Paradise Bakery

Literally a $ 3.50 basic grilled cheese, ciabatta and a little cheddar, half for me half for my daughter. By the time 2 cookies we don’t want, soda we won’t drink (really basic soda flavors nothing great like Gatorade or sprite zero), and kid meal side is added, up to $ 10. I did want a bit of tomato soup. 11.75 before tax.
So if reasonable value is what you want don’t come here, it’s lot of addons that are not impressive and are disappointing because not everyone eats sugary food all the time. For this cost I’m expecting around double of real food and instead we just get filler. That’s why it gets to me.
And I think this is particularly low value for grilled cheese eaters. It’s not like I am ordering the mega version with tomatoes and variety of cheeses. I don’t think it should be difficult to just get simple grilled cheese.
Service and general experience is very average. Did not enjoy eating here, sadly. Shouldn’t have 2^nd guessed on stopping at 5 guys for grilled cheese.

Agree with other review that the layout and ordering is a bit confusing. I wanted muffins plus sandwiches to go. I never did see muffin prices, and the 2 gals seemed miffed that I asked if there was a price break for ½ dozen. When I ordered 2 same sandwiches they asked if I wanted both to be half sandwiches. OK, this isn’t Subway where you get 6″ or 12″ as I stand there feeling stupid, I dared ask why would I want 2 half sandwiches-​that would be one sandwich. She says ‘I dunno, we just have to ask’. Good heavens. They never asked if I wanted chips, maybe pasta salad, soup or anything with it. Screw that, I have chips at home. Been here before and kinda treated like crap, after all who would think they have muffins or bakery items all day. I mean it says Bakery. Yep, hire smug teenagers and the equally young manager doesn’t set a good customer service example. Not even a thank you, just plop the order on my table and walk off.

They have Great sandwiches and salads. Can’t forget about the cookies there delicious

I probably eat here a couple of times a year, used to be more but I believe the food isn’t as good as it once was. I still get the chicken salad sandwich. They come with a cookie, which is always a bonus. The salad I had today was the Asian Chicken salad, and while it was good, the flavor wasn’t truly worth the calories. All in all a great place to get snacks. I may try again because I used to go there and get the breakfast muffins and they were delicious!

Love the eggs but I have had this same breakfast twice before at another paradise and this one was terrible! No panini toast… just regular with no butter or jelly.

Never coming back. Came during a lunch rush and they very obviously aren’t skilled to handle it. Many people were taking back wrong orders, missing things, so I was worried. I just ordered a turkey chipotle wrap and after waiting about 20 minutes I realize it’s not coming. I try for another 10 minutes just to flag someone down but it is impossible. I had to go back in line and saw my plate just sitting there in the back and had to basically beg and yell to get it with no apology. Absolutely no consideration or concern for customers. Such a mistake to come here.

Service was extremely down graded. I talked my wife, who didn’t want to come back to Paradise Café, to try lunch there again. Slow to get food out and it was cold. They whipped us through the line to cash register and sat us. Lost the small café feeling and my business.

I arrived in the area early for a meeting, so randomly decided to stop by this place to have a light bite for breakfast with coffee.
I got a big cup of coffee and a bran muffin. Coffee was not a high-​end brand by any means. The muffin had adequate flavor but struck me as being somewhat stale.
Not overly impressed by this place.

I have given this particular location so many chances, but it has consistently disappointed. The service is horrible and the preparation of food unsanitary. If you have any food allergies, don’t come here. They re-​use dirty dishes to mix salads and aren’t shy to do it in front of your face. The health department should be visiting these guys shortly.

I’ve had chicken Caesar salads, this is by far my favorite. I’m sure everything else is as good too!

What a joke! This café has the rudest most unprofessional staff I have personally ever encountered. Usually is an employee here and there that isn’t good. But the 3 associates I dealt with today were horrible, rude bitches and pricks. Let me start with Ana, she’s a bitch, she was pushy and rude and condescending in every interaction I had with her (unfortunately 3 times) she was rude and put out when I asked for a fruit cup for my daughter instead of the yogurt packet, and when I got cookies she was a bitch. Then there was Chris (I think that was his name, had a hard time seeing his name tag) when I got to the register I asked for a drink also and he again, like Ana seemed put out by my request. Who’d have thought that asking for an overpriced drink would bug someone. Chris, you’re a dick. Oh and he forgot to give it to me. When I asked, hmm treated like shit. Then Natasha she is a rude associate as well. She was snappy to me and heard her dodging work as best she could with other customers by being rude. All in all, miserable experience, the staff RUINED our experience and I will never come back and be sure to tell others to steer clear. The manager Gia should be ashamed for her staff.

Welcome to Paradise Bakery… the slightly, uh… challenged…sister of Panera Bread.
Now, neither Paradise nor Panera is a home run lunch spot by any means, but for a traveling businessman they are predictable and they do have free wifi. Paradise falls very short when it comes to both food and service, however. Very weak sandwich selection, only three soups on the board, and grossly overpriced salads for the quality. To illustrate my point — the mixed greens salad is $ 4.49 and is nothing more than a handful of chopped salad you’d pull from a prepackaged bag. This would be a $ 1.99 side salad at many restaurants. I requested red onion and croutons and was informed that the extras are 50 cents each. This was laughable considering I got just three onion rings and only a few croutons actually stayed on the salad before rolling off onto the tray. The checkout lady did not charge me, but still… the nerve! Would they have reduced the price of my salad by a dollar if I gave back the tomato and the cucumber? Perhaps, I should have asked.
The staff at this location had a hard time keeping up with table bussing, and about half the tables on one side of the dining area had old dishes on them for 15min or so after I arrived. This was before the lunch rush, maybe they weren’t fully staffed yet?
Regardless of my complaints, here I am, sipping an iced tea and using their free wifi. I’ll probably do it again some time too.

I like the food here. And it’s consistent enough, I suppose. We were just waiting in line to get breakfast and the group of 6 people in front of us were undecided and taking their time. They finally finish ordering in the breakfast line, and it’s our turn. We’re informed that breakfast ended at 11 and it had been 11 for maybe 30 seconds. There wasn’t anyone in line behind us and we had been in the breakfast line for ten minutes. He wouldn’t even make an exception and be courteous enough to give us a breakfast croissant. We had to order lunch instead. It’s not even about the fact I didn’t get breakfast, but the principle.

Had the chicken walnut sandwich and a side of gala apple crisp salad. The sandwich is a chicken salad sandwich with walnut in it, the creamy mayonnaise was very good and the rye bread did justice. The salad was just a regular salad, but there was an apple based sauce in the dressing. The best part of the salad was actually the apple crisps (super crispy and flavorful). Nothing spectacular, but was decent for being under $ 10.

Ugh I am sorry but this food reminds me of the cafeteria food in high school! I was expecting something like Panera or Kneaders quality, but it is far from it. It was super disappointing to eat here for the first time, I had much higher expectations.
The turkey sandwich had meat on it that was the packaged lunch meat you get from the store and a floppy piece of bacon. The BBQ chicken salad… oh man… the BBQ chicken was actually a pile of mush they scooped up with an ice cream scoop and dumped on top of it.
I also had a chocolate chip cookie so after 2 bites of my real food I at least thought I had this cookie to enjoy and fill me up. The cookie was gross too, better off with my box of Charleston Chews for a dessert.
STICK WITH KNEADERS that has quality fresh meat and ingredients! I never write reviews on stuff but being so disappointed I couldn’t help but warn everyone else. Waste of $ honestly.

Very very good food. It’s amazing how good the sandwiches are!
All of the items on the menu are fresh and delicious. The staff is nice and the atmosphere is very inviting. I’ve gone here multiple times and it’s always been as good as the first time. The desserts are also very delicious. It’s a perfect place to go for lunch. Just make sure you come with money to spend.

I go to this place once or twice a month to eat lunch with my mother, who insists that she loves the soups. Who is a man to argue with his mother? That said, you can, perhaps, take this review with a grain of salt because I am indeed coming in with a tiny chip on my shoulder.
Seriously, though, Paradise is nothing special, and I would strongly recommend something locally-​owned in the South Valley such as Pop on Over versus this corporate assembly line restaurant. Don’t get me wrong, the food is edible, it’s just incredibly uninteresting and seems about as cookie cutter as they get. The sandwiches are fairly meager in their assembly, my mother often looks at my sandwich and says, «That’s it?» I respond with a, «Uh, yeah!» Always I hope that such comments will clue her in that the Paradise experience is not so paradisical for me, but no, we’re always back in a couple of weeks.
Speaking again of the soup, I don’t use the word «meh» very often, I consider it to be rude, boring and trite, but hey, what the hell, meh! The soups taste like they come from a master supply tubed in from the corporate headquarters somewhere in a state even redder than Utah. There is no soup for you here, that is, if you care at all about the consumption of interesting, quality soup. No quality soup for you!
And, of course, since this restaurant is bland and boring, it naturally attracts herds of Utah culinary cattle. These are the same people that consider The Cheesecake Factory to be fine dining, and Café Rio to be authentic rustic Mexican cooking. Ah, heck, they’re alright, they are probably just looking for a quick bite, but come on, people, be a little bit more imaginative once in a while. You pack this place like sardines at lunch, is that really a pleasing dining experience for you?
A couple other quibbles. The place is waaaaay too busy at lunch, to the point that finding a clean, empty table is nearly impossible. The masses tear through the lemons near the drink station so voraciously, that I am often left with only a rind and a couple of seeds. The bathroom is a bit frightening… the door to the men’s room never quite closes all of the way. Oh yeah, and the bread from this «bakery», absolutely not special. Hmmm, why can’t I smell bread baking when I come in here? I can even smell bread baking at Subway, for goodness sake.
Okay, point made, rant over.

While the food is pretty good, the consistency of portions is not. When you order a large Walnut chicken Salad, once would expect it to be in a large bowl, not a soup bowl, with two small handfuls of cut romaine.
Other Paradise Cafes give you a large bowl filled with greens and of course their chicken walnut mix.
Their line for ordering is one of the slowest. If you are on limited time for lunch, go somewhere else.

Nice soup and sandwich joint. Ive had their salads and different sandwiches. Nice portion size and the food always tastes good. And a cookie to boot.
Get there early cause they are busy. for good reason.

I’ve visited this Paradise Bakery several times for lunch, and I know I like it. But I’m still undecided about the majority of their menu items… that is, except for the cookies.
No proper female can resist the wicked chewy overload of chocolate chips and exquisiteness that is their chocolate chip cookies. And they give you one with each meal! They’re divine, though, and should ideally be consumed by the half-​dozen, slightly warmed, with a large glass of cold milk, in the privacy of one’s own home. Trust me on this and grab a few while you’re there.
I consistently lament over their lunch menu, because I can never recall what I’ve tried before. If you know me at all, you’ll recognize that this does not speak well of their salads and soups, because one thing I do know is that my former orders have been comprised of these two. I recall trying a sandwich or two in the beginning, which weren’t bad, but resolved to stick to the soup and salad in the future.
I know I’ve had the Asian Chicken Salad. It has crisp veggies and fairly fresh ingredients. But they load up the bowl with so much lettuce that the ratio is way off. Tasty salad dressings, with oil and vinegar options.
Their tomato basil soup is quite good. Others are decent, but forgettable.
One of my pet peeves about Paradise is their order/​pickup/​payment process. I am not in favor of the cafeteria setup. It reminds me of grammar school, and it’s just not my cup of tea to grab a tray, slide it along and figure out how to get everything on it, then stop at the drink/​utensil/​condiment station, strategically stack it all up on the tray and pray you make it to your table without dumping the whole schlemeizel on someone. It’s so… ChuckARama or something.
The service here is typically friendly. But it’s a line, so they’re trying to get you through it and on to the next person. So it can feel a bit rushed at times. The prices are a little high for what you get. But it’s really not bad food. It’s just not memorable, gotta-​have-​it-​again food.
On that note, I’m quite sure I’ll have it again. I’ll at least drop in for cookies.