Cafe 11
“The internet ordering option is pretty secure and you can pay on delivery.”
“The sushi menu is extensive and oh so delicious.”
“The only downside is that there is no place to sit down.”
Cafe 11
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
5 reviews
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Their service is quick! Which is great because I had to catch a ferry. I paid $15.73 for lox and cream cheese on a baguette, a fruit cup and a bottle of soda. They were very generous on the lox. The fruit salad was fresh.
This place is kosher and I Have eaten from here many times. It is only take out. I usually get their Mozzarella sandwich and occasionally some sushi.
I think this place has become a victim of their own success. Don't dare go in to order and pick it up.. you'll wait at least a half hour..
The food is good though..
Had lunch from Cafe 11 today….
The Avocado Salad was decent. Made up of chopped romaine, avocado, cucumber, and cherry tomatoes and tossed in a creamy caesar. The veggies were all fresh, and there was a nice hearty helping of avocado…but the caesar made the salad heavy. Probably would have been just as good w/ a nice light vinaigrette.
Also had half of the Feta Sandwich. While the name does indicate that its a cheese sandwich… it may have actually had too much cheese on it. Whattt? Too much cheese? Yup, its possible – especially with a tangy cheese like feta. I like the combo though – feta, romain, cucumber, red onion and black olives. I took some my avocado salad and added it to the sandwich too – which helped even out all that feta a bit. For my money I would have loved to add a chicken cutlet to the sandwich…but this spot is Kosher. So no meat/cheese combos here.
This is a solid spot in the Wall Street area for the kosher keeper and for those wishing for something light and different. I ate here on an almost daily basis when I was taking a training seminar upstairs, and I found the food to be fresh, light, and nourishing. The sandwiches are excellent, from what I've tried. The mozzarella sandwich was delicious, hot, melted, and filling. I do love the vegetarian sushi selections. The array of sauces they offer is mind-blowing and Ii like mixing and matching different flavors, such as the eel sauce, spicy mayo, and a most delightful mango sauce. You just couldn't have a kosher place without sushi. I don't know what it is about Orthodox Jews and sushi, but it's almost as if they've added the 614th commandment, thou must have sushi to be kosher, whether with milchigs, pizza, fleshigs, Italian, Israeli, or whatever the type of cuisine must be. I'm not complaining, though. The stock of food seems to move fast here, so everything is fresh and crisp and not laying around all day, and even though ordering and standing on line is like being in a madhouse zoo, it's worth the wait. To the commentator who complained about too much feta: I disagree, and don't think it's possible to have too much salty, creamy goodness. After reading that review, next time I'm in the area, I'll try one of those sandwiches and I'll let everyone know my professional verdict on the subject.
I stayed away from this place for the first year or so I worked in the building, under the assumption that an old-fashioned place inside our lobby couldn't be very good. Instead, winter, spring, summer and fall, I wandered around every noon time to gather up pizza, sushi, falafel and sandwiches from up and down Broadway.
But I've found out in the past six weeks that Café 11 is a perfectly reasonable lunch destination. The Kosher situation (in deference to the many Orthodox workers on the building's lower floors) means that the menu is a bit limited. There's no reason to order a sandwich if your tastes don't run towards the tuna, egg and mayo end of the spectrum. The salads have never really had much appeal – they don't chop them here, which is my preferred way of eating these greens.
That leaves the surprisingly varied and generally solid sushi. The sushi bar is right behind the counter, and you can see the chefs working with nice pieces of fish. The online ordering system means that I frequently have my rolls ready to go and paid for when coming down from the 18th floor. The two roll special is a somewhat glutinous lunch, but it's more than enough to power through the seven hour afternoon that separates my noonday meal from the evening feast.
Whether it's salmon, tuna, fake crab or the strange hybrid combination that is the sushi pizza, this is a dependable lunch option which doesn't require putting on a coat.