Microsoft Cafe Lincoln Square

This café for Microsoft employees is located at the top floor of Lincoln Square.
With its breathtaking view of Seattle and Bellevue and lovely modern décor, the food was a let down and doesn’t match the café’s ambiance. It is lacking in taste and diversity. It doesn’t come close to what other Microsoft café’s offer.
If you work for MS or are a vendor, I would skip this café for food and eat somewhere else close by.
Food: 2.5
Ambiance: 5

In addition to their headquarters in Redmond, Microsoft has office space in several buildings in downtown Bellevue. This includes Lincoln Square in which they occupy floors 14 to 28. On the top level, 28^th floor is this Microsoft café.
The food offerings don’t match up to the renovated cafes on the main campus in Redmond in terms of selection. Though I found it to be comparable to the other Bellevue café locations at Bravern 2 and City Center. In addition to the typical sandwich, soup and entrée offerings, they have a food station here in which a different local vendor comes in to sell food. The vendor and type of cuisine changes daily.
I got a beef noodle soup from one of those vendors, Shanghai Shanghai here. I know Din Tai Fung is right downstairs and their beef noodle soup is better, but if you don’t have much time, the version here will do. Still the food is an afterthought, as the reason to dine here is for the stupendous view.
The food stations are located within the interior of the building, while the dining areas are spaced around the sides of the café. As such, the dining room views are terrific with views of Lake Washington, Seattle and the Olympic Mountains. With views like this, it seems a bit disappointing that the fare at this café is not on par with the best cafes on the main campus.