Sassafras Food Fair

Haven't eaten here for a decade when I was a student until recently. Due to time constraint, this was the most convenient alternative besides Cafe Ami. If you're not in the mood for sandwiches or waiting in line, this is a better choice. There are sandwiches, chicken fingers, and salads here. Most food is pre-cooked due to the traffic. I grabbed some chicken fingers and fries for $10.99. The choice of sauce was honey mustard or bbq. However, they were out of bbq sauce. The chicken fingers were decent and tasty. It's not the best, but you don't expect that at a hospital. The fries were the oven-roasted style which again, was good enough. If you can't make the walk outside to Broadway to eat, the cafeteria fills your stomach.

This cafeteria is located on 2nd floor at VGH. Food prices are a bit more expensive but food quality is decent and staff are friendly. But what is not expensive nowadays? Everything is expensive. The cafeteria eating area is big and roomy. Great place to wait while in the hospital.

Burger are precooked frozen Pattie’s, food sits in warmers from morning till close. Seen it first hand today. Overpriced bland food. On occasion they will have a half decent soup. Good coffee Starbucks blends. Friendly staff. No food safe going on here. As for patients food…don’t get me started. For starters cold food!!!! Untoasted toast, either you get runny oatmeal or so thick you can stand your spoon up. Even the coffee/tea are cold. So much waste - patients don’t eat, they either have some bring up food or they starve. Aren’t they there to get better and get strong???

Very average grab and go food. Not bad but not great. Decent enough for a satisfactory meal at the hospital.

Why are hospital food for both inpatient and general public so bad? I work in the hospital and buying food from the cafeteria is sometimes a relief from cooking and a treat for a hard day’s work. However it never ceases to amaze me that there seems to be no effort to cook well at all. Even a simple piece of pizza isn’t done right! A family member was confined and was on soft diet. The beef broth served is no more than Oxo beef bouillon mixed in hot water. Hospital food needs to improve. This is an institution where food should be healthy and done right at the same time.

Good and fairly big place with lots of eating options. Food seems to be good and portion size is OK. You can bring your own food and eat here as well. Coffee is OK but not gr8 if you compare it with Tim Hortons or Starbucks. Options are salad bar, pizza, Mexican food, etc.,

Food was better than most hospitals but still low in quality. 1 star for food 1 star for price. Not cheap but not expensive. Limited selection.

Prices are good and staff are friendly but sometimes they don't know what they're doing. I went in for breakfast and they told me there was no more so i settled for day old overpriced leftovers, after I left and came back they were making more breakfast food. If you have a schedule - stick to it don't change you're mind willy nilly

They are not following the health guidelines for covid 19. I went there today to buy some lunch and changed my mind as soon as I saw the employers preparing peoples food without wearing a mask. They were talking to each other while preparing a burrito. Can you imagine how much of their saliva went on that burrito???? Gross.

Perhaps one of the better cafeterias in a hospital. The breakfast is good and the prices are reasonable. For lunch, they have several stations offering a variety of options. The coffee is good.

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