World Wrapps

We came here out of convenience after doing some Christmas shopping at REI. It’s pretty typical Chipotle-​type fare with an Asian twist, nothing to write home about. The huge downside is that it’s right next to the kid’s play area, so it’s impossible to enjoy a meal without a soundtrack of shrieking children.
Based on the pretty subpar wraps and the crummy atmosphere, we’ll leave the store next time we want to grab a meal.

CAUTION: This review is not about the food.
I can’t review this place on their food because I have yet to receive any the last 2 visits here. More importantly, no one was around to even take my order. I have waited up to 10 min before I left, wondering where anyone was?
I’m sure their food is satisfactory enough to warrant a higher than 1 star review, but until then… shame on them.
I don’t recommend them for anyone who is actually starving to death.

I ordered wraps to go and I see people getting their food ahead of me even though I ordered 20 minutes before them. I ask and the person who took my order doesn’t apologize just says «oh yeah it’s in the computer» and still gets what I ordered wrong verbally.

Wow is this place dirty. Scraps of food all over the floor, seats, and tables. I’m starving and shopping here at REI so I’m sort of a captive audience, as I imagine most others here are as well. One extra star for the helpful cashier but otherwise not impressed.

I keep ending up here because the location is convenient for me and my daughter likes the play area in REI, but the food is only okay, the service has been painfully slow sometimes.

A bit pricey for what they offer and the service is slower than you’d expect, but the food generally doesn’t dissapoint.
I had the kale, quinoa wrap from the vegetarian menu and it was pretty decent. The tortilla was a bit dry, so next time may go for the bowl. Also, as a bonus, there is a kids playground right outside, so give the little one’s an opportunity to run off some energy.

It’s inside the REI … it’s next to the play area. If you got kids and have to do a little shopping at REI this is a perfect stop to get some food. The food is good but not particularly remarkable. I think if I didn’t have kids I would probably do my shopping and then eat somewhere else in the area but, all in all, not a bad option.

World Wrapps, you have had such a steady decline– I suspect this may be one of the last times I see you open in REI. When you first opened, we liked your funky, WoPop vibe, you had world music playing, and it seemed like time and care was taken with the preparation of your food. Then began the steady decline…
Fast forward to my most recent trip there. No more tortilla soup on the menu? Boo! Replaced by black bean chili– so I tried it. There is nothing about this concoction that is even remotely related to chili! It’s more like a lukewarm can of black beans with some cheese (that never actually melted, wtf??!), sour cream, and pico de gallo on top. It was cold. When I returned it, the manager on duty gave me the dirtiest look– like I should be perfectly satisfied with cold food.
Then, the kids quesadilla I ordered with chicken arrives, sans chicken. So I have to bring that back and get more annoyed attitude from the crew. Forgive me for expecting what I ordered, and was on my receipt, to be there!
I ordered a bento box, something I’ve ordered several times in the past. The potstickers were so insanely saturated with grease, I could not eat them. I also had no soy sauce for them, and the salad in the tray had no dressing. Another trip to the counter. At least the expectation that the salad have dressing seemed fair to the crew member.
This was way too many issues with one order. No apologies were made at any point during the meal. If I would have been the manager on duty– witnessing three fuck-​ups on one order, I would have most definitely tried to address it with the customer.
Farewell World Wrapps, I think Lunchbox Laboratory will be our REI lunch spot from now on.

Chicken burrito was better than Chipotle and a great portion size. Definitely coming back.
Friends got a pulled pork wrap and a Thai Asian Chicken Salad. Both looked delicious and they enjoyed them as well.

After weeks on a photographic expedition documenting the Olympic Peninsula, I had to restock with new gear at REI. This restaurant is on their top floor in downtown Seattle. I’d been eating at camp for weeks, so the curry aroma pulled me in like a magnet. I did carry-​out, planning on eating at the park at the Pike Market.
Opening my order about 10 minutes away, I about had a heart attack looking at the brown rice instead of the white I ordered with the curry dish.
I called the restaurant & the manager was so awesome. He actually drove the replacement order to where I was, giving me enough time to enjoy it and catch the ferry back to where I was going. Best customer service I’ve ever had from anywhere.
I have been back several times since and the food is always delicious. I now eat on their patio and enjoy the view from there.

It tastes great if you are hungry, it’s fine if you are not, but it is darn convenient if you are craving something kind of healthy and want the convenience of eating inside REI, or just want an excuse to walk through the dashing flagship store. I got the curry veggie wrap, it was okay, savory and sweet. The medium (regular) size is a tad smaller than a Chipotle burrito.

My sister and I decided to grab a quick bite to eat while shopping and all I have to say is wow. My bar was set pretty low, because it was located in an rei, but the food quickly changed my mind. The fish was fantastic and the vegetables were crisp and delicious. If you’re in the area and looking for something not too big this needs to be added to your list.

Really good tasting wraps, friendly service, located on the top floor of REI.

I agree with the other reviews. I do like the location and the convenience of it. But, the food was just average and so was the service. The tables and floors were dirty. They messed up our order as well. That is why I give it a two star review.

This business is perfect for it’s location. It’s not overly helpful and not overly neat, but it is located on the top of the busy & often crowded REI flagship store, next to the kids play area. Considering the location, I think they do an awesome job.
The Blue Mango Smoothie is one of the best smoothies in the area. Love the pot stickers, too. And, on a quiet summer afternoon, when most of the guests have exited REI, the service is quick & the experience pleasant.

Before leaving REI and heading to SeaTac, we stopped to grab dinner at World Wrapps. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t especially good either. The food was merely okay. It was also full of salt because I blew up like a balloon after rushing to my plane and climbing aboard, making for a less-​than comfortable flight thanks to swollen ankles, feet, hands, and my clothes suddenly feeling a little too tight. I was gulping water the entire flight too, which resulted in frequent trips to the water closet in the back of the plane. (Thanks World Wrapps!) Since the place gives the impression its fast food is healthier, they really need to go easier on the salt. The smoothy was fine, but how can anyone botch a smoothy?
The acoustics could be better because the place rang with the sound of screaming children. Now, I wouldn’t want to interfere in the fun of little children and they and their parents deserve places to go just as much as the rest of us, so I have no complaints about their presence, or even their shrieking fun. It would be nicer, though, if the design of the place muted the shrieks some, at least in the back seating area filled with tables.
Service was way too slow. We ordered three wrapps and a smoothy. How long does it take to dump pre-​made food in a wrap and roll it? A loooong time at this World Wrapps. At one point I got up to go look behind the counter to see if they’d forgotten us and I observed one woman slowly doing everything herself while another woman stood and watched her. The second woman brought our wrapps, one at a time. Cross-​training, people! Cross-​training!
I wouldn’t eat there again unless I was stuck in the building waiting for someone or too tired and hungry to walk a few blocks to something better, and I was willing to throw caution to the wind over salt content. If not one of those scenarios, then I don’t see why anyone would settle for a mediocre meal and slow service in a city full of good food! No thanks. Next time I’ll stick to a smoothy, and if I’m lucky I might receive it in less than 20 minutes.
No markdowns for the noise because the place is meant for children, therefore customers should expect to hear their shrieking joyful noises and if we can’t handle it, go elsewhere.
Only two stars because of mediocre wrapps loaded with too much salt and painfully slow service.

Before you read further you should know that I am not the kind of person who would ever go to World Wrapps. Ever.
As part of my new job I’ve been asked to pick up dinner a few times while running errands. Let me tell you, it took a fucking MINUTE to find this place because I had no clue it was at THE TOP of REI. What a weirdo place to put a fast food joint???
Let me tell you, every time the person behind the counter looks at me like I’ve got a third eye for ordering something that isn’t on the menu, but they’ve only fucked up my order once. So, there’s that.
As if being a chubby blue-​haired girl carrying a suitcase of ‘wrapps’ and balancing two smoothies through a «healthy-​athletic-​people store» like REI, down a flight of stairs and an elevator doesn’t attract enough attention! Imagine me then dropping said smoothies all over the entrance to the building. I was pretty bummed as I took the walk of shame back up those little flights of stairs because I know I wouldn’t have dropped anything if World Wrapps had a better plan for 2-​go orders. (It ain’t green, but you try balancing a family’s worth of freaky hippie food through the second floor, down the stairs, down the elevator and across the parking garage and maybe then I’ll let ya tell me I don’t need a fuckin drink carrier.)
Anyways, the servers were pretty nice about it. I didn’t have to pay for another smoothie despite offering to. They had it ready in moments.
I wouldn’t personally pay 32 bones for two burritos, two smoothies and two ‘samurai salmon bowls’ but the people I work for would, so this shit must be alright.

The world’s best chicken pot stickers in REI!
«Impossible,» you say? Yeah, that’s what I woulda thought too, but then I stood corrected.
Seriously, I wasn’t terribly impressed with what I saw around the tables, but I was hungry while shopping at REI and I decided to get something to tie myself over til dinner.
I had the spicey tortilla soup… it was veggie and broth and it was actually reasonably good, and might have even been excellent if it had a litle chicken in it.
I also had the strawberry banana orange smoothie, which was actually quite excellent.
But the real winner was the chicken pot sticker… I don’t know what they did to it, but it’s awesome… it’s better than my mom’s potsticker… it’s better than my favorite chinese restaurant (in Boston)‘s pot stickers… it’s better than Z-Tejas’s über fabulous hot skellet pot stickers. It’s just the bestest. Period. Whoda thunk?
I still find it a bit hard to believe, but who am I to question this awesome fabulousness or its origin. All I know is that the flagship REI will now suck me in for reasons other than climbing gear. Whoo.

Friendly counter-​persons aside…
$ 9 for a «macho» Thai Chicken World Wraps, mostly sticky rice and a few chunks of dessicated chicken, cucumber, carrot shreds, and a little tasteless sauce, all wrapped in a spinach burrito?
(It could have been just as easily called Nicaraguan or Ethiopian Chicken).
I was full but still awfully hungry (for something to at least give my taste-​buds a little work-​out.
No wonder the place was practically empty at 5:30 pm on a weeknight, despite it being the only place to eat at REI and essentially having a captive clientele .
All-​around, a very bad value… Avoid.
There are other small eateries a few blocks away by foot.
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Earlier in the day at home I had made a «quick meal» by heating couscous and water in a small saucepan. I threw on some cooked ground turkey with garlic flakes and then fleshly diced dry onion and sliced tomato.
For a meal 10 times better than the «Wrap» I got at this World Wraps. It took only all of 15 minutes, too, to prepare.

How to imagine what a World Wrapps beef teriyaki burrito will taste like:
First, imagine buying a lean cuisine beef teriyaki dish. Better yet, imagine buying one like 5 years ago, when the microwavable meals were barely edible. Also, make sure that the microwavable meal you’re imagining is one of those that shows a lot of beef on the box, but then has like 2.5 pieces of beef inside.
Now, cook that microwavable meal, dump it on a tortilla, wrapp it up, and put it in your face.
That’s World Wrapps.