Corner Bakery Cafe

I was surprised and impressed at how quickly the lunchtime line moved; but that turned to disappointment.  After finally finding a place to sit in the cramped dining area and watching the people who ordered after me get served first, I realized what happened, they lost my order.  I gave up my seat and elbowed my way back to the cashier to reinstate my food.  When I finally got my plate...it was the wrong order!  No excuse; I won't be back.

I like Corner Bakery but did not enjoy my experience here at all.

First, I was confused as to where to order.  I saw a glass display with sandwiches and eventually saw the cashier where I placed my order.

When I got my order, I was not given a spoon for my soup.  In my opinion, that's just bad customer service.  It was clear that I had a soup so a spoon should have been given.  In addition, I didn't see any silverware out unless I missed it.

The tables right outside the cafe were full so I had to go into the large hall area to eat my sandwich.  I returned to CB to get a spoon and almost got charged again for the soup. I told the man at the counter that I already paid for it and he goes, "Good enough" and hands me a spoon.

The soup, roasted tomato basil (which I really like) tasted awful perhaps due to the delay in eating it. The consistency was too thick, the color was off and I did not get any croutons on top of it.  Needless to say, I struggled to finish it.

Next time, I will just visit another eatery but I wanted something healthyish so maybe I'll give them another try.

I haven't dined at a Corner Bakery in awhile because it's been hit or miss in the past.

I decided to give it a try today to carry out my lunch. I ordered the Reuben sandwich and I can safely say that if I'd dined in rather than carrying out, I would have returned that sandwich for a remake.

My issue with the sandwich:
- The rye bread was so overloaded with rye seeds that it made chewing a challenge because the seeds are so hard.
- The worst part of it: the scant TWO thin slices of corned beef on the sandwich! I was astonished at how little meat was on that sandwich. To make it worse, the slices of corned beef weren't even big enough to cover a slice of bread so a good third of the sandwich had NO MEAT ON IT. As well, the cheese covered only half the bread and the kraut was dumped as a lump on the center of the bread. I cannot believe CB thinks this is worth $3 much less the $7+ I paid for it.