Rebecca’s Cafe

Customer service is bad, food is mediocre, and everything is overpriced.

Overpriced. Located in a building full of different businesses. It’s the only food vendor in this building.
There is a salad, priced at .65 cents/​ounce. They also make a few specialty cold sandwiches and then they make sandwiches off the grill. Any sandwiched can be pressed which is a plus. I put up a picture of my sandwich, which was a Tuscan chicken breast (I think that’s what it’s called). It was sliced chicken breast with roasted peppers, tomato, and spinach on focaccia bread. Pretty plain and it was supposed to have some type of Italian dressing or cream sauce on it and now that I am writing my review, I realized that it was not n on the sandwich. The sandwich as you can see In the pic was poorly cut and I had to eat half of the sandwich with bread only on the bottom and it wasn’t cut evenly. Stagg was nice enough. They also have a variety of over priced drinks, fruit cups, and cookies. And it’s defiently not worth the money. Save yourself some disappointment and get food before u go.

Not satisfied with high prices and low quantity, quality. Have to depend on French fries daily.
Even if you import something try to bring it from good restaurants like good Chinese, Thai and Indian.

I found hair in the salad so avoid that dingy salad bar at all costs. The burgers are good and I’ve had good luck with the sandwiches/​pasta dishes.

AOVID, AT ALLLLL COST! This place really does not provide one with the «freshest» selection of food. At least twice our group has had to return their salads because the chicken was spoiled. Their soups are mediocre at best, and the entrees are typically not worth the cost ($ 8 – 12 depending on what is served).
The customer service is horrible… everyone stands around taking their time to get to you, completely missing the point of it being a LUNCH break, where time is of the essence.
The ONLY thing I’ve liked here is the sub sandwich shop, and I still question sometimes if the meats are fresh/​good.
Two words, JUST DON’T!

i avoid this place if i can help it. they are inconsistent at best. plus whoever created their menu obviously didnt understand what gluten free meant, since they thought beef barley was. Most people dont know that gluten is the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley – but people in the food industry should know that. They often run out of items and just say sorry. For example, if you get breakfast, the price of an item often includes homefries, but if they’re out, you just dont get any. The food ive gotten there is not bad and the employees are mostly pretty friendly, but the place suffers from poor management i think. worth a drive to eat somewhere else if this is the option in-​house.

Hit or miss on certain dishes, and definitely not where you would take someone to impress on a work lunch. I would suggest bucking up and driving out in that case.
This is definitely a suitable replace for many of us that are too lazy to leave the building for lunch. The service has always been efficient and friendly to me. There is a nice sandwich station with many options. Hot entrees and action items are alright — sometimes it just tastes a little bland. They rotate between classic meat/​starch dishes (from meat/​potatoes to noodles/​meat or rice as starch). The soup and salad station have been variably good. On Thursdays, there is sushi, spring rolls, and seaweed salad (albeit quite pricey for meh sushi). I also recommend using Levelup to pay to save time and earn some credit if you often forget lunch like me.
Go here if you have to, but why on earth would you ever go out of your way for it.

So if you are looking at this Unilocal review because you are traveling to the area for business or are looking for a place to take your customers out to lunch… Umm I would definitely advise you to reconsider.
Now don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with Rebecca’s if you are just looking to buy lunch and then go eat it in your cube. It is what it is… I usually go with a chicken salad sandwich. Most of the food is palatable but a little on the pricier side for what you are getting.

Soooo… I have admittedly had a bad attitude about Rebecca’s in the past. There was one in my former office building in the Financial District and it just seemed so inferior and expensive compared to the plethora of other options in the area.
Fast forward to today: Rebecca’s is literally the only option I have for lunch unless I want to hop in my car and brave Newton/​Wellesley lunch time traffic (and I really really don’t want to). On days where I forget to bring my lunch or simply don’t want the lunch I brought, Rebecca’s is turning out to be a solid option.
Now don’t get me wrong — I haven’t tried anything except soup. But the soup is pretty solid (despite not actually being solid… you know what I mean). It is still a little pricey; a large soup will run you almost 5 bucks but sometimes, it’s just worth it.

Oh, Rebecca. You have failed me as a good lunchtime destination. You shouldn’t go around as a café when you are, in fact, a cafeteria. Complete with lunch trays.
The salad bar is good, not as much variety as I’ve seen other places but still good. Their carry away section is pretty decent. The pizza is awful. The sandwiches are good if you can find someone to make your sandwich correctly that is. The daily specials can be good, but generally a huge letdown.
The only reason this place is still in business is because they are located in an office building and people need to eat lunch.
They get 1+ star only because they have the occasional taco salad, baked potato and stir-​fry days