Rebecca’s Cafe

The salad bar is good. Everything I need for a healthy lunch. Just get there early, for the freshest selection.

Had the thai beef. Spent the night vomiting. Never again.

This place is continuously improving. Their salad bar has improved a little bit, as well as their antipasti options (which are included with the salad bar), and not only that, but I order lunch for events here at work, and they’ve REALLY stepped up their lunch presentation. With the new boxes, the pretty flower cookies, and beautiful fresh fruit, and the sandwich all in one container with a see-​through top, it makes lunch presentations look really inviting for your meeting.
Keep up the good work Rebecca’s!

I’ve been to this location about 3 times over the course of 6 months and the quality of service is definitely there in terms of friendly staff, but because there are soo many companies and employees in the building be prepared for long lines during lunch hour and if you come after that prepare for the possibility of your favorite item being sold out.
Jorge rocks, he’s a very pleasant fella!
Prices are a bit high, I got a small soup for $ 4.23.

To be in the Financial District, the service here is extremely slow, especially in the morning. They have one person on breakfast duty while two get ready for lunch, prepping sandwiches, etc.
They have a self serve of potatoes and eggs, but you pay by the ounce.
The lines are long, and there is only one person making breakfast and only one person checking people out.
If it weren’t for the convenience of the location, I wouldn’t go.

I don’t know why we keep coming back to Rebecca’s. Could be because it’s right closeby, could be because it has a wide variety, could be because they have open seating. Honestly, it is so expensive though. I got a sandwich and a juice and it was over $ 10. Chicken fingers and french fries always seem to come to $ 9 somehow. A half-​full salad container is $ 8. Their actual entrée prepared meals are obnoxiously overpriced, like $ 15 for chicken breast and rice pilaf. I just don’t get it! The food is «ok.» Certainly not worth the high prices. The staff isn’t particularly friendly, either. There are so many better places to try. I need to take my own advice and stop coming here!
Also, all these photos are NOT of the café, they are of the event space outside of the café. Rebecca’s is a glorified cafeteria.

The only time we have Rebecca’s is when they cater to our office upstairs.
Otherwise, I will not venture into Rebecca’s even when I’m starving and there’s a torrential downpour outside.
It’s just not worth it. The price is high for below average food.
There’s a plethora of deliciousness outside of One Financial; be adventurous.

Let me tell you a little something about this Rebecca’s by prefacing with a statement: This is the only Rebecca’s I’ve ever been to. Although there are many around the city, I’ve never felt compelled to walk into one to grab my lunch, given that there are so many other choices. There’s just something about a Rebecca’s Café that is nondescript and lacks personality or its own little niche in the business lunch market. Cosi serves similar types of items, yet it’s got its own feel, its own place. Rebecca’s, with its soups, salads, sandwiches, hot lunch items, just hasn’t sold me on the fact that it’s created enough of a place for itself to warrant its existence.
That said, there’s a Rebecca’s in my office building that I do frequent out of convenience (it doubles as my office’s «cafeteria»), so this review is not to compare it to the other locations, but to pontificate on its place in the Financial District lunch world.
The staff at this location is very nice, albeit sometimes forgetful. The cashier often rings my order up wrong, over/​double charges me, etc, but every so often he throws in a free muffin, so I think it evens out.
The price/​quality trade-​off is what i’d certainly call value destructive. As an example, you can find a $ 6.50+ meat/​cheese wrap in the cooler, made early in the morning and packed up to sit all day, waiting for someone to come rescue it, much smaller than a wrap or sandwich anywhere else in the area, not fresh (if you don’t eat your lunch at 7am when the wrap is made, that is), and absent any choice to customize.
A bowl of soup (two choices daily) will run you $ 4.50 and leave you hungry/​empty.
Even when it’s driving rain outside, i’d rather brave the few seconds exposed to the elements to run over to Susan’s, Al’s, or South Station than eat here for lunch. I work hard for my money, and if i“m going to spend $ 6.50 on a wrap, i sure as hell want it made fresh, made large, and made to my specs… or at least served with complimentary carrots or chips, a la Cosi.
However, I do pick up breakfast items here, because if you really have to get your food from the Rebecca’s at 1 Financial Center, breakfast is the best value. There’s a make-​your-​own bagel bar with about 10 carb choices, an industrial bagel toaster to self-​toast, and a bar of butter, peanut butter, cream cheese, jam, etc for your application. A bagel/​cream cheese will run you under $ 2 but be aware that the cream cheese is an extra charge and they will ask you what you’ve spread on your bagel to charge accordingly. Cups of oatmeal are under $ 3, with the ability to add your own toppings, though beware that the oats themselves are hit-​or-​miss depending on the day — they’re sometimes too watery, and other times so thick that the ladle cannot be extracted from the gluey pot.
Breakfast sandwiches are $ 3 for egg-​and-​cheese, and $ 1 more for protein. They add such a sparse amount of protein to the sandwich, though, that i’d go for the egg-​and-​cheese to save the money. I don’t think two slices of bacon or one slice of deli ham should run me $ 1, especially since the sandwich is 85% steamed, chewy, untoasted English muffin and only 15% egg/​cheese.
Muffins are $ 1.85 in the morning, but the leftovers are sold ½ price after 3:00. Once, I went in after 3 to get muffins, and the woman said «may as well, they’re the same muffins you’d be served tomorrow full price anyway», implying that whatever wasn’t sold that day goes back out the next morning to be sold full-​price. Whether that’s true is not for me to conjecture, but that’s the impression the cashier gave me.
Muffins do have a thawed-​from-​frozen taste and texture to them (a bit too moist/​slimy on the outside and dense/​dry on the inside) and often come still cold, further supporting my suspicions that these are just received pre-​made/​frozen from another location, thawed, and served.
As I said, breakfast is probably the best value here, lunch is always disappointing, and if you’re hungry after 3:00, have a half-​priced muffin.