Lori-Ann Sciachitano
Distribution Manager

Food: ✮ ✮
Atmosphere: ! ! ! !
Service: ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Price: $
Location: 61 New St
Distance from campus: .5 miles
Website: N/A

One would think that a restaurant close to a college campus would work extra hard to make the quality of their food better than average. That is not necessarily the case with Woodrow’s Café. While Woodrow’s does have some good points it was a generic sort of place.
The setup of the restaurant is really cute. It has lots of grouped tables with the ability to be moved around to fit whatever size party you have. Each wall is covered in different fiesta colors, as well as art from students at Rutgers.
The beverage choices are your average café style coffee drinks, the hot mocha being the highlight of the experience. Soda choices are the average Coke and Pepsi with a few Stewart’s choices thrown in.
As for food choices it was the generic café soups and sandwiches, with no salad choices at all, which was very shocking. I have never been to a café that didn’t at least have one salad choice. There are two soups of the day every day of the week, with one vegetarian option and one non-vegetarian option.
We tried the vegetarian mushroom soup, which had a fine puree of mushrooms and a strong flavor of garlic. It was served with fresh made whole wheat bread that was crusty on the outside and warm and chewy on the inside.
We had two sandwiches The Woodrow Special and Eggplant Balls. The Woodrow was fresh grilled chicken, roasted red peppers and balsamic vinegar. The only flavor that was really prominent was the red pepper, and the chicken by itself was pretty plain.
The Eggplant Balls were served with hummus and were bland as well. Both the hummus and eggplant balls were lacking flavor and were most definitely missing garlic. Both of the sandwiches were served on homemade pizza bread that was the only redeeming quality to both the sandwiches.
All in all Woodrow’s was a pretty big disappointment. I have walked past this restaurant numerous times and was intrigued by its promises of healthy homemade meals, only to be let down when finally trying it out.
If you regularly read the Newb, you know that four issues back, we reviewed a restaurant on Halsey Street called The Coffee Cave. The Coffee Cave offers many of the same amenities as Woodrow’s Café, and they are, in my opinion, of a better quality.
If you are looking for something in the same price range go to The Coffee Cave. If you are looking for something with similar atmosphere and service go to The Coffee Cave. If you are looking for a greater variety of soup choices and must tastier sandwiches go to The Coffee Cave.

Lori-Ann Sciachitano is a sophomore in Science Technology and Society and can be reached at distribution-manager@njitvector.com.