701 Cafe

It is nice to have a café in my office building, but I would only get lunch here when in an emergency situation.
On a quiet day between Christmas and New Year’s, I ordered the reuben specialty sandwich. It probably took 10 minutes to make, which included stints in the microwave and on the grill press. Needless to say, the sandwich was not great. I would not order it again.
With limited dining options in the immediate area, the 701 Café is likely here to stay. I’m just thankful that my company will be relocating in several months.

Any office building with its own café automatically gets points. There are just some days when eating your homemade lunch or getting in the car to drive somewhere are not options.
On a day where I was meeting a friend for lunch, and she couldn’t go out after all, we went to the 701 café in her office building. Expecting sandwiches and soup, I was faced with more options than expected, including a rather surprising selection of vegetarian options. More points for that. Otherwise, there’s the typical selection of soup of the day, salads, and sandwiches.
I had the soup and sandwich special and my stuck-​at-​the-​office friend had the hummus and pita. I should have followed her lead. Her mistake was letting me sample her hummus. My mistake was sampling it. It made my lunch selection all the more disappointing. It’s probably not fair, though, to compare to what would have been an otherwise okay choice.
The tuna salad sandwich was ordinary — except for the salt content. I couldn’t finish it. The french onion soup, the soup of the day, was good, though. Very good. Or maybe it only seemed that way because it was less salty than the tuna salad. The cheese was melted and stringy and the broth a nice offset to the cheese.
On this day, it was the chance to get together with a friend, more than the food, I suppose; but 701 Café is very much an office building café. It’s not bad, but not outstanding, either.