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- Hours:
Mon-Thu 7 am - 8 pm
Fri 7 am - 9 pm
Sat 8 am - 9 pm
Sun 8 am - 7 pm
- Price Range:
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
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19 reviews for Corner Bakery
19 reviews in English
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Review from Lyly T.
Irvine, CA
10/19/2011
Looks exactly like any other corner bakery. What I don't like is the revolving door. They have a door on the side with a sign that asks you to use the revolving door.
I had tomato basil soup bowl and chicken pomodori. The soup was luke warm, had to microwave that up when I got home. Chicken pomodori was good. Panini so it was warm and crispy. good amount of everything and the sauce made it so it wasn't dry. Tomato basil soup was a bit salty for me, but it was nice on a rainy day.
The food took a while for us to get, waited about 15 mins for it, so went next door and got some beers. -
Review from Kim R.
Florence, AL
1/7/2012
I have tried so hard to like this little place..... I have visited about 4 times since moving to Bethesda (Oct 2011).
When I come in, usually to have breakfast, on a Saturday morning I am in a cheerful spirit; however, the person who takes my order does not greet me cheerfully or says anything useful like what specials they have. Instead, the order-taker-person looks as if he/she is indifferent.....like an "I hate that I am here" kind of expression.
The food is ok.....but the staff is what might keep me from re-visiting.
Management should train their employees to have superior customer service. After all, I would rather eat at an establishment that treated me like my business mattered. -
Review from Mackenzie C.
Kensington, MD
12/17/2011
Food was good, once we received it. For a place that is fast food-esque, thirty minutes is just not an acceptable time to wait.
Twenty minutes in, my dining partner went up to check on the food. Ten minutes and another check-in and finally the food was delivered. The excuse? The order didn't come through the computer. Must be a fluke since the 12 orders in front of ours had since been delivered and consumed. Hmm...
The bottom line is this is not how you run a successful business. The correct protocol:
- Own up to your mistake
- Apologize
- Quickly make the meal as ordered
- Refund the customer
- Give customer a coupon for their next visit
If you don't understand then again let me say, you shouldn't be in the food business. -
Review from piecrumb ..
Baltimore, MD
7/24/2011
I am a local in this neighborhood, and corner bakery happens to be the closest cafe to my house, but I'm still going to drive further away rather than give this place any more of my business.
Out of the past 6 or 7 times I have come here (and that's every weekend morning at 10ish for breakfast) I have only received my exact order 2 times.
Here are my qualms with this place:
1) cashiers who have bored and ungrateful expressions - are they REALLY doing me a favor? Oh yea, and unapologetic with their mistakes.
2) not getting my order with the appropriate ingredients (is it really that hard to assemble an egg sandwich with the 4-5 toppings listed?)
3) 20 MINUTES! a really ridiculously long wait time for a to-go order of a super thin and skimpy egg sandwich, which was not even sent to be made until the 20-minute mark when i had to inquire about it (this has now happened to me twice). Why should I have to watch 10 sit-down orders go past me and be penalized for getting something to-go?
4) with all of the above included, the food is only mediocre at best and too pricey for the suffering.
I'd rather eat a standardized, mass produced and predictable starbucks egg sandwich in peace than bother with this place again. -
Review from Sheri D.
Bethesda, MD
11/8/2011
I live very close to this corner bakery, and I've given them about a dozen chances to get it right. I've consistently received either poor service (yeah they're nice but are unapologetic when they screw up), forgotten order, wrong order, or a combination of these. You'd think they'd treat their regular customers well. At least Starbucks gives me a free drink voucher when they screw up! Agree 100% with a lot of the other negative reviews here. The place needs a major ovehaul!!!
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Review from Fenny L.
4/7/2011 1 Check-in Here
I realize that on a beautiful sunny Sunday at 10:30am, taking my breakfast order is very low on the list of things a person wishes to do. However, if that is your job - the one which you get paid to do - that means that we should get a greeting (I got a grunt - which I took to mean that I was to give him my food order), and during the entire time I was giving him my order, he was staring out the window and completely not paying attention to what my husband or I was saying. We had to repeat the order twice before he got it. And then, after ringing us up, he didn't give us our cups (for our drinks), we had to remind him. Very distracted, not paying attention...didn't say or do anything besides lackadaisally punching in our order and swiping my card. I personally think it was a miracle that we got our orders right!
Boo and hiss. It would have been one star, except the lady bringing us our food was really polite, so she earned them a one star bump. -
Review from Nick S.
6/21/2011 2 photos
For those who don't know, Corner Bakery is basically the fancy cousin of Panera Bread. They have good sandwiches and some interesting lunch combinations of soup and salad.
This particular location is only ok in my opinion. It wasn't the cleanest and it seemed to attract some funky characters, like a guy who asked for directions for what seemed like eons.
But it's Corner Bakery. You already know if you're going or not, right? -
Review from Cy K.
9/19/2011
I'm really surprised at the relatively low score this place currently has on yelp. I used to live nearby and would come here 1-2 times a week to get one of their wonderful scrambles and a cup of coffee or the cold oatmeal (with yogurt nuts and fruit). They also have some great baked items - including a kind of packaged cinnamon bread toast which is quite addictive. Service has always been very friendly and fairly fast (never had an order messed up). Also, their wifi is pretty fast (good enough to sit and get some email/browsing done).
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Review from J J.
Rockville, MD
10/22/2010
The Tomato Soup of F-ing Fantastic!
The breads are all fresh and delicious!
The delivery of food is DEPLORABLE!
My meeting started at 12:05, they needed to be here by at least 12.
What place says they have a 20-25 minute window of when they should be able to deliver. They show up at 12:30...gee, THANKS!
So in the middle of the presentation everyone is STARING at the delicious food that is delivered.
I coulda said the world was ending or that there was a fire, and no one would have budged! -
Review from Matthew P.
McLean, VA
8/6/2011 1 Check-in Here
Get you head examined if you stop here for anything - even coffee. Went today for a quick bite (bagel, cream cheese and coffee) - screwed up the order - three times and they were making coffee sans a coffee filter! Please , PLEASE, do not go here - it really makes all the other (probably fair/good) Corner Bakeries look like crap.
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Review from Abe L.
10/3/2011 1 Check-in Here
This place has horrendous service and overpriced, mediocre food. First of all - I went here on a Saturday for lunch around 1pm - they were out of multiple items on the menu, including my first 2 choices which included the chicken noodle soup as well as corned beef. So my next choice was the roast beef sandwhich - I inquired about brie cheese and was told they had it, but it would cost me $0.50 extra - fine. After waiting 10 minutes - the cashier comes out from behind the counter and tells me they are out of brie cheese - unfortunately I only eat my roast beef with brie. Unless it's from Arby's. Ha. Anyhow - I switch my order to the egg salad - which is cheaper than the roast beef sandwhich. The cashier did not even attempt to refund my money, nor did she speak to the manager to let him know about the issue. Another 10 minutes later - she comes around the corner with a tray of food and puts it down in front of me. Brilliant! But guess what, this was a "to go" order. Geniuses. Back goes the food again. Another 5 minutes passes and finally my food is ready. They never refunded the difference between the two sandwhiches - in reality they should have refunded the entire thing. Incompetent. Unhelpful. And just kinda dumb. Yes I'm talking about the staff. I know I should have just spoken to the manager myself - but at this point - I'd been waiting almost half an hour for a soup and sandwhich - and I was already late for a movie I was trying to catch. Obviously it wasn't about the $1.09 they ripped me off - simply the principal. I will never go back. This place should be shut down and replaced with something useful in the neighborhood.
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Review from Libby F.
11/15/2009
My neighbors and I stopped by this morning to grab a quick breakfast before heading down the street to the dog park with our pooches. Quick it wasn't, but delicious and cheap it was.
Very much like Panera Bread, you place your order at the counter, they give you a number and a server brings it to your table. When we got there at 10:30 there was no wait in line, but after I placed my order a flux of people arrived. We nabbed a patio seat with our pals (Yay for allowing dogs!). It took a long time to receive our breakfast items. I thought that maybe they didn't know we were seated outside. Finally, the food arrived.
One friend had their American Scrambler breakfast ($5.49) which was scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes and really good whole wheat toast. I had their new Anaheim Panini which was delicious and very filling for only $3.99. It had melted cheese on one side and was filled with scrambled eggs, green onion, bacon bits and tiny chunks of avocado. That served with a Mighty Leaf tea was an affordable $6.25. A hot and tasty freshly made breakfast for under ten bucks... not bad in this economy.Listed in: Best Breakfast Bites that…
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Review from jeanne M.
Bethesda, MD
8/21/2007
Well, it's possible that the food here is good. It's hard to tell though, since it's practically impossible to get waited on.
I live across the street from ye olde Corner Bakery, so I've had plenty of experience. It doesn't matter if there's one person in line or 20, you're gonna wait for a long long time to get served. Somedays, you have to give your order to the cashier, who may or may not be listening, or understanding. He or she then has to translate your order to the people who actually prepare the food.
Other days (days with an "r" in them? days when there's a full moon? who knows?), you stand in a different line, and just tell the food prep peeps what you want. It's still a crap shoot as to whether or not you'll get what you ordered.
I did have the french toast once, and it really was great. One order literally served four hungry people. (Supersize me!)
I also had the scrambled eggs once. But I'm pretty sure these eggs never saw a chicken.
Am I ranting? I am so ranting!
I just want a cup of coffee and I don't want to have to drive to get it. And yes, I'm lazy, so on the weekend, I don't want to make my own coffee. (I know, I know, could I BE any lazier?!?) So I will put up with the waiting in line for my cup o' joe, as the family of six in front of me orders 25 different entrees.
I do a lot of sighing here. I'm sure I'm a popular customer.
Sigh.
The coffee isn't terrible. Just don't order anything the staff has to actually make for you. Like a latte. Cuz that means the cashier has to do it. And that means the person behind you (that would be me!) has to wait longer.
Sigh.
Gimme my starbucks. Please. -
Review from Sparkely K.
Silicon Valley, CA
10/10/2010
We had a working lunch during a meeting and I relished the tuna salad sammie on a tasty dark brown bread. There were lots of extra goodies folded in to the tuna / mayo, and I loved it. I wasn't as dazzled by the cookie (choc chip), but the sammie won me over.
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Review from Nicole L.
8/15/2010
My first time at Corner Bakery. I ordered the the berry oatmeal - it was served cold in a yogurty sauce with strawberries, blue berries, green apples, toasted almonds and two slices of fruity croutons. It was a tasty and hearty breakfast that was also quite healthy! I had the breakfast with the Mighty Leaf Tea Company - Green Tea flavor I love this little pouches. The green tea was brewed through the mesh, flavor was gentle and light.
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Review from ted k.
Germantown, MD
9/20/2010
Came in for a toasted bagel. Waited at least 25 minutes. Was late for work. Somehow the manager knew I had been waiting far too long. They gave me a $5 gift certificate for my next breakfast. I'll never forget that.
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Review from Eric G.
Bethesda, MD
7/18/2009
Great food, fast Wi-Fi, and a nice, quiet location -- what more could you ask for? I usually get a sandwich, but their salads and soups are also great. You will undoubtedly enjoy eating here.
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Review from S. L.
Bethesda, MD
4/29/2010
I love their panini and soup combo. You can't go wrong with the Chicken Pomodori on Sourdough and their tomato basil soup. The Chicken Pomodori is stuffed with sliced chicken breast, fresh basil, spinach, oven-roasted tomatoes, and provolone cheese with pesto mayo. Their salads are pretty good and huge also. I've tried the chopped salad which included chicken strips, avocado, bacon, bleu cheese, tomatoes and green onions with a spicy vinaigrette dressing. I would suggest choosing the soup and salad combo but if you order the salad alone, it can probably provide you with 2 separate meals for the day.
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Review from Matarsak Z.
Bethesda, MD
4/1/2010
While service is definitely a hit or miss at this place, the food is pretty solid. Service is less dependent on how many people are in line (which cseems to be a surprising ten-twelve more often than not!), than the particular person you get as a cashier. For a few years now I learned to make an attempt to always call in my order in advance, to avoid the main line, or to simply get them to be more efficient by pulling up my info (which they do keep in their system under your phone number if you order often enough). Their paninis are all great, although once in a while they do forget them in the machine and you have burn marks all over. The salads are rather mediocre, but still OK. I've had a few great soups, but for the most part I stick to the panini's or the chicken pesto sandwich, which has degraded in quality, but is still nice. I do not much care for their coffee, but some folks love it. I avoid all the pastas.
