Sandwich, salad, bowl or just sides. The food is super yummy and quality. I've ordered online and in person with the same level of service. The ambiance is casual, but not too loud or crowded with indoor and outdoor seating. read more

Love the ambiance of the place. I'm a booth girl and they had plenty of seating options. The feel of being served but ease of picking your own seat. Looks like they have a cool ToGo area. Daniel B was really helpful in placing our order and understanding the menu options. read more

I first discovered Urbane Cafe in Ventura like, 15 years ago and fell in love with the Bella Portobello sandwich back then. So I was thrilled to discover an Urbane Cafe in Pasadena and have been there multiple times when I've wanted a healthy meal. The breads are always amazing. The last time we were there (this past weekend), there was a problem with our order, and the general manager, Rigo, handled it beyond expectations. He not only comped our meal, but also offered us some cookies on the house (the cookies are amazing), and two vouchers for entrees for our next visit. Along with sincere apologies. Beyond expectations, and it was great to see a manager take responsibility for a mishap that happened, even if it wasn't personally his fault, nor (did it seem) was it the fault of anyone at the cafe. Because of Rigo's actions, Urbane Cafe will NOT be losing us as customers. read more

The salmon bowl is AMAZING. I've been eating it for a week straight and everyone is so kind to me!! Em is great and the whole staff is genuinely so sweet. I come on my lunch break and my food never takes too long. It's generally pretty nutritious! And my bowl comes with yummy bread :) read more

Excellent food and service. Everyone was friendly. The mango tart was incredible. Natalie who attended us was very helpful. read more

Great food, great service. Natalie was an awesome hostess. I will definitely be back again. Beautiful ambiance.

If you're on Lake Avenue, you know that you're surrounded by a variety of different dining options. If you're looking for a delicious and healthy sandwich shop with fluffy focaccia bread then look no further! Their menu is fairly simple since their focus is mainly on sandwiches, salads, and some soups. Urbane Cafe has a large selection of chicken sandwiches, but they also carry some turkey, seafood and beef as well. I tried a few of their chicken sandwiches and found all of them to be quite tasty. Some of my faves are the Pesto and Sun-dried tomato, and SoCal. If you miss thanksgiving I recommend the Cranberry Brie. Don't sleep on their steak options either, I prefer the Chimmichuri Steak over the BBQ! Just cause I don't usually like BBQ in my sandwiches. I love that each sandwich comes with a side of salad, so that I feel even more healthy! I'll be back for some of their soup as well, it was really tasty. Definitely worth a visit if you haven't tried yet! read more

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So good we went twice in one weekend. I got the club sandwich and tomato bisque both times; hands down best tomato bisque I've had in a VERY long time!!! Fiancé got the Santa Maria sandwich and chicken poblano soup first time, pesto and sun dried tomato sandwich and chicken poblano soup second time. Poblano soup was so yummy!! Great balance of flavors. All of our sandwiches tasted great and fresh!!! Number 1 advice l: treat yourself to one of their warm cookies. You will not regret it! read more

Visitation Rights: Probably been at this location a handful of times. Believe it or not, my first experience was when yelp pasadena had a yelp elite perk couple years back. Parking: Free parking for 90 minutes in the lot in the back. If you want free 2hr parking, Park along Shoppers Ln. Ambiance/Decor: Ambiance is nice with modern furnishing. Due to covid, there is a limited amount of seats outside to eat. Service: Service is good. Staffers were friendly and informational about their items on the menu. On my last visit a staffer didn't question me when I showed him that the lettuce in my sandwhich didn't look fresh... so they made me a new one. Food Of Choice: Can't go wrong with my usual suspects that I rotate when I eat here. Plus, the freshly made focacia bread that they use for their sandwiches are so soft, warm, and delicious! Sandwiches (Each sandwich comes with a side salad): 1) So Cal: Consists of roasted chicken, avocado, pepper jack cheese, green leaf lettuce, tomatillo salsa, chipotle aioli.. So good... So yum... 2) Pesto & Sundried Tomato: Consists of Pesto & Sundried Tomato: Consists of marinated pesto chicken, sundried tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, arugula, pesto aioli . So good! So yum! So Fresh! 3) Club Sandwich: roasted turkey, Applewood-smoked bacon, avocado, cheddar cheese, sliced tomato, green leaf lettuce, herb aioli. So good! So yum! 4) Tuna Salad: tuna salad, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, pickled onions, green leaf lettuce. Served with Urbane Side Salad. So good! So yum! Salads (Salads come with focacia bread): 1) Cilantro Chicken: Marinated cilantro chicken, chopped Urbane green leaf mix, avocado, corn & black bean salsa, mozzarella cheese, served with cilantro vinaigrette dressing. Yes please! So good and so yum 2) Urbane Cobb: Roasted chicken, mixed greens, Applewood-smoked bacon, avocado, cheddar & gorgonzola cheeses, mushrooms, grape tomatoes, with buttermilk blue cheese dressing. So good and yum! Drinks: They offer artisan sodas, but I usually enjoy their handcrafted lemonades (mango or watermelon mint). So refreshing! Dessert: Try them cookies! So good and sooooo yum! Make sure you wash it down with some liquids. Can be sweet. read more

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Best sandwiches around and not your traditional sandwiches on freshly backed bread. I highly recommend the UC Banh Mi. So good.

Service was great! Natalie was great. I ordered the salmon Caesar salad and it was refreshing.

This place is like a wayyyyy better Panera with delicious sandwiches and salads. Also a lot of veggie options and customization in the app. This will become a fairly regular place for us after recent visits. The tofu banh mi is awesome and the salads have so much great tasting and healthy stuff in them. The Japanese chili dressing should be bottled! Definitely try this spot out. read more

My friend and I stopped here for lunch one day and it was delicious! I got their vegetarian bella portobello sandwich and it was delicious. The service was great and our sandwich came out really quickly. Parking is free for the first 90 minutes in their lot and there are a ton of spaces since they share the lot with other businesses. If you're ever in the are I would recommend coming here! read more

Urbane Cafe was one of the pioneers in the farm to table restaurant concept. Not to be confused with Urth Cafe, this healthy eat sandwich and salad restaurant has a unique menus catering to farm to table freshness. It doesn't serve coffee but fountain drinks. In 2003, Tim Holt opened its first sandwich shop in Ventura and then expanded to multi-locations. It's menu is very similar to Mendocino Farm that's few steps away on Lake. It makes its bread on site fresh. So all the sandwiches are made using the freshly out of oven bread. Cranberry Brie turkey sandwich seemed to the winner here. My wife and a couple of friends ordered that today when we had lunch there after church. The combination of cranberry and Brie seemed to please many People's eating palates. It's the most popular items on the menu. I wanted to compared their Banh Mi to Mendocino Farm's. So I got a chicken Banh Mi. I felt that the Banh Mi at Mendocino was tastier with more depth in flavor. My other friend got the Mediterranean salad bowl with chicken. It looked healthy and yummy. Maybe I will try that next time. For fast and casual dinning, this is a popular restaurant to try out. read more

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Solid 4 stars for the food 2 stars for the service. Parking is free on the street after 8pm. Was hoping for better with the 4.5 star reviews, I normally enjoy Cava and Mendocino next door, decided to try out Urbane Cafe. I had the Salmon bowl, asked for light dressing and the dressing was still bit much, if I ever come back I would ask to put on the side. I ordered the Mediterranean Bowl with added chicken for my friend, the problem here is the cashier didn't add the chicken to the order. After we received the food, we asked her about the missing chicken and looked at the receipt, she didn't put it in order and I had to go up to the cashier to ring up for the add on chicken again. My friend and I were sure that we asked for the added meat on top of the bowl, if I made a mistake as a cashier I wouldn't ask the customer to pay for it. Also the cashier wasn't too helpful when I was asking for recommendations, she wasn't able to tell me the different between each item, can doesn't seem to know whats popular in the store. Sub par overall experience with the cashier, but the food bowl itself was good. Most likely won't be coming back due to other options in the area. read more

I'm a big proponent of supporting smaller businesses during these unprecedented times, so I've ordered from Urbane Cafe twice already. It also helps that delivery fees on Postmates is $0. I've tried only the salads here, but had really good experiences - Healthy, tasty, and decently portioned. The Ahi is very refreshing with the Japanese chili dressing and largely diced tuna cubes (more so than your typical poke joint). Since it's such a large piece of fish, I definitely appreciate the freshness of the tuna! Cobb salad, on the other hand, is pretty standard, so nothing much to write. Complimentary focaccia bread is definitely another major highlight - super soft and pillowy. Overall, I'd say Urbane Cafe is a pretty solid fast casual restaurant that's great for ordering takeout. read more

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Healthy and affordable option on Lake Ave. My first time here and the menu is front and center which is really nice and allows those in line to pick out their meal. Good customer service too. I ordered the UC Banh Mi, I was surprised it came with a side salad, the sandwich is well built and presented nicely. read more

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First time going here! This places looked awesome, ordered the southwest sandwich and the employee em was such an incredible person. The place was nice and clean from the inside. Em was very sweet and talkative. Great costumer service, the sandwich tasted awesome even though I'm a picky person. Would 100% recommend coming again! read more

Great place! great customer service! Great food!! Em was amazing recommend this place

I always found the staff friendly and accommodating. Good service. Salads are very fresh.

Mediterranean bowl with bread is delicious! All of the veggies are fabulous taste and texture, from kale to roasted squash, pickled onions, crisp cucumber and sliced small tomatoes. On top of mixed grains and accompanied by red pepper puree and lemon wedge, this is a great meal that is filling without being heavy. The worker who took and delivered my order was cheerful and efficient, and the space looked and smelled great. Sorry no pic, I was too hungry to pause. Final note: dragonfruit fresca is nicely sweet without being cloying. All together, 10 out of 10. read more

This place is excellent. Undefeated price point, great portions, and incredible healthy food. It's going to be a weekly visit for me. The Pesto Chicken Sandwich was sooo good. Love that their small salad isn't just leaves. It had oranges in there too. read more

Food was decent at a decent price. Mac n cheese was flavorful. Mash potatoes were good. Chicken was a little dry. Overall ok

I was waiting in line for Randy's Donuts grand opening. It was very hot outside. The nice lady (I think she is a manager?) handed out ice cold drinks for everyone in line! She was also very friendly to a lady on a wheelchair in front of me. I have not tried this place yet, but I will definitely stop by next time! read more

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Great sandwich spot in a great location on Lake. Got the tri tip pastrami and the ahi panini. Both were great. Love their focaccia and dipping sauces. Place is very clean and modern on the inside. My only complaint is they have these compostable forks but I've always had issues with them handling the salad. They just don't pierce the leaves well. read more

Healthy sandwiches. Uses focaccia bread. Has a variety of sandwiches with lean meat and ingredients full of nutrition. Good to stop by for a quick eat. When I went, staff was super friendly. ..... THE CALIFORNIAN: 3/5 the sandwich overall is a bit dry and bland - I think if they spiced up the focaccia bread with rosemary or garlic butter or even by toasting it, it would improve the sandwich a lot read more

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OMG - first experience today and I can't wait to go back! I wanted a good salad, so I joined my coworkers here for some takeout lunch today. I was really impressed with their variety of salads. They weren't horribly priced, either. For this area of town, I expected $13-15/each, but they ranged from $9-12. I tried the seared ahi salad. The fish was seared to perfection. I just returned from my honeymoon in Cancun last week so the fresh fish really took me back to Cancun for a second lol. The asian dressing was SO good! What I think made it interesting was what appeared to be soaked sesame seeds inside the dressing. Normally, I don't like those much as a topping because they're weird to digest. However, after being soaked in the dressing, they expanded and were squishy and really added a nice touch to the dressing. I also really enjoyed the bread with my salad. My fav part of the day was the cookie. My coworker surprised me with one and OH.MY.GAWWD! We had the cranberry white chocolate chunk something or other and WOW. It was so gooey and warm and amazing! One of the chocolate chunks was literally almost half the size of the cookie. Can't wait to go back to this place and try more of their salads! read more

Update 10/15: I tried the special pastrami sand. Not good at all. I'd definitely not have it again. The slaw was on the sweet side, with cilantro in it. I like cilantro slaw, but not paired with pastrami. Good for a banh mi, but not for this. If the pickles had been dill, that would have helped. But they were sweet too. So this pastrami sand was sweet on sweet from the slaw and pickles. And they also served it with a sweet mustard sauce!! Not at all good. Pastrami goes best with tart, vinegary complements not all sweet stuff. And the bread has a bit of sweetness too and a biscuity texture. Probably the worst pastrami sand I've ever had. Seriously. I guess the same people who think having only "focaccio" as a bread option also think a pastrami sand should be paired with sweet slaw, sweet mustard and sweet pickles. I don't und how this place continues to be in the 4-star range. I guess people like sweet. I've tried 4 items here and I only liked one, the chimichurri steak sand. The thoughtful management at Urbane sent me a freebie after I posted my last review. I used it today. Got the Chimichurri steak sandwich. It was very good! The focaccio worked pretty well with that sandwich. Mainly though, I liked the combination of ingredients with the "steak"--sliced roast beef. I'd still rather have it on an Italian/French sandwich roll. Their focaccio is too biscuit textured for me. Not like any focaccio I've ever had. But I'd have this steak sandwich again and I may try their special pastrami sandwich next time I'm on Lake. read more

Honestly, the quality of food options around Azusa minus the tacos are sub-par and overpriced. So it's nice to have a healthier option here. Good salad. Wished for a little more meat portion though. I hope they keep up with the good customer service and good quality of food. You know how it is in the beginning. Everything's superb in the beginning because they're trying to attract business. Only time will tell, but for now, it's a good review from me. Funny quirk, the plastic containers for take out are very slippery. (: read more

Atmosphere Casual, hipster, seating similar to starbucks. Service Personable, patient with our newness and unfamiliarity with menu, friendly and attentive. Food Fantastic-special citrus salad of the day-super delish-I has the chicken which was flavorful and roasted just right-not fatty. My friend had the salmon and was very happy. Selection of crafted sodas and a variety of lemonade and iced tea. The mango lemonade was great-very flavorful. Parking Free in back!! Summary Outstanding food, service, location! read more

The staff was very friendly and went above and beyond to help us decide what we wanted to try. We were headed to urban plates, but ran across this restaurant before we reached our intended destination. We decided to try this restaurant out because it was significantly cheaper. They serve warm cookies and the soups stole the show! I would revisit this location. read more

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Wanted a lighter lunch before our date-night dinner. Ahi and Power Salads did not disappoint. Delicious dressing, a nice amount of ahi at this price point, and the bread was great. Will be back. read more

Yesterday I was hit with the worst food poisoning I've ever had in my life. I had the salmon bowl at noon and six hours later I was praying to God for mercy. I will never eat here again. read more

Great food and service. Ashley was so helpful, she was so accomodating and very easy to talk too. Will definitely cone back

Amazing service from De Kayla, David and Javier. It was our first time here and we enjoyed our lunch! All five of us! Food was delicious. Thank you we are having dessert! read more

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To be honest i really love this place. The gf and I decided to stop by for a quick bite to eat. You really cant go wrong with a great sandwich and a salad. They have a pretty great menu! My go to is the Santa Maria bbq chicken sandwich. The Gf got the cilantro chicken salad. Our food came out quick! Good cause i was starving! I love the side salad my sandwich comes with. Idk what vinaigrette they use but it has this nice citrus taste to it. I cant forget the bread! So soft and fluffy. This is the GO TO sandwich place for me! read more

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Natalie was such a pleasure and was very helpful and had great customer service and made the experience a five star.

Great food!!! Great service!!! Ashley took such great care of us and the wine was on point!!!

This place has good sandwhiches, better than Mendocino a couple doors down. I came here on accident the first time because I was trying to get to Panda Express (they are next to each other, and I think Panda part owns Urbane). I've had good experiences here and will continue coming back! read more

Amazing food. First time here and Natalie walked us through and was very helpful. Great customer service from her!!!