1872 Cafe — Restaurant in City of Rochester

This is a cafe Rochester should be proud of. Less than 1/2 mile from the Susan B. Anthony House, 1872 was the year of Susan B’s highly publicized act of civil disobedience, her arrest for voting. Women who dared is the theme that is carried throughout the decor and menu. People who lean feminist and progressive will feel in their element. For those who do not, do yourself a favor and get delivery. If I could give this place 6 stars for food I would. The menu is exhaustive with numerous clearly marked vegan and gluten free items in each category as well as options to customize sandwiches with gluten free bread. The person taking my order understood what each distinction meant as well and offered gluten free crackers with my soup - a treat I have NEVER had even at dedicated GF restaurants. I was grew a bit impatient when food took a long time to arrive, but one bite and I quickly realized that the perfection was worth the wait. I suspected that the soup was made to order and not ladled out of a cauldron. I asked about it and it was confirmed. It really makes such a difference. The steak sandwich had slices of 1/8 inch thick filets and was so just juicy enough to moisten the slightly dry gluten free bread. The cheese was lusciously stringy but broke on its own. And the sweetness of the peppers was a welcome surprise, though I could see some not...

""Tech did not understand system as it is simple and was not dirty at all as it is not used in grease or open flame kitchen (very light use)" - Paul - owner of 1872 Cafe

Here is a fire hazard at 1872 Cafe of -!GREASE!- covering a non commercial use inline fan before our cleaning service. 1 of multiple fire code issues at this location. Employees, Customers and Upstairs tenants beware of the protentional fire hazard. Duct also does not proper access and needs additional cleaning in the areas which are inaccessible. We will be sending our documentation (Pictures / Field report) to notify Fire Marshall and Health Department.

Owner, trying to take advantage of a group of hardworking men to be responsible for his lack of planning and careless neglect. Pictures don't lie but this guy does! GREASE + Non commercial use inline kitchen fan = Fire hazard. Simple logic escapes this one....

Girl behind the counter was very obviously mad that I didn't tip on the turkey sandwich I ordered, told me it will be a few minutes, made my sub in about 5 minutes, then proceeded to leave it behind the counter for about 15 more minutes while making coffees for the other 2 people that were in there, cleaning a few things and acting busy before she finally decided I could have my sandwich that had been sitting right in front of her on the counter wrapped and ready to go the whole time. There tipping system if you pay with a card starts at 3 dollars and goes up in increments of 2 dollars I believe, and if you wanna skip it you have to ask them which secret button it is, hence her tude. Petty. Sometimes it's like that , I'm sure it's a decent place, but I won't be back, and I'm sure they won't care either way, this is just for...