Cafe Express

A fast casual self-​service lunch spot in Energy corridor with an extensive menu including salads, sandwiches, burgers. They also have quite a few healthy options like salads, vegetarian and grilled entrees. I enjoyed the Rustica chicken sandwich on ciabatta bread. There is free wifi and plenty of seating inside and outside on the patio when the weathers nice. One of the better lunch spots on Eldridge especially if you’re looking for more healthy options.

All of their chicken entrees are great! My favorite two are the southwestern chicken and the Spanish chicken romesco. Counter service. Clean tables, sweet staff, self serve veggie bar, and many healthy food options.

I had breakfast here on Sunday morning with my family and food was pretty good. I ordered a Greek tart and loved the crust. It looked pretty healthy and tasted healthy. The only thing I wish they could change is the menus. Their menus don’t have any pictures and my kids were having hard times to pick. I’m a picture person and I need to see what I want to eat and the pictures next to the menus increase my appetite as well.
But other than that, it’s a clean place and they serve good food.

Late night working means ordering in for dinner. This night we chose Café Express on Eldridge. I’ve never been to the actual location, so this review is on the food only.
I ordered the half chicken with sauteed brussel sprouts and spinach. It was very tasty and exactly what I ordered, and everyone seemed to like their meals as well, even though a couple said that the veggies were a little on the salty side (I’m need a little extra sodium right now, so I wasn’t complaining). One person ordered the «dream bar» and raved about it. I even had enough left over for lunch the next day. If we could get them to deliver to us, it would be even better!
I’m looking forward to trying a few other items from this location. So far, so good.

Great food, fast, accesible! They have very healthy options as well as great sandwiches and burgers! You can het everything here! I recently found out about this place and i have been to another location as well but im sticking to this one cause its closer to home!

Not sure what happened to this neighborhood darling. Looks like the weekend crew is now comprised of an unexperienced & uncaring staff from Management down to the kitchen crew. Waited 20m for a turkey burger (only one order ahead of me, 2 ladies who ordered salads). I had to go to the counter and remind them that I ordered anything at all, the little buzzer is still sitting at the table with me as I write this review. The young lady who took my order straight up lied to my face and insisted burgers take a bit longer to make, despite the fact I’m literally watching the grill guy smile when she asked on the status of the burger and proceeded to pull one off the warming rack — while I was standing there. I guess they forgot they have an open-​view kitchen. More important to note, the Manager was standing right there next to grill dude. I asked for a refund on the burger & fries, which the Manager gave after he mumbled a half-​hearted apology. When I asked why I wasn’t refunded the full amount he said he couldn’t refund the glass of wine I ordered. Didn’t ask if I’d drunk it (I hadn’t) just said he couldn’t. Which just proves this crew could care less about customer service. I’m done with this location. Sorry week-​day crew, the staff represents the establishment. And they ruined my beautiful fall afternoon.

Next time I’ll stay home & have left overs from last week that will taste better. We had grill chicken breast w/​baked potato. Chix was dry & flavorless. Potato was baked yesterday (if I was lucky). Water was HORRIBLE. did the sewer crack? When I went to the counter to get more butter I was ignored-​finally had to «excuse me» & she gave me an impatient look. Will NOT be going back.

The customer service is fantastic!!! Denise is awesome!!! This is my regular place for lunch on the weekend

I meet my group here for game night about once a month. The staff is always courteous and seems to enjoy having us there to break up the monotony. It’s pretty empty when we play on week nights. The entire menu is sky high in my opinion but the food is good and makes it somewhat tolerable. The drink station is pretty cool with lots of choices and free bread sticks. Overall, a comfortable spot to gather with friends but bring a sweater. It’s like the arctic in here. Brrrrrr! The outdoor patio is nice and comfortable as well. Seating is plentiful and parking is easy as it sits at the end of a strip center.

As a vegetarian looking for some new restaurants to try out, the food here was pretty disappointing. The vegetarian burger was mediocre and tasted like something out of a microwave box. The fries were okay– but how can you mess up fries? I was hoping that the bread pudding would redeem the experience, as bread pudding is my favorite dessert, but it was one of the worst bread puddings I’ve had.
I recommend going to Guru’s Burgers and Crepes or Ruggles Green, both are across the street, for better food.

Just discovered this place recently and loved it. Healthier options and good for lunch or a quick snack. Hummus and guacamole is amazzzing and I loved the chicken sandwich as well. I love that they have mint and lemon too for your water — and the water glasses are big and not the tiny shame of cups. One of my new fave lunch spots! Service was fast for me on Monday.

Ordered the Turkey Cobb salad. It had 2 tiny pieces of turkey in it, no bacon or eggs which is common in a Cobb salad. They put the salads in a large but shallow bowl so you think you’re getting more than you are. Total rip off. I was still hungry after eating the salad which was mostly croutons which I hate.

Café express is one of my go-​to lunch spots. There’s a tons of seating indoors and outdoors, but this place gets packed during the lunch rush. Food can take up to 30 minutes to get out during the rush but otherwise it is very reasonable. Food is definitely overpriced, so almost every time I come here I get the kids mac & cheese for a pretty $ 4.99 plus tax. It comes with a side of fruit or fries and is a big enough portion for a growing teenager. I also love their salads and pasta but I’m too poor to get them regularly. Everything is self serve and they have a friendly staff.

Food is delicious but extremely bad customer service. No one greets you when you walk in and you wait at the counter for a while before you get service. The tables are not cleaned up and it seems like there is a lack of customer service training.

Love the chicken salad sandwich here! Fresh and flavorful. And I’m addicted to their tea!!!
I like how you can get in and out quickly, and always a clean Restrauant.

Food was alright, but service was very poor, I would not go back. Lack of very basic acknowledgement of a customer standing by the counter by several staff. I had to yell and ask if anyone could help me. Paid for my meal, and then had to ask the cashier if they could please hand me my meal (I had already made my order ahead by telephone), because I could not back the register clearly to get it myself.

Great atmosphere here —
The layout is kind of like a massive triangle with the long side being all floor to ceiling windows letting in nice natural light.
There’s also a nice lot of outdoor seating — great for the «Houston winter»
The free wifi is a major plus, and also the order up front along with loads upon loads of seating does make for a nice and relaxed feel (instead of being hounded by servers, etc).
For the food —
They have sweet tea! Major bonus for me (so long as my dentist doesn’t see me).
The burger&fries I had here were nice —
Burger was cooked to medium w/​the color in the middle you’d expect. The buns were nice (not soggy), and flavor was good.
Fries were nice and fairly crispy as well
The Mediterranean Scrambles (egg, chicken, spinach, feta, & green onion) was a really nice breakfast option. Because it’s «Mediterranean» — I like to pretend it’s healthy (I suppose relatively, this is much better than a muffin for breakfast). The flavor of this is pretty much made by the feta I think.
The breakfast tacos are also a solid breakfast option — loads of filling, which was great. It’s like having eggs and breakfast tacos in a single dish.
The only downside during November/​December might be the Christmas music on constant repeat — depends on your tastes of course… (but i’m barely resisting stabbing my eardrums out)

I blame Earl A. for putting me on to this place!!! Why do y’all insist on checking into places and telling me how good the food is. LOL
Well I’ve tried his «standard» meal 3 times and only once was I disappointed. I tried the roasted half chicken initially with mashed potatoes and roasted brussel sprouts. That bird must have been injected because it was a pretty big size, especially in comparison to the 2 I’ve gotten since then. I switched up the mashed for sauteed mushrooms and they work well with the delicious, tender, moist chicken as well. The 3^rd time, I think my bird was a bit overcooked and dry…
So after I was «burned,» I figured I’d try something new… that Mediterranean salmon was looking good on the pics I saw online. That price tag of $ 15 is way more than I want to really spend but I got it anyway (the chicken is $ 12 btw). There wasn’t a crumb left on that plate! (That may be because it’s not all that big/​pretty normal size) but OMG it was so good!
I ordered it just as it comes, grilled salmon on a bed of green beans and roasted artichoke hearts. It’s topped with a lemony-​oily type sauce that’s said to be spicy but I didn’t taste any heat. It’s also served with toasted garlic bread. One word for this dish — DELICIOUS! idk if it’s worth $ 15 bucks, matter of fact, I don’t think it is based on the price of their other dishes but it’s so good, I just forgot about the price and enjoyed the ride.
I think Café Express is an awesome lunch spot, it’s big, plenty of seating… free wifi (pw is clearly listed on the sign in screen)…just walk up, order, get a buzzer thingy, and wait for your food. Easy breezy!

I just went yesterday and order a burger. Let me just say it was the worst burger I’ve had in my life. The meat was white. Not even gray. It was obviously very overcooked. The only thing that saved it were my toppings (swiss, mushroom, ketchup, mustard, and pickles). The sweet potatoe fries were a fail for me as well. They were not crispy at all and pretty soft.
However I’m giving this place three stars because I’ve gotten the chicken Salad sandwhich from here before and it has always been delicious, filling, and satisfying. I tried my friend’s amore pasta and it was pretty delicious and full of pesto flavor! I’d probably get a pasta if I were ever to come to a café express again

This is one of my go to lunch spots also. They have a variety of hot and cold foods. What I really like about them is they have an outdoor patio that you can eat on when the weather is nice. It is also a place where you will need to arrive early as it gets pretty busy around lunch time like most of the good restaurants in this area.
My «standard» meal there is the ½ roasted chicken with 2 sides of your choice. The chicken comes with a type of au jus sauce that you can pour over or dip your chicken into. The chicken is Alwyn cooked to perfection to me and you can actually eat it with a fork as it is so tender it just peels off the bone. There are also fountain drinks and several types of teas with unlimited refills.
The service is pretty quick so you are not waiting long for your order. Definitely a place you should try.