Lee’s Deli

My office is right across the street, so I come here regularly for breakfast and occasionally a salad. The food is $ 7.55/lb and always consistent and tasty. Go before 10:30 a.m. for breakfast or everything will be picked-​over, dried out or gone. The only negative thing I have to say is: Since the food is weighed, I suspect the cashiers of overcharging. Seriously.

MY to-​go place for breakfast almost every morning to the point the staff recognizes me.
Super fast and easy place, they have a wide selection of food. For breakfast, they have breakfast sandwiches that can be made and a buffet of Chinese food, salad bar, dim sum and breakfast items. Quality of food is not bad, I think it is pretty good for a to-​go place. Prices are by weight, not pricey at all.
My favorite is their chive dumpling and for lunch their green curry chicken is pretty good! If you are finding somewhere quick and easy, Lee’s is your togo.

Used to be much more consistant. Now it depends on who you get to make your sandwich. Someone needs to explain to them what «Toast» means… it does’t mean just warm the bread. Even when I ask to please make it extra toasted they don’t get it and I end up with a soggy sandwich by the time I get back to work.

A very good selection of food items. The fish was great and so was the chicken. I think the pay-​by-​weight is a cool way to sell. Not sure how profitable it is though. It is also quiet economical.

After 2:30pm; their hot food is old. The rice is really hard; barely edible.
The salad bar is the safest choice after 2:30pm. Only thing is, they only have one spatula utensil to build your salad with. So for those of you who are vegan/​vegetarian– be careful. The spatula may have been used on the cheese or chicken/​non-​vegan items.
Pretty weird since salad bars usually have a utensil in EACH item on the salad bar.
I’ve been to Lee’s deli several times, this location & the one on Front St. in SF.
It’s always like this.

Hot and stuffy in there but definitely better than the other Lee’s location on 1^st street. Staff is pretty efficient getting peopel through the checkout line. Sandwiches pretty decent.

Food is good and relatively cheap for lunch! Did I also mention, quick?
I usually just buy a chicken breast sandwich and it comes out to about $ 6 after tax. Only thing about this place is that the workers there are not customer friendly oriented… unless your Asian and speak their dialect (which I don’t.) They seem more to be of «lets help the next customer in line to make lunch line go by faster» type. They lose two stars because of customer friendly experience.

Solid cheap fast sandwiches in the FiDi. I especially like the BLT with lots of crispy cheap bacon… and the sometimes dry but REAL roast turkey sandwiches. I have a friend… who whenever he is having a really bad day he goes there and gets a bologna sandwich on white bread and Funions. Always used to Crack me up.

$ 7.55/lb for the hot foods/​salad. Dim sum and sushi comes at a different price.
What I like about this Lee’s is that it has a lot of variety compared to the other Lee’s in the area. Food is just OK, nothing to rave about. If you need something quick, I think this Lee’s is the better one to go to.

I really wanted to like this place, but it just was not good at all. I even spit out first bites of various dim sum because the idea of chewing it further gave me too much disgust (and I am a true fat kid at heart who never does that). The only things that I was like «this is totally edible» were the Shanghai dumpling, which didn’t have any soup in them as they should, and the sesame balls, which were the the reason I am giving this two stars instead of one.
Note: I went at 11am when everything should have been in prime, fresh lunch time condition, so I feel I really did give this place a fair try.

This place has everything at a reasonable price — sandwiches, hot buffet, dim sum, salad, sushi, hot noodle soup. Everything is pretty good. Checkout is fast. Always go here to grab a quick lunch during work.

Lee’s Deli is a good place for me to have a reasonably-​priced lunch. They have made-​to-​order sandwiches, ramen soups, and udon soups along with their salad and hot food bars. Even though they serve breakfast, I’ve never tried it. Their food seems fresh, and the selection varies little so I know I can get at least three or four things that I like. I really like their ramen soup. You can select bok choy to go with it and shrimp or pork dumplings. On the hot food bar, they have a good selection of chicken, fish and beef dishes along with a variety of dumplings. There are Lee’s Delis all over the city. I’ve only tried this one and the one on Market. The one on Market only has outdoor seating whereas this one only has indoor seating, but there are enough seats at this one that I’ve never had to wait.
The staff is generally hostile or indifferent as in most Chinese establishments. One day when I asked one of the cashiers if I could use the restroom before I got my food, she practically threw the keys at me. Then another one stalked me to retrieve the keys when I exited the restroom and went to order soup instead of returning the keys first. But since minimal interaction with the staff is necessary to get a decent meal, I don’t let that be a factor.

Large salad bar option w/​lots of fixings to choose from. Hot bar includes fair tasting Chinese food.
Sandwich was meh. Ordered a corned beef and my coworker didn’t like it much. Other coworker had the Tonkatsu Ramen w/​BBQ pork. Soup was oook for a Chinese joint trying to make ramen but he did advise not to get the BBQ as that turned the soup into an unappealing red liquid.
Prices were ok. Salad bar items tend to be expensive since they’re going by weight.

Lee’s is the go-​to spot of many of us who work in the area surrounding this location. They have everything from dim sum, sushi, sandwich bar, chinese food and breakfast in the morning too. Just discovered they have cronuts!
I personally wouldn’t come here if I could bring food from home everyday. However, it’s nice that I can get a little food without paying a whole lot. It’s about $ 7.50/per lb and it’s quick. You’re in and out in minutes or less.

This review is for their sandwiches only!
Definitely would NOT recommend anyone go to Lee’s Deli for a sandwich. There are wayyyy better sandwich spots than Lee’s Deli. I can say SUBWAY is BETTER! –_​_​–
Came here once and ordered a sandwich, said I would never come back.
Strolling and wandering around downtown looking for some place to feed the band playing in my tummy the day after new years, apparently a lot of places are closed and still on vacation, so I ended up settling at Lee’s Deli. Ordered a sandwich, asked for a roll (because I don’t like sliced bread sandwiches), asked them to toast the sandwich. they can only toast the BREAD, btw… brought back to the office, stared at it, sandwich wasn’t appetizing, but I ate it anyways. Most of it.
Sandwich was really dry. They charge extra for selecting a sandwich roll, if you don’t like sliced bread. And. sandwich was DRY!
I vow to never come back again. This time for sure!

The food isn’t bad but the workers here NEVER change their gloves when handling food. They will make a sandwich or replenish the buffet tables and never take their gloves off. It’s as if they’re afraid of getting their hands dirty.
Next time you’re at a Lee’s Deli make sure the person who touched your food last follows food safe methods.

Bad.
First, those who work here must hate their job because they never smile and treat their customers like garbage.
Second, the food quality is horrible. I can’t believe anyone would go back. The price to quality/​quantity is horrible.
Third, I’ve wasted too much time on this review.
Stay away.

They say this is the land of plenty and this place sure has lots of it at a very reasonable price. I stopped by for breakfast one morning and was pleasantly surprised to see a breakfast bar with an abundance of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, tator tots. The other side of this food bar offers dim sum and they also have a salad bar. Breakfast is offered only during morning hours and you can mix and match all items from the food bar for $ 6.95 a pound. Around lunch time, they switch out breakfast and offer Chinese food, and other hot items as well as the salad bar with some pre-​made salads.
In addition to this, they have a full deli, customizable Asian soups (ramen or regular noodles, dumplings and fixings), standard soups, pastries, cakes, cookies, candy, and non-​alcoholic drinks.
The service is efficient and the place is clean, well lit, and has a nice set up. One of my new favorite spots to pick up an inexpensive meal.
Check out their website if you’re curious about their menu:

I always love coming here in the morning. Lee’s Deli is a deli/​buffet. There are two buffet counters in the front and the deli is in the back. It’s great because I can get a full breakfast for as little as $ 3 — eggs, bacon, taters, some dim sum?
During lunch time, they have a nice variety of your staple Asian foods on one buffet table — chow mein, beef and broccoli, fried rice, orange chicken, etc. The other table has a variety of salads, sushi, and fruits.
Most of their patrons are Financial District employees out to grab a quick bite. It’s to-​go friendly, quick in-​and-​out service, and reasonably priced at $ 6.95/lb.

under $ 7/​lb for a huge variety of tasty asian (mainly chinese) food, including a good salad and soup bar. I enjoyed all of their food, and after having been to China, I thought some of the dishes were pretty close to their originals. When you compare this to the $ 10/​lb at Julie’s kitchen, it’s really hard to justify going there over Lee’s.
The spicy thai noodles were really good, and were actually spicy. Honestly everything I had was good, I’m not going to go through and name it all. Lots of seating. I’m definitely looking forward to coming back here.