The Point Cafe
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About The Point Cafe
The Point Cafe in Schenectady offers a warm and welcoming atmosphere where you can enjoy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Known for its friendly and attentive service, the cafe provides a comfortable experience for everyone, with full wheelchair accessibility. Patrons rave about the diverse menu, especi...
The Point Cafe in Schenectady offers a warm and welcoming atmosphere where you can enjoy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Known for its friendly and attentive service, the cafe provides a comfortable experience for everyone, with full wheelchair accessibility. Patrons rave about the diverse menu, especially the delicious breakfast burritos and satisfying Tex-Mex options. The team is happy to accommodate requests and substitutions, ensuring a personalized dining experience. Whether you're dining solo, grabbing takeout, or having your meal delivered, The Point Cafe aims to provide quality food at reasonable prices.
What Customers Say About The Point Cafe
The Point Cafe is a beloved local diner known for its excellent service, friendly staff (like Sandy), and diverse menu with generous portions. Customers rave about the Mexican food, breakfast burritos, and the ability to customize orders. Be prepared for a potential wait.
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The Point Cafe Schenectady Reviews
Awesome food and comfortable atmosphere. Staff is very friendly and my wife and I both leave full for under $25 with tip.
Been going here since I was little with my parents and grandmother love it always great food and service
food was excellent and fairly priced, service was pretty good, they were polite and everything was brought to the table as ordered...they could have used one more person to speed up requests though
I ordered the Tex Mex burrito for breakfast and the Broccoli Alfredo Chicken and I'm a truck driver so it was delivered to pilot and everything was hot and fresh hands down best food I've ordered in the New York area hat's off to your cooks!! I felt like was at home!!!!
very good food, above and beyond service, will do substitutes for basically any combo. cheap prices in today’s economy, and also very filling. its a cozy diner but also a bit of a long wait. it’s extremely worth it though. i had the stack and I substituted the meat for hash browns and had chocolate chip pancakes for no extra cost. 10/10
I honestly heard a lot of people mention this place. I have not tried it yet. I can say several things about the staff though: I do door dash and Everytime I go there it just shows that they love their job. From all of the girls in the front to guys in the kitchen: Great staff!!!! I will definitely be going there soon for breakfast. Keep up the great work guys!!!!
I have been coming here for years and never have an issue. And it’s about the only place you can get decent Mexican food. Believe me after having Mexican food in Texas you will be very picky about your Mexican food. I have gone to so many other places and they suck. Point Café is the best!
Most excellent food and service. I came in for lunch, this was my first time. I was taken to a socially distanced table that was clean and had plenty of space to eat. The menu had plenty of options and contained both sandwiches and dinner plates. I chose the enchilada plate with beans and rice. It was fantastic with more than I could eat in one setting. I was offered a to-go container and it was just as good for dinner. I would like to thank the owner and her staff for a fantastic meal that was served hot and very timely. Thank you again.
Excellent breakfast! I had the corned beef hash with 2 poached eggs (with cheese) and my husband had the chicken and waffles. While I wasn’t impressed with the presentation of my meal (wasn’t sure about the slices of cheese), I was surprised by the quality once I started eating! They have an amazing homemade salsa verde that you have to try if you can handle a little spice. The atmosphere is like a typical diner. No frills, good service, great food!
Small local cute diner. Fun music playing in the background. Very polite waitress. Good regular diner food... That waffle with the whipped cream though was so nicely plated. My friend couldn't stop talking about it and eating it! Going back to try mexican food 😋 they have a kids menu too 👍
Sadly the owner(s) have stopped accepting credit cards here. There has been a sign on the cash register that states "credit card machine is broken" which by now, we all know it's a bunch of BS! It has been there for a few months now. It takes that long to get it fixed? Laughable. Why not just be honest with customers and tell us you're no longer accepting credit cards? I find this sneaky not to mention appalling. Food always delicious and service is excellent! That's why I still gave 3 stars! Oh, they also now have an ATM machine with a $2.50 fee! How "convenient".
Im gonna have to be honest. This food was mediocre. The home fries were just a bunch of burnt potatoes. The sandwich I ate tasted like it was cooked in applewood bacon grease. The bagel was clearly a lenders bagel. The sausages in my sandwich tasted like the store bought links. And the worst offender of all was the cheese. It was clearly the cheapest individually wrapped no name brand cheese. If you look at the reviews, you can see someone posted a picture of the cheese in question. All around tasted like cheap walmart food.
Review as a delivery driver. Service is very slow and never matches the times provided. Expect to wait an extra 10+ minutes. On top of that staff will ignore you for the most part of you are a delivery driver. On occasion they also mark their orders as ready to pick to pick up while they are not done.
I came for the stuffed French toast, but it turns out it's actually just a chunk of cream cheese from the fridge, not melted or whipped or anything, no no, put in between 2 pieces of regular French toast. That is their definition of stuffed. I was so disappointed, but it wasn't my servers fault. This is on the menu, so I just ate, tipped, and left.
Will never spend another dollar here. We walked in at 8 pm on a Friday. Open sign was on and Google says they're open until 9. The girl behind the counter froze and asked "were you planning on eating in" in a tone that said she hoped the answer was no. We were, so we sat. Yes they let us order, but they were hovering, passive aggressive about paying asap, and cleaning around us in a huff. Obviously we were in the way so the moment we were done eating we decided to leave even though we weren't ready to go. Literally the second we touched the door handle they called "thank you Goodnight" and shut off all the lights before we were even outside. If the times aren't right on Google, you should fix them. If they are, what a terrible way to run a business.
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964 Helderberg Ave, Schenectady, NY 12306
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