Paradise Bakery & Cafe

My experience. MY experience was 5 stars. The gal at the register was super friendly and super helpful. The food was actually reasonably priced too. I got an avocado egg and spinach sandwich. The gal at the register let me switch out the egg white for whole egg with no problem. She also hooked me up with some carbonated water with lemon as well.

Now don't get me wrong. It's not a place you need to buy a plane ticket, get frisked and stand in line for an hour behind a crying baby just to try it. But it's definitely not a place to walk away from if they have something on the menu that looks good.

Yep. My experience says 5 stars.

A lousy breakfast sandwich for $7. I know airport travelers are captive diners and prices at airports reflect that. I have noticed improved quality at some airports like Orlando and Sky Harbor. This bakery/cafe is not one. If someone had me taste this sandwich with my eyes closed, I wouldn't know the ingredients. So bland and disappointing.

Walk to another concourse if you have time.

Their menu is a Panera bread menu, including the Pick 2 options. They only had 2 soups to choose from but it was 9 am when we were there. All sandwiches come with a "fresh baked chocolate chip cookie". Good selection of cookies and pastries to choose from. Good selection of sandwiches too, and easy to get them to-go.

Line moves fast, until their computer systems went down. Not their fault but hey handled it mostly well.

Good eats.

It's in Terminal 4 BEFORE you get to security, so everyone can enjoy the meal and/or snack.

We ordered a chicken caesar salad, a southwestern caesar salad, a pumpkin muffin, and a small diet Coke for $21.35. There was a decent amount of chicken in both the caesars. The southwestern one featured tortilla strips instead of croutons, and a chipotle dressing instead of the usual caesar dressing. Banquettes along one wall gave us plenty of room to sprawl, so we didn't have to rush to our gate and wait there for two hours.

I was waiting for my flight out of Arizona and needed a coffee to make it through this late flight. I ended up getting a coffee and cookie. All in all, the one employee that serviced me was extremely friendly and helpful.

I can't say the same about the rest of the crew.

When in Rome; right? When you have a short layover, geopgraphy rules. The other choice is taco's and other non boarding or lap friendlyfoods--you go here. I haven't done any reserach but if this restuarant isn't owned by Panera (in some shadow way) then Panera should sue them.

It reminds me of a place I went to in Amsterdam in 1997 called Wings. There were very attractive young busty women in tiny blue shorts and tiny white handkerchief blouses. They changed the uniform color and had mayonaise for the pomme frites...other than that?

So this Panera "clone" is okay, its food, the sandwich was pricey (probably airport mark-up at this location) and not that special-the bread seemed "store-bought" and the turkey was grocery store grade. The cookies are good, however; sugary and dripping with fat.

I did see someone else mention service. They have a bad production set-up and workflow and the kids working don't really care (I understand that, sadly) and hundreds of rushed angry people a day can't be any fun. However, noticing the sandwich in front of you and calling out the number should be a minimum requirement.

When I noticed my number had been skipped, I waited jealousy while a few more people behind me in line were fed and walked back over and asked about it. The young woman looked at me blankly; then down at the sandwich on the counter. A pause for a few more seconds, then, "Oh yeah, forty-six". I took my sandwich and walked away worried about our society's future.

Similar to a Panera, but I got a chocolate chip cookie and a 1/2 Turkey BLT to go (turkey, bacon, avocado). Prices might've increased a little since then, but mine came out to $6.49 with tax (pretty reasonable for airport food if you ask me). Quick, convenient, and a great flavor blending overall. Left me to enjoy the rest of my layover with a view and a seat near the window

To be fair, this particular review is specifically about their grilled cheese sandwich. First of all, apparently if you don't specify, they use American cheese... strike one. Secondly, they only grill it on one side, cutting it in half and folding it so that the ungrilled portion is "hidden" on the inside. The moisture from the two warmed slices then made those pieces not grilled, but steamed (yuck). My third, and final complaint is that they did not put butter on the bread before grilling it resulting in a final product that was relatively tasteless and soggy/crunchy. Maybe I'm just spoiled....

The cookie that came with it was good.

Mad rush to grab something to go before I boarded my flight - managed to score a delicious half of a turkey panini sandwich, a little bowl of scorching hot but tasty lemon chicken orzo soup, got a giant iced drink and a fat chocolate chip cookie to go for a reasonable price. It was just the right amount of food to get me through a long day of travel.

Staff were very nice, though we had a hard time hearing each other due to the noise in the background.

This place has sandwiches, soups, pastas, and cookies.

Both the steak sandwich and turkey bacon sandwich are decent. Was able to grab quick sandwich before our connection flight.

Husband really liked the cookies.