Kendall Market and Deli

Food average, but kind of expensive for what you got and what it was.
Place dirty. Looked like the tables hadn’t been cleaned all day.
Only one person making sandwiches during lunch so slow.
I won’t be going back

Eh. The place has basic items to purchase and an occasional menu special of the day for lunch. The ‘market’ part is very simple food, but no staples if you’re outside the box, I.E. soymilk.
Probably worth taking a $ 4 cab (or short 1 stop jump to Central Sq) to H-​MART for some serious grocery shopping.

what a difference a year makes. They’ve got uniforms, a new menu board, clean easy to read choices and a salad bar with a wide range of offerings. Part sit in eatery, part grocery store and general store substitute — they are the ones who stepped up to offer basic necessities in our high rent district — so we don’t have to leave the square when you need something quick.
We just did our first catered event through Kendall Market. Food for 31 people — including drinks and desserts. Flawless prep, packaging and ready at exactly the time we needed it. Attendees gave the food choices high reviews.

I ate their submarine sandwiches at a catered event and was pleasantly surprised.
The bread was fresh, condiments were evenly spread, and the cold cuts were tasty.
Overall, these were very well-​made sandwiches and I’d be happy to order from them for a catered event or a quick lunch.

Terrible service — the lady asked me several times what kind of gyro I wanted, and even thought I wrote it down for her, I still got the wrong one.

Not impressed with the food @ the deli. The place is disorganized and the staff wasn’t very inviting. I had the chicken teriyaki sub. It was luke warm and not that great.
I considered getting one of the Mediterranean items, but I looked behind the counter and didn’t see a grill or anything cooking. After reading the other reviews on Unilocal,I think I made a wise decision.
I will not be going back.

I had the Chicken Kabob over a salad and it was terrible. The chicken was so dry and the salad didn’t make up for it. Serves me right for not checking Unilocal first.

If you’re looking for a Greek Salad with a yummy juicy chicken kabob — this is your place. If you’re looking for some good Mediterranean food — you should go to Aceituna Café a few blocks away. The salads made behind the counter are yummy — not sure if I would use the free standing salad bar though…
But hey — you can buy a $ 6.50 greek salad and a scratch ticket at the same time. Haha.

I’ve had a few sandwiches here, subs were ok (hard to mess up) but the falafels are way worse than the ones at the food trucks. Interesting that every positive review about this place has been filtered by Unilocal’s secret algorithm, presumably because they look an awful lot like they were written by the owners trying to salvage their rating. That just about sums up Kendall Market.

I’ve seen mice run through the store. Even worse, I’ve seen bags of food nibbled through by rodent teeth ON THE SHELVES. I realize that all restaurants have rodent issues, but not IN the store, in the very products they’re selling.
I would love to shop here again, as it is the only convenience store in town, but for now they’ve lost my business.

So I’m not a long-​time customer, but over the past 2 to 3 months of living around here, I found this little store to be great and extremely convenient. I love the fact that this store has a built-​in deli where I can get my sandwiches and little day to day items. I also adore the stores simple 50s design. I don’t know about you guys, but I think their sandwiches are delicious. Not only that, they give you a good price for an almost one foot sub that can feed you two meals! I’m not complaining here. =)
The staffs there are like family, and almost all of them are friendly and easy to get along with. I personally like this store very much. You won’t expect a large fast-​food chain like you see in burger king, but if you would like to either get your daily merchandise or get a quick sub for lunch or breakfast, this is the place to go!

I ventured in for a bit of middle eastern and a sandwich on a cold day. i left with a lighter pocket than expected, a frown, and a sad excuse for a lunch.
the temperature variation pointed to only one thing: microwave. the fillings ranged from grainy to tough to stale to rubbery– and i mean this in the worst way possible. it was also large, which also contributed to my guilt: if i wanted empty calories i would’ve had some terrible junk food or a pastry. something delicious. nevertheless, not this fodder.
and goddamn it was so expensive (for what it was).
that being said, the ladies making the sandwiches seemed nice enough, and their smiles have redeemed them a star.

This is an odd kind of hole in the wall in Kendall Square. I had a great pastrami sandwich — but it was HUGE! and made with three slices of bread. Whhaaatt??? Anyway, it was good. They have a crazy mixed-​up selection of things, mostly things you shouldn’t eat. The people who work there are pretty nice, too. Then again, I was there at 5:30pm, having missed lunch (and breakfast) so I was nearly the only person inside.

Not only was the falafel sandwich big and bland, it was bacteria-​ful!
Yaaaaaay! Food poisoning!
Just a few hours after consumption and subsequent Unilocaling, the falafel returned to visit the porcelain throne.
I will need a new place to satisfy my mid-​afternoon soda cravings.

There used to be two convenience stores in Kendall square and this one is the remainder of the two. The other one which is now long forgotten closed about three years ago and got replaced by the Fidelity branch.
This one is small and modest but manages to prepare salads, sandwiches and other middle eastern food to some of the usual lunch rush hour clientele and they also carry a lot of convenience supplies from deodorant to paper plates, napkins, sodas, ice cream, ramen noodles, etc… But they tend to be expensive and most of them have been on that shelf for a while usually.
Their hours aren’t very convenient either so I tend to avoid this place and go to ⁷⁄₁₁ instead. Occasionally I’ll grab a sandwich there but that’s about it.

I don’t like this place. It’s really convenient to my office and sometimes necessary since I drink bottled water like a fish (That expression never makes sense to me). It’s a weird little store with a wide variety of bad-​for-​you snack food, and a small deli in the back.
The first time I was here, there were two people ahead of me in line, two people at the counter and I waited five minutes to pay for my water, using my debit card. I never ever have cash — I’m THAT girl. I’m also pretty impatient, so when things take a long time for no real reason, I get cranky.
The third or fourth time I was here, I went to pay for my water with my debit card like usual and was told there is a $ 10 minimum for credit cards. The man behind the counter insisted it had always been like that, but he had always taken my debit card with no complaint. Color me confused. I don’t have an issue with credit card minimums, but I do have an issue with consistency and customer service and this is where Kendall Market fails.
2 stars for convenience.

I’ve never tried their lunch/​deli options, but Kendall Market and Deli is a convenient place to grab a soda or water or whatever you need in Kendall Square. Considering that there are not many options for stuff in the immediate Kendall T-​Stop area other than the COOP, it’s a nice alternative to going there. It’s a little bit more convenient, unless you go during lunch (in which case the lines are longer).
UPDATE: (5÷6÷08): I just found out that there’s a $ 7 minimum on cards, which is interesting considering I didn’t realize there was one (and seem to have been told a different minimum than Lisa O. was told). Now, I can kind of understand some sort of minimum, but that seems to be a little high and inconsistent. I probably wouldn’t notice it if I was buying a sandwich or something, but I just needed some afternoon caffeine and wasn’t carrying cash. So I’ve adjusted my rating to reflect that.

For lunch, this place can be fairly decent once you find something that you like — sort of like your local sub shop. I’m partial to the Greek wrap, and the falafel is not so bad either. Sometimes I’ll have an excellent sandwich, and then the next time the ingredients might be switched around and it won’t seem as good — but I think the inconsistency comes with the fact that it’s a small business and not a fast food chain. They do seem a little grumpy/​clueless sometimes, and it can be crowded or slow, but I’d rather spend my money here than at nearby Rebecca’s or ABP or Cosi. I don’t get the same overpriced-​uninspired-​genetically-​modified-​food feeling as I do in those places. Despite the convenience store atmosphere and the sullen employees, the food does taste as though somebody cares.
Not a bad choice among the mediocre Kendall lunch places.

Yeesh, this place sucks.
It’s the kind of place you’d expect from maybe Dorchester, plopped right in the middle of Kendall Square. Their shelves are poorly stocked with random hodgepodge of utilities and really weird stuff like cat food. Catfood? What the hell? Do people own pets here? Or more likely, do people want to BUY PET FOOD at a freakin’ deli?
The food consists of mediocre Mediterranean food to just plain boring and dull cold cut subs that don’t taste good at all. Plus you’re going to be spending 6 bucks or so on it, so you might as well take a trek to Quiznos all the way up Main Street to get your sub needs. It’s a chain, yeah, but it’s actually edible and decent tasting.
Ever since Kendall Drugs turned into Fidelity Investments (ugh ugh ugh), this is pretty much the only place you can turn to to get anything, and for that I’m really sad. I still miss Kendall Drugs.
It gets 2 stars because I at least can buy a Redbull or something there for cheap.

OK, this is a tough place to review, because it pretty much is a convenience store across the hall from Rebecca’s Café (not very good). I have been coming to this place every time I’ve had a job around here, and that’s been since 2001. I like it most of the time, but I only come here like 1 time out of 2 weeks. They’re somewhat consistent, fresh, and simple. It’s a decent convenience store, but it also has a counter where people can order sandwiches and subs and salads or whatever. I usually get the same boring chicken sandwich with chips and a drink, but whatever, it’s good and under $ 10 whatever I get. I don’t think this place is for everybody, and you might get sick of the boring counter staff family or the magic 106.7 playing all day long… oh well