Corner Bakery Cafe

For a franchise, Corner Bakery Café has some high quality food and a comforting atmosphere. Very similar to Panera, Corner Bakery Café offers breakfast, café style food, and an assortment of pastries. Their quinoa oatmeal and spinach sweet crisp salad are my two favorite items on the menu. If you ever pass one of these, you should definitely stop in and try it out!

Such great service here!!! They close at 6pm on the week days and my train was running late so I called in to do a pick up order told them I would be like 15 minutes late and they said it’s totally fine. It turned out I was about 45 minutes late and one of the employees named Ajee stayed open for me and brought my food out to the side door at 6:45 and it was still hot! Literally she was amazing and just wanted to say such great service!!!

This place reminds me of Panera Bread. In fact, I would have believed it if someone blindfolded me and led me into the store (haha).
I ordered a half panini and soup combination. My panini was hit the spot (got the veggie one with roasted zucchini and melted cheese yumm). The broccoli cheddar soup was creamy and rich, just the way I like it. Unfortunately the bread bowl itself was sour and stale at the same time (yuck).
They gave me a number to place on the table and brought the food to me. They also cleared the table for me when I was done, which was unexpected and nice.

This place is awesome, great coffee and breakfast and friendly service. Order then take a seat with your number card and your food will be brought rite out. If your in the area and hungry, stop in. It’s affordable too, better than those other chain places that begin with an «M»

Walked by this place and it smelled amazing. From the outside looking in, this placed looked like a nice spot to try. Entering the restaurant, didn’t seem quite the same as my view from the outside, but I continued to check the menu out. It was still early, breakfast time, around 9:30(ish). This place is basically like a Panera bread, but In my opinion, Panera Bread is better.
The menu had nothing that stood out to me. I desperately considered leaving and finding another place to eat. I was really hungry though, so I could not wait! I somewhat forced myself to give this place a try. I waited at the counter to order, but no one really asked if they could help me. So I just started telling the worker my order. I ordered a breakfast panini and asked for potatoes on the side which was an extra $ 1. That’s Fine. By this time it was 9:50, almost the switch over for lunch time. I had asked if the potatoes were still available and the lady said yes we had another 10 minutes before lunch time. Great! So she gave us the order number and we sat down and waited for our food. They brought the food over to our table and collected the number. I looked at the plate thinking this was not our order because I didn’t order FRUIT, I ordered POTATOES. So I went up to the counter right away and told them I got fruit instead of the potatoes. This other employee said they were out of potatoes. Hmmmm ok cause 10mins ago you said you had them, but ok fine. Fruit it is. The fruit was all mushy and seemed a couple weeks old. He did, however, give us a free bag of chips.
Anyway, I tried the panini, it was ok, not the best, the eggs were questionable, the avocado seemed good. Overall, I ate most of it, but wouldn’t go there again. Maybe lunch is better? I don’t know, but I won’t be there to try it. There are many other places to try in Philadelphia.

I’ve been going to this location off and on for the past ten years. All I can say is recently the service has gone completely downhill. I placed an order online for lunch recently. When I went to pick it up at the appointed time I stood in the pickup express line while the cashiers ignored me. When I walked up to the counter and told them I was picking up my order. The cashier asked me, «Oh, you’ve been standing there all this time?» Really?!?
If you’re looking for unprofessional, indifferent and lackadaisical service you can find it at this Corner Bakery location. Did I mention my order was wrong?

i stepped into the corner bakery today for something quick since i had a meeting and was a little early. All i ordered was a croissant. The girl at the register asked if i wanted it warmed up and i replied yes. After paying she handed me a little card to display at my table for someone to deliver my croissant to me. I sat down around the corner and waited. and waited… and then waited some more. surely it doesn’t take almost 10 minutes just to warm up a croissant and then for someone to bring it to me. I got up and walked toward the kitchen and guess what… there’s my croissant. Just sitting in its plate. all sad and alone… for how long? who knows… waiting for someone to take him to his final destination. I asked «excuse me… i believe thats my croissant.» The reply i got from the gentleman behind the counter was «oh it is? well then take it.» um… ok. sure.
how hard can it be to buy a croissant at the Corner Bakery? clearly for them its a difficult task.

I’m loving this place and I just started going there two weeks ago. Someone gave me free coffee and free chips because someone didn’t make my order right. The manager was happy and willing to do anything to make my visit great.
The food is great and my fav sandwich is «Chicken Pomodori on Sourdough».

I’m giving them a 4^th star because they are one of the few places that brew organic ice tea that is not, I repeat NOT, brewed through machines that brew coffee as well. This allows for pleasant ice tea taste and no nasty old coffee filter after taste. I’m looking at your DD. They also brew it year round which is another huge plus for me. And a final kudos for outdoor seating that doesn’t take over the entire sidewalk that is placed on the shaded side of the building. So you can sit outside without getting baked even if there is no umbrella at your table.

Once again, the Corner Bakery at 17^th and JFK Blvd. has come through with the power of coffee, the substance of fresh bagels and muffins, and five-​star service! With over 20 volunteers staffing the hotline stations and even more volunteers going out to the polls on Election Day, the Corner Bakery has been there to feed and fuel the Committee of Seventy. Especially when polls open at 7am and close at 8pm, coffee is a MUST! Appreciate it, Corner Bakery!

Went there because I was passing buy with less than 15 minutes left for my lunch break I ordered a sandwich combo ½ California grille and kale caesar salad it was ok. Dont think I would be back

Promising menu and also the plate looks like the photo.
Even the ingredients for the Anaheim scrambler are better than expected for this kind of venue.
BUT getting the eggs and potatos cold/​half warm is really a bummer at 8:30am
Coffee is as it is everywhere…

Great soups, sandwiches, salads, coffee and baked goods. Service here is wonderful and extremely efficient. Perfect stop for a quick lunch on the go.

Food served beautifully. Epic cure for hangover at 3pm. Satisfying food. Quick service, love it! Try panini, Anaheim scrambler & max & cheese
Ooo d all fruit smoothie is pretty good too!

The business district of Center City tends to be a ghost-​town on the weekends. So when the GF’s folks were in town, we were surprised to see that the Corner Bakery was open on a Saturday morning. Needing some simple fuel for the typical tourist walk, we stopped in.
There’s plenty of seasoning here — clearly capable of taking in the business crowd during the work week.
Mac n Cheese & Caesar Salad Combo [$ 8.69]
The GF decided to go with the mac n cheese & salad combo. The macaroni was nicely al dente, with a sharp cheddar sauce coating the noodles — a bit wet for my taste, but certainly to the GF’s liking. It came topped with bread crumbs and grilled bread on the side.
A side of caesar salad was decent — lettuce, shreds of Parmesan, and bread crumbs — hard to go wrong here.
Anaheim Scrambler [$ 7.89]
Scrambled eggs, smoked bacon, tomatoes, green onions, cheddar, avocado
I was in the mood for a breakfast sandwich so went with one of their scrambler sandwiches. A mélange of creamy avocado and scrambled eggs was accented nicely by the bite of green onion and the crispy bits of bacon. The cheddar brought it all together within the house-​made bread, grilled on a panini. I was hoping for a side of home fries, but they were out shortly before noon.
So if you’re looking for some simple fare with some house-​made bread, check out Corner Bakery! There’s no Panera on the west-​side of City Hall, so this will definitely do!

Loved this place for breakfast; dined here both mornings while in Philadelphia. Excellent coffee, omelettes and steel cut oats. Nice friendly service as well.

I came here with my group of friends while visiting the Franklin Institute. It was easy and convenient to eat here since it’s literally right next to the Franklin Institute! Also, it’s perfect for a quick fix! It’s very similar to Panera Bread where it offers soups, salads, and sandwiches.
Because we had a group of 10, they opened up the room next door, which was very nice of them, so we didn’t have to split up. Also, they were very quick, efficient, and attentive with the food, water, and us! The food is decent for a chain. I got an order of chicken noodle soup — MY FAVE! and it almost hit the spot but it was lacking some hardy noodles. I think I also got a sandwich, which is okay.
It’s definitely a great place to eat if you’re in Philly for sightseeing, museums, and touristy landmarks; instead of the food! But the food here is good and sufficient if you just want to have energy to keep going and traveling instead of relaxing and enjoying!

Six of us made plans to meet and eat at the Corner Bakery Café, and when we arrived to park our scooters there was a Corner Bakery Café delivery vehicle taking up all six motorcycle and scooter parking spots. We waited and waited for the vehicle to be moved and nobody ever did. Then, one of the locals in the area told us that the Corner Bakery Café delivery truck ALWAYS parks illegally in MC/​scooter only parking. We then spent an hour trying to park in center city but realized that most of them were already taken up by cars or SUVs or other MCs or scooters. WE ended up going to eat and drink at Gunner’s Run in Northern Liberties instead. No parking hassle there at all.

The food here has been consistent, but I’m really baffled at the service. When someone orders online, and shows up to pick it up, why would it take longer to get that order (much longer) than new customers who have come in and ordered? I sat and watched people come in, wait in line, order, and get their food multiple times before mine came up.
I asked the manager about it, and he said that it takes at least a half hour to process the order. What? It takes a half hour to process a pre-​paid sandwich? It just doesn’t compute.

I like the food here, but the concept of having someone search all over the place for your card is really annoying. The reason being:
1. Them walking around aimlessly to find me causes my food to get cold (when I order pasta or panini)
2. I have seen some food delivery people sneeze while holding the tray. YUCK!
3. I have seen servers never seem to find the person that ordered the food.
4. Some of them just stand there and not even make any sort of effort to look for the person with that food order.
Anyway, moving onto the food (ordered there):
–Mac n Cheese w/​bacon and tomatoes — delicious! Cheesy and creamy with just the right amount of flavor.
–Ceasar Salad — my salad was brown!
–Chicken Carbonara — Also really good. I enjoy their pastas.
Food being catered (my work orders from here often). I’ve basically tried almost all of their sandwiches:
–The ham on pretzel is way too salty! They should make the pretzel bread without salt bc the ham is already salty.
–DC Chicken salad — love! I always loved fruit mxed in with chicken. Gives it a lil Umph!
–Chicken Pesto — It’s ok. I think they overload it with too much arugula, but I know a few coworkers that love it that way.
Uptown Turkey — prob one of my favorites