Uptown Cafe

What horrendous service. Make my sandwich wrong, wasted more than 20 min of my time. I demanded that they make it right, and they wouldn’t. I have never experienced such awful service. Just skip this place.

Have only been there for coffee. Given that the only other places in the area to get your coffee fix are a Starbucks and a Dunkin Donuts, this place has a natural advantage. The coffee is not too expensive, and surprisingly good given that this is primarily a breakfast/​lunch spot and those usually tend to neglect good coffee. They are also always packed for lunch, so I’ll definitely try out a sandwich at some point.

Initial visit. Pretty happy with my BLT. Bread was soft –not your typical Wonder Bread. Café had a large selection of snacks, sides, and drinks. Even had some fresh fruit cups. I wish their menu or daily soup and specials were posted online somewhere, or a more active Facebook page or blog or Twitter or something. I’ve visited another Uptown Café that had wonderful soups and phở. It was nice being able to check the site in the morning to decide if I needed to bring lunch or enjoy their offering.
Update: it seems every day I’ve been there, it was chicken soup day. I haven’t tried it, but I wish they’d mix it up a bit. Also, the majority of the time, they will automatically toast your sandwich bread.

I absolutely love this place. Every menu item is so spectacularly fantastic. I’m in love!

I really liked the turkey sandwich with avocado I got here — you select the toppings you want and they carve the meat off of the rotating turkey spit in front of you. After getting a container of fruit with it, it ended up being a little over $ 10 for lunch, but it was not a disappointment. My friends paid about the same for food truck wraps they weren’t impressed with.

It’s 5-​stars for what it is — a hole in the wall near NoMa metro… but I like hole in the wall joints, and somehow, they’re especially good for breakfast.
1) It’s inexpensive. My sandwich and drink was maybe $ 5 total and I ordered one of those fancy frappuccino-​y drinks that usually is $ 7 in and of itself at Starbucks. My sandwich was bacon, egg and cheese on toast.
2) It’s good food. They make it fresh when you order, so it’s really delicious.
3) The service is good. Not spectacular, but good. Granted, it was slow when we went, but the service was very quick.
All in all, I’ll give a five star to delicious food when it’s this cheap, even if service isn’t necessarily a fiver.

This is a cute. They offer a wide breakfast menu at really reasonable prices. Their smoothies are delicious and they offer veggie options too. They have limited outdoor seating which is nice especially in the warmer months like now. I gave the place three stars because the place is just «OK». The location is convenient and it’s even better now that they are open on Saturdays. However, the service is decent. It isn’t great or superior but I’ve never had a bad experience.

If you want coffee, go down the street to Starbucks. But the sandwiches here have been uniformly awesome. I always come here if I’m in the area for lunch rather than taking my chances with one of the food trucks or chain places. It’s way better than the sandwiches at Café Philips. The people here really seem to take pride in making the sandwiches good. I was waiting for my Reuben today (delicious) and was mesmerized watching the guy make an amazing looking club for someone else. Prices are fair — about seven bucks for any of the sandwiches and wraps.

This place is tight. So cheap. So delicious. Smoothies are fantastic. Egg and cheese croissant = magic. French toast platter is so good and way too much food to consume.

Love this place! Reminds me of my New Jersey breakfast joints. So far our faves are the breakfast burrito with veggies, fresh corn muffin and obviously bagel egg cheese. They have so many drink and food options you’ll be sure to leave happy!
Egg-​cited to see them on Saturdays now

Wasn’t expecting much but this place is awesome. Love the staff, very friendly. Turkey they serve is amazing, breakfast is also good. Glad they’re open on Saturdays now.

I adore this place! The sandwiches are amazing — especially those with their delicious turkey. I also love their omelets in the morning. The staff is super friendly and remember my order. The place is very affordable and they give you substantial portion size. I was thrilled to hear they will be open Saturday’s!

The disappointment of a wrong coffee order is real. I ordered a Cappucino but instead they gave me a special edition with steamed milk and no foam, and I hate to say that as a coffee enthusiast, that was disappointing.
The service is decent. There was nothing outstanding in it — your typical run-​of-​the-​mill café. Asian ladies are usually stoic and visceral at cashiers, so I didn’t mind much.
However, when I got to my meeting and opened the sandwich bag, the disappointment and neutral impression was washed away by the juicy, unrelenting tidal wave of warm freshness that was my pastrami sandwich. The bread, pressed to perfection; the cheddar, zesty and sticky; the pastrami, gushing savory juices into my mouth like the beach during the Miami hurricane season.
I would definitely recommend this place for outstanding and delicious paninis, but not if you want your fix of artisan or special coffee orders. Uptown Café is a quick fix for any time of the day despite the lack of differentiation between a latté and a capuccino.

I found this little gem while walking around the area because I forgot breakfast. Despite there being many customers, there was barely a line because the employees were so efficient. I ordered a coffee drink and breakfast sandwich. I think the coffee drinks are similarly priced as competing coffee shops in the area. They give you a great amount of egg on the sandwich! If I forgot breakfast again and was in the area, I would plan to come back here! The café was very clean with many tables as well.

I also had the turkey avocado sandwich and it was awesome. Plenty of selection of very fresh food here.
Tip: get a sandwich over sub every time

If I could, I’d give Uptown a 3.5. The food is pretty good, but their service and prices bring it down to three stars for me, unfortunately.
I’ve tried their turkey sandwich and their tuna melt. The turkey was freshly carved and the bread was fresh as well. No complaints there, although it was on the pricier side. The tuna melt was good, not the best I’ve ever had, but adequate. Their breakfast sandwiches are good too. I like their iced coffee, but be warned, it only comes in one size, and is close to $ 3 when you can get better, larger sized iced coffee a block away at Au Bön Pain for $ 2.
I like the people who work behind the counter, but the lady who works the cash register is not friendly and has been rude to me before. She definitely needs to work on her people skills.
All in all, it’s a decent café, but I avoid it due to the relatively long wait for food and the prices.

This is a nice small café (I think owned by Korean people — yay!) right off First Ave in Noma. They have a pretty large variety of sandwiches and drinks, and you don’t get the same lines you do at the cafes/​restaurants on First Ave. They also have some outdoor seating, which is nice.
Try their bulgogi sandwich! I didn’t try it myself — I just got a mint latte (which was superb, just what I needed to get me through Frida) — but it looks intriguing. Bulgogi is one of my favorite Korean foods so I will definitely be trying that later.
The prices are pretty moderate and the lines are never too long.
IS IT CHEAP? Moderately, yes. Better than West Wing Café and Starbucks in my opinion.

Went here for lunch and was impressed with the overall cleanliness and outdoor seating. The chicken noodle soup was delicious and we also enjoyed a toasted sandwich piled high with 3 different meats (the turkey was actually carved in front of our very own eyes!) The coffee was also very good. Reasonable prices and good breakfast specials!

I really like Uptown Café. It’s clean, convenient, service is friendly, and they offer all (or most) of their lunchtime offerings during breakfast, which I love, as I am not that much of a breakfast person in general. They have a good selection of sandwiches, wraps, paninis, bagels, coffee, etc.
I’ve been here once and ordered the pesto mozzarella panini, which came with pesto, melted mozzarella and tomatoes on a very fresh bun. The food was extremely fresh and filling.

Great place for coffee and breakfast. They have many options, but I, being a creature of habit, have only ever gotten some sort of bagel option. Either sausage or bacon, egg and cheese, or with cream cheese. Coffee is good, and they have several varieties for those who don’t prefer it non-​flavored and black.
Service is polite and prompt. Especially, once they get to know you. I have no complaints of anything I’ve ever eaten there. And for regular customers, they have coffee and sandwich cards, so every tenth coffee or sandwich is free.
Would recommend to anyone wanting a reasonably priced, quick breakfast.