Orginal wrap it on wheat with no cilantro and lite on the sour cream and salsa please! I was a regular here in college. Gotta love the organic and delicious ingredients! Most of my friends dislike the yumm sauce but I loves it!!!! Also not too expensive for college students! read more

i love yumm sauce!! i can't get enough! i'm crazy over this sauce!! i don't know how they did it, but they have created the most amazing sauce known to man! not only is it addictive, unique, and completely delicious..it's vegan, heart healthy (very low sodium), & gluten free. so i recommend it to everyone i know. (everyone i know seems to be on one sort of specialty diet or another..) i am planning to make a special trip down to oregon just to buy a crate of this stuff! ..if anyone knows of any vendors in seattle that carry this, please let me know! i am completely hooked! read more

Café Yum is a place I can eat over and over and never get tired of it. Their Yum sauce is healthy and tasty. I just bought a jar of Yum sauce to put on my rice and bean bowls I make because they don't have a Café Yum in the town where I work. Their soups are the best. The only thing I would change is I would add a healthy bread. read more

I go here at least twice a week. The original yumm bowl is a classic, filling but not heavy. The perfect meal post workout.

I enjoy this place. It has many healthy options. The food is affordable, and nourishing.

It's okay. The food is fresh but bland. It all seems overpriced and over-hyped. It's salad and rice and beans in various configurations. I didn't find it anything special about the food; it was less "yum" and more "eh." The Yum sauce is similarly all right but unexciting. It is healthy, but heavy on the beans. The food needs something, some kind of kick to make it more interesting. read more

I can't believe all the good reviews this place gets! As someone else on this board says, should be cafe YUCK! One exception. The chicken wasn't too bad.. but that bowl? I tried *one bite* of the stuff and immediately grabbed a napkin to get rid of it.. WOW! I don't mind vegetarian fare too much, but.. words escape me when it comes to describing this place. read more

I'm totally addicted. So delicious, simple, and healthy. They have lots of customizing options that means you can get exactly what you want. They also have a great website with lots of nutritional information about their food. I've had this for dinner for the past 3 nights, it's sooooo good! read more

Had the original Yumm bowl--brown rice, black beans, yumm sauce, avocado and cheese, tomatoes, olives, cilantro and sour cream. Was really great. Added chicken, it was rather plain. Would not recommend the chicken. Very tasty! read more

This is a great place for lunch. We had a "hot jazzy" bowl with chicken. It was just a little spicy and very tasty. Thanks for a great lunch. read more

I agree with a lot of other reviews, that you can make their basic bowls for cheaper at home and just buy the sauce. Regardless, I really enjoyed it when I had it and bought some of that sauce immediately because OMG ITS AMAZING. Seriously could eat spoonfuls of the sauce. Very good and healthy fast food! read more

I ordered the Chicken Bento as my daughter found the restaurant and decided to try it. The chicken is totally brown color obviously soaking in soy sauce for days??? The teriyaki sauce is so salty. The brown rice is not cooked. Terrible food for the money! read more

Quick and delicious. Be careful ordering a side salad in place of chips though...they gave be a handful of mixed greens in a cup. That's it. No dressing, no fork...was a bit disappointing when I got home and discovered this. Other than that, great food. Awesome salmon sandwich. read more

I love the Yumm Baby w/ Brown Rice but if I'm feeling like I need a little something extra, I get the tempeh rueben- it's not as messy as other Ruebens but just as enjoyable. The staff is friendly. Buy the sauce because you can use it on sandwiches or burgers at home! read more

Souper yumm, add tofu!! Vegan sub avo. My favorite. Everyone there is always in a great mood and that puts me in a good mood. The best. Always clean and tidy. Great place. read more

This IS a taste of Eugene in a bowl !!! If I had the $, I would totally franchise with this place! Healthy delicious affordable quick food! Everything I want in a meal! Staff are always friendly and professional, shops are always clean, bulletin boards with community connections, environmentally friendly and the food is fresh and tasty! read more

Kids like it, adults like it okay, everyone eats a reasonable dinner. The non-bowl things are better than the bowls.

I ordered to-go today and came in with my toddler to pick our order up. I had ordered an edamame bowl, my favorite. Got home, fed toddler and put them to bed because they were having a melt-down. FINALLY sit down to eat my food and there's no nori on it. The nori is why I get the edamame bowl. It's the flavor that brings the dish together. So I call in to tell Yumm what happened and the person I spoke with says "I'm sorry about that" in the least apologetic tone I've ever encountered and just lets the ensuing awkward silence hang in the air until I hang up in disgust. Not even the smallest attempt to get a manager on the phone or offer me any kind of replacement or refund for messing up my order. So I'm sitting here eating my incredibly disappointing nori-less edamame bowl and writing this review. *sigh* I hope my feedback prompts you to take a long, hard look at your team and ask yourselves why you work in the service industry at all if this is the best you can do. read more

Its great fresh food. The yumm bowls are my favorite i usually go for hot and jazzy. Its simple and delicious.

Cafe Yumm will leave you with nothing but pleasure, BUT there is a catch, you have to like healthy food! This place is great for vegetarians or vegans. Their vegan ginger snap cookies are wonderful and I always buy a few extra for my house:). The atmosphere is classy, clean, and organized. The wait is never very long either:) read more

Awesomeness in a bowl. Great for vegetarians, vegans, and celiacs. Yeah, it's pretty much fast food, but it's tasty and pretty good for you. And they are big into recycling and reusing. I go here often and recommend it highly. read more

I used to love Cafe Yumm--I can get a great vegan meal for cheap. Recently, however, it seems like their quality has gone down but their prices have gone up. The cooks need to add more beans and avocados to the bowls like they used to! Now the bowls are just full of rice and sauce. Not as good as it used to be. I hope they bring the quality back! read more

I've been eating at Cafe Yummy for 15 years and today is my last time. The 18th st location is the worst I've ever had. They couldn't get either meal I ordered right and worst of all they don't care. Sorry to say I've had enough and I'll stick with Laughing Planet or the Green Acres location of Cafe Yumm. read more

I've been coming here for months now and they're nothing but great to me. They always ask how my day is going and get orders out in a timely matter. The staff is friendly and I love coming here. There's one member, Kat, who is sometimes, outright rude to other staff members, loud enough that people eating can hear. I always feel a little uncomfortable but know it can get loud in the food service business but it still seems to happen more often than it should. read more

How long can I hold my opinion based upon my desire to like a place? Granted, I enjoy the favor of their food. And as a gluten-free vegetarian, it really fits the bill...when I dine in. But I have yet to have my order right when I place an order to go. I've opened my bowl up to find chicken and/or the wrong ingredients--on more than one occasion. Tonight, however, was the final straw. I ordered 3 bowls: one for each member of my family. When I got home, none of them was more than half full. Considering the tip I left, I could have enjoyed some fine dining for the price I paid by volume. Thanks for, almost literally, for nothing. read more

I have ordered from this place four times for lunch at work. My office is close by. They have not ONCE gotten my order correct. Not once. It's not that hard. Their food is good, but they do a horrific job of making sure you get what you order. The final straw was their error today. Find somewhere else to order for lunch. Terrible job. Wish I could give zero start. read more

Cafe Yumm has been steadily going downhill for the last couple years. I used to leave the restaurant with a "wow that was really good" feeling. Now I leave with a "meh" feeling. They are either skimping on Yumm sauce or buying inferior ingredients. Recently we ordered ahead for a couple bowls to go. When we arrived to pick them up we had to wait in line 10-15 minutes . When we finally did get our order and got back to our car for a road trip we noticed the bowls were cold. We took them right back in and tried to get them to microwave them but they refused stating that once you left the premises, health department rules prohibited them from reheating our meal !Super service thereI I sent them an email about this issue and they didn't even bother to respond. It will be a very loooooooooooooooooooooooong time before I return to Cafe Yumm. read more

So I recently moved to Eugene from Northern CA, so I have never heard of or experienced Cafe Yumm, but upon further inquiry with the locals, realized it is an Oregon staple and have to try it. I have gone there twice and the food is delicious, BUT I personally think you get very small portions for the price. The only reason I will probably only try it twice is because it is so darn expensive and not the healthiest thing I could be eating, honestly. A small Yumm Bowl (their specialty) is about 1 cup (MAYBE 1 1/4 cups) of food and can go up to almost $7 or more with extras! I kind of feel that price should warrant enough food to leave you very satisfied, full even. Maybe I'm sounding cheap (and on a student's budget, I am...) but I was not filled and after I and my boyfriend ate (he was less impressed than I was), neither was our wallet. Don't get me wrong, the food is good, fresh, local, sort of healthy (if you're counting calories instead of trying to eat vegan/gluten free, I would actually say avoid this place...vegetarian/vegan does not equal low cal!), and leaves you feeling pretty good about what you just ate, but I just feel like I could either be paying less or getting more food for the price. If you're new to Oregon, definitely try it, but as with any addiction, it might start getting really expensive. :) read more

DO NOT go to this location (or maybe all of them) if you are a dog lover. They do not allow dogs on the patio AT ALL but will not post it. They get you in to buy the food and then force you off. How in the world does this even exist in Eugene? I'm a loyal Cafe Yumm customer but not anymore. read more

Another let down from the yummm on 18th and willamette, they ALWAYS forget to put something on a dish. Got a reuben and a hot n' jazzy bowl. the reuben had no dressing on it, I swear fool me 27 times shame on me cafe yummm YOU SUCK read more

Anyone who decides that just because sauce has fat in it is unhealthy obviously has never taken a course on nutrition. A human body cannot process preservatives and unnatural ingredients, hence "fat free", "sugar free", and "low calories" make one think they are doing the healthy thing, when really there are 30 items in the ingredient list. That said, Cafe Yumm provides simple food, that, yes you can make at home, but I've never made a tofu skewer, soup, or bowl just as delicious as they do. Rice and beans make a complete protein and the chocolate dipped molasses cookie is the BEST way to make your day ten times better. As a vegetarian, I am always satisfied and the service is always top notch. It feels good to support organic and local foods, even if the price is a bit higher than a dollar fish sandwich that came from China. read more

The service was good, though I didn't like the food very much. My first bite of rice was crunchy (undercooked), but the rest of it was a little better. Not much flavor. Chicken skewer was overdone. Strawberry lemonade tasted like water. It's fast which was good, but the food was pretty lame in my opinion (the other people I was with said they enjoyed theirs, though). read more

I don't get this place at all....especially with all of the choices out there. The Hot and Jazzy Yumm bowl tasted super salty, was not spicy at all, and the chicken was cold and looked and tasted like it was taken right out of a can. Add a diet pepsi and it was over $9.00! It was very strange and boring....I don't know why this place is so popular!! You are better off going to Chipotle where you can get a burrito bowl that has grilled chicken and much tastier ingredients. I don't write reviews very often but I felt I had to in this instance....I left most of my bowl un-eaten and left very unsatisfied. read more

So tasty and fresh, plus a kind staff. I love this place for a quick, healthy lunch. :)

I've been here twice, though at different locations. I don't get the hype. I mean, the sauce is really good if you like healthy food. It's unique and I enjoy it. But the bowls themselves are pretty boring, especially for the price. As someone else said, the imagination here is low. Rice, beans, tomatoes, hot sauce, sour cream, and avocado are all relatively easy to throw together into a bowl at home, which is how these bowls taste -- as if they were thrown together at home for a quick dinner. The rice tastes unseasoned. The beans taste unseasoned. They're relying on the sauce to do all the work, but I don't think they ladle enough on, because I'm always left with flavorless rice and beans that I need to douse in hot sauce to finish. I wonder if you can just buy the Yum sauce and make a tastier dinner with it at home (for much less money; beans and rice are as cheap as it gets, so I don't get the high pricing here). I think I'd recommend this place to my vegetarian friends, but probably not to my meat-eating friends. read more

Love dat Yumm Sauce! I use it as salad dressing at home, which probably means my salad went from healthy to "I don't want to know". I will delude myself as long as this most recently bottle lasts. Mmmmmm. read more

Every time I've ordered to-go my bowl is only half full. If I dine in it's spilling over. no consistency

Cafe Yumm is yummy. Well known to the locals, visitors should check it out for a real taste of Eugene. Mostly veggie and known for the yumm bowls and sauce which the town goes nuts for. But for me its all about the bbq black sesame tofu sticks which taste so so good. I get them with the bento. You can pick teriyaki chicken or tempeh instead of the tofu, but I never would, and it comes with brown or jasmine rice and this cole slaw with a crazy good dressing has a really light texture a very intense flavor that I love (and i usually don't like cole slaw). There are sandwiches that look good but I've never tried due to tofu stick cravings and great treats and juices. Not cheap though. read more

I used to love the original Cafe Yumm located in the bottom of the old 5th St. Market- back when it was a cool place to go. It was in the basement near the Comic News. It rocked. It was low-priced, all vegetarian, and awesome! You created your own unique bowl and it tasted super good! Now it sucks! The food varies greatly from location to location (Oakway and Willamette/18th are the best), the staff at many locations is immature and not professional, and they regularly (like 3 times in about 3 months) mess up your overpriced order when you get it to go. Here are some examples of Cafe Yumm awfulness: stale chips usually are with your sandwich order, or they may just be omitted completely, or (if you are really lucky) they may be totally crushed as my order was a few weeks ago- really?? serving a guest a bag of stale broken chips with a sandwich?, partially cooked tempeh or maybe burnt sandwich drowning in sauce, rice scraped off the bottom of a rice cooker and all dried up stuck in your Yumm Bowl, and I could go on.... I am really tired of wasting my $ at this place, and it used to be my FAVORITE place to eat in Eugene! The owner of this establishment needs to quit focusing on his franchising and get back to working on the quality of his establishment because it won't last if he keeps allowing his restaurants to become awful. They used to be much better before he started franchising. They used to have a great menu with tempeh almond salad sandwiches, the awesome asian tofu salad Secret Asian Man, and the wonderful soup with tofu and the peanut base. I MISS THE REAL CAFE YUMM BEFORE FRANCHISING. THE NEW ONES SUCK! GET A CLUE CAFE YUMM OWNER AND MAKE SOME CHANGES!!! read more

My family refers to this place as "Cafe Yuck." I've tried to like this place, but I really don't like 'Yum sauce." It just has a weird taste to me and ruins anything you put it on. The other food is all right. I think most people like Cafe Yumm because they think they are eating healthy foods. read more