Green Cafe

I absolutely love this place! from the bagels, sandwiches, pastries, salads (the best!), the list goes on! Green Café is our catering place because I wont go anywhere else! For all our meetings, Green Café is the one for us! If you haven’t yet, go on and pass through! They have a cozy set up to for just hanging with a friend for lunch. :) Keep up the good service guys! :)

For as long as I’ve been working on 90^th street… I stop at Green Café every morning for the past 3 ½ years, because the food and service is remarkable. It wouldn’t be a great morning for me if I don’t stop at this place. Great job guys

I like Green café, especially their bagels. This place should have a higher rating.

This is a solid spot for a quick breakfast around the UES. Nothing fancy or crazy going on here, just easy, quick, and affordable.
I got a bacon, egg and avocado sandwich on a bagel last time I was there and I’ll definitely go back for bfast sandwiches again.
**Caveat: I’ve only had their breakfast

I popped in here after a long work way and while on the way to the Guggenheim Museum. I needed a quick snack to hold me over while waiting in the long line to enter on a pay what you’d like day. I ordered a smoothie and a cinnamon raisin roll with a little icing drizzle over it. Either I was very hungry and it was great or as my friend said who was not particularly hungry, it was just alright. The smoothie was finished with OJ which kind of overpowered the drink. It was good but would’ve been much better with a different finisher.

I’ve been here a few times for a quick meal since it’s right on the way from the subway to a family member’s apartment. In these situations it fits my needs very well: it’s fast, the vegetarian food isn’t awful, and the prices (while certainly less than ideal) are manageable. If I lived on the Upper East side, I’d surely get sick of them soon and find more to gripe about, but for now I can just say I’m not blown away by anything about this place, but I’ve never been majorly disappointed either.
Best thing I’ve had: fried egg white bagel sandwich with cheddar
Worst thing I’ve had: cherry streusel square (under-​baked and cloyingly sweet).

pleasantly quiet place with good panini and regular drinks, friendly staff. nice for a read-​and-​eat alone.

Credit card fraud!
After checking my online credit card statement just now, I see Green Café charged me $ 20.03 for the one salad we purchased. Scroll down for reviews from other Unilocalers noting their overcharging. They are robbing people blind, insane! They tell you the price at the register, then type in a different amount. I’m always looking at receipts, but I admit this one got passed me. They do not usually give receipts if I recall correctly. Word of advice, do not go there and if you do demand a receipt or pay in cash.

Good place to pop in for a quick bite. Pretty typical NYC (Manhattan) prices, with paninis ~$ 8.50. The Club Panini has avocado in it, yum! Comfortable seating and clean.

I really loved the Pumpernickel Waldorf Salad Sandwhich, $ 17 for (2) sandwiches!!! I ate it on the way back uptown in the subway station. The Granny Smith slices in this Waldorf sandwhich were delicious! I’ll definitely be back for more. I can’t wait:} It’s too bad my receipt doesn’t specify what I bought:{ I also got (2) wraps with jalapenos. By pass these wraps… THE WRAPS HAVE NO FLAVOR. Two open wraps were also $ 17. The Columbian coffee, small was good and $ 1.50. I do not like Starbuck’s bitter coffee. The Green Café was a wonderful find!

I stopped here randomly with my mom when I was visiting NYC for the day. I got the pastrami sandwich on rye bread with mustard. It was really good! Pretty decent prices for it being on the upper East side too!

The cook that works monday — thursday from 6 to about 2, is horrible. He does not cook clean and the food tastes disgusting. He is always changing the prices. When you talk to management, he does not remember the prices either. The cook on Sunday mornings the food tastes great.

Overall not a bad place to go once in a while. It is a little pricey. Small soups are pretty expensive compared to other places. Not much of a big place. Had breakfast here and wasn’t really disappointed but it was the basic scrambled eggs with Turkey bacon and home fries.

Weak deli here. I wanted to like them and figure they have to improve on the lousy bagel spot that was here but nope. I have given them three different tries to win me over but my meal was never better than mediocre and today’s was just bad. I rarely see people in there when I pass by which is pretty much every day and I will be surprised if it still exists in a year. One block either way is Milano or bocado which both do everything better than this dump

When this place first opened, I was excited there was a new café/​grille spot nearby. Unfortunately, they do not have enough help in the grille area. They consistently get overwhelmed, get orders wrong and the orders take a long time if there is a line. I always try to give them another try but they constantly fail. My most recent visit was today, 02÷02÷14. I ordered 1 breakfast platter and also an egg with turkey bacon sandwich. Approximately 6 – 7 people after me received their orders. I inquired about my order and «they» said oh, sorry its coming up. I walked out. That was my last attempt, I wont be going back.
The owners aren’t customer friendly either.

The manager/​owner is a jerk and I rarely say that about anybody. This is what happened: I was in there with some people. The place was not super crowded but the cashier was busy. We all ordered and handed the cashier our form of payment.
It was one of those days that we wanted something to drink since it is snowing out and a warm drink hits the spot.
After patiently waiting for some time, the person making our drinks handed our hot chocolates to us. All of a sudden, this guy who might be the owner/​manager came in our direction and accused us of not paying for our drinks. We ordered a total of six drinks on two separate tabs. Four on one and two on the other. We handed the cashier our credit card and cash, respectively. The owner accused us of not paying at all since we do not have our receipts. Umm… the cashier did not hand us our receipts at all so how is this the customer’s problem? There was a whole stack of receipts in front of the cashier, so it might just be the cashier who does not give people their receipts in general but I don’t understand how any of this is the customer’s problem.
Long story short, the manager/​owner was extremely rude to us, especially to the young lady who is half the owner’s age. Seriously, a real man should not yell at a little girl. It was uncalled for. I had to come to the young lady’s defense since the cashier and the workers there seem to cower under his tyranny.
Usually I thought the food at this place was okay and the people who work there are okay but after this incident, I have to come on Unilocal and let people know that Green Café’s management is terrible!
This is a business with a rude mindset. I rather give my money to people who are kind.

There truly is something for everyone here… as with most places that seek to offer everything rather than specialize, you will not encounter a culinary masterpiece. But for a quick salad or wrap, it’ll do in a pinch. Salad bar ingredients appear clean and fresh. There is limited seating, so don’t count on eating in.

For a quick meal with no frills Green Café is a good option.
The salad bar drew me in at $ 7.95 for a small, $ 8.95 for a large. Includes choice of lettuce, 4 veggies, one protein, one crunch (i.e. nuts, croutons etc) and one cheese. The ingredients all appear fresh and are appetizing in presentation. They even chop it up for you when they mix it. The restaurant feels clean and well lit.
There are tables and chairs and a big screen tv to watch as you dine. Call me insecure, but some places I feel weird eating in alone, but Green Café is totally amenable to a solo diners just trying to grab a quick meal.
Glancing at the menu the prices on most things seemed reasonable although slightly inconsistent. i.e. $ 1.25 for a small coffee seems reasonable, but a ham egg and cheese on a roll is a little steep at $ 3.95. Some of the drinks and snacks are a little overpriced. i. e $ 2 for small bag of chips. Just be cognizant of the prices and you shouldn’t get ripped off.

This new café just recently opened not too far from the subway stop I use to get back and forth to work. It’s a nice addition the the area, and is definitely an improvement over the disgusting bagel shop that used to be in this spot. It’s also an alternative to the Starbucks in the hood when craving a cup of coffee.
The space itself is bright and cheerful looking. Still clean and shiny new. I noticed a manager/​owner was barking out orders to the staff and having them make sure all was in order. I know they call this a café yet to me it’s basically a glorified deli that is a step above with a large variety of food options and seating inside. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, pastries, coffees, cold drinks, salad bar, sandwiches, soups, entrees, desserts, pasta bar, etc.
I had an egg white and turkey sandwich here, and a cup of coffee before heading to work today for about $ 5. Not too bad, but pretty standard and served it’s purpose. Seems they have multiple locations throughout the city so it is like a mini-​chain of sorts. Still good to see something like this open up on the UES rather than another useless cell phone store or bodega.

Just what the neighborhood ordered – the kind of unpretentious midtown-​ish café that offers a little bit of everything.
Open from 7 am to 10 or 11 pm, this sunny new space offers breakfast (hot and cold), smoothies, a juice bar, sandwiches/​wraps/​paninis/​quesadillas, soup, custom salads, hot entrees, coffee of all kinds, and desserts. Today being opening day, there was a certain amount of chaos, but the cheerful staff was handling it with aplomb. There’s seating, including a nice banquette against one wall, and delivery.
My chicken panini was good, my smoothie a bit watery (and lacking a to-​go lid). Nothing on the lengthy menu looks brilliant or even unusual, but everything is solid, and the folks here seem eager to get things right.
The place was overrun after school with Dalton students. I suspect they may treat it as a off-​premises cafeteria. If, like most of humanity, you need coffee around 3:30, approach with caution.