Jack's Urban Eats - Rancho Cordova

We always like Jacks for a great salad. And their salads never disappoint. They are fresh and good. With your choices of meat or tofu. Their sandwiches are also very tasty and they change their selections periodically, I appreciate that.

Since getting a good, decent salad is tougher than you think, it really limits the options, at least in the greater Sacramento area. Sure you could go to the supermarket and pick up all the fresh produce or even get a premade salad kit but what fun is that? Which takes me to Jack 's Urban Eats , a very popular place to get an excellent fresh salad with locations all over the Sacramento region to serve you. In this case, I am reviewing the Gold River/Rancho Cordova location. This particular restaurant is at the Gold River Town Center directly off of Sunrise Blvd and adjacent to Golden Centre Lane surrounding many other restaurants, shopping, and retail stores. On any given day (depending what time you arrive), parking can sometimes be a challenge. But much of this area is spread out where I 've never had any issues. This easiest way to find this Jack 's Urban Eats is that it neighbors Blaze Pizza and directly across from a Raley 's. I came here during the afternoon of Friday 11/25/2022 at around 2:15pm. Since I was very hungry, I decided on ordering two items off of their extensive menu, the Greek Chicken Salad and their Chargrilled Chicken Sandwich . The ordering process here is identical to all of the other locations where you place your order at the counter. They provide you with a number and your drink cup and proceed to wherever you choose to sit. The inside of this place is well laid out but it is a bit on the darker side. Probably because it was a gloomy fall day which definitely didn 't help. Once both my salad and sandwich arrived, they definitely did not skimp on the portions. My Green salad was loaded with seasoned white chicken which was tender, moist, and juicy. And my sandwich also hit the spot as the chicken in it was similar to that of my salad as well as a generous amount of mayo, lettuce, and tomatoes on a soft French roll. For both of these items being in the $9-11 range, the price itself isn 't all that bad. I also took the other half of my sandwich home and enjoyed that as an evening snack. With that said and done, I am giving the Gold River Jack 's Urban Eats an above average four-star rating.

Great fresh food and not much more expensive than takeout! We have been coming here for years and the quality is consistently good!

For some reason, of all the Jacks I freequent, this location is the best one making my salad every time. I will drive out of my way now to come HERE because those guys have the proportions down, just the best. I don't know how or why, but I order the same salad at different spots and it tastes best here. Wontons were half stale a Roseville Galleria yesterday, so I learned my lesson again. Thanks guys keep it up

Almost removed three stars but the overall flavor of the food combined with good service saved them. The meat combo plate is very good. Nice portion, hot and fresh, and combined with the tomato soup (why does every tomato soup taste like the one you get in the bin at Safeway? it makes for a complete lunch. The Cobb salad was the harder item to dissect. The dressing was good, plenty of variety in the salad but the Salmon that came on top was so small. It seemed to be about 4 ounces max which ends up being not enuf to eat. It was also not warm and not that juicy so maybe it was cooked earlier and put on top to handle the lunch rush? Luckily the soup rounded out the meal. Another strange point was no bread was served (not even just a slice with salad or soup. It was my first time so i don't know if that is be design or just an oversight. Lastly, my co-worker wanted to get a burger for lunch. This place has a grill, makes good hot meats like the tri tip, but does not offer a burger. How does that work? It is a good place to eat overall but the observations above resulted in a dual star beat down.