Paradise Bakery and Cafe

Someday I will learn and that will be the true final last day I ever set foot in one of these. I did well for a long time, but then a lapse… this particular location is gorgeous, spectacular inside, like most of the Paradises tend to be. Good selection of sodas and they have very solid cookies. I grant them that. Not spectacular, not great, but very solid. Staff is unfailing nice and a joy to interact with, better at this place than nearly any other.
Where they fall down is in the «everything else» part. I have yet to have a single sandwich or breakfast item that I’d put above Maverik. Or 7 – 11. Or any other gas station, except for the plastic-​wrapped Deli Express messes. Literally EVERY fast food joint serving breakfast does their better. I find this so baffling that a bakery would struggle to this level, after leaving little to chance in décor and cookies and business model and fountain selection and other accoutrements, but they do. Unfailingly. And they’re expensive to boot, grossly overpriced, in fact. Someday I will learn and never again write another review of this baffling and substandard chain. Someday…

Because I eat Paleo, the last place I would choose to dine would be a bakery. However a lunch biz date somewhere close to the office lead us here. There were very few options for me to choose from so I went with a grilled chicken salad. The apple crisps on top were KILLER! I wanted to do a half soup and half salad but there was a sign that the «tomato soup was no longer gluten free»…*insert emoji eye roll*. There is just no need to put gluten in tomato soup.

Food was fine, but the process was confusing. I apparently missed a station (wanted soup), and caused some problems as they had to go back and get it while I waited at the cashier. other than that, everyone was pleasant enough.

I’ve noticed that the manager makes fun of her employees to customers. The food is amazing, but the employees look miserable.

Check out the signs «Buy one cookie get one free» the «with a purchase of an entrée» is so small you can hardly read it! Very deceiving, always up-​selling!

I’m pretty easy to please but am compelled to write about my experience here because It left me so completely underwhelmed and disappointed. Veggie omlet was made by microwaving the veggies and then folding them into the middle of what appeared to be a scrambled egg patty. The feta inside consisted of hard flat pieces that had reminded me of plastic. And there was no sign of the Greek yoghurt topping promised on the menu board. To top it off the side of fruit looked like it may have been prepared a few days ago and the latte I ordered arrived a good 5 minutes after the food. All this with the restaurant on about 10% full. Maybe the place runs better when it’s busy?

I am a simple man. Apparently too simply for the likes of Paradise as I really, really struggled trying to order a bowl of soup and a sandwich.
Where do I go? Do I order all at one counter or go to the different stations? Is one person going to walk me through or do I meet everyone working today? Semi– buffet style just doesn’t click with my brain.
Outside of my obvious inability to order food, the fair was pretty decent. The soup selection was better than the sandwich I ordered and the pricing wasn’t «oh my hell» expensive but it is up there. We did find our glutinous selves ordering extra cookies. They were awesome.

Love the Fuji apple salad and Roasted Tomato Soup. Only problem here is the staff always seems grumpy and stressed out.

Panera copy and not as good. The ordering system sucks and the menu is confusing. Hardly any one in there but it was very loud it is a big place. They have sandwich, salads and baked goods but expensive for what you get.

One of my favorite places to eat! Quick, super friendly, always helpful, and always delicious. I’m hesitant to venture outside my comfort zone of tomato soup and Fuji apple chicken salad, but every time I do I’m never disappointed! My daughter orders the crumbly bleu cheese salad every time, and we’ve been there enough that they start making it when she walks in! I love feeling like a valued (obviously regular!) customer!

Good salad s and sandwiches. Service can be slow and unfriendly at times. Free wifi

They really have stepped up their game. I must say every time I have came back to this location the service is great! They are finally listening to what I’m asking for and leaving the tomato off!!!
In all seriousness the food is great, cookies so yummy and the tuna sandwich (which is my favorite) is amazing. My view of this location has definitely changed. Glad they started caring about their customers!

Good quick food. breads, muffins and cookies are all yummy

Went for the first time this week. Had an early dinner. It was very good overall. Both of our dinners were tasty. We got out of there for just over $ 20. We didn’t order soda, just water.
I will go back and try it again.

Great manager. I’ve eaten here quite a bit. I wish the relief society would hold their meetings elsewhere, but oh well. It’s noisy, but one can sit outside.

There are things to love and things to hate about this eatery.
First the pros:
Oatmeal with fruit
Soft, fresh cookies
Fresh salads
Excellent soup
Diet Coke!
Cons:
Overpriced
The kids meals are measly and quite frankly, disgusting
The lunch hour gets crazy busy with «ladies who lunch» types
Sandwiches are uninspired
Boils down to this: Come for the soup or salad, leave the kids at home and avoid lunch hour like the plague.

Variable service, but I love the massive custom salad option.
Btw, at this location, you will be dinning with the entire relief society and kids.

The place slays me every time. It’s a consistent collection of mildly strange experiences which faithfully follow the same script with every visit. To start, you don’t walk up to the counter, you sort of meander into it. All the time feeling as if you’ve landed in the wrong line, or shouldn’t yet be in line, or maybe there’s another line, but the staff has decided to take pity on you and let you have your way. Someone takes your order, you move a little further down the line and they ask if you’d like to order more… a salad, some soup, or a pile of cookies. Then they forget about you for a season while the poor cashier addresses the real, but odd concern of a customer wondering if they really need the tray to carry the little plastic number, as their order is still being prepared a ways back.
Once your turn arrives, you discover this is one expensive little lunch. For some reason the sandwich didn’t look that expensive on the menu. Then you carry your little plastic number on your tray, find a table and remember you forgot a trusty pair of ear plugs. I’ve been to several Paradise franchises, and they are all incredibly noisy. Maybe I’m growing old and tired of all these kids and their rock-​and-​roll music. Or maybe all their restaurants are designed to be really, really noisy.
When your sandwich makes it out of the gauntlet, your previous discovery of this being an expensive little lunch is lessened a touch by the surprise cookie on your plate. Then the feeling comes rushing back as you address the sandwich and find it’s made of roughly 113% bread with a minor binding agent in between.
Outside of everything else the best part of Paradise is ordering cookies. Remember that scene from Taken where Liam Nesson ties up the bad guy to a fully wired lawn chair? Yeah. Pretend the bad guy is logic and Liam Nesson is the Paradise employee assigned to sell the cookies. They offer them on a «Buy One, Get One Free (with entrée)» basis. With that, logic would assume that if you bought a dozen you could get an additional dozen. Not so fast (imagine Liam cranking the switch; logic begins to convulse in agony). «The cookies are sold for $ 1.35 each, if you buy six, you’ll get six free, but they couldn’t do the same deal for a dozen because then they’d be less than .70 cents each.» That’s the tortured explanation we’ve received each and every time. We continue to ask just for the fun of hearing the poor employee attempt to recite the line. You do the math: Two trains leave the station traveling 60 mph, er, if a cookie is sold for .70 cents, how does the value of the cookie change if you buy two, or two-​hundred?
I go to Paradise more often than I’d like, and I’m thankful for the reliable cookie kabuki. Overall, the food is okay. You can tell the employees really, really wish it were better, and you do too. In the end, you and the staff simply stare longingly at each other wanting both dreams to come true. After your meal, order some cookies and ask why you can buy six and get six free, but can’t buy 12 and get 12 free. You won’t be disappointed. Perplexed and bewildered, but not disappointed.

Bloody DREADFUL. I may have had expectations? Big mistake. Crowded, pre Christmas looked good, great promotion, graphics, photography, interior design.etc.
Food was aweful. The advertised Sonoma Stew, sounded great, tasted like THICK-​flour laden MSG. Served sloppy’ spilt onto serving tray. I ordered Cranberry-​Turkey sandw. addit. Black bread was dry, sandwich only edible is you are truly starving. I will NEVER return. review my other reviews, this is my ONLY bad.

You can’t go wrong here. The sandwiches are tasty, the soups are really good and the cookies… ooooh the cookies. Heaven. LOVE their cookies. We ordered a turkey wrap, bowl of tomato soup and a roast beef sandwich (and you get 1 free cookie with each meal) and the bill was 17.59.