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Milk Street Cafe Our team of expert corporate caterers can help make every detail of your office-catered event a success. Whether it's a morning meeting with clients - or luncheon for your employees - we'll help you make the perfect order, every time. We make everything from scratch, all under one roof - and we're able to meet a diverse array of dietary restrictions.

Earn points that can be redeemed for cool things like Celtics tickets, or a night at the Ritz. We offer choices for the pickiest eaters, from your clean-eating programmer to your CFO with a sweet tooth.
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In November of 1981, Milk Street Cafe opened its doors. It has since evolved into a Boston catering and Greater Boston premier corporate catering service, in addition to providing cafe service at 50 Milk Street. Milk Street's commitment to everyday freshness - everything is made in-house, from scratch - and its commitment to customer service - our sales team is knowledgeable, our servers are always quick to help - has created a small community unto itself in the heart of Downtown Boston.Our commitment to the details comes from the top.
Each food dollar of catering equals one Milk Street Cafe Brownie Point (tax & delivery are not included). In each case a gift certificate will be issued for you to redeem with the Brownie Point Corporate Partner of your choice. Please check the website periodically to see if more Brownie Point Corporate Partners have joined our program!
Milk Street Cafe is open 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Come in to dine for breakfast, brunch, or lunch-or place an order, pick up something from our grab-n-go fridge, or order ahead of time for pickup. For cafe deliveries to Brookline, Cambridge, Back Bay, Medical Area, Seaport, and Financial District, please find us on UberEats, Grubhub, or DoorDash.
Restaurants all over the country have had to make incredibly hard decisions to close their doors over the past year due to the pandemic. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund only had enough money for 100,000 of 300,000 independent restaurants. This has left a huge economic imbalance in our industry and is causing more closures each and every day. We hope you will help us, and many in our situation to keep our doors open.
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Raaj Mehta
Jun 18, 2022
Amazing customer service! The owner of the restaurant himself went to the cold room to find ingredients to make me a sandwich at the end of the day when the cafe was shutting down.
Charlene E.
May 28, 2022
My job hosted a luncheon for us for Nurse's Week and it was hosted by this cafe. I'm not a sandwich person but I opted for the chicken pesto sandwich and I've gotta say that it was pretty solid. I don't really enjoy chicken either so I was pretty impressed. The sauce used in the sandwich was delicious and that sandwich turned out being a popular choice amongst many of my colleagues.
Courtney Wroubel
May 14, 2022
Free wifi. Sandwiches, salads, sushi, and a full espresso bar and cafe. Has 15 tables, and spacious. Aesthetic atmosphere, free wifi, study spot, food was incredible, coffee was above average.
Joey Ostroff
May 08, 2022
Amazing food, I've never had anything bad here. Great location, great facility, lots of comfortable seating. Jonathan greeted my party as soon as we walked in and was incredibly helpful. All the other staff were very nice. Would definitely recommend
Shiping Wang
May 08, 2022
Salmon hot dish was reaaaaally good, impressed, taste was not too heavy or no flavor. Will go again
M. W.
Apr 28, 2022
I loved the ambience and the people! Three stars because the mocha syrup tasted really bad, kind of sour to the extent I couldn't finish my drink. I suspect that their other coffee is really good - will update review and rating if I find that to be the case!
Adam Pritzker
Apr 27, 2022
They have great sushi. Sushi chef on premises every day. They have both fleishig and milchig options. Salads. Pizza. Fish. Entrees. The food is really good and customer service also is very good. Delicious mocha latte hot or cold. Daily specials too
Alex Cordova
Apr 20, 2022
A block away from the hotel I was staying at; so I checked it out. Appears to be more for college students and local business people. Good variety of choices, but not exactly my style of food. Still not bad for people of this choice.
Mishkat Khetran
Jan 27, 2022
Cafe is huge. Lot of seating, efficient service, super clean and nice staff. The location is also nice. I really can't complain. A good place to come grab a quick lunch or coffee. Most dishes that offer were more towards healthy side rather than fatty, so that's also a plus. Hi guys recommended. Location: 8/10 Staff: 10/10 Cost: 9/10 Ambience: 10/10
Happy Go S.
Jan 27, 2022
Milk Street Cafe is huge and the staffs are super friendly. I got pastries from here and they were delicious.
Yehuda Raubvogel
Nov 22, 2021
I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich. It was very tasty but it was quite small and unsatisfying for the price. I would not recommend eating lunch here unless you intend to order multiple items.
Joey Ostroff
Oct 28, 2021
Great restaurant, great staff, great food. Definitely a good place to grab a (kosher) meal.
Gabriel
Oct 16, 2021
We spent a week visiting Boston recently and this restaurant was amazing! For anyone who eats kosher it is a godsend. It's right in the middle of the city, so the location is super convenient, and they have both a dairy section and a meat section. However, even if you do not specifically eat kosher, the food is so good (especially the pulled brisket ) it's worth a visit. Furthermore, the owner and all of the employees were a delight! Highly recommend! A gem in the heart of Boston!
Elianna Kulak
Sep 07, 2021
Milk street cafe is amazing, they have a huge variety of food. From sandwiches to sushi to muffins to salad to fish. And all of it is so fresh and delicious. The cafe is clean and beautiful and the prices are very reasonable. Highly recommended
Ilanna Newman
Aug 20, 2021
The best kosher restaurant and catering in Boston! I love the variety of dairy, meat, sushi, and bakery options.
Jennifer R.
Aug 16, 2021
Milk Street Cafe has reopened with a joyful, hopeful celebration! I just happened to walk down milk Street during an overnight visit in town. Musicians were out and staff was bustling, so I changed my plan and stopped in. Yum! Scones fluffy and flavorful and the breakfast sandwiches/wraps are so much better than standard fare! I hope they make it! Highly recommend!
Amy M.
Oct 07, 2020
Had the roasted cauliflower wrap which tasted like turmeric, turmeric, and more turmeric. That's all I could taste, and it was dry.
Jessica S.
Mar 03, 2020
Because of how busy this place gets during peak lunch hours, I went around 1:15pm and it was way less busy than if I went at 12-1pm time. I was able to get my buffalo chicken wrap right away and they put a good amount of chicken in it. I was able to substitute spinach for the carrot slaw. The chicken was spicy and flavorful. It was not fried which is great.

For a $10 wrap, I was actually very full. There were plenty of seating this time because I didn't go when it was busiest. I would say this place is a good lunch place when it is not chaotic.
Jason L.
Dec 10, 2019
While visiting Boston. I realize that Milk Street Cafe is like one of their chain coffee store like Starbucks. Since DD and Starbucks the line were extra long in the morning. Me and my friend decide to go to a little bit quieter coffee shop and sit there to find some activities to do. They do sell some bakeries good at the cafe. Overall, I would come here again. A little bit more quieter and the food/drink are good as well.
Chastity D.
Dec 01, 2019
Very disappointed in my most recent visit to Milk Street. I heard they were serving the Impossible Burger, which is made with no animal products for a reason. When I went to grab one, they only had it with cheese on it. I asked for one without cheese, waited for the chef who told me it was too difficult to cook without cheese. I'm incredibly puzzled because it is made to be eaten with absolutely no animal product and if anything, the cheese is the special circumstance. Regardless of other food options, this was handled poorly and I didn't want to go back after this.
Mimi G.
Sep 10, 2019
Don't go if you have allergies. Went there for breakfast because my friends said it was a good place though they could not tell me what had nuts/peanuts and what didn't. They were also out of most foods. I tried to order a bagel and they only had 1 of 3 different types. They all looked disgusting. They could only promise that a plain egg was allergen friendly and it tasted like a moist sponge with hard cheese on top. The meat side however had better tasting food but same allergen issues.
Bogdan Herea
Sep 08, 2019
Good healthy breakfast 20$ for a sandwich fruit salad and coffee
Maria M.
Aug 16, 2019
Really close to my work place. Great for quick desert or sugar craving. It has good bars and cheesecakes. I love their 7 layered coconut bar and strawberry cheesecake.
Ruth M.
Jun 07, 2019
I stopped in this morning and ordered an avocado sandwich at a price of $9.00. I got to my office and opened the container and imagine my disgust because there's no avocado but it has and a thin slice of tomato and pieces of red onion. I basically paid $9.00 for 2 pieces of bread. Never again!
Hong V.
Dec 12, 2018
This is my go-to cafe for days that I forget lunch and I need a very quick bite for sustenance. It's like a mini cafeteria that offers a variety of food options -- from salads, to sushi, to sandwiches, to coffee. As a result, it's efficient and serves your basic lunch needs, but the food itself is average. I usually get the soups, which are unremarkable.

My latest order is the winter vegetable soup, which has squash and other vegetables. Soups come with free bread. Seating is ample. There are crowds during lunch hours but lines move fast. I don't have much more to add!
Charlie S.
Nov 20, 2018
I eat there a few times a week. Most because it's convenient. Salads and sushi are reliably good. I never get entrees but they look good and I hear good things about them. Breakfast is also quite nice., The ambiance it somewhat chaotic. Every station has it own cue line and registers are separate. First few time it was confusing but most peeps are regulars so they know the drill. Although I have eaten at their tables once or twice, it's loud and a bit cramped. Better to bring food back to office and spread out.
William S.
Nov 07, 2018
If you want to seem important as a business person, this is a good coffee cafe. If you want a breakfast place to start the day off right, this is the wrong place. I had the breakfast burrito, sounded delicious. Except the ends were heated and the egg/cheese inside were still cold. Would not recommend it. It got two stars because I like sweets and they have those too.
Jose G.
Aug 21, 2018
We at our lab in MIT in Cambridge have suffered for years under the tyranny of cardboard cooking by Milk Street. They have made a model where they've convinced administration personnel that they can make it convenient to order by just "sending a one line email with the number of people" and then they send you back a prefab menu. (notice how all the other reviews are from the people ordering Milk Street, not necessarily people EATING Milk Street).

So it's VERY convenient. What they don't tell you is that your guests are going to be eating is so bland and jellylike in texture, and loaded with fillers that your people will doze off mid meeting and wonder why they are chewing on baseless calories. Also it's expensive. Let's go through a typical menu 1. Sushi platters are exciting for everyone!

Until you realize the avocado is tasteless and the rice is overfill. You can have a more delectable and complex tasting at Costco. 2. Chicken. You know the old saying, "well it tastes like chicken" but then again these folks have perfected the art of how chicken then doesn't taste like anything and functions as a vehicle for whatever sauce you spread on it. Makes you pine for even the fast food convince of Cane's Chicken or even the freshness of Cafe Luna. 3. Rice. There's a commercial with Uncle Ben's rice where the grains flake off mid air like happy little white flecks.

Now imagine, a slop of brownish goop not quite risotto and not quite grainy so that in the end every bite basically tastes like starch thanks to the accumulate gelatinous film that each grain of rice carries --- which makes you full faster even if you don't know why. I think this is a way for them to save money on food. 4. Sandwiches. The sandwiches are generous but again, fairly bland.

The chicken, the tuna, the ham, all taste the same. The bulk of the sandwich is made of the lettuce and tomato filler. It's not hard to make a good sandwich. Ask the people at Al's Cafe. Also $12 a person? You can get two sandwiches for that price at Al's 5. See #4. Except swap the bread for cardboard. 5. Desserts. They have some brownies which are ok.

The cookies seem to be gotten from your average industrial cookie place. Again, here filler is the key. Don't be deceived by the size of the cookie. Go get a cookie at Flour Cafe to taste what a real cookie should taste like.
Elizabeth L.
May 09, 2018
If you're ever in need of a delicious tasting chocolate cake that is just the right amount of sweetness, you can not go wrong by going here. Their chocolate majesty cake is delicious. The fruit cakes are also fabulous. I recently had a wedding and I can tell you what, you can never go wrong with ordering their chocolate cake. I had guests asking me who did the cake and where they could get another. It is a chocoholics dream!
Jeff H.
Jan 09, 2018
It was absolutely freezing cold and we had walked several blocks to go to a different salad joint, called Tossed. When we got there, they had decided to close early so we bent our heads to the wind and headed back to the hotel, quite unhappy. When we got back to Devonshire, we saw Milk Street Cafe and decided to go there instead. Great choice! The servers were friendly and efficient and the salad was amazing.

I still tell everyone I talk to about the chicken -- the quantity and quality! My daughter ordered a Buffalo Chicken sub and had to remove some chicken just to be able to eat it. Lol Overall, I was impressed. In fact, I will visit again given he opportunity.
Christian K.
Dec 06, 2017
The worst thing about Milk Street cafe is that they close at 3pm. Everything else is either fantastic or par for the course with a cafe-style eatery of this high caliber and excellence. The fantastic things are the selection and the quality of food. From the bakery up front and the "hot selections" in the middle of the cafe, to the sushi and deli selections towards the back of the cafe, you will have a pretty hard time deciding what to try when you first get in.

My recommendation? Start with one of their always-delicious soups and then continue your culinary journey from there. You will not be disappointed by how flavourful, filling, and, oftentimes, healthy these things are. Now, the "par for the course" things: seating can be a little limited. So, if you are expecting to just walk in during lunchtime (or almost anytime, really) and not have to search for a seat, I encourage you to lower your expectations. Also, some patrons may balk at the prices.

Perhaps it's my own privilege of being able to regularly eat healthy foods (and I recognize that privilege) but MSC is actually very reasonably priced for the area. Also, spare your diet and spoil yourself with one of their desserts. Go for the chocolate peanut butter bar for something super-rich or the pecan bar for something with a sweet, sticky edge to it.
Eli B.
Aug 18, 2017
Best Coffee and breakfast food! Intelegencia cafe rocks! Go in there and enjoy your morning! Nice clean atmosphere and friendly staff.
Rebecca R.
Feb 23, 2017
Had an awesome experience here while visiting Boston with my boyfriend. There is a crazy lack of kosher restaurants so we were really happy to go here for lunch. We decided to start off with some dairy stuff before getting a meat lunch, so we got coffees and a sticky toffee bun and a s'mores bar. Sooo good, and incredibly reasonably priced! ($5 for a coffee and dessert).

Then we moved on to the "real" food but we were so stuffed from that. I got a large chicken rice soup, which was great and filling. We came back the next day around 10am - we wanted an earlier start because we had a lot of sightseeing to do. Unfortunately, everything but the breakfast station is closed until 11, which is kind of annoying. We ended up getting prepackaged sandwiches, so not as good of an experience, but there were definitely breakfast options for those who pop in before lunch becomes fully available.