Hmmm... weirdly enough I for some reason thought that this place had something to do with Urban Plates but I mean you add an "e" to the end of the first word and boom something different. Anywhooo... I actually kinda liked the concept of this place but I feel like it needs more options? I mean I like the easy going boujee sandwich and soup thing with the craft sodas and drinks. Like it's a pretty great concept because it works in a place like Leucadia/Encinitas, wherever that weird line is drawn. My friend took me here for lunch and I ended up paying for the both of us cuz I'm nice I guess, I don't know. But I mean 2 sandwiches, that came with salads, a side of chips and 2 drinks for $26 including tip? Not too bad I'd say but I mean there are cheaper places obviously. I got the turkey club with chipotle aioli instead of whatever else comes on it and it was actually pretty good. I mean there wasn't too much texture variation going on so I had to throw some chips in that puppy and ultimately it was better. The side salad was pretty good, like a mix of spring mix, mandarin oranges, feta and some balsamic vinaigrette maybe? Yummy. The craft sodas are a nice touch too. I'll probably come by here again for lunch or something but I mean, I feel like I could go to Urban Plates and feel the same way. read more

Urbane Cafe - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Very nice restaurant to stop in for lunch. They have quite a large menu with many different options. I was with one other person and we both enjoyed our meals very much. The staff are also very nice and helpful. Food came to the table in less than ten minutes from placing out order read more

Urbane Cafe - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

I got the So Cal sandwich, which was so delicious! Chicken, avocado, pepper jack cheese, tomatillo salsa, chipotle aioli.... flavors were perfect. I fought the munchies and brought the other half home. It was still amazing when I enjoyed it a second time. Highly recommended My friend is familiar with urbane cafe and even knew exactly what she wanted before stepping foot inside - Turkey cranberry brie. Each sandwich came with a salad, which could use a tad more dressing Just had to wait between 5 - 10 min for our food There are hot sauce by the drink station. Cholula was a good choice Cookies came out warm mmmm the double chocolate and white chocolate cranberry were my favorite Pomegranate lemonade and Urbane Palmer was our drink of choice Place was very spacious and clean. Employees are really friendly Thank you for our girls night dinner. Everything was great read more

Urbane Cafe - Turkey cranberry brie - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

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What separates this place from any other sandwich and salad place? Well, for one thing, their brick oven! They make their focaccia bread in house and you can definitely smell it when you walk in. The brick oven is very intimating, in a good way, we were so drawn to it and my kids couldn't keep their eyes off of it. Of course, their homemade cookies were also another draw, they put it out right in front of us and is served so soft and warm! I told my kids they can have some once they eat their sandwich and salad. All their sandwiches are great, my kids got the grilled cheese, it comes with the option of fruit, salad or chips, so i got them the salad, which they love. I got the lemon cookie and the white chocolate cranberry cookie and both were delicious and melted in your mouth! I loved their lemonades and the craft soda options they had. This place is a great for a quick bite to eat, without going to a greasy fast food joint. read more

Ordered the so cal chicken sandwich which was was grilled chicken, avocado, cheese(I subbed mine for fresh mozzarella), salsa, and a salad. Ingredients tasted fresh, juicy chicken, a decent amount of avocado, and good overall flavor. A safe choice in my opinion. Service was good too. Took advantage of their WiFi and ended up doing some studying and homework here. Spacious seating and welcoming environment. Left extremely satisfied. read more

Amazing service they're very helpful and nice when it comes to accommodating food requests:)! The vibe in their restaurant is so calm !

Urbane rocks!!! Every location I've been to has consistently delivered awesome food and amazing service!! I didn't even know they had one in this plaza until the Yelp Event, but I wish I had known while I was training for my job in the area!! I got the pesto chicken sandwich and my friend got the ahi tuna salad. Can't say enough about this place. High quality ingredients, huge portions, amazing food!! When we entered, we were greeted by Bianca!! She was incredibly nice and friendly and guided us through the process. She also checked in with us throughout our meal!! She was so sweet and I'm glad she works up in front because she's so welcoming! If you want a place to find good sandwiches and salads, stop by here! You won't regret it!! read more

My review will focus on the food, since I ordered from here for the first time this month via Uber Eats. I will say, I accidentally ordered from here since I mistook it for another place with a similar name, but I am relieved I made that mistake! I ordered the salmon bowl (picture attached), cilantro chicken, and two cookies (snickerdoodle & chocolate chip) and wow, EVERYTHING was delicious, flavorful, fresh, and cooked to perfection. Nothing was overcooked, over baked, or poorly made. I am quite happy with the meal portions given to me when ordering delivery. Some places pack smaller sized entrees or meals for take out or delivery, but this wasn't the case with Urbane Cafe. I was full and satisfied with my meal. I actually ate the salmon bowl one day, the cilantro chicken the next day, so there's plenty of food. The cookies were a great addition as a nice dessert for each meal. I've passed by the business several times and never got the chance to dine in, but I'm definitely coming here soon and will continue to order delivery as well. read more

Urbane Cafe - Salmon Bowl - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Soooooo this is my first time at this location. My wife and I were riding the Harley down the coast and headed inland to come eat here. We walk in, looked at the menu made our decision and then we waited and waited some more. No one was at the counter to take our order and there was 2 workers making food at the near by counter. No acknowledgement from them so we kept waiting. Finally someone comes from the back who looks like they could be the manager and take out order. I don't like to make a big deal but I thought it was a little weird it took so long and nothing was said to us at all until the finally came to take our order. You guys should work on that Urbane Cafe! Most places at least say "we will be right with you". Anyways let's get to the food. I ordered the Cilantro Chicken Torta - Roasted cilantro chicken, smashed avocado, corn & black bean salsa, pepper jack cheese, pickled Fresno chili's, pickled onions, chipotle aioli, with smokey tomatillo salsa on the side. The sandwich was pretty good. My wife had the Cafe Salad - Roasted Chicken, Mixed Greens, Avocado, Pears, Pecans, California Goat Cheese with Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing. The salad looked loaded and she said it was really good. So I'll roll with that. The food was good and flavorful. Not too much and not too little. You can eat here and feel good about it as a light meal with pretty much the whole menu. I consider Urbane Cafe more on the healthy side compared to restaurants I normally eat at, just my opinion. I've never had a bad sandwich or salad. The restaurant looked modern and clean in the dinning area. Now the other issue was the bathroom. Well I didn't have to use the restroom but soda runs trough my wife like a running faucet so of course she will use it and tell me all about the facilities when she gets back. That pretty much dominated the conversation during our meal which means they did not do a good job of keeping it clean and stocked up. Thanks Urbane Cafe, just what I wanted to talk about while eating my sandwich. Maybe they were short staffed and maybe not. Either way in this area I think the expectations of being cleaner were not met. It's not a dive bar or hole in the wall. To finish this review I would say I am happy with the quality and taste of the food but the service and facilities could be a little better. I will come back as I was just having a kicked back day out and not in any kind of rush. Also I'm hoping the restroom condition was just a fluke. I normally just review on the food but these other issues stood out more than the food. Like I said the food is good and they will get another shot to add a star or two!! Bad service can make great food just ok. Til next time!! read more

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food is good but my god, you spend three times as long as your whole dinner just waiting to order. and not because the line is long, their process to order just sucks. sooooo slow. read more

I was starving and had a stressful day. I didn't want to eat anything to heavy and I found my new found love Urbane Cafe. The service was impeccable and the food is delicious and healthy. read more

Urbane Cafe - Mediterranean Bowl - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

We love this place. Great sandwiches served with a healthy side salad. The service is great. They are very attentive to you. Sat outside and enjoyed the food and the day! read more

This is one of my favorite places to go for lunch! Food is always so good and the staff are so friendly. I highly recommend!!!

Hold on, I just finished their delicious white chocolate chip cookie that I took home tonight... oiy! I savored that last bite and wish I had one more bite. Hey, do you know what urbane means? I looked it up in the dictionary before I read it on their take out menu- sophisticated, polite and refined. I would definitely consider their plates to be defined this. Tonight I visited the Encinitas location. I have the lovely advantage of working across the street from the Mira Mesa location and looked forward to bringing my boyfriend for a good dinner since he was a first timer. We ordered two sandwiches, a salad, two cookies, and one soda. All for a little over $30. The Californian sandwich! Can't go wrong with artichokes and sundried tomato. The avocado gave it such creaminess to it and I actually liked the piece of lettuce there. I would order it again. Tuscan sandwich! My boyfriend preferred this one. The mixed vegetables in it fits perfectly for this bread to hold. My favorite part is the fresh mozzarella. Seasonal Quinoa & Corn salad! This is my favorite salad. I friggin love red quinoa so thank you UC for including it with the white quinoa. My boyfriend thinks if it had queso fresco instead of goat cheese, it'd make more sense with the other ingredients. I love goat cheese so I ain't complaining. Side salad! Judging on its own, you just can't be mad at well dressed greens. Whatever dressing UC uses is the best way to eat your side of greens. Plus little mandarin orange wedges on top, my fave. Drink! They have the craft soda and a really good pomegranate rosemary lemonade. Cookies! A good way to end (or begin a meal in my boyfriend's case). For a new place, I think they didn't do too bad with service. They have an app you should download too! read more

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This place is amazing ! From the staff to the food everything was great! we ordered the barbecue salad, the chicken, Bri sandwich, the steak and chimichurri sandwich, tomato bisque and kids grilled cheese! All of it delicious! read more

Urbane Cafe - BBQ Salad - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Solid food, fast and friendly service. Cookies are amazing...worth it just to stop by for one fresh out of the oven.

Wanted to give a shoutout to Urbane Cafe in Encinitas. It's next to Barnes and Noble in the Target shopping center. My husband and I had lunch there. We'd never been there before. Our sandwiches were above and beyond delicious, served on the best foccacia I've ever eaten . They came with fresh and tasty salad. Very extensive menu. Great and friendly service. Going back for sure!! Five stars for Urbane Cafe. read more

This is basically Panera but slightly better. So if you're into Panera and think it's a great place then you'll probably like it here. I had a cobb salad and a turkey club sandwich on my recent visit, and both were decent but really it just reminded me of Panera. The focaccia is the only bread option for the sandwiches which wouldn't be a big deal but it's not the best here, there's no herbaceousness to the focaccia and it's not a very fluffy bread. Wish they offered other breads because it just didn't do it for me. Salad was ok too, but again not really anything special, I just kept thinking they copied Panera but made it slightly better, and Panera sucks so glad it's at least better and not worse. read more

Very chill place with great menu options! You order your own food, and when you're finished servers come around to clean up your plates. That's what I call great service. read more

Been coming here for years, the food is always superb. Great organic ingredients, friendly staff. Try the drinks and the desserts too!

Not very good. Very little meat in sandwiches. I'm talking almost nothing. Worst BBQ tri-tip ever. read more

Urbane Cafe - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

I dropped by for a Yelp Elite event and I was not disappointed. Located in a plaza near the Forum, this new Urbane Cafe is great! There's a lot of parking. The food is fresh and healthy. The staff is friendly. I have nothing to complain about! We ordered the Turkey Brie sandwich and the SoCal sandwich. I personally liked the SoCal sandwich more but both were great. Both were lacking just a tiny bit of seasoning but were good nonetheless. You can see the staff freshly making the bread and you can taste how soft and homemade it is. The side salads are fresh and compliment the sandwich perfectly. We ordered a bowl of Baja Enchilada soup and it was so delicious! As for drinks, they have a wide selection of bottled drinks, fountain soda, and lemonades that they make. Overall, I would definitely stop by again for food and portions worth it's price. What a great experience! read more

Urbane Cafe - Turkey Brie + SoCal + Baja Enchilada Soup - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Hi Betsy and Patty were fabulous!! We love Urban Plates. Food is always fresh and fantastic. We will definitely be back again and again.

I tried the new pastrami tri-tip sandwich and it didn't disappoint, along with a cup of the tomato bisque it was just enough to fill me up.

Glad they opened this place in the large Target/Dicks Sporting Goods center. Gives you a nice healthier quick option on sandwiches, soups, salads and drinks (different flavors of lemonades). I was introduced to this place via a Yelp Elite event, and glad they made the introduction. The cookies are fresh and tasty and a nice add to round out your lunch. I enjoyed the sandwich and soup, and will need to visit again to give an updated evaluation., read more

This place was surprisingly delicious. Vast menu options and the focaccia bread is baked fresh. They had the best chocolate chip cookie I've ever had. The peanut chicken salad was really good! Will definitely be returning. read more

I enjoyed my first experience here. The set up is quick & easy. I really liked all of the available food options for an affordable price. Our food was really tasty too. It was a quick healthy alternative to fast-food options. It's also a great alternative to similar chain restaurants. Plus, their bread is bomb. read more

Urbane Cafe - The Californian Vegetarian Sandwich (drink: half black tea & half lemonade) - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

This is one of our family's favorite meeting spots. The food is always fresh and delicious. Humberto goes out of his way to make sure all your needs are met in the way of providing wonderful, delicious dishes and friendly attentive service. I also use this location for lots of my catering, and I am always pleased with the delivery and attention to detail when providing boxed lunches and spectacular service. Everyone who works at this location is friendly and helpful. the salads are top notch and The bread is beyond belief delicious, and the cookies are too. Love this spot read more

I have not felt this satisfied after a meal in a long time! All of the food felt so fresh and light, you definitely get what you paid for. I was pleasantly surprised by the side salad it was good. Both of the socal and mediterranean sandwiches were so delicious & I completely recommend. The real show stopper was the chocolate chip cookies. The entire meal was so good in fact that I bought an extra sandwich and cookies to go! So so delicious I wish one was closer to my house. Overall 5/5! read more

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Great food and great service great people too at Encinitas. We eat there several times times per week. There app should give you 10% off instead of 5%. read more

Came here for lunch on a weekday around 12:30 and it was really busy from the Yelp Event going on but there were also a good amount of people just eating there as well. I ordered the SoCal chicken sandwich and got the seasonal white chocolate lemon cookie. The SoCal sandwich is served on their Focaccia bread which is made in-house every 30mins or so. It comes with chicken breast, lettuce, pepper jack cheese, chipotle aoili, and tomatillo salsa. The sauces/spreads did have a little kick of spiciness to them, which I really enjoyed. The sandwich was pretty good, but I felt like the ratio of sauce to chicken to veggies was off though. A lot of bites were just spread and bread and there was not nearly enough lettuce so it felt more like a heavy sandwich rather than fresh. The side salad helped balance it out though. The white chocolate lemon cookie was recommended to me by the cashier and he gave it to me as soon as I was done ordering. It was piping hot and fresh! It was baked perfectly and had a good lemon zest to it. Overall, the food was pretty good and the service was excellent. All of the sandwiches sound great, but I think I would get a salad next time for a more even balance of ingredients. read more

Urbane Cafe - SoCal chicken sandwich (togo) - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

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The food is excellent and the staff here are so nice. They have the best mango tart here.

We ordered to-go lunches for a work meeting and they were fantastic. Lots of options to meet all of the different dietary restrictions from our participants. I had the Power Bowl and loved it. I wish there was a Urbane Cafe location in Colorado, I'd eat there constantly! read more

Sooo...it's late on a Monday and we (my boss and I) just finished installing furniture for a condo we just remodeled for our clients. We've already put in 13hrs and still had another 2hrs to go. Our lasts stops were food, Barnes & Noble and of course Target. We hit the jackpot with Urbane Cafe because all of the above were in the same complex! Urbane Cafe was fantastic. The food was quick healthy and flavorful. The restaurant was clean and the employees were helpful with explaining the menu as well as the favorites. Pros: -Clean tables, bathrooms and drink area -Friendly staff -Delicious food...plus plenty of options for non meat eaters! -Open later than most surrounding eateries -Ginger beer...whaaaatt!! -Side salad with sandwiches is simple but amazing!!! -Love the Interior! Cons: -Too much food? -No wine or beer Honestly I don't have anything negative to say about this place. I could eat here at least 2x a week. read more

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For a lunch spot that serves fresh and delicious options - Urbane is the spot to go! I'm obsessed with the quinoa and corn salad and the bread that comes with it - it's soooo good!! I used to work in Mira Mesa and would frequent that location for a work week lunch spot, but now I'm up in Carlsbad and the Encinitas location is the closest option. The service is friendly and look and feel of the spot is clean! Pro trip- GET A COOKIE. They are so good. Zero regrets - the chocolate chip comes warm and gooey and it melts in your mouth. Although I've never gotten a sandwich here yet, my friends have and they had great things to say. Overall, I really like Urbane for a healthier lunch or dinner option. read more

The ahi tuna salad was delicious and very generous in size. I was able to eat it for lunch and dinner. I knocked one star off because they forgot my bread that I was looking forward to after reading the reviews. read more

I had the cilantro torta and it was delicious. It comes with a salad. We had our two dogs and they have them water and bacon!! I will definitely be back!!! read more

Urbane Cafe - This was the chicken sandwich with goat cheese. - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Impressed with my sandwich! To be quite honest all of the ingredients in the sandwiches, especially the Californian(the one I ordered) seemed like the ingredients would not go well together but I was definitely wrong! This was a delicious sandwich and everyone should definitely purchase a cookie to go with their sandwich because it's soooo good- nice fresh and warm!! read more

Urbane Cafe - The Californian Vegetarian Sandwich - Sandwiches Near Me - Encinitas, California

Delicous food, friendly service, I highly reccomend it. Also, price is very reasonable.

I came into Urbane Cafe for the Yelp event (totally for to check in) and I was impressed. The sandwich I ordered was delicious!!! First, from the outside, you do not realize how big and spacious the restaurant is. It had plenty of open seating. Upon walking in, I noticed the massive menu, with so many delicious options to choose from. I also noticed the bread/focaccia making station, which assured me of how fresh my food was going to be. The lady taking my order was so kind and she helped me by giving her suggestion of what Sandwich I should get, as I was stuck between two; their seasonal Mojo Chicken and the Bahn Mi Chicken. She suggested the Mojo Chicken and the Mojo Chicken is what I ordered. While waiting for my lunch, I filled up my drink cup with half tea and half of their blueberry basil lemonade. SO GOOD!!!! When I left, I filled up on half tea, half Mango lemonade! Just as good as the blueberry basil. When I received my sandwich, I was so excited to dig in. The cheese was ooey gooey and the veggies on my sandwich were grilled to perfection. The chicken was nice and juicy and the sauces on that sandwich were AMAZING!!!! I did not eat much of the salad, as I am not an arugula fan, but my problem, not there's. I will most definitely go for a cup of soup next time, as I am a soup lover and would love to try one of their soups of the day. Luckily the sandwich came with a bag of chips that left me more than satisfied! The staff was amazing, so kind and offered up any help when needed! Overall, I had a great experience and will be back. Healthy eating, but different and fun menu all at the same time. This location is a little out of the way for me, but the Mira Mesa Urbane Cafe has my name on it! read more

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