Acoustic Café

  4.4 – 558 reviews   • Cafe

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Since 1994, Acoustic Cafe Menomonie has been serving Menomonie and the surrounding Eau Claire, Chippewa, Pepin, Pierce, St. Croix, and Barron communities with handcrafted sandwiches, fresh‑baked goods, hearty soups, and vibrant salads. Enjoy local beers, fair trade organic coffee, and specialty sodas in a warm, welcoming space. Stop in and experience the flavor and community that make Acoustic Cafe a local staple.

Homey brick-lined coffee shop in a vintage building offering espresso & sandwiches.

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Anna Wikstrom
the hoagies always hit the spot and the beer cheese soup is the best I’ve ever had. the orange brutus smoothie is a favorite too. acoustic cafe is my favorite restaurant in menomonie, and I cannot recommend it enough! the staff is kind and friendly and always consistently serves great food 🙂
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Roberto Diaz
Really enjoyed my visit to this Cafe. The food was delicious and affordable. The selections were very clear. The chili had beans which is not something I do for my chili but it was still very tasty. The hoagie bread was so soft and fresh. My boys had the nachos which they enjoyed. Gluten free wrap which my wife was able to enjoy. Three large hot mochas to finish the meal was a great finishing treat to a wonderful meal. Almost forgot the vegan muffin we enjoyed with the mochas. Very good. Being from Texas the chili with beans was definitely something different but I was impressed that the chili had a great taste and was not sweet.
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Abigail Ashmore
I love coming here!! The last few semesters I traveled around to different coffee shops around campus and always ran into something that was a little “off putting” to me. Maybe they had good coffee but really really bad food or they didn’t have good coffee or food but a really great atmosphere. Acoustic Café not only has great coffee, food, a welcoming atmosphere but also great and Enthusiastic(I can’t emphasize it enough)Employees!! Nothing like it! I hope they know what a blessing they are to those around them and how they truly touch peoples lives.
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Seth McMillan
I came here expecting a meal, not an attitude. One employee in particular (woman in glasses, sometimes a bandana) seemed personally offended that customers existed. From the eye-rolling to the clipped, nasty responses, every interaction felt hostile and unnecessary.

The food itself might have had potential, but it’s hard to enjoy anything when you’re being treated like an inconvenience. My plate was dropped off without a word, like the final act in a silent argument I didn’t know I was part of.

One consistently rude employee can drag an entire establishment down, and unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened here. Save your money and your mood and eat somewhere you’re actually welcome.
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H Stanton
DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY
If I could rate this place 0 stars I would. My husband stopped in to get us some sandwiches and what he brought home was a fricking joke! They would not alter my sandwich at all. I wanted alfalfa sprouts instead of lettuce and absolutely would not! So my husband brought home a plain sandwich, only meat… well if you want to call what I had was meat, which it was supposed to have ham, salami, and Corned breef. More like a bread sandwich! For the price this is absolutely ridiculous! They should be ashamed.
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Dana Karlstad
The staff was EXTREMELY rude. We came in for a soup and sandwich. The guy taking our order was making it seem like he has no time for us even though there was one other person in the entire establishment studying. I then was asking about the baked goods, and I asked what type of bread it was and the woman said “it says right on there” with a lot of attitude. And then I asked, do you guys make it all? And she responded with even more attitude and an eye roll- “we are a bakery”.

Very unfortunate because I used to come here all of the time when I was in college. And to know they have staff here that treats customers like this is very sad.
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Owen
Eau Claire and Winona Acoustic Cafés are great, good food, friendly service, and a welcoming vibe. Menomonie, though, is a nightmare. Every time I’ve gone, the older woman with glasses and sometimes a bandana has been shockingly rude and unpleasant to customers. Her attitude ruins the whole experience. Until management fixes this, I’ll stick to the other locations.

It’s honestly unbelievable how one employee can drag down an entire business. She’s consistently short, dismissive, and makes you feel like you’re a burden for even being there. Menomonie deserves better customers shouldn’t have to brace themselves for rudeness just to grab a meal.
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Kathryn Koniar
For our cozy little cafe, it has been a staple in Menomonie that we love and adore. I recently got a coffee and decided to be adventurous, so I went for the cashier’s favorite. I ended up ordering the Mexican Mocha. It was spicy-good! There’s a bit of cayenne, cinnamon, and smooth mocha for a sweet finish. I can’t say enough how delicious their food and coffee are, especially their gluten-free wraps!
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Matthew Jacques
I enjoyed the food and atmosphere… but they’re charging a 4% credit card fee. in 2026.
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Jade Harley
The food is the only reason I continue to come here. If any other sandwich shop made hoagies like they do at Acoustic, I would happily relieve the manager of the burden of tending to her customers in a customer service position. I would happily buy a couple bottles of the special sauce a month if it meant never having to interact with her again.

Genuinely, this woman seems livid and indignant that any customer dares to occupy her precious space in a customer service establishment. Will ask “to-go” customers who sit down to wait if they’re staying or leaving (oh well, we were gonna eat part of it here and then leave so you wouldn’t have to deal with us getting our food wrapped up to go, but I guess you don’t want customers inside of your customer service establishment?)

All the other employees are sweet and kind, and every single one of them seems to be having the most stressful day of their lives if she’s behind the counter with them. I’ve seen this cafe on busy days without the manager and busy days with, and the busy days with always seem substantially more high-stress despite these employees being perfectly able to deal with a rush.
The two stars for the service are for every other worker there, and the missing three are for the management. Make this place order-ahead-and-carryout only if you don’t want to be in customer service, but you’re making your staff miserable and your customers uncomfortable and unwelcome for a job you don’t even seem to want or like.
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