Paradise Bakery & Cafe

I don’t eat meat so I ordered the quinoa Mediterranean salad. There was a pile of chicken and maybe a teaspoon of quinoa… maybe. And the blueberry superfood smoothie?! Ugh. Watery and tasteless. Very unimpressed.

I like this place bec it serves great salad. My fav is the Mediterranean chicken quinoa bec it’s very tasty and it’s always fresh. My problem with this place is consistency! I get this salad all the time and every time I get it, there’s always something different. One time I got it with regular tomatoes, another time with the sundried tomatoes, once without feta cheese, other times with feta. I think I have only gotten this salad the way it should be one time. Perhaps there’s training problem which management should really look into.

I don’t get any pleasure from having to write this review, but this has to be addressed. The Paradise Café in the C concourse of PHX airport was so filthy today it was downright disgusting. I have seen this level of filth at this location previously and almost posted then. After seeing the pattern continue today Dec. 29^th, 2015, I had to post. You would think perhaps they were busy and short staffed, but there was one other customer ordering besides me and there were 9 employees just behind the counter– perhaps more in the kitchen. The garbage overflowing everywhere was gross, especially in the food prep area. This is a complete and ongoing management failure and I can only hope it gets addressed. To be fair, the food is usually decent, but I can only imagine what’s in it with such neglect for sanitation.

Very good turkey and cranberry sandwich. All fresh ingredients and fresh bread. Plus a free cookie. Will have to stop by next time in Phoenix airport near gates C14.

TERMINAL 2-​SKY HARBOR-​Paradise Bakery is NOT in hurry to get passengers to their gates on time. Disorganized staff and systems…

This is for the Terminal 3 location.
Right now, this is the only food option outside of security at Terminal 3. Wait until you’re beyond security, unless you can wait 30 minutes for your mediocre food. This location is *nothing* like the Terminal 4 location, which is more of what you would expect from a Paradise Bakery/​Panera Bread. I’d give them the benefit of the doubt by saying it’s training location («What’s ‘gorzola’?» «Uhhhh gorgonzola? It’s like cheese like blue cheese.»), but they’ve been working the same location for a few months now. 2 stars for it being food and outside of security. That’s about it.

Absolutely the crappiest Original Cheese sandwich ever. Had it done twice. Only
One side barely warmed each time, instead of Grilled. Not fit for Third World Consumption. Really. It was that horrible.

Really good sandwich (turkey avocado blt) and the free cookie was one of the best choc chip cookies I’ve ever had.

The Paradise Bakery and Café that I visited was located in Terminal 4. There did not seem to be many food options with good sandwiches so I opted for Paradise Bakery and Café. I did not realize that the wait time for my sandwich would be 15 – 20 minutes. The staff should really provide a quote time of how long it would take to prepare the food since 20 minutes can make all the difference in catching your flight or missing it.
I ordered the chipotle chicken sandwich. The lady was nice and checked to see if they had the sandwich available. I“m not sure why they wouldn’t have it available since it was a sandwich listed on the menu and it was 730am in the morning. Thankfully they did have the sandwich.
After 20 minutes, I finally got my sandwich which came in a box. To my surprise they also included a chocolate chip cookie which tasted DELICIOUS!!! One of the best cookies I’ve had ever! If I had known their cookies were so good I would have ordered a dozen of them to take home. But I didnt want to wait another 20 minutes to get cookies so I’ll have to order it the next time I’m in Phoenix. The sandwich tasted OK.

The food was surprisingly good but the service left a lot to be desired.
It took 20 minutes to get my order– turns out they just forgot about it, even though I asked about it multiple times. They did offer me a drink and extra cookie for the wait, so plus one star for that. I understand that mistakes happen but the vibe of this place makes me think they happen pretty often here.
The food itself was better than I had expected, and reasonably priced for an airport. Tasty and reasonably healthy, with lots of prominently featured vegetarian options.

Options in Terminal 3 are limited, but skip this one. Service was super slow and not very friendly. I ordered the chipotle bacon chicken sandwich & it wasn’t very good. The chocolate chip cookie was pretty tasty

This a good spot for lunch at the airport. Pretty standard café fare, but they are known for their chocolate chip cookies and this location does them just as good as the others.
My in-​laws live in Scottsdale so we fly home out of Sky Harbor often and we always make sure to stop here for cookies to bring home.

This small Paradise Bakery in Terminal 3 is located next to a Starbucks and the little known Sky Harbor Arts and Crafts Museum which is always worth the visit. The menu is a subset of the best of a normal-​sized Paradise Bakery.
The Fuji Apple salad is on the list of items which make it and my favorite part of this Paradise Bakery is they’ll sell a single of their small bite sized cookies, aka «Chippers» while all of the other locations want you to purchase 6 Chippers.
This Paradise Bakery is consistent and their quality remains great.

We had breakfast here so no cookie, but the food was still good. My husband got a sticky bun that was good sized and I got steel cut oats with strawberries and brown sugar. I was a little worried because I usually put milk on my oatmeal and none was offered but the oatmeal was still creamy it was generously dressed with about a half cup of fresh, good quality fruit.

Can’t really go wrong with Paradise Bakery. They’re sandwiches are always fresh and with a cookie with every sandwich how can you go wrong. My fav is the chicken walnut sandwich. But the Ham and swiss is pretty good too. Great flavors at Paradise and never much of a wait. They have it down to a science. I gave them 4 cookies and no none of them were tossed… lol

Look, if you’re in the airport, this is one of the least offensive places you can go. It’s fresh bread, freshly shipped in ingredients, nothing is fried, and it’s all assembled before your very eyes.
I grabbed a turkey and avocado sandwich, and it did the trick. I was plenty hungry, and even though it wasn’t a ton of food, I got the whole sandwich and a drink for around $ 10 (that’s not too offensive in airport terms) and it came out quick. The quick part is a bog bonus when it comes to airport food.
And yes, I will also mention the free cookie. I think I got one of yesterday’s cookies, because it wasn’t the soft and delectable cookie that I’m used to. It was still okay, but it had kind of a hard crunch to the shell. But I’m not going to look a gift cookie in the mouth.
Nothing to be offended by. Grab a sandwich, maybe some soup, perhaps a salad, or go hog wild and get a panini. Good beverage choices and even fruit to select as your side.

I tried not to eat at airports because they are always super over-​priced. At the other terminal, I saw a salad for FIFTEEN flippin dollars! I am glad I didn’t buy it over there!
I got the full size chicken cob salad with avocado for 9.30 (including tax). It’s still a bit more expensive than non-​airport grab-​and-​go places, but at least it’s not $ 15.
When I first walked past paradise bakery & café, there was a line. I decided to go wait at the gate first. About half and hour or so after I came back and there was no line. I placed my order and got my salad in about 5 minutes.
The salad is not prepackaged, they actually assemble the salad after you’ve ordered. The full size portion is a decent size. I saw the guy making my salad using ½ of an avocado for the salad! Nom! Not just some tiny slices! The grilled chicken were precooked (not cook onsite) and came in a package. I was not a big fan of how the chicken tasted. it was just alright. All the ingredients tasted fresh. No wilted lettuce! The salad also came with plenty of tomato and bacon pieces.
Overall it was a good experience.

One tip, don’t go here. Food was mediocre at best, the service was terrible. I believe it was the manager, who didn’t make any effort to apologize for sloppy service and our botched order. First off, they offer the Asiagio bagel sammich, but they don’t have Asiago bagels. oh well. Well then I see they make 2 of our sammiches, watching the bacon fall out when the dunce is wrapping it, thankfully not all of it fell out. Then I watched and waited as they make about 6 – 8 sammiches. That’s when I asked if they were going to get me the 3 toasted bagels, the very simple toasted plain bagels. That’s when Mr. Manager started acting like a (insert the word you’re thinking I’m going to write). And they started to make inroads into toasting the bagels, while they’re sammich line went full steam.
Thankfully I got to the plane before boarding finished, took way to long. They were not efficient and did not apologize, nor recognize their errors. I WILL NEVER GO HERE AGAIN. I have few 1 star reviews and I usually don’t complain like this, but I was pissed at their service.

Stuck in the airport waiting for my compatriots so I swing by paradise to see what the hoopla is all about.
I try the paradise club, because it has bacon… nuff said. Unfortunately, not even the smokey, salty goodness of bacon could save this joint! The croissant was discernibly stale, the cold cuts were… cold cuts. Hard to screw that up! Overall I was underwhelmed by the sandwich and all three points go to the chocolate chip cookie that comes with the meal.
Hooray for free cookies!!!

Had a little snack at this café awaiting flight. Got the shrimp couscous salad while husband ordered the turkey club on croissant. Salad was ordinary. Fresh for airport food. If you’re not too hungry, you can order half of the salad. I probably won’t ever order the shrimp salad again. We also got a couple of chocolate chip cookies. The dough was sweet and only became richer with the chocolate chips. They were flat and slightly crunchy. They supposedly were baked two hours ago. I prefer my cookies fat and full.
The waitstaff attending to our order was very pleasant. Our banana nut muffins remain uneaten but looks promising.