Forbes Family Cafe

Cozy little place with great vegetarian options and delicious Indian food

Beef pho is decent and quick.

Tasty pho skimpy serving size

I love the chicken laksa they serve for lunch. They get quite busy for lunch, but they're still quick to get you your food. Use self-check out if the line at the counter is long

I like the little hot bar, which usually has some vegan food on it. The flavors are fairly solid for food prepared at volume.

Yanbo Shu

Tasty pho skimpy serving size

Randall Holmes

Beef pho is decent and quick.

Rayan Braidi

Cozy little place with great vegetarian options and delicious Indian food

Eric Copenhaver

I like the little hot bar, which usually has some vegan food on it. The flavors are fairly solid for food prepared at volume.

Ujjwal Dalmia

I love the chicken laksa they serve for lunch. They get quite busy for lunch, but they're still quick to get you your food. Use self-check out if the line at the counter is long

The food selection is good, but like many Stanford-run cafes, the price to food ratio is bad. For example, the self-serve bar costs $11 for a reasonable quantity of food (if you're an active person). They sell things like Blue Bottle at a 20-30% markup. Long line.

Although there tends to be long lines and a lot of people, the food is not the best. The restaurant is open for a very short time every day and there is not always a table available to eat the food. The trash cans are frequently full so trash is always spilling onto the floor. However, there are several options and snacks to choose from. The employees seem nice, but tend to be always busy. Nonetheless, it is a nice place to eat at since it is right next to the Engineering Quad

Andrew Hilger

The food selection is good, but like many Stanford-run cafes, the price to food ratio is bad. For example, the self-serve bar costs $11 for a reasonable quantity of food (if you're an active person). They sell things like Blue Bottle at a 20-30% markup. Long line.

Jorge Avelar-Lopez

Although there tends to be long lines and a lot of people, the food is not the best. The restaurant is open for a very short time every day and there is not always a table available to eat the food. The trash cans are frequently full so trash is always spilling onto the floor. However, there are several options and snacks to choose from. The employees seem nice, but tend to be always busy. Nonetheless, it is a nice place to eat at since it is right next to the Engineering Quad

This place opens for 3 hours at lunchtime, and offers at most 4 dishes. I cannot understand how they can mess up an order so often. You cannot rely that they will have the items on the menu, even if you order in advance. Be prepared to ask for a refund and look for lunch somewhere else if you get unlucky. The food is fine, but it's not extraordinary, and so it matches the prices, which are ok but not fantastic.

Convenience for the location, but the food quality has dropped greatly in just the last month. Also, drink prices can be really expensive as well. The pastries, bagels, muffins, etc. are prepackaged unlike their direct competitor across the way from them.

João Guilherme Viana

This place opens for 3 hours at lunchtime, and offers at most 4 dishes. I cannot understand how they can mess up an order so often. You cannot rely that they will have the items on the menu, even if you order in advance. Be prepared to ask for a refund and look for lunch somewhere else if you get unlucky. The food is fine, but it's not extraordinary, and so it matches the prices, which are ok but not fantastic.

Dennis Bithoulkas

Convenience for the location, but the food quality has dropped greatly in just the last month. Also, drink prices can be really expensive as well. The pastries, bagels, muffins, etc. are prepackaged unlike their direct competitor across the way from them.

Not sure what changes have happened recently, but a reasonable quick serve wait time has turned into 30+ minute waits. When I’m trying to order food before class, the lengthy unpredictable wait time causes a major inconvenience :(

Honestly I can't give this place a low enough rating. Overpriced mediocre food that takes forever to receive, long lines. Choices are an expensive pay-by-weight buffet or soups and sandwiches. My bowl of tofu pho took 15 minutes to receive, and they also ran out of tofu but did not inform me until after I had ordered and paid. Consistently leaves me hungry and disappointed. Stanford, please get rid of this place and put in something better that can more effectively serve the lunch needs of this area!

The prices are ridiculously high considering that their main customers are students. For example, what would normally be a $2 Odwalla protein shake cost ~$6 here. Also, I order a vegan tofu pho and it appeared to have meat bits in the bottom. I have always been unhappy with this establishment, and I eagerly await a different vendor to replace it.

Food not bad. But staff is rude and insulting. Got there at 11 when they open. I need to eat and be done before 1130 to get back to work. I grabbed a refill on my soda on the way out and no matter what I said this rude lady, she insisted I was not a paying customer and stole a soda lol. Like lady If being rude and insulting is your thing. I probably make in a days work close to your best week. I don’t need to steal your 1.50 fountain soda.

Food price going up as fast as NVDA stock

Raised their prices and consistently running out of Pho before noon!

JC

Food price going up as fast as NVDA stock

Naoki Harper

Not sure what changes have happened recently, but a reasonable quick serve wait time has turned into 30+ minute waits. When I’m trying to order food before class, the lengthy unpredictable wait time causes a major inconvenience :(

Adri

Raised their prices and consistently running out of Pho before noon!

Kevin Pidcock

Food not bad. But staff is rude and insulting. Got there at 11 when they open. I need to eat and be done before 1130 to get back to work. I grabbed a refill on my soda on the way out and no matter what I said this rude lady, she insisted I was not a paying customer and stole a soda lol. Like lady If being rude and insulting is your thing. I probably make in a days work close to your best week. I don’t need to steal your 1.50 fountain soda.

Julia Wagenfehr

The prices are ridiculously high considering that their main customers are students. For example, what would normally be a $2 Odwalla protein shake cost ~$6 here. Also, I order a vegan tofu pho and it appeared to have meat bits in the bottom. I have always been unhappy with this establishment, and I eagerly await a different vendor to replace it.

Sarah

Honestly I can't give this place a low enough rating. Overpriced mediocre food that takes forever to receive, long lines. Choices are an expensive pay-by-weight buffet or soups and sandwiches. My bowl of tofu pho took 15 minutes to receive, and they also ran out of tofu but did not inform me until after I had ordered and paid. Consistently leaves me hungry and disappointed. Stanford, please get rid of this place and put in something better that can more effectively serve the lunch needs of this area!