Corner Bakery Cafe

Great service here. The employees are always friendly and polite, and the seating area is always clean.

I tried the Anaheim panini for the first time and it satisfied my craving for a good breakfast sammy. Corner Bakery is a great chain, and this location always does a nice job. Friendly service and lots of space for studying or meeting for lunch. Keep it simple with your food choice and you will be satisfied.

Not thrilled at all with Corner Bakery. The food is overpriced and bland. I got a caprese flat bread aka a piece of mozzarella, a tomato, twisted onto a flatbread and folded over. Super dry, no real taste, a serious bummer. And for $ 8! Regardless, it’s a cute little place, and a nice spot for a work lunch. They also have a coffee reward punch card — buy 6 and get one free, so that’s pretty solid.

I went to Corner Bakery Café for breakfast this morning. There aren’t too many places around University City that sells a decent breakfast (I guess most college students aren’t even awake around breakfast time). I had a pretty good experience; the staff was friendly, coffee was good, prices were decent and my breakfast flatbread was tasty.

A good option to have in University City and long overdue! It’s a chain, and the place is very consistent. The food is very good. Not outstanding, but… it’s a chain, so outstanding is not what I am looking for. There are plenty of options available, plus they are usually rotating a new and seasonal item!
Great baked goods (the monster cookie is my weakness) and pretty good coffee.
I really like that they have various menu options, so if you don’t know what you are in the mood for, you can still find something that will appeal to you.
I really like the food here, especially for a chain restaurant. It is a great option for any work day!
The place is very clean, and service is good, even when they are really crowded.
Outdoor seating for when you stop by on a nice day!

Corner Bakery is a well run chain, very similar to Panera Bread in store design and selection. The food is just ok, but it is consistent, quick, and relatively affordable. I grew up going to the Corner Bakery in Ardmore and I always enjoyed the atmosphere and food.
Although there are far better restaurants in the area, Corner Bakery definitely delivers a solid relatively affordable lunch option. The limited table service concept, where you order up front and they bring the food to your table, is nice. This café is also very clean, spacious, and bright, with wall-​to-​ceiling windows. The outdoor seating is great as well.
The food is nothing special, but serves as a good addition to the neighborhood.

Customer service was «eh». Foods a bit pricey but it is really good. (You get what you pay for). Dine alone or bring some friends. They even have a small area outside to eat. Overall it’s a nice place for lunch.

I found a RUSTED BATTERY in my salad. Thank goodness I only took two bites of my salad before I saw it and thank goodness I didn’t bite the battery. They refunded me for my meal and apologized. I’m never going back… I included pics.

This place is fairly new but a nice addition to the area. It’s a chain that I find to be overall slightly better than Panera. On my visit to this location, it seemed spacious and inviting. It wasn’t especially crowded at the time, and the wait for my sandwich was excessive. Other than that, the food is fine and it’s a good choice for lunch. It was also nice to see they had outdoor seating though since I was doing some work I opted to sit comfortably/​quietly inside. Overall, it should be a nice addition to the campus scene.

I absolutely love the food. It’s delicious! However, the service merits a low rating. On two occasions, I strongly suggested to my friends that we go to Corner Bakery for lunch/​dinner and I was embarrassed each time. The first time, my friend found a hair in his salad and the staff was unresponsive. The second time, it took over 40 minutes for our food to be delivered (I think they forgot about our orders). To be fair, the off-​peak hours tend to be much better serviced but those two situations were very disappointing.

I came here for breakfast one day with the hopes of staying for a while and studying with some friends. I was a little surprised to walk in and see a very bright layout with the space seeming more like a Cosi or Panera rather than a work-​inducing, cozy café. Because this location is quite new (less than a week old when I went), the staff doesn’t seem to be adequately trained. When my friend asked for what types of bagels there were, the employee hesitated and had to look behind the shelf to see what bagels were on display. When I asked about the specifics of a drink on their menu, I kept getting answers starting with «I believe» or «I think,» demonstrating the newness and uncertainty that is very evident in the workers here. Hopefully this aspect will improve with time, but as a customer, I felt a little uncomfortable to be in a place where even the employees couldn’t answer many questions about the menu.
With regards to the actual food though, I think that this place is pretty solid. There is a wide array of sandwiches, salads, pastas, baked goods, and breakfast options. I was at a meeting where one of my teammates got the mac and cheese for take out, and the portion was HUGE. It also looked really delicious, though I wasn’t able to try some for myself. During my experience for breakfast, I ordered an iced soy latte and the yogurt parfait. I actually really loved the parfait — one of the best that I’ve ordered in a café before. It wasn’t prepackaged like in many other breakfast locations and was served with very fresh fruit in a nice ceramic bowl. The granola was very crunchy and tasty and added a great textural element to the parfait. The freshness of the parfait really impressed me. My friend just got a regular coffee for our study session, and he loved that there are free refills! Especially for a group of people who are planning to stay and study for a while, free refills is awesome!
Regarding the ambiance aspect, like I said before, Corner Bakery Café doesn’t really qualify as a typical «cozy» café — it serves more actual lunch/​dinner foods and has a less extensive menu of café drinks. The ambiance itself reflects this. There is a wide array of outlets near the tables against the wall, which you would think would make it a great study spot for college students, but I really couldn’t concentrate with such the bright lights and loud music. I feel like Corner Bakery is more for grab-​and-​go coffee and quick meals during lunch breaks rather than for sit-​and-​stay conversations and studying sessions.
I will say that it had a very scrumptious looking menu, and it isn’t too far from both the Drexel and UPenn campuses, so I hope to be back soon to try some of their food options! I would probably find another, more suitable location for studying though.

This place is amazing and the staff is wonderful. Brand new place. Just opened. The prices are decent. It’s nice to see some more food choices come to university city.

Having a Corner Bakery at this location is LONG overdue. Between a hospital close by as well as a ton of university-​affiliated buildings, the need for a lunch option other than the cafeteria or restaurants is a must. This corner bakery has outdoor seating as well as a decent amount of seating indoors.
They had a soft opening and we tried lots of and lots of food. Breakfast winner: pancakes. Lunch winner: most of their sandwiches are their strongest game. However, the salad I had was so good: Spinach Sweet Crisp (spinach, grapes, oranges, dried cranberries, goat cheese…) so delicious! Dinner I tried the chicken carbonara which was just OK. They had other pasta options which were also just OK. I really think that lunch is their best option (with the sandwiches and the salads). The loaded baked potato soup was really really good. The best dessert we had was the chocolate bundt cake with icing. Not so good: the lemon bar. It was hard and tasted like lemon flavored flour. On the other hand, their cookies are really tasty as long as you don’t look up the calories. Then it makes you sad to have the «is it worth it??» debate.
Very glad to see you at this location, Corner Bakery. Best meal here is lunch!