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Z-Cafe

4.7 (334 reviews)
Closed • 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago

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Casual
Moderate noise
Good for groups
Good for kids

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1/2 Sandwich and Salad Lunch (Sourdough bread, turkey, hummus, peppers & more with Mediterranean Salad)
Stephanie K.

It's been quite awhile since I've visited or ordered from Z Cafe, and I'm so sorry for this! Now after ordering a quick lunch today, I am reminded of why I have loved it here so much for so many years!!! The food is amazing and fresh and the service is always spot on! My 1/2 sandwich and Mediterranean salad today was just perfection and more than enough to fuel me up this afternoon - all for a reasonable price too. I'll be sure to stop by soon with a friend or two to share my gratitude and show some support to this local family owned biz for their wonderful service and delicious meal I had today!

Mark A.

Derrick and I both had the Irwin double bacon cheese tater's if you want for fruit I have the Erwin with double bacon but I had a sausage the omelette is like today meat taco nothing is mixed in with the egg fruit was delicious. Coffee is good trip. I'll be back.

Very Berry Smoothie

This place is great! My first time here the turkey and bacon sandwich was delicious i really recommend it. Good ambience will definitely come back. The service was excellent. The smoothies are delicious

The bloom sandwich
Troy F.

This place is great! I live in Glendale but work in the area from time to time and come here any time I have a chance. I always go for the sandwiches, specifically the chicken bacon ranch (cold menu) or the Dylan (hot sandwich) with the bow tie pasta! If you're in the area I highly recommended their sandwiches!

Inside, coffee was Folgers.
GLENN F.

Enjoyed eating breakfast here this morning. They were the only ones around here open at 7am. Workers greeted us with a smile. Had the omelet with mushroom bacon and spinach. The egg was fluffy and soft. But wish had less bacon and more mushrooms and spinach. The bacon, mushrooms and spinach were all made earlier and kept warm. However it came with toast which was nice. I'd come back and eat here again.

Dylan Sandwich w/potato salad

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Friendly. Great sandwiches! The potato salad is FANTASTIC!!!!! A must try! Lots of options to choose from.

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The sandwiches are always delicious. The gluten free options are also tasty. Everyone I've brought here loves it.

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3 months ago

Great food, staff and prices. Highly recommend! Love their egg scrambles and breakfast burritos

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2 years ago

This place is so good. A bit pricey, however worth it. Good to support small local businesses. Highly recommend.

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4 years ago

I had that amazing breakfast potato burrito for just under $8 back in Aug, 2016. This restaurant was suggested by the locals.

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2 years ago

I loVe ZCafe! Even thought it's not on the menu any longer, the Vanessa wrap is DELICIOUS! I still get it every time!

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2 years ago

You have to try the "Dylan" hot sandwich!! The quality of the meat, the green peppers, the bread, and the sauce are absolutely perfect!

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I was killing time in Chandler when lunch time approached and getting a sandwich was on my brain…read more Thanks to the Yelp app, I was able to find Retro's Subs & Brews and it seemed like the perfect spot to cure my itch. I was super stoked to check a place with "retro" in the name out, and I gotta be honest here, I left with pretty mixed emotions about a lot of things. The restaurant itself is pretty boring inside, mostly just being black with a few small pictures hanging up. I was kind of expecting big retro movie posters or something hanging around, but I definitely didn't get much of a retro vibe from this place minus a small neon "bar" sign and a claw machine in the corner. The menus were very cool, right by the front door its a record shelf and the records were the menus, so thumbs up for that idea. I thought i was mistaken, but I don't remember seeing sandwich prices on the actual menu, but as I look at other photos on yelp it does appear that the sandwiches don't have prices attached to them, which explains why I was thrown off by the end price. I settled on ordering the "take on me" which was black forest ham, roasted turkey, hickory smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayo on a Hawaiian style roll. I also ordered a sprite and a chocolate chip cookie as a side. The chocolate chip cookie was okay, pretty standard cookie though definitely not worth $3.75. The sprite was $2.99, and the sandwich came to $15.58. I was also charged $0.96 for something called the advantage program which I have no idea what that is. I gotta say, spending over $25 on a sandwich, a small cookie, and a drink is not something I would care to do at a place like this. The sandwich itself was very good, I won't deny that. The meat tasted fresh, and when it was all together it was definitely a good sandwich, but when there's not combo option and a basic sandwich, cookie, and drink ends up being $25 it's gonna be a no from me on returning in the future. Overall, I really wanted to love this place for the name, but the lack of much decorations and prices left something to be desired. The food itself was good, but not worth what was spent.

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Although Don Guerra's namesake would imply they specialize in bagels, I would say they excel in…read moretheir bread making rather than their bagels and breakfast sandwiches. My partner and I got a few different breads to try out: half a dozen bagels, two different sandwiches on different breads, and their bread samples they had out. I was incredibly impressed with the bread quality overall. I can see why many of the customers before us only came in to buy loaves of bread for the week. As for the bagels, I'm incredibly picky coming from the northeast. The everything bagel is pretty sparse with toppings and what toppings it did have was mostly just poppy seeds. There was such a teeny tiny amount of garlic and onion! The actual quality of the bagel was good, but I'm a little sad about the topping situation. Not only that, there was a very hard pebble or grain bit (?) in my bagel. I'm not sure if it was in the bagel itself or somehow mixed into the topping, but it did not seem edible as it couldn't break down at all. I hope this was just a one time mistake! As for the sandwiches, the breakfast panini's best part was actually their focaccia. The rest of the sandwich components were okay. The beef slider is much smaller than the focaccia slices, the steamed egg easily falls out, and the chipotle aioli gets lost amongst the other components. I probably wouldn't get the panini again, but would happily buy the focaccia only. The Italian sandwich was a bit better. We got it on the torta roll, which was also very good. It's hard to go wrong with a classic italian sandwich. It does get a bit salty with all of the components combined, but could be offset with the combo with a drink. The samples they had out the day we visited were of two different sourdough breads. This was some good sourdough! It was very pleasantly tangy, but not too much. There was also a very good crumb and crust. The building is designed to be more of a fast casual and pickup kind of spot. There's shaded seating outdoors where you can also wait while your order is getting ready. They also offer online ordering and drive thru pickup. Although I wasn't as wowed by their bagels and breakfast offerings, the actual quality of their bread was so good that I would solely recommend their breads alone.

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