Silo Cafe

I work in the building and come here all the time. To be fair, I’ve really only ordered from the make-​your-​own-​salad bar, and haven’t tried the sandwiches or sushi or any of that. However, I highly recommend this place for salads!
The line can get long around 12÷1… but it moves super quickly, and the guy who works behind the salad bar is awesome!
In the end, salads cost around $ 7 – 10, which is a bit pricey, but probably standard for NYC.
One big plus is that there is plenty of seating in the ‘atrium’ area of the building, right by Silo Café. There is even a piano player some days!

This place is super delicious, but everytime I get a salad, I get overcharged. Make sure you count your toppings with your fingers in front of the dude’s face when he’s making it or he will invent a number of toppings to charge you for.

How am I trying their udon now?!? God freaking sent on a cold day. Midtown Easterners, get on line for this large $ 7.95 styrofoam cup of brothy goodness. It is truly magic.

Silo Café is one of the many shiny, new restaurants/​cafes/​stores located in Crystal Pavillon’s «secret food court.» Definitely worth coming to — they have a pianist, indoor waterfall, and tons of seating, unlike many other public spaces. Maybe it’s because people don’t know about it, but come since you know now!
I tried Silo’s Udon noodles and they were wonderful! I got the vegetarian option ($ 6.75) and it had yellow pickled radish, seaweed, fried tofu, regular tofu, mushrooms, broccoli, bean sprouts, and a delicious, sweet broth! It was really good — I didn’t think that they skimped, actually half of the bowl was noodle and the other half was the toppings. I would definitely come again because of all the seating (there is also seating in Silo) and it’s pretty cheap. Meat options are about 7.50−8.50 depending on the meat.

The pre-​made food here isn’t spectacular but for one thing: price! An 8-​piece nigiri set for $ 7.25 is a pretty damn good deal in middle of Manhattan. Place is clean, has cheap food, in-​and-​out in 2 minutes, what more can you ask for?

This place has alright food but not great. Treehaus across the street is much better (but costs more). Also silo doesn’t care to remember or do anything extra for their regular customers. I find myself repeating the same order several times each time that I am here as the disinterested staff don’t care to remember and tipping doesn’t help. It’s really hit or miss and they always give exact change in really small change, which i find to be annoying, especially since the have a credit card minimum and try to rush u off the line. If they wanted their line to move faster they should accept credit cards rather than juggling handfulls of pennies and nickels at every customer

This place has given my co-​workers food poisoning on multiple occasions. I have actually called the restaurant to let them know and they apologized but haven’t done anything to address it, as it’s happened multiple times in the past few months. The food poisoning has been caused by items at the sushi bar, the salad bar (dressing) and items from the buffet.

This review is strictly for the buffet.
Gotta say, not bad, and definitely good quality for not so much money.
Options are clean and good quality. I love the sesame chicken!
The checkout people are friendly too and it’s relatively busy every time I’m on my lunch.
If you’re looking not to break the bank at Treehaus this is the place to go.

Another typical NY café with an identity crisis.
This place, located in the basement of the Meredith building, serves everything from burritos to sushi to udon noodles. It is just another NY lunch hub for busy corporates like myself who need a quick lunch to-​go.
My favorite part about this place is their make your own salad bar. They have a great variety at the salad bar including tofu and pasta salad. The food is a bit pricey (the salad usually comes out to about $ 10) but that’s just New York for you.
This place also has really healthy snack options like kale chocolate chip cookies and pop chips. I like coming here to grab a snack when I’m hungry but not ravenous.
Their buffet is typical but has an incredible fruit selection– some of the freshest I’ve ever seen. I recommend getting some.

The typical Midtown lunch spot, a place to acquire whatever easy, simple, fast, and inoffensive cuisine for a relatively affordable price for middle class workers. This place might be the prototype of such a place fulfilling it’s place in the «lunch time ecosystem», containing all the typical Midtown lunch foods, be it a sandwich, salad, or hot buffet. The biggest distinguishing factor is that it is located in the basement of a large office building, providing a convenient source of food for people inside the building looking to avoid any inclement weather.
This place takes everything you like about a beloved deli and sterilizes it to create this soulless, all in one station for all sorts of lunch food you can think of, prepared only to serve the working lunch crowd. While it lacks any distinguishing factors beyond it being in the basement level of a large office building, it gives people a wide array of choices. A fairly complete salad bar, grill station, sandwich station, and better than average hot buffet let’s people choose from a wide variety of uninspiring but not bad choices for lunch.
The food itself is nothing to call home about, or even suggest. Their buffet is a solid choice, containing a wide variety of foods for the discerning types, focused on customary American cuisines (mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, chicken) or American derivative cuisines (Sesame Chicken/​fried rice anyone?). Perhaps the best part is that it has seafood such as salmon, cod, and shrimp. While nothing too special, it is definitely a step above the rest of the carb heavy, dry, or low quality meats. They still maintain some of their fundamental deliciousness, but their inoffensive seasoning and cooking doesn’t bring out the full flavor that could be taken from their seafood.
Prices are affordable, not going over $ 10 for most things, and the buffet going for $ 8.50 a pound, making it quite an affordable Midtown food choice. My favorite deal is after 2:30, the buffet is half off, which at $ 4.25 a pound is great. Variety becomes sparse although quality remains about the same.
If you’re looking for an affordable place for lunch, this place is an adequate establishment, covering all the normal food that the Midtown lunch crowd wants. But unless you work in the building or are within a one to two block radius, there really is no point in coming here, when there are dozens of near equivalent places to go to.

I only go here for breakfast because it’s convenient. I don’t have any issues w/​the guys at the grill. They’re fine.
The two cashiers, the one Hispanic girl, has an attitude that is beyond obnoxious. She’s rude and has no filter. She’s suited to be just that– a cashier.

3.5÷5 for me here
Located in the cafeteria section of the building atrium and this spot has all your essential stations. Hot buffet, salad, sandwich and anything else you may need for lunch.
There are tables located inside and outside should you want to take a load off and hangout for a bit. Overall, the food is good and they are very clean and quick when it comes to a customized order.
Buon appetito

Food is decent. People are not. I use to be a regular and stuck by the restaurant even though they were closed down for a day for health reasons! The foods I normally order are from their Udon station, salads and the buffet.
Udon station is the worst. I’m Asian… Noodles, bean sprouts, fried tofu (cut up into invisible pieces, mushroom, seaweed, scallion, carrots, broccoli are very very very inexpensive items. You can added breaded chicken, grilled chicken or teriyaki beef. I usually order the veggie udon. Typically, you walk up the station and pick out the ingredients you want. You would get half a bowl of noodle, 3 pieces of bean sprout, barely a pinch of the fried tofu, invisible mushroom, 5 pieces of seaweed… C’mon! 3 pieces of bean sprout!!! When we asked the guy behind the station for more, attitudes galore! Today, they charged us a quarter more… for extra 3 bean sprouts!
I go to silo almost every day! No more… I’m done with the attitude. Food isn’t all that great! its good if you’re starving and had nothing else to eat and it’s raining outside. I rather have a slice of pizza instead of noodles + 3 pieces of bean sprouts + attitudes.

I used to love Silo when I started working in the area almost three years ago, but over the last 8 months I’ve been left more than frustrated. In the morning when I come for a sandwich there isn’t any turkey back and they refuse to cook additional pieces despite it being 9:30 am and deep in the breakfast rush. At lunch by 2pm the same situation… fryer or grill is turned off or your only grill options are what’s left out. Where is the customer service in not extending yourself? I know they have more meat, cheese or what have you for the next day so how does it hurt to reach in and make it for me.
I’m sure my review will have little effect on all the positive reviews but I wanted to put it out there…

Do not come here for salad.
The people in the salad line are miserable and incompetent, I have come twice in the past two weeks and have been overcharged. The first time by a whopping 2.75!!! A salad with no special toppings or meats came to 10.75! After a long back and forth I was able to get my $ back, but today I showed up again, phone calculator in hand and went topping by topping and once again was overcharged. The cashier’s response?
«NOT MY PROBLEM»
Siyonara Silo.

Pleasantly surprised by this place when I was working in the city office for a day and my coworkers told me this was one of their usual lunch joints.
Went with a bunch of cold salads — cucumber/​tomato/​dill, roasted summer squash/​zucchini, shrimp/​onions/​peppers, and a barley (?)/​craisin/​herb one. All were delicious and filling, and they tasted very fresh and not too oily.
I am usually a lunch bringer so there was a bit of sticker shock with my cold salads for lunch + afternoon snack of chips — price, $ 10.99.

Silo, Silo, Silo… what is there to say about Silo? First of all this place is too white and clean for my liking, it’s just… sterile. I’d imagine the cafeteria in The Island to resemble Silo on some level. (Especially the one on 31^st st., now THAT is sterile)
Everything here is average. You already know what to expect. Sandwiches? Average. Sushi? Average. Hot food? Average. (Don’t eat the chicken it’s never tender) Salads? Average.
I mainly come here to order breakfast since there are way better options for lunch than anything of mediocrity served here. With the death of Teresa’s and Azure last year, Silo has reaped the benefits as the «high class» breakfast deli in the area.
Let me explain my breakfast routine. I usually get a variation/​combination of the following: 2 eggs sunny side up, sausage patty, hash browns or toast. Really, that’s all I ever eat. Once in a blue moon I might ask for scrambled eggs, or bacon, or an omelette if I’m really bored. But in general, my order is eggs sunny, sausage patty and hash browns/​toast.
I am disappointed to write this review and furthermore to say this: but the guys here at Silo screw it up 9 times out of 10. Today the foreman forgot to put in my order with the cook for about 5 minutes while I stood there and watched. When I reminded him again, then the eggs fired up. A few minutes later, I get a box with 2 eggs sunnyside up (poorly done, yolk still runny and bottom of the eggs are fried to a crisp) with nothing else inside. I reminded him I wanted sausage as well and he threw it into the platter, a patty that was meant for someone else’s order. At that point I had been standing in line for 10 minutes, there’s at least a half dozen people around me gesturing/​fidgeting for their orders and I feel it’s pretty much pointless to point out that I wanted toast also.
The only bright thing I can say about Silo is that the ladies who work the register are always nice.

So clean and so fresh fresh. That’s how I would describe silo café. The salad bar has so much variety, I had to circle it 3 times to decide on what I wanted. Everything was good, if I had to complain, the sesame chicken was over cooked, but consider I ate it anyway, it is really not much of a knock. I will be back for the sushi, bibimbap, teriyaki, sandwiches and provide update.
There is community seating outside of the café too with live piano performance for ease of digestion?

SO. MANY. OPTIONS.
POOR. A.D.D. BRAIN.
A better version of the numerous lunch spots in midtown. Comparable prices, but they have Korean, Japanese, American, Italian etc.
Lots of healthy options, as well as unhealthy options so whatever floats your gut.
Bön Apetit!

Silo is one of those places I feel like I shouldn’t like, because I frequent it so often (because of work location), but it’s actually a great spot.
When it comes time to decide «where should we go for lunch?» (you know the feeling, having just exited the entrance of your office building and you have to pick a direction) — my coworkers and I somehow find ourselves heading to Silo 2 – 3 times a week.
They really do have it all — open food bar, sushi, sandwiches, salad bar, and the place is clean, spacious and the checkout line moves quickly.
The food bar is fresh and the items change daily. My faves include: baked salmon, rotisserie chicken, flank steak, mac & cheese, grilled brussel sprouts and cauliflower, avocado salad, mango cilantro grilled chicken, broccoli angel hair pasta and quinoa salad. Get there at 11:30a and everything’s untouched! Get there after 1p and the food bar has served its duty well.
The sushi (packaged or made to order) is delicious as well.
Lots of seating. Professional staff. Solid place for take out or dine in.