. Just wish they had fresh fruit juices for free.

I am rating this compared to the other work cafes. This place rocks. There are so
Many options! Everything looks
Fresh. I loved my taco salad. The grilled sandwiches are nice too. Fruit infused water. How can you go wrong?!

Okay two things that are awesome about this café:
1. Mighty Leaf iced tea! LOVE it!!!
2. Fruit-​infused water. I go through so much of this!
The free soft drinks & fruit also help keep you awake through the morning, and there’s a Peet’s next door for if you want something fancy.

Café is accessable for employees only and their guests. As previously mentioned — limited variety. They have salad bar, sauté bar, pizza bar (which has pizza for under $ 2, and calzone with meat for $ 4), soups bar (typically there would be 3 different soups, however you may not want any of them — it’s either a lot of peas and ham or big chunks of chicken meet and noodles.)
Then we get the grill, they have variety of fish, salads, grilled chicken with sides. Next up is Mexican grill, which serves limited plates like tacos, burritos, nachos, taco salad. And finally sushi bar once a week, I’d recommend going out for sushi rather then order there, pay more and get less.
Over it is ok, but if you are staying a lot of times in the office you get so sick of the fooood! It is better to have this café then nothing, but I think it could be better.

I love the Intel café! I don’t work here, but know people who do… when they want me to have lunch with them and escort me into the building I am happy! I have only worked at places with either no café or a really small and crappy one.
There are so many choices at this café, AND they place an emphasis on having fresh and healthy ingredients. They always have rotating specials, and everything I have eaten is good and very reasonably priced. Intel employees: appreciate what you have! It rocks.
Note: only open to Intel employees & their escorted guests.

This is the corporate caf inside of Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. It is closed to the general public.
And that’s a good thing, because the food is unchanging and pathetic. No variety (to speak of), bland flavor, high prices, and poor policy.
They charged my co-​worker for a tiny plastic cup of salsa for his pinini. IT WAS A PLASTIC DRESSING CUP OF SALSA — GIVE IT TO THE KID — don;t punish him for wanting flavor in his food!!!
Anyway, avoid this place if you can. The people are nice, but the food os nothing to e-​mail the boss about.