Nordstrom Cafe at Lloyd Center

I’m not sure why I’m bothering to finally review this place since it’s closing soon, but here goes.
The Nordstrom Café is just like Nordstrom is with clothes. You’re paying more for the same thing that is somehow just better. The options are quite varied for a place like this, the service is friendly and the food is of excellent quality. We’ll be sad to see this fall off our list of options for lunch while at work. Of course, who can blame them? I have no doubt Lloyd Center charges far too much for rent. Greedy. ..

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Nordstrom Café, because I worked at Nordstrom when I was in high school and ate the majority of my meals there. The angel hair with salmon, asparagus, and lemon cream sauce is still my go-​to — it’s a perfect foil for an afternoon shopping trip. Unlike some other reviewers, I’ve always had a great experience with their servers (customer service is key there! Not just in the shoe department). Especially compared to the other mall options — barf — it stands out for many reasons.

okay, so this place is closing in 2015. you have been warned.
and it doesn’t have one of those stand-in-line-for-hours-because-that’s-what-you-do-in-Portland breakfasts, either.
but the lloyd center nordstrom café does have a certain something. department store cafes make you feel as though you’re in an old, soft-​focused classic movie, and Christopher Plummer or Katherine Hepburn will walk in any second. they cradle you in big booths, black coffee, and the conviction that everything really is going to be okay.
the food is solid, pretty varied, tastes good, and it’s affordable. the space is big, there are booths and tables, the service is quick, the coffee hot (and refills are lickety-​split) — it’s just an all-​around fine place to hang out for an hour or so.
i ordered the three-​egg omelet, no toast. my friends ordered the classic breakfast, which is scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and fruit. my omelet was quite nice — good cheese-​to-​egg-​to-​veggies ratio. the fruit was a bit sad… 10 majillion gapes and two strawberries… but no big deal. my friends’ bacon was on the very crispy side, so make sure you state your bacon preference when you order.
i will be back here, maybe for lunch, before this place shuts for good in 2015.
it’s a great place to hide out. and maybe bump into a famous movie star…

Love the salads. Nice spot close to my office for a sit down lunch. Noon hour can get crazy busy so come a little before 12 or little after 1! Nicoise Salmon Salad is very tasty!

I love this place I come here quite often I think it’s the best lunch spot in all of Lloyd Center mall. The service is always great. I recommend the cilantro chicken salad and Santa Fe Chicken Sandwich.

I didn’t get what I have come to know as the Nordstrom level of service in the café, but the food was good and the staff was nice and knowledgeable to the food menu.

In the past 10 days I have been to 3 different Nordstrom Café in Portland and by far this was the best. Which is surprising, since this is supposed to be the least nice mall (didn’t want to say ghetto). Not only the food but the service. Leslie was my server and she was very sweet and accommodating. I loved my Pistachio Chicken Salad, so delicious. It is a no brainer, after shopping all day, I can relax and eat a late lunch at Nordstrom Café.

The BBQ Beef Sandwich Spec. is da bomb. Not to heavy. Try it w/​a small salad & a cup of Tom. Basil soup. You should be able to chase the clouds away

Dang! What the heck happened to quality here?
Their menu descriptions of their food looks really yummy but it did not match what we ended up with unfortunately.
We each ordered the shrimp louis salad, hold the bacon. Guess what? Ya tons of bacon on the salad so we sent it back. We ended up having to wait as there were other orders coming through ahead of us. That never makes sense to me since it was not our fault. We finally get our salads. The lettuce is browning on the edges, the avocado has been cut in to little tiny brownish squares, the shrimp were grilled well so not mushy but 5 little shrimps for 10.95? I don’t think so.

i hate to rain on the parade below me, but i will never go back. i also hate writing horrible reviews but i couldn’t wait to get back to my desk and share my experience with you:
i’ve been craving chicken fingers for a sometime now and decided to order some to-​go from nordstrom café (i work across the street)(i should have thought about this more especially because my best friend refused to meet me for lunch because she and her 18 month old daughter both got sick from this place). at this point, i’m SO PUMPED for my lunch… i walk to the café and pick up my lunch.
much to my horror– my stale almost unbreaded rubbery chicken fingers were sitting on a bed of chips which was sitting on runny… wet… fruit. GROSS!!! upon asking the gal at the register, i learned that if you don’t want your food and wet fruit mixed together you have to tell them when you’re ordering which is SO BIZARRE to me: i don’t know too many people who like to eat chips and chicken fingers that taste like cantaloupe, but i may be wrong.
ugh. i’m bumbed. i’m out $ 5.25 and they’ve single handily ruined chicken fingers for me.
thanks nordstrom café. i’m praying i don’t get sick.

Great place for lunch. Reasonable prices for great food. I like the pear and blue cheese salad. The soup of the day was steak and barley which was also delicious.

Good sandwiches and soups. Wish they had more variety. Great service.

I’ve gone to some pretty odd places for business lunches. It never ceases to amaze me what some people suggest for a professional meeting. When a new acquaintance suggested that we meet at Nordstrom’s for lunch, I was unfazed, but a little circumspect. The mall? Really? Oh, well… what the hell.
While this isn’t approaching gourmet, I was really pleasantly surprised. I had a great salad (chicken lime cilantro,) and my colleague’s sandwich looked equally appealing. I actually kinda forgot I was in the mall.
I still think Lloyd Center is a little slice of hell, but the Nordstom Café gets a pardon.

For the money you can’t beat the quality of food! I had the salmon cesar salad and the salmon was better than the $ 20 dinner at the restaurant next door! Everything looked really good and it was really fresh and tasty… You can have a good lunch for around $ 10 if you get water.

If you are one of the thousands of minions who work in the Lloyd District, the Nordstrom Café at Lloyd Center is a great place to grab lunch, and much better than the other options in the area.
(BJ’s? ick.) (Stanford’s and Chipotle? too crowded).
The N. Café has the freshest pasta, soups, salads, and sandwiches, as well as lovely desserts. The produce and meat here are exceptional –try the Asian Chicken salad with sesame dressing — I am addicted to all the fresh peppers, mandarin oranges and almonds in this thing.
The atmosphere is almost zero, but for a well-​prepared, healthy, quick and tasty lunch, this is the place.
Costs a buck or two more, because, well, it’s Nordstrom, but this cheapskate thinks it’s worth it.