Cafe At Pharr

Love love love this place!!! The chicken salad is amazing and I visit all the locations bc it’s so good. The staff is more than amazing and so welcoming. Definitely go here for some yummy salads and sandwiches!

I love this place! The chicken salad is super yummy and they have many different flavors! I used to come here all the time till when moved but whenever I’m in the area I just have to stop! The staff are super friendly here and I enjoy coming back! Thanks for the yummy lunch spot! Its definitely my favorite in town

Do you like Chicken Salad? Yes, I do. I do like Chicken Salad, how about you?
Quite possibly the most da-​lic-​ious chicken salad in the Atlanta area. The chicken to mayonnaise ratio is on fleek. The ginger salad dressing, while not my favorite, is a big hit with my dining companions.
If you’re into curry, and who isn’t, then I highly suggest you get the curry chicken salad.
But what I love most is that I can get some da-​lic-​ious SUSHI on my way out.
However, the parking situation is unbearable and the seating leaves much to be desired. I am often seated next to someone’s ancient grandmother and must listen to her tedious bullshit. Whoops, Elsie said a cuss word.

I love this place! The service is so good and quick. The chicken walnut salad has changed my life forever! Highly recommend for a quick delicious and healthy lunch!

I have to classify Café at Pharr as one of those places I just don’t get. I’ve been 3 or 4 times now over a couple years, and I’ve never had anything that makes me want to go back. I just don’t get the popularity. It’s not bad, it’s just kind of «blah.» The sandwiches are tiny (I can easily knock out two sandwiches as a meal), and the chicken salads are decidedly average. I generally love curry chicken salads, and while Café at Pharr’s isn’t bad, I think I’ve enjoyed the curry chicken salad at pretty much every other restaurant I’ve had it more.
I also tried the chicken noodle soup today, and it was pretty bland, which has been my experience here in general. I will say, the croissants are quite good and the little yogurt roll dessert things you get with each sandwich are a nice touch. But when chicken salad is your specialty, and it’s not any better than a typical chicken salad at a neighborhood get-together…well, enough said.
But, given their popularity, my opinion appears to be in the minority.

Café at Pharr is a collection of café-​restaurants in metro Atlanta serving healthy, light, and delicious food. There are currently five locations: Buckhead, Miami Circle (near Lindbergh), Westside (West Midtown), Vinings, and Brookhaven. The business got its name from the original location in Buckhead on Pharr Rd. This review is for the Vinings location, found inside the Vinings Jubilee shopping district (same shopping center with La Paz, Mellow Mushroom, Another Broken Egg Café).
Café at Pharr is a lunch place. Most locations close in the afternoon. This Vinings location stays open the latest, until 6pm, Monday through Saturday. The restaurant is closed Sundays.
The restaurant is small and casual. There’s a bar in the center of the dining space and seating consists of a mixture of regular and high-​top tables. Clean and contemporary environment. Big windows allow natural sunlight to fill most of the interior and photos of Atlanta serve as décor along one of the walls.
I like the simple menu. The specialties are salads and sandwiches, and they have soups too. The most popular item at Café at Pharr is the walnut chicken salad. If it’s your first time, ask for samples. They’ll bring various salads out in sample cups for you to try. Most sandwiches are priced at $ 7.50 each and most salad plates $ 9.00 each. There are several different bread choices (white, wheat, multigrain, baguette, croissant) and all entrees come with red grapes and housemade yogurt rolls. Take-​out is a popular option.
I’ve tried a handful of salads including:
Walnut chicken salad
Celery chicken salad
Curry chicken salad
Tuna salad
They’re all good, so it’s hard to go wrong. The chicken salads are made with all-​white meat chicken. The walnut chicken salad contains crushed walnuts and golden raisins. The celery chicken salad contains celery and mayo — a very traditional chicken salad. The curry chicken salad is the most flavorful of the lot and perhaps my favorite, but only by a hair. It’s subtly spicy. The tuna salad is similar to the celery chicken salad. It’s another classic tasting salad.
If you order a sandwich, I recommend it on white bread or in a croissant. The croissant bread is tasty — soft, flaky, and buttery. Speaking of croissants, Café at Pharr’s yogurt rolls are made with leftover croissant dough. The yogurt rolls are essentially croissants filled with a semi-​sweet, creamy yogurt. They are delectable and something the restaurant is known for.
I prefer the salad plates, which are just as filling as the sandwiches. Only one dressing comes with the salads and it’s a housemade ginger dressing, which is served on the side in a neat little pour cup. The dressing is light and vinegary and contains tiny seeds. The salad itself comes with fresh, crisp lettuce, shredded carrots, and slices or ripe tomato. Along with the aforementioned grapes and yogurt roll, a slice of bread is included too.
If you like soup, try one of their soups of the day. I’ve tried the tomato soup and it is fantastic. It’s a little bit creamy, which I like, and full of flavor. The chicken noodle soup, with shredded chicken, looks pretty good too.
Service is excellent.
All in all, I’m a fan of Café at Pharr’s Vinings location. The food is healthy, affordable, and tasty and the service is terrific. A dependable lunch spot.

$ 15 lunch and we are always hungry an hour later! Good fresh food but PORTIONS ARE SMALL AND IT’S $$$… Dont’ get me wrong… I like café at pharr. I’ve been to most of the locations around town. The food is always consistent and fresh but my friends never want to go there because we walk out after a $ 15 lunch and we are hungry an hour later. This happens EVERY time. All the buckhead bettys at the Peachtree Rd location obviously are on a diet and don’t care about this… but everyone else does! I know they do a lot of business at that location but I think the owners would do a lot better at all locations if they either brought the price down a couple bucks or at least gave you 25% more food. Personally I would be OK with a $ 15 lunch but I want to feel full afterwards!

I’m a regular patron of the Foxglove Antiques location, so I jumped at the opportunity to eat at the Vinings location on Saturday. The curry chicken salad is my go-​to entrée and I even bought a container to-​go. Parking at this location is difficult but the food and the service at top notch.

I love this place! Been here twice and cannot get over how good the curry chicken salad is! SO yummy in fact for my bridal shower I made my friend order it so we can serve it! Great on top of a salad and on a croissant. WHICH by the way their croissants are out of this WORLD! AND to top it off you get the little yogurt roll thing for dessert whats not to love!!!
I love the shopping center its in as well! Pop in get lunch, get your nails done, shop for some olive oils and balsamic! Great area great food!

Ok. Put a plate of greens and veggies in front of me and then a nice, healthy helping of incredible chicken salad and I’ll be your best friend. Café at Pharr has some of the most simplistically executed recipes and iterations of chicken salad (s) that I’ve had, but they are so perfectly simple and delicious.
Came in for lunch and started with a cup of the chicken noodle soup. It only comes in one size, just so you know you don’t have to choose between a cup, bowl, jug, whatever. It was pretty textbook. Nothing too far out of the ordinary, weird, complicated, etc. It’s just hearty chicken noodle, brosef.
Then, the salad plate. Greens, carrots, grapes, tomatoes, and some of the tastiest curry chicken salad I’ve ever had. The chicken salad is so fine, but still retaining thickness, that it’s spreadable. It’s creamy, but not in a gross way like some chicken salads are — AKA they don’t go overboard with mayo. To add onto this flavor train, the dressing they give you on the side is rather magical. It’s a semi-​sweet, ginger dressing. I can’t put my finger on the entire flavor profile, but it is perfect. I used it in moderation to not overpower any of the other flavors, but man they do it right. I can see that working on a multitude of dishes.
I’m really digging Café at Pharr. It’s a healthy choice and they do one of my favorite things perfectly. Well done, folks. Keep it coming.

Had their roast beef sandwich for lunch today… And I enjoyed it! Man were they fast with bringing out my to-​go order! I’m not sure if the sandwiches are premade… but they tasted fresh. They get 5 stars for that. The workers were friendly and on point. The sandwich order came with grapes and dessert. I would say… it was definitely worth the price.

I had the half celery chicken salad sandwich and half chicken noodle soup. The ‘classic’ chicken salad arrived looking like some sort of pre-​formed mushy cake, and the wheat bread was actually a white bread processed texture of thick and dry slices. I thought I was going to choke on the blandest, driest sandwich I’ve ever tasted. Pluughh! I made it through two bites. The soup was fine, unremarkable really.
The place has a weird echo and I guessed it’s because there’s no music for atmosphere. I could hear someone’s conversation from three tables away. The customer service needs work. The girls are brisk and impersonal and you fear interrupting their own conversation and eating to finally get your check. I paid a whopping $ 13 for that excuse for food and vowed never to return. The place was virtually empty around lunch hour during the work week, and I think will stay that way.

One of the best roast beef sandwiches I have ever had. The meat was definitely deluxe juicy and tender. My favorite though is the yogurt rolls included with each plate.
Service was friendly and the staff really cared about my experience there. Li, Johnny, or Jenny will make sure you are 100% satisfied!

This is the newest location they just added and I was super excited because this is much closer then the Buckhead and Brookhaven locations. It’s located in a cute little shopping center in Vinings and it’s walking distance to lots of good shopping so that’s always a plus in my opinion. Eating and Shopping. my 2 favorite things!
The store has indoor and outdoor seating which is covered so it’s not so HOT! Everything is nice and clean and new. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful and if you are not satisfied with anything, they will def go out of their way to help you.
My fav thing is their Curry Chicken Salad sandwich here! I was blown away by the first 2 negative reviews but I guess everyone is entitled to their on opinions. Yes, the Chicken Salad is not like traditional Chicken Salad some people may be used to. It’s made with shredded chicken rather then chunks and the mayo flavoring is not so extreme which i like. Nothing worse then a chicken salad made with too much mayo… yuck! You get the option of white, wheat, multigrain, baguette, or croissant. I love that they give you this many options rather then just the normal white bread. It also comes with grapes and their infamous YOGURT ROLLS which i could probably eat as my whole meal. Besides sandwich’s they also offer other items on their menu such as salads, rice plates and soups.
Overall i give this place a 5 star because it meets all my requirements for a good dining experience. They have only been open for a few weeks, so like with anything new, they have to work out the kinks.
This is a great family owned restaurant so be sure to give it a try!

One of the most dreadful tasting sandwiches I’ve ever had. The service is beyond awful and the sandwiches are a joke. The curry chicken salad sandwich was one of the worst things I’ve ever had and even worse it was heralded as the house special. The bread was pretty bad with a hard crust and had no mayo. The overall sandwich was about as bland as you can get and lacked spice, texture and quality. The shrimp salad sandwich was not really a true shrimp salad but cold. limp shrimp in some sort of oil and placed on bread. If you have any expectations about this place I suggest you leave them at the door.

The food was decent for a small café, but this business is clearly having some growing pains with their new location in Vinings.
The chicken salad was advertised as their specialty and it was admittedly pretty good. I had the walnut chicken salad on a croissant and my girlfriend had the curry chicken salad on white. The chicken was shredded instead of in chunks like I normally prefer my chicken salad to be, but both sandwiched were seasoned very well. The bread was good and the sandwiches came with just tomato and lettuce, which was was appropriate. The sandwiches also come with yogurt rolls which were surprisingly good.
The indoor dining was very loud because there were no ceiling tiles or curtains to absorb noise. There were only a few other people there but it was difficult to have a conversation. To make matters worse, our waitress was dragging chairs around and sweeping while we were still eating our lunch. Not only should she have waited for us to leave to begin sweeping, but she could have at least lifted the chairs. When we were done eating and were the only customers still there we had to go and find her to pay for our food and get a box. If we were supposed to pay for our food at the to go register on our way out it was never made clear to me and I was annoyed.
I’ll probably go back to get another chicken salad sandwich sometime, but it will definitely be takeout.