@ The Peak Cafe

The Peak is a great spot for breakfast or lunch. They offer different specials everyday for lunch and I would have to say I make frequent stops here. The food is always fresh and flavorful. I also think the staff is very friendly.
The prices are also reasonable and the food is quality.
I will forever be a fan of The Peak!

@ The peak is located inside the Pat Steele building by Harborview Medical Center. I work inside Pat Steele building and when I do have extra money, I would usually splurge on here. They have full and half sandwiches. The staff are very friendly and don’t forget to have your punch card since 10^th coffee is free!

Best sandwiches on 1^st Hill by a wide margin. The Reuben is especially delicious. I can’t recommend this place highly enough.

I started working in this building and the staff are pleasant and down-​to-​earth. The lattes so far consistently awesome and the breakfast sandwich probably made one of those monday-​mondazes a little better.
Plus better prices than those hipster-​cafes around the area and punch cards– woo hoo!
The small amount of seating and booths by the windows are nice to unwind and catch up on emails at.
I’m looking forward to trying more of their menu items while I’m working here.

Salads are packed with plenty of protein, very satisfying! Sandwiches are generous with meats and the soup is always homemade! My stable and staple lunch stop! Located at Harborview mental health /​research ctr. the staff are always super helpful and cheerful. Most of the menu is made to order on the spot. 5 of 5!

This café is about 30 steps away from my desk… sooooo I can’t NOT frequent this place. Convenient point — 5 of 5!
I often get their breakfast sarnies (sandwiches)… they offer several different kinds of bagel, toast, and croissant with ham/​sausage/​bacon with egg and cheese.
Their lunch offerings are pretty nice, too. Their salads are «pretty» (read — generous portion with different kind of veggies and toppings). Soups changed everyday, so make sure you check the board.
Moving on to coffee drinks… they’re a bit inconsistent as far as the quality. They do special coffee drinks (mostly latte and mocha) daily — check the board, too!
The new owners — a team of husband and wife and 2 – 3 other staff — are always there to prep your food with smiles and warm greetings. And a consistent great customer service will keep this kid coming back, for sure!

The caesar salad would have been better if there was more lettuce. The salad was generous with parmesan cheese, but isn’t the point of a salad the greens? For an $ 8 salad it was a let down.

This is a small café in the Patricia Steel building, a Harborview Medical Center building about 2 blocks from the main hospital. As soon as you enter (corner of Boren and Broadway), the café will be on the right.
In the morning, you can get breakfast sandwiches/​bagels and an assortment of panninis for lunch.
I just got some drip coffee to pass some time. Coffee was good and priced around $ 1.85.
They have several odd-​shaped booths along the windows and you can pick up the UW wifi signal. Would be a good place to wait prior to an appointment or potentially for a meeting.

I work at VERY close to the Peak and the food is good but the services will make you want to just not eat lunch sometimes. Its not to friendly there isnt a smile and barely a greeting when you enter (when busy or calm) If they could work on that then i would gladly give them a higher star rating!

LOVE LOVE their pastries! The Black and White Mocha is my fave, and the girls working there, always remember your drinks :-) It’s a nice break from work to interact with the friendly staff. The menu is fresh and my fave are the soups, pair it with garlic bread yuuummm… Can’t wait to try their Veggie Phở!

well, this is def. not a «normal» deli place that anyone would run into, but for what the price is worth, I can def. get something better, but there is no competition around the area :(And when it’s the morning hours, there is no way you can grab and go… I just skip it or else it takes at least 15min for a coffee run.
I like their half price Friday at 3:30pm, their food is good (half sandwich with pretty decent bread and good size filling), but it just price up. so pick them up afterward.
For the salad, I have 1 bad experience with it, but most of the time, it’s okay.
Their menu, check it out :)

bleh! As a person who works on first hill, there arnt a LOT of choices when it comes to lunch. The Peak is up the street from my office, so I walked there to grab a bite. I choose a small $ 5 Caesar salad that had no croutons and had wilty, almost spoiled lettuce on the bottom… gross. Next time I will bring my lunch from home.

2.5 stars for this place with so much potential that ultimately had my excited self (I Unilocaled just before going there) very sad, especially since I tipped (bringing the total to $ 10) before the sadness set in. I’m saving the 3^rd and possible 4^th star for another journey, because while I will almost definitely go back, I would NEVER get what I got today. Let me explain, first with the java and then with my noms.
The coffee is wonderful if/​when they get it right, but that’s tricky. I’m hoping I just had bad luck with command-​menu-​broken robot girl I got today. The use of Hershey’s syrup, though… really? You get this super roaster, have a special wine tasting style framed info sheet with its origins, the hazelnut and berry tones and blahblah but couldn’t get ANYTHING ELSE for mochas? So many options. Such a disgrace to the VERY GOOD coffee (roaster from up in Everett). Sad me. I quickly grasped the reason for big Hershey tin, though, when I saw a Costco (Kirkland) milk jug… the stuff gives me a tummy ache, which I am enduring now. I’ll have to either see what their half and half is or just… sadly not get anything to drink there since I don’t do soda or Oregon Chai, bleh…
So the service on that coffee: she didn’t ask about my milk prefs, first in literally years someone’s just assumed whole milk in this skim and soy land… in general the girl was very robotic but malfunctioning big time. She asked if I wanted whipped cream, and I said a very solid NO, I hate whipped cream, only to have it sprayed on mindlessly. I ordered a 20oz white mocha. I got a 12oz hershey one. I ordered double shots, another thing she ASKED and got the word «DOUBLE!» as her response – caps and ! because I wanted it strong on this dreary draining day. I got singles. Funny, the coffee itself is good… it’s just… god it takes an insane amount of work to get your order. Oh, and what happened when she took my 20oz priced/​12oz served coffee back to fix it? She ladled out the whipped cream and dumped cold milk on top of it. Well, at least my mouth didn’t get burnt. I basically drank coffee flavored kirkland milk. I do know the coffee’s good… it gets catered often enough to know… it just didn’t get served to me today. I’m bummed, seriously, cause it usually makes me happy on bleh days!
OK, enough on java. Onto the weirdest food I’ve had in quite some time, the reason I kind of dislike Seattle’s spin on American or comfort or almost all cuisines, really, apart from kooky vegans-​gone-​wild fad serving up tofarbecue with swine flavored mung sprouts (ooh the world’s biggest veg fest is here, soon, ooh, aah! I have no issues with vegetarian food, though – most of my eating IS vegetarian apart from when there’s fresh, sustainable local seafood, which here is rare… but don’t go taking hand-​shredded, cooked on a fire a whole day swine and telling me rubbery fermented soybeans will do… just take this holiday to give it up permaLENTly!)
I ordered a beautiful looking turnover thing-«What’s in it?» «Turkey with crushed berries»… the pastry=enough butter to soak through the paper they served it in AND 2 thick napkins. That alone is a serious feat to accomplish, and for JUST a pastry I will rave and be back. For the turkey and berry part… now, I know having an edge over the boring «chicken salad with grapes and tarragon is SO 2010» or «turkey/​havarti/​cran? come on, totally yesterday» is important for many. After all, when I think turkey inside a puff pastry, I think «god I hope they don’t use a recipe that got popular, don’t feed me stuff ppl like! Give me WEIRD, dangit, or I will scoff at your 2010ness!» What my turkey pastry with berry jam was=about half an ounce of meat – I kid not; it was less than half a standard slice for a sandwich, way less – a dabbling, also about half an ounce, of the jam atop it, and all that on a massive mound of very moist mashed potatoes, GROSSSSSS!
So yeah, my lunch was this already super moist buttery to a point of wet pastry stuffed with what amounted to mushy soggy potatoes with bits of berries and smoked bird. The coffeed milk is all that kept me from gagging as I scarfed it down not from delight but from both it being super sloppy, runny from butter and potato sog, and just awful in the «I don’t want to think about what I’m stuffing in my face oh god why didn’t I just go to El Mestizo 3 doors down dangit» way.
Yes, I’ll actually be back, but I advise all to ask EVERYTHING contained in what sounds predictable and reliable… and look out for a lady of darker skin, very short hair, big eager eyes, and an even bigger more eager zeal to take your order that sounds confident and experienced. She was confident enough to pay no attention and zoom on autopilot. You may suddenly find yourself eating what ultimately was EXACTLY like those gerber 2^nd stage meals – fish custard [Dr Who, lookitup] atop a mound of mushy peas, anyone?

Great customer service and half-​off selective goodies after 3:30pm. They also come up with great specials during breakfast and lunch time. If you stick with their specials, I say you get a good deal. Cookies and bread are yummy since they bake them daily. Location is prime since it’s right in our medical building. They also have a espresso machine so they can make some coffee or any other specialty drink for you.

Tip: if you get there too early, the doors are locked and only employees can get in. But Peak is open! I just wait for someone to go in & follow before the door closes. Great lattes and fluffy delicious pastries.
I got a vegetarian sandwich that was so-​so, but the salads are great; strawberry and mixed greens is my favorite. I recommend getting a bagel with cream cheese– they are very generous w/​the cream cheese, and the bagels are thick.
They have a HUGE variety of foods, from Quiche to Bagels to open faced Caprese sandwiches. I have gone four times for lunch, and have had something different every time.

I LOVE THE PEAK CAFE. I go here 3x a week for a mix of coffee/​breakfast/​lunch. Sometimes I go there more than once a day [but I don’t want to talk about that]. They have delicious in house baked goods, soups, made to order sandwiches, and the staff are really friendly.
If The Peak Café were a man, I’d ask for it’s hand in marriage. Until then, I’ll just continue being a patron and dreaming of the life we could share together.

super yummy cheap coffee drinks, home made soups and salads, made to order sandwiches, baked daily fresh bread, cookies and pastries! Fantastic lunch spot located in harbor view building. on first hill. it does close at 4:30pm so come early! in the morning they sell all «day olds» at half price! and on Fridays everything after 4pm is half off! if you want something with fast service but not fast food, a nice atmosphere and yummy goodness come here! ask for the specials there is always a deal.
they do catering as well