Day 61 - Food Day Friday

I am getting ready to fly to Orange County today and so it is a low maintenance blog post today. I am so close to completion I can almost taste the food of every cafe! ;-)
I have however discovered the existence of a secret invitation only cafe which I think I will sadly never get to visit... but oh well.


25 of 30 Cafes visited!
Main Campus - Complete
near Main Campus - Complete
1900 block - 1 to go
Crittenden - Complete
GWC - 1 to go
Quad - 3 to go
SFO - Complete
SBO - Complete

√ Atom - It took quite a while to get to this one as I had been there before. The sushi here is fantastic, almost as good as Frank's. The noodle soup is also done in several other cafes and the hot dishes are ok.
√ Baadal - Indian food that needs to be booked in advance. Table service makes this place a little different to the normal Google offering. This food is pretty good! Not as fantastic as the very best but totally edible!
√ Beta - I love this cafe! Too far to go frequently but really nice.
√ Backyard - In my building and specializing in Barbecue (honestly it's a wonder I go anywhere else)
√ BETA C - A nice, balanced 'all round' cafe. Food of all sorts, well done.
√ Big Table Cafe - This cafe has a great variety of tasty foods.
√ Blaze Cafe - Fresh Pizza is the focus here but it has a few other things and is always very popular.
√ Charlie's Cafe - This is the original cafe of Google and it has everything from fantastic Pizza, burgers, burritos to Pho, Sushi & Indian.
- Crave Cafe
√ Evolution Cafe - A selection of fairly healthy, orientalish foods in a small cafe.
√ GO! Cafe - This is a sandwich to order to place. I'm not a big sandwich guy but if Subway was like this, they'd be making a lot of money off of me.
√ Jia Cafe - Authentic East Asian food and REALLY good.
√ Long Life - Again Asian food but with a Korean/Vietnamese focus, the Pho here is very good but otherwise a little underwhelming.
√ Lunch Box Cafe - This place does a couple of dishes and a small sandwich section... that takes an age!
√ Masa Cafe - Burritos the size of your head made exactly the way you want.
√ Maverick Cafe - Nothing special, although the desserts are good and the staff are the friendliest on campus.
√ Moma Cafe - This place is the king of sandwiches, toasted, normal, sliders they are all to be found here. It also has awesome breakfasts with pancakes!
- Nourish Cafe
√ Quad Halftime - Sports Bar theme and junkfood on offer - I LOVE this place. It is a lot like Backyard but with a lot more variety (and a lot less sweet potato!) making it exponentially better.
- Quad Hangout
- Quad Portal - I had a decent breakfast here. Google in the US is great for weird breakfast items. Today's winner: Attack of the Killer Applewoodsmoked bacon and spam fried rice - that's actually what it was called, and pretty much explains what it was... DELICIOUS! The maple syrup sausage links were less appetizing but donut holes make a great breakfast dessert. No lunch here yet so I am leaving it unchecked.
- Quad Trux Cafe
√ root Cafe - A bit of a mix, nothing special but is fairly popular.
√ Slice Cafe - Some packaged sandwiches but the reason to come here are the fantastic smoothies.
√ Steam Cafe - This place is apparently not that good food normally however I was really impressed! The Gnocchi was fantastic and the turkey and italian sausage were both really nice. The dessert wasn't great but that is a minor quibble. The plates here are ceramic unlike the other cafes which have plastic (although Baadal is also cermic)
√ Stock Market Cafe - Interesting selection of foods from this small cafe. Not sure it was worth the trek but given the more 'normal' selection, I think if I was based in this office I would eat here quite often.
√ Victoria Deli Cafe - A selection of pre-made wraps and sandwiches in 'slider' sizes. Great for quick, small meals but less choice and further away than Go.
√ Yoshka's Cafe (w/e) - I have been here at the weekend but it felt like only half service so wait until I have been in the week to pass judgement. Weekday food here is good! Not much selection but the food is done well. A little too much oil in things though in the salad, the rice, the meat.
X Left Coast Cafe (SFO) It turns out this cafe was closed some time ago but the site page never got updated. Sad times
√ Warehouse6 Cafe (SFO) - The food just wasn't that good. I think it was the day as my recollection of last time was that it was pretty good.
√ YouTube Café (SBO) - The breakfasts are good, sadly the lunches are not!