First, ESRI is a business and most of the patrons at the restaurant are employees. We felt very out of place and wondered if we were allowed to be there. But, the food is wonderful. we all had something different and shared our meals. Each of us liked all of the food in our group. It was wonderful. I should also add that our group had a vegetarian, lactose intolerant celiac, and a gluten-free pescatarian. Finding restaurants can be a nightmare, but this diversity of options made this EASY. Plus the price was totally reasonable. I'll definitely come back, maybe try breakfast next time. read more

I didn't have an experience with ESRI cafe. They are only open to employees and guests of esri. No general public service is offered. Maybe a disclosure of this information be posted on Yelp so others can know. It's a shame because it's a terrific setting and I'm sure I would enjoy having some meals there. read more

I have had two meals here so far, and they've both been delicious. They have a great salad bar, and a selection of hot foods. They also offer vegetarian options. Their macaroni and cheese is incredible. It's a white cheese sauce with a little bit of rosemary and bread crumbs. So delicious! It's a beautiful cafe with windows and spacious seating. Noise levels are a bit loud, but you can still carry on a conversation. read more

Esri Cafe - Mixed greens salad and macaroni and cheese. Super yummy. - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

Excellent service and the quality is outstanding. I'm a regular client now. I highly recommend it.

Great service, great food. Good for Esri employees and the general public. Went there in the morning and got the breakfast special. Affordable and delicious, which is a wicked good combination. High chairs are available for small children. Lots of windows. read more

Esri Cafe - My friend ordered the double breakfast and couldn't believe how good it looked! - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

Had the tri tip special. Ambitious for a cafeteria but the price point was hard to resist. Under $10 for a couple good pieces with mash potatoes and broccolini. It was mostly all cold with varying warm bites . Still overall okay. There was definitely potential. I'll try the sandwiches next time. Side note, the cafe is hard to pinpoint in Google Maps. If youre turning right from Redlands Blvd, it's up on your left as you pass the post office. Glass walls. read more

Esri Cafe - Tri Tip Special with mashed potatoes and broccolini - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

This is a fantastic place for great food for less money! Everyday you have two live kitchen gourmet cuisines, two different soups, full fledged salad bar with all the available dressings, two types of pizzas, a sandwich bar with two different varieties of meat, a burger bar with different meats, fully stocked refrigerators with ice teas, chocolate milks, water, sodas, protein shakes and more! There's soda fountain and a cake counter stocked with cookies and also Starbucks coffee! Everyday, there's a different cuisine. Everything sounds yummy but there are its own flaws! Not every food tastes great! It depends on what ingredients and what sauces you choose and sometimes they have some custom gourmet dishes which are served, it's 50/50 chance! Pizzas are not always up to the mark. They are sometimes burnt, sometimes overloaded with sauce making it toooo cheezy, feels like you will puke because of the cheese! Salads are the best, I'm a big fan of the salad bar and I often take them. The beef, chicken, and vegetable chilli is out of this world! I love them! But the cost is unbeatable! It's subsidized not only for the employees for the outsiders too! The whole cafe is full of clear glass windows and doors, it's beautiful! I love the cafe! PS: I work at Esri. read more

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It's a corporate cafeteria, even if it is located out in the IE. Food options are marginally more healthy than one might expect, and pricing is very reasonable... but then you realize how much is butter or deep fried or whatnot, and you have to remember to be realistic! read more

Great selection of food drinks. You can go there every day and find something new to eat. They have a great Daily Special that invites you to having a lot of variety of options. There is able seating with great diffuse window lighting. There's tables and chairs as well as cozy couches. Highly recommend going there. It's open to the public and the people are friendly. read more

Esri Cafe - Mongolian food on their Daily Special. - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

I love this place. Its fresh, fast and healthy! The menu options change weekly. You can view their weekly menu in there website. I love all the variety of options they have for people on a diet, vegetarian etc. I have been for breakfast and lunch they are open mon thru Friday 7am-4pm. read more

Esri Cafe - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

Has lunch here and was so Please with the food and the chef. He personally asked how he could help me and what I would like to see in the menu. He told me he is always making new items for lunch. I love the creativity he has for his restaurant! Chef Bryan and this Café is fabulous read more

Yes, this is part of the Esri "company" and most patrons are employees. But, the food is extremely good and for the most part very healthy. Unlike reviewers just prior to mine... the food is always very good quality and I dare you to find lower prices elsewhere. There is a new menu every day that rotates each week. Great breakfast buffet as well. The most difficult part is knowing where to stand, what line, etc. to order and pick up. It could be better organized. read more

Best place for lunch in Redlands hands down! Menu changes daily and truly the quality cannot be beat for the money. I never leave hungry and I'm always surprised by the menu choices. Staff is friendly and helpful. Truly this place is a gem. read more

The staff is decent enough and the food's alright, but if you think that this is a place where the food items are FIXED, you'll be in for a rude awakening. You need to do a weekly search on a search engine that says "esri cafe menu". They will then show the menu for that particular week. The actual menu changes day to day. This place was initially built with esri employees in mind. Also, the only way you'll get in is either from New York off Redlands Blvd., or the Orange Blossom bike trail to New York, as if you were going to the post office. The entire south side is closed off for security reasons. Just speculation, but if the post office moves, the entire campus may be closed to the public for security reasons. I got all this information from employers, and employees. read more

Best cheese burger and fries ever for only $3.99. Def going back. Beautiful scenery. Oh and huge TWO scoops of mashed potato sides were only $1.99! read more

Presentation of food was very good atmosphere and servers were very polite and respectful. I would definitely coming here to try more things on the menu. I would recommend read more

We just had my husband's graduation party today and from the beginning this place had been great! Bob Edwards is responsive, answers all your questions, and was easy to get a hold of by phone. Chef Brian made us a delicious lunch from their "south of the border" menu. We had beef barbacoa, Adobe grilled chicken, cheese enchiladas, black beans, cilantro rice, salad, tortillas, and churros with chocolate sauce! Everyone loved the food. It was seriously good. Chef Brian met us before the party, introduced himself and let us know he can help us with anything, he was awesome! I am so happy with how our event went, the staff and especially Bob and Chef Brian made everything go so smoothly. Thank you Esri! Looking forward to the next event we have at your beautiful venue! read more

A one star cafe. I work there full time for 3 years. There menu never change, what keep changing is the quantity and the quality of the food. With 9 dollars, you only get a small check breast. You easily find better and cheaper food anywhere else around the location. I have to eat there once in a while just because my lunch time maybe tight and can not taking too long for the break. Would not recommend at all. read more

This is my new favorite lunch spot! After I don't know how long - at least a year, I found a place that serves really excellent made-from-scratch food here in Redlands. The chef is a real up-and-comer, Bryan Lareau, who I have chanced across before. Wow! This guy can cook! The food here is FRESH, tasty, and best of all well-priced! An example is the large bowl of clam chowder you can get on Fridays, is ONLY $2.19!!! That's LESS THAN half what you would pay anywhere else! Today they were also serving teriyaki steak, egg-fried rice, and Asian vegetables as the main entree (the main entrees change daily), they also have made-from-scratch pizza, sandwiches, burgers, and salads. There's a mini Starbucks too. This place is a real gem. When you visit, say hi to Chef Bryan for me, you'll recognize him immediately as he's probably the person working the hardest here. Update 4/13/2018 Friday the 13th turned out to be lucky 13 for me! I came for the clam chowder but I left with a stomach full of Lobster Roll - wow! So dang good - as good or better than the last two I had, and that was in Boston and in Maine! read more

Well well well, some things are-a-changin' at the ESRI CAFE. Just had their slowed cooked beef with polenta and roasted vegetables on Monday and I have to say I was impressed with the quality of the improvement. The beef and the roasted veggies and the polenta were very well prepared and the taste was phenomenal. Kudos to all the staff at the ESRI cafe for this mega improvement. I give credit where it's due. Now that you have achieved this standard keep it and improve on it all the time. In the race for quality, there is no finish line!! read more

Esri Cafe - Sorry guys but this is NOT tabbouleh. Please call it something else. - New American Near Me - Redlands, California

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The food was as delicious as I have been told. I had sweet potatoe fajita tacos with black beans and cilantro rice. My first time for me sweet potato tacos and they were delicious! My friend had a garden burger ( 2 patties) and she raved about them. There is a good, inviting energy. There are multiple choices of food and drink and the prices were excellent. I definitely recommend this self serve cafe for a change!!! read more

The cafe at Esri is at its core the stereotypical bad monopoly. They have no real competition for all the employees on campus to choose instead and so they wallow in mediocrity. They used to be decent, but no more. Basically everything they make is terrible quality. Not only that, but quality has consistently declined while prices have risen. For example, the pizza and cookies are not worth any form of payment. How do you mess those up? It's one thing to not make it well, it's another to totally ruin it. They can't even keep a basic handle on inventory either. That's restaurant 101. Sure things might occasionally go amiss, but this place is always out of something. Every day. The only saving grace are the basic grill items and sandwiches. They are at least reasonably priced and good enough quality. read more

Being a fellow chef I am my own worst critic, and it's near impossible for me to enjoy going out to eat. I gave it a shot and this place has a chef that made my head spin! Flavor, menu composition, personal touch and many more compliments to list. Chef Bryan came to ask how the meal was and I had to tip my hat to him. Great job chef, keep Killin it! I'll be back for sure. read more

Different menu on every single day. Nice place to sit there. Food is very good. Food is a little expensive bit the taste is good.

Update- new Executive Chef recently, and food is amazing. Examples of recent items: - Cinammon, green Apple and Marscapone stuffed frech toast - Cinnamon Toast Crunch French Toast w/ Maple Whipped Cream - Hoisin Marinated Tri Tip w/ Pineapple Orange Relish w/ Sesame Rice & Broccolini - Bleu Cheese Stuffed Burger w/ Grilled Onions - Grilled tri-tip with blue cheese butter, roasted potatoes and garlic green beans Pizzas: - Italian Sausage w/ Caramelized Onions and Arugula - Salami, Pickled Red Onion & Goat Cheese Lots of food choices and a rotating menu, plus a cooked-to-Order grill. Lots of healthy choices, and often an ethnic dish of the day. They also have a partial Starbucks menu. Sometimes the dishes are disappointing, and the biggest problem is that even though the floor to ceiling glass looks great, it makes for a noisy place. read more

Food is substandard .... the only decent thing on the menu is their "Mongolian" grill special on thursdays. That is the tastiest thing on the menu. I've tried breakfast and it's decent but not great. The Starbucks coffee is ok. The other items are not so great and wouldn't really recommend it. The people that work there are nice and the coworkers eating with me are nice .... condiments are good and not stingy with it like other company cafeterias which is nice read more

Best kept secret in Redlands. Cafeteria style ordering but great prices, big portions, great taste. I had egg, cheese, sausage burrito and it was like 3 bucks. Atmosphere is open and relaxing all glass with eucalyptus trees all around. read more

Great food that very sadly runs out well before closing. Limited hours. Beautiful location. Needs to increase quantity of highly desirable offerings. read more

Toured ESRI last week and we ended in the cafe. This place is amazing, we had great snacks, and drinks. From what I've heard, it's open to the public, I'll have to stop by sometime when I'm in the area. read more

This place is fantastic. Even though it's a cafeteria style place the food is as good as any restaurant in downtown Redlands and it's very very reasonable. You couldn't eat at a fast food joint for the price. The menu tends towards healthy choices but also offers deli food, hamburgers & pizza. The setting is lovely. The room itself is surrounded by windows with a view of the tree lined ESRI campus & so gives a feeling that you are sitting in a park. When the full crowd is there at the height of lunch hour and it can get pretty noisy because of all the hard surfaces but there is seating available outside and food can be obtained to go. They have a salad bar and fountain or canned drinks. read more

Great food breakfast And the lunch is great. Bring your friends your family. Enjoy the outside food court, or you can walk over to the pond and see the turtles. read more

A hidden gem. Focused on being available to inside community building tenants but open to public. Chef-prepared dishes on comfort foods yet healthy too. Variety of dishes and snacks as well. Beverages to quench your thirst. Environment clearly mix of nature inside out through the glass walls surrounding the restaurant/cafeteria. A++ venue. read more

It is good to have daily meal here. I think the among all the dishes last month, the roasted beef should be the best.

Excellent place to eat and relax. Good assortment of delicious food at a reasonable price. Their Chicken Alfredo pizza is fantastic and filling. The salads are excellent. Looking forward to going back. read more

This is a great place for vegetarians as they have a daily entree along with a great salad bar and specialized salad. The Mongolian BBQ is the best and they use tofu as the vegetarian protein. Both lunch and breakfast are outstanding selections. Executive Chef Bryan Lareau comes out to the front lines and helps serve both breakfast and lunch. All the workers seem very happy and are very kind. read more

I recently had my wedding reception at ESRI Cafe. They really made this day such a special and perfect occasion. As a fiancé the day before our wedding, I was doing all I could to make the day perfect for my future bride. However, ESRI went above and beyond anything I could have ever asked to make sure this day, our wedding day was something from a fairytale. Jason with events, Antoinette, Sydney, Ashley, and Bob treated us as if we were their family. And we definitely felt they love and compassion they showed by assisting us with the greatest awareness and kindness at our reception. There is no other place to enjoy good company, AMAZING food, and an atmosphere that takes you to the place you want to be. They staff at ESRI definitely deserve the greatest recognition and praise for making sure your wedding day will stay crystal clear in your mind as the greatest day in your life!!! ESRI is the best, hands down. read more