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Crossroads Cafe At USF
Category: Restaurants Sandwiches Sandwiches [Edit]
2130 Fulton StSan Francisco, CA 94118
Neighborhood: Western Addition/NOPA
(415) 422-3006
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Late Night, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
14 reviews for Crossroads Cafe At USF
14 reviews in English
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Review from Lauren L.
San Francisco, CA
8/29/2009
EDIT: Friends finally complained about the blandness of the pasta. Downgrade from 4 stars to 3 stars; still mostly about the ambiance and convenience!
The ambiance accounts for my high rating. The only thing I've had hear, food-wise are a churro and a Fuze drink. The churro was average. My friends have had the pizza and pasta and none have complained so at the very least, the food must be average.
It's a nice chill lounge for the students to chill, eat and be merry. Apart from pizza, pasta and salad, they also have coffee, ice cream, pastries and deli sandwiches as well. It's all really not that bad! Though I wish they had at least a little organic/vegetarian/vegan food. -
Review from Tina C.
4/6/2009
I eat here because it's convenient. The food itself is okay, but the prices are ridiculous and not worth it for what you are paying for and there are plenty of good food places near and around campus.
Inside Crossroad Cafe:
Pasta Section: They usually rotate about 3-4 different types of pastas. The sauce is fairly good, but the pasta is nearly 6 bucks for the size of a small (Asian size) bowl. That's pasta without meat too. Sometimes they can be quite stingy about it as well and only scoop half the metal container full despite the enormous prices for a small bowl of pasta. I have to say it is fresh though and the tomato sauce is good.
Asian/Global Section: I give it to them for trying to be international, but sometimes the food isn't that great there. I've had the Indian once and the naan was a bit hard. The chicken was a bit hard and the flavoring was off.
Ice Cream: Overpriced, but contains Ben and Jerry and some Popsicle along with chocolate bars. A decent selection and I love Ben and Jerry's cherry garcia ice cream.
Salad/Dessert Bar (fridge and adjacent counter): I've had the tuna and egg sandwiches from here. Not great, but it's all right. The sushi in the "salad" bar section was okay, but then again you can't mess up a California Roll at least not really. Since it's in the fridge, it feels a bit frozen though. The dessert such as the cheesecake isn't too sweet. I like it.
Coffee Bar: It is known for organic fair trade coffee so I'd give the cafe a + plus here for trying to be globally conscious. The coffee isn't bad and it always makes me wired enough to stay awake for rest of the evening. Fair warning that the lids and cup holders sometimes run out and are located adjacent (not next or on the coffee counter), but on a metal cart near it. The milk and cream are also on a separate counter.
Utensils: I think the utensils at this school deserve a 4 star because everything is recyclable and made with corn. It's "green" and good for the environment. Props for that one.
Operating Hours: Closes way too early. Cmon' 8pm?!#!
Seating Area: Ample space. Tons of space and tables. Good for group meeting if necessary, but maybe a bit too loud.
Pricing: Overpriced and food is just mediocre. Also, they charge $ tax if you pay with credit card, but they don't charge the extra $ if you put money in your Dons card and charge it to that. Little things like that can add up. Also, if you plan on eating in cafeteria, might as well not use a takeout box because they will charge you for that versus if you just got a bowl from them. -
Review from Samantha F.
San Francisco, CA
4/15/2007
Crossroads Cafe at USF is supposed to be an alternative eating area to the Bon Appetit cafeteria, as well as a study area. In my last year at USF, I probably studied here once and grabbed bottled water a few times in passing. They remodeled it and perhaps I'm a purist when it comes to USF and I'm a little bitter that in my last year everything seemed to change a bit.
Basically it's the same food as the cafeteria, just a smaller selection, and there's a big screen tv. -
Review from John M.
San Francisco, CA
4/17/2011 1 Check-in Here
The students who work here are great and you can get a decent coffee but that's about it
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Review from Suan W.
Silicon Valley
11/1/2007
Forget about picking up a quick coffee during the few spare minutes between back-to-back classes. It takes them about 10 minutes to make an espresso drink when you're the only person waiting. Once I waited for 15 minutes just for an Americano, which merely consists of espresso shots and water.
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Review from Teresa G.
San Francisco, CA
9/25/2010
Food and drinks are pretty expensive. Expect to pay about $6 or $7 for a sandwich, and + $3 for a coffee drink. If you do decide to get something, try the Kaluha. It's basically ice coffee poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yummy!
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Review from Jordan S.
San Francisco, CA
4/14/2008
The everything tastes bad, and the workers can't take a coffee order to save their respective lives. The only upside is that you or your friends who go to USF can spend Flexi on chasers.
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Review from Nichole H.
Portland, OR
10/7/2009
I swear the pizza is made with spaghetti sauce, GROSS, the coffee bar sucks, the pasta is usually ok. Really the salad is the only thing worth eating but only if you like to live dangerously and take your chances with e coli. I worked at Jamba juice (the one in USF) and from the things I saw there I can only imagine what disgusting atrocities are occurring at Crossroads.
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Review from Jason B.
3/30/2009
Some good (a massive amount of granola) was offset by some bad (no turkey for sandwiches). Sticking with a three average till they get some turkey back in. Still wondering how you can run out of turkey.
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Review from Jenn F.
San Francisco, CA
10/26/2007
Gah. I can't wait to get off campus so I won't have to eat this cardboard anymore.
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Review from brian b.
San Francisco, CA
12/5/2008
Crossroads is pretty bad, for the price. I can't remember how much pizza costs, it's probably more expensive than it was when I was a freshman and sophomore- definitely not worth it. The worst thing is that everything is so hit or miss. Pizza is good, decent, or bad depending on who makes it (whatup austin- your pizza is good), though it is rarely good. Sandwiches are the same. Making a good sandwich requires focus and care, something which few crossroads employees have. They usually just slop some mustard and mayo on there, put the veggies on lopsided, etc, and stuff is falling out all over the place. Try not to support the evil Bon Appetit if at all possible.
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Review from Hunter P.
San Francisco, CA
12/7/2008
Yelp defines "2 stars" as "Meh. I've experienced better.
Question: Has anyone experienced better? Better pizza, pasta, or how about better coffee?
Sadly, yes, yes and Yes!
While I refuse to spend my money on anything on the pasta side, and only on coffee in desperate times ie no time to go to starbucks, Crossroads does have great sandwiches!
So, no complaints on the sandwiches, they are actually quite good, except when the service is painfully slow (sometimes), when they are out of avocado (most of the time) and when the employee mistakes cheddar for american cheese (only once, thank god!).
check out the review in The Foghorn (very funny):
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Review from Thia B.
San Francisco, CA
6/8/2007
USF tries to go hip with Crossroads Cafe. Which actually means loud music, expensive food, and long lines. It would be interesting to see if any of the admin mucky mucks own stock in Bon Appetit! Must've gotten a big signing bonus...
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Review from Natalie M.
San Francisco, CA
1/30/2009
get the calzones! they are the only good thing because you can choose what goes in it (rather than falling prey to the employees' whims about what tastes good on pizza.) plus, as it has been stated before, the pizza tastes like cardboard. the sandwiches are worse than the ones upstairs because the student workers down here are even more incompetent than the people working in the caf. it was only worth it to come here when i had a meal plan and lived on campus. the attractive part about it was that it was open later than anything else on campus and was perfect for late-night munchies or hoarding sodas and cranberry juice for mixers. now when i actually pay for campus food i feel like i'm being robbed due to the outrageous prices.
