Law Cafe

I like the Law Café. It’s neat, clean, and they offer a great selection of salads and wraps. Great breakfast burritos too!!! It’s a nice place to go to take a break from either work or school. The people are super nice!
They also have a large selection of power bar type things to keep you going. Try it, you’ll like it!

Quick, easy, and delicious option for us «starving» law students. The workers are fantastic – all of them greet us with a smile and enthusiasm every day. The chicken pesto is mouth-​watering good. I actually craved it when I was gone for winter break – it’s that good. Avoid going around noon since everyone is trying to get lunch then. So happy to have such a conveniently great food option on campus!

This little café at UC Hastings is surprisingly good. The sandwiches and wraps are amazing. I love the Pesto Chicken sandwich; it is sizable so for a law student on a budget, it could be split into two meals. Or get half. The Athena and the Asian Chicken wraps are more healthy alternatives but just as good. I love the cookies.

Best restaurant in SF.
(and now takes cards)

1. i hate that it closes so early
2. i hate that they only take cash
3. BUT IT IS SO GOOD /​CHEAP. large variety of food. wraps and sandwiches are cheap for their size. but SO good.

I love the Law Café! Sandwiches are great and the staff is one of the friendliest around.

I ruv you, law café. Thanks for all those delicious sandwiches (get the #21, turkey & avocado, thank me later) and for not weighing your salad bar. I also think the Law Café should get a special shout out for their soups — they are surprisingly good. I especially love the roasted red pepper with smoked gouda; it’s straight up orgasmic. I’m not totally convinced they make it all from scratch, but I’ll overlook that because really, the soup is the star of the show.
I wish they took credit cards, but they will take a check in a pinch. Everyone who works there has always been super sweet to me, even though I’m sure they’re run down and hate most of us for being such D-​bags.

The Law Café is great. I spent three years at Hastings and I loved the law café every day. The food is fresh, tasty and the owners are awesome. I have to say we (law students and lawyers) are probably and in all fairness the worst customers. We are argumentative, always stressed etc… For the last 10 years the Law Café has managed to please law students, lawyers and the entire Civi Center community.
I like everything about the place: the great sandwiches, the premium coffee, the fresh juices, the ice cream and above all Shazi and Ali who go out of their way to please the hardest customers. You have to give credit when credit is due.
I also recommend the law café for catering events.

There are 2 crucial thing that makes this place worthy of 5 stars.
1. The prices. Things are very, very cheap compared to delis, other cafes, and liquor stores.
and
2. The salad bar is not priced by weight. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? It means I get a salad that would cost me 20 bucks at Whole Foods for 6.5 at school. And, unlike Whole Foods, I have not had anything from our salad bar that has made me say, «Ew, what a waste of box space.»
… Think about it. This café is a magical place. I wish they had french fries.

It’s convenient. The end.
I would order their Healthy Alternative sandwich if it were called the Baconater 4000 and instead of all the healthy stuff they put in it they subbed slices of bacon. And it was a wrap.

For my 6^th review I want to share with you my favorite dinning experience I have ever had… okay, maybe not.
You will be hard pressed to find a daily better soup selection in the Tenderloin. The cream of asparagus, chicken tortilla and carrot-​ginger are top flight choices, sure to live up to their high expectations. The chicken vegetable lacks the sexiness of other soup selections, but will get the job done. Perhaps the real sleeper in the selection is the white bean and sausage, which has great upside potential for the student with low expectations. I must admit I was a little surprised when Shazi broke out the African Chicken Peanut Soup on Monday, which may have been strong when paired with a veggie option but lacked the overall appeal to get my order.
In summary: try the soup, avoid the salad bar and if some one is brave try asking for a sandwich NOT on dutch crunch bread.

It seems almost silly to review this seeing as it is the only option for the students here, BUT
it closes at 3:30 everyday, except apparently during finals (now) where it has an even more limited menu and closes by 3pm.
No salad bar available, only part of the sandwiches available, Coffee that tastes like troll dung.
friendly staff.

The Law Café puts me in mind of the Stephen Crane poem:
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: «Is it good, friend?»
«It is bitter-​bitter,» he answered;
«But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.»
…except if you find me in the Law Café & ask, «Is it good, friend?» I will answer:
«There is an adequate selection
Of prepackaged foods,
And they charge for salad
By container, not by weight,
So if I am hungry,
I can pack a bunch of food in there
And I do not have to pay extra.
But the bread is stale
And the dining area is stuffy
And overcrowded.
But I like it
Because I am hungry,
And because I have class soon.»

The new café is wonderful. The people who work there are great, professional and hard working. they offer a tasty variety of food, esp. vegetarian, vegan, options etc… the sandwiches are super! the coffee is always great! I dont know what the guy before was thinking, but I love eating at the law café! and prices are cheap and affordable for college students. the place is always clean compared to the restaurants and café’s around the rather unpleasant area.

Could it be… another FIRST… Probably because this place is so pathetic, it never occurred to somebody that it was a reviewable eating experience. But sadly, this is often the sole source of nourishment for UC Hastings’ students. This 5×9 establishment apparently had its *cooking* privileges taken away (heating/​toasting/​grilling?) after a recent disaster with a toaster prompted the fire department to evacuate the entire school into the ‘Loin. I believe there may be a total of 5-​maybe 6– menu items. As a vegetarian, there are only so many vegan falafel wraps I can handle in the course of a semester (they’re pretty damned dry too). I’m told to stay away from the breakfast burritos, as there can be a green hue to the interior (must have something to do with the lack of permitted cooking appliances). I resent being charged .50 cents for hot water. Apparently, the only decent thing there is the fruit parfait, which is a regrettable $ 4.00. Now, all that being said, the PEOPLE that work there are a whole different story. They are friendly and wonderful, particularly the spunky blond chick who apparently gets no respect from the men there, who are allegedly gay lovers trying not to be COMPLETELY embittered by the shitty conditions they are given to work in by Hastings. See my review on Morty’s if you’re looking for an alternative (and get over the fact that they are giving Le Petit’s some healthy competition)…