Devon & Blakely

Great city location for lunch with plenty of options. I frequent here about once a week. Would go more if the food were priced more reasonably. Today I paid $ 18 for a grilled cheese and small soup. At that price point you could sit down at a four/​five star restaurant.

Great food, great variety, great customization options! I’ve made a create-​your-​own-​salad three times already (three completely different *configurations*), and none have disappointed me! The blackened chicken is awesome, by the way! This is the one I got yesterday: large kale salad with beets, broccoli, avocado, blackened chicken, walnuts, artichoke, carrots, roasted peppers, and egg. Hell, writing this is making me want to get another one today!

Salads, soups & sandwiches, oh my! If you’re looking for lots of sandwich options, made to order salads (with lots of topping choices) and 18 soup options daily, then this is your spot. Everything here moves fast, so try to figure out what you want quick. All food is to the right, starting with the pre-​made sandwiches. Tell someone behind the counter what you want, and it will be wrapped up & handed to you in no time. Then the salad station, grab your choice of greens from in front of the pillar in the center of the store, and hand it to someone behind the counter to begin adding your toppings. The topping list is long, and I always feel a bit pressured to decide what I want immediately, so I always try to check the menu out online ahead of time to be prepared. After the salads is the soups. Their wide variety of soups is actually what first brought me here. I was looking for something equivalent to Hale & Hearty soups located in NYC, and this place is a nice local replacement for it. They have vegetarian & gluten free soup options as well.
Food is fresh and has high turnover. Employees are nice, helpful & they get you in & out fast. Salads can get a bit pricey if you add in a ton of toppings. Either way, one of my favorite quick lunch spots in Philly!

I ordered a simple chicken Ceasar salad. When I sat down to eat it, it was disgusting. It was swimming in dressing and the chicken was so dry, the entire thing was inedible.
I brought it back to the cashier and told her it was gross and I couldn’t eat it. She called over a manager who asked if I asked for extra dressing. WTF? If I wanted soup I would have asked for soup.
This place needs to take responsibility for their employee’s mistakes and stand behind their product, not put it off on the Customer.
She obviously was trying to blame me for their shitty salad. My money was refunded and I went elsewhere. Won’t be back.

Great food, lots to choose from. So many choices. Seems confusing at first, but after the 2^nd visit, you’ll get it down. Tons of sandwiches and soups, it’s crazy.

Never going here during lunch rush again. Honestly I love that this place has tofu but the cross contamination during the lunch rush– while understandable — is actually unacceptable.
I asked for tofu and I got chicken in my salad. (Along with the tofu!) I also received unasked for baby corn, some chickpeas I did not request and some carrot shreds from a dirty display area.
Most of the «additions» did not alarm me, until I saw the chicken.
This place was nice about it and gave me a refund– but you can best believe I will not be coming back soon!

If it weren’t for the prices, I would come here so much more often. This is in such a convenient location on Market street with a lot of outdoor seating. It’s a great work breakfast/​lunch spot. I love their variety of soups, sandwiches, and options at the salad bar. Everything is always ridiculously fresh.
It does tend to get crowded during lunch hours, but the staff is friendly and accommodating. I recently had the vegetarian chili and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. You could tell it was cooked for a long time because of the color and thickness. I definitely recommend!

Excellent choice of sandwiches, soups and customized salads. Little pricey but always delicious.

Good selection but too pricey and chaotic. If short on time and need something on-​the-​go, Au Bön Pain has salads and soups that are prepared that you can grab.

The concept here is exciting –
(i) pickup a pre-​made sandwich at the counter, or
(ii) grab a salad bowl that’s already filled with greens or
(iii) get some soup or
(iv) do some mixture of all of the above
Coming from california, land of salad and healthy food, the toppings here were a bit disappointing. Chicken breast option was tasty though a bit dry. The res of the toppings tasted processed though (canned corn, canned corn kernels, frozen edamame, raw sliced button mushrooms, celery) so I was a little disappointed. $ 7.50 in total, so not super expensive.
Dressing was decent, multi-​grain bread was OK, chicken noodle soup ($ 2.75 per cup) tasted pre-​made.
Staff there very friendly, location is a bit loud if you want to sit down.

I dream about this place and get so excited on days when I am close enough to eat here for lunch. Everything is so fresh and so delicious. They have the best avocado. Lunch is expensive but worth it.

Devon & Blakely has become a staple in my lunch rotation. I eat here twice a week, if not more. The salads are fresh, lots of choices for soups and sandwiches, and the lines move pretty quick.
I’m updating this review because today I ordered my usual salad — and it was $ 0.50 more because I had the dressing ON THE SIDE. It was not «extra dressing» — it was just on the side because I like to control the amount of dressing in my salad. If you eat here multiple times a week, every week, that adds up! And I don’t believe that the plastic dressing containers cost much of anything, so this price increase is pretty ludicrous! Gotta say… D&B just went down a notch in my book. Management should really reconsider this «on the side» cost.

Always a solid lunch spot. I go frequently for soup — I usually order either tomato basil or some variation of chili, depending on what they have that day, and it is consistently good. Be aware that the lunch rush is really chaotic here, there is limited seating, and this place is definitely on the expensive side. That being said, I continue happily coming back for more.

So convenient. I need never see the light of day when finally unchained from my desk for a few fleeting moments just go downstairs and through some side doors and voila! No sunshine for me. With that established they are my morning bagel stop. Bonus that they had a wide variety of soups all winter so I could stay cozy and warm indoors. With all that said they are on a higher price point, but I accept that I’m paying for convenience.

Tons of sandwich and soup options for lunch, although a bit pricey. This place was packed for lunch with the business professionals, and it’s a bit awkward to order the food. I think my chicken fajita flat bread was OK and the turkey chili was really nice and and thick and chunky. I think I’d bump it up to 4 stars if they had more lunch specials or deals, $ 11 for half sandwhich and small soup is a bit much. There is some limited seating as well.

Hello Unilocaler’s Gregory Grookett and I am here to tell you this place is great for a quick lunch weather your going to dine in or take away your order. I happened to be in the area on this day and the weather was below freezing. Upon entering I could tell the place was good as it was ending the lunch crowd as it was 1:30pm and the place still had at least 40 people in line ordering and paying and about 20 – 25 in their little seating area.
What caught my eye was a sign out front that said 16 soups on the menu daily and seeing it was so freezing out that seemed very appealing to me as I had been walking for about twenty minutes. Let me tell you great find they have a huge selection of sandwiches and wraps as well as I mentioned earlier soups! But what they also have for salad lovers is what looked like the biggest and best make your own salad area. The workers put whatever you choose in the salad bowl for you and I assume they go by weight upon paying not sure but I will be going back here again on a warmer day to try a salad. I went with a Cobb Wrap and Italian Wedding soup and it was delicious! With a water my total came to $ 14.35 which isn’t bad for center city and I was full and had half of my wrap left to take home for lunch tomorrow or a snack later. Gregory Grookett recommends this place for a quick quality lunch!

This place is worth the brief lines you have to stand in during the lunch rush. I haven’t tried the sandwiches yet but the salads are the best «fast food» you can get. Pick from romaine, kale, spinach or arugala as a base then add whatever ingredients you want. Beats going to Saladworks or Honeygrow. I get whatever I want and leave with a packed salad for $ 2-​$ 4 less than its competitors. If you haven’t been here yet I highly suggest it!

i would love for someone to return the $ 11 i just spent. i normally give good reviews, but even giving this place two stars would have been too generous. i ordered lunch online through seamless and my takeout order was ready within 15 – 20 minutes as promised, but the positives pretty much end there. i ordered a tomato and mozzarella sandwich on a wheat wrap — not sure how you can mess that up — the wrap itself and the actual tomato and cheese looked decent but considering the price of the wrap ($ 7.25), there should have been more in there (the wrap contained about half of what the same wraps at places like fuel do).
my wrap was slathered with a nasty pesto/​mayonnaise sauce. there was more of this «pesto sauce» on my wrap than actual cheese or tomatoes. the menu does NOT mention the mayo; if it had, i would have been too grossed out to even consider ordering the sandwich. now, unfortunately, i’m sitting at my desk looking at the mayo mixture feeling even more grossed out.
now let’s talk about the pickles. i love pickles and can honestly say that, aside from maybe whiskey-​soaked pickles, i love all kinds and have never had a «shitty pickle.» well, i had my first ever shitty pickle today at devon & blakely. it was so soaked with vinegar and water that the slices were practically transparent. the only slice i tried to eat was so flavorless that i tried salting it and that still didn’t help.
all in all, i spent $ 11 on this lunch and disposed of 90% of it. thank god i bought that $ 2 bag of miss vickie’s chips because that ended up being my entire lunch today.
my advice: either save your money and don’t go here at all or spend a little more and get something good at dibruno bros., fuel or even cosi.

Thank god this place came to my building at work! So convenient to not have to go outside if it is a bad day. I always do a create my own salad. They have amazing fresh ingredients. They get you in and out even if there is a long line. I have never tried a sandwich but they look amazing. Prices are the same as like saladworks but it is a way better salad. Great lunch option!

Nice place for quick lunch. I felt like a kid in a candy store because all the food is behind the glass and you have to point your finger to whatever suits your fancy. I selected a North Carolina barbecue chicken sandwich. It was a grilled chicken breast on a seeded French roll with a delicious barbecue sauce and topped off with some homemade coleslaw. The server stuck my sandwich is one of those panini press thingys which gave the roll a nice crunch.
I’ve selected a side order of grilled brussel sprouts to accompany my sandwich and I topped it off with a cup of hot coffee. I sat outside because today was very warm and as I was enjoying my sandwich, I could not help watching all those people at the food carts filling up on dirty water hot dogs and cheese steaks cooked in the cart, and with a couple dollars more they could be sitting at a table enjoy a decent meal with me.