Mel's Market

If you're downtown and looking for a quick sandwich or salad, this is the place to go. Friendly staff, decently quick turnaround (It's made right in front of you, so do temper your expectations!) and generally very fresh food. The soups are good though can sometimes be a bit oily. They also have a good selection of drinks, chips, as well as grab and go options.

This place is amazing!! I wanted a quick protein-filled breakfast and this place delivered! It's the Chipotle experience of breakfast where you can customize exactly what you want. Then grab a drink or snack from the other sections in the market, pay, and eat in their adorable little food court with perfect seating and a killer view! Very New York, very efficient. Also, the people were the kindest and totally made my day :)

I love this place! Other reviewers mentioned getting too little meat on their sandwich, while I always find that there's a little too much tuna salad on mine, if I don't ask for them to go light. So just watch them as they make the sandwich and ask for more/less if you want it. Other than that, the food is always fresh, and the salads are pretty good with par-for-the-course prices. I also like their mini breakfast sandwiches, and the rewards program saves me $2.50 once or twice a week.

I Love Mel's Market! This place is great and is one of my default lunch spot in awesome downtown Seattle (bias yes!). 1st they have awesome menus with real food that is nutritious without weighing you down. They have made to order salads, sandwiches and these incredible gluten free quinoa powerbowels. Oh Yeah. They also make you sandwiches to order and have two homemade soups and chill con carne. All the menus have the ingredients clearly marked and they have a lot of gluten free options if that is what you are looking for. They have great system of serving a huge amount of people without it taking a long time. The owner Pam is the nicest person and keeps the place running smoothly. The staff there are extremely polite and friendly and when you go through checkout line the cashiers are always smiling and happy. They also have a customer loyalty program and you earn point with purchases that you can use as cash discounts on future purchases.

A good spot for a quick breakfast or lunch, they’re super friendly and quite busy. Slightly disappointed that I got a fish taco power bowl for lunch today and got back to class to find they forgot the fish!! Ha, otherwise a decent if expensive quinoa bowl! +1 star for the excellent response, no worries on the gift card but thank you for the kind sentiment!