Le Pain Quotidien

If you are looking for a place to enter and sit down to work with the computer while having an amazing breakfast surrounded by nice people and really good coffee, look no further. Not only I am a fan of “Le Pain Quotidien” but this branch is my favorite for sure. I had the “Sunny Side Breakfast Bowl” and let me tell you it changed my morning! It was an amazing way to start it. Everything was delicious the coffee was great and they will give you a refill if you ask for it.

Le Pain Quotidien is a good French Bakery. They have an assortment of pastries and a variety of menu options. The corner location provides ample opportunities to people watch. The interior atmosphere and wood decor is pleasant. The wait staff was fairly attentative. The food was more of an American take on French dishes.

I literally travel from Brooklyn to this location because the customer service is unbeatable!.. from the cashier to management.. very sweet folks! I love the bakery items from this chain restaurant.. they are EXCELLENT ..they keep my french husband from getting homesick .. unfortunately the customer service across the stores in the city is wavering.. except for this location! ❤️

Dined here for the first time which originally was going to be a quick coffee run. We were greeted and we took the menu at the counter. We assumed it was one for just coffee drinks but as we kept looking at the menu we came across some good food choices. We decided to order the coffees as they were “to go” because it would allow us to take the coffee when we were done eating. Then we were asked if we were looking to dine in because there was a different menu. Honestly the only difference I saw was some prices were slightly more on the dine in menu. We grabbed our coffees and told them that we will look over the menu and if it were okay to sit out to dine in. We were told yes. It was too cold outside so we decided to come in. We were already waiting for 10 mins outside. We come inside and ask if it’s okay to just sit inside so we can dine in and we were told yes. We wait another 15-20 mins. At this point a family comes in after us and the waiter is taking care of them. I approached one of the waiters and asked if there was only one employee serving everyone. I was told no and that they thought we were just sitting enjoying our coffee. If you asked us at the very beginning if we were dining in why would you assume we were just having coffee? We finally get to order our food which was good but it wasn’t communicated that there was no whip cream that day. The skillet eggs with bacon I expected to have actual slices of bacon not pieces. You’re paying $15 almost for two eggs and maybe one slice of bacon that’s cut into pieces. I enjoyed it but it wasn’t what I expected. The lack of communication and misunderstanding was terrible. It took away from a nice early morning breakfast. I recommend this place if you would like to grab and go. It could just be the location but the nicest, friendliest person that was efficient was the lady making our coffees.

Terrible service, sat in the the seating area for 15 minutes before I was acknowledged. Wasn't very full and is we every other patron being attended to but me. Then when it was time to pay in the same fashion no one ever came so I had to go to the front counter unlike other patrons who had their checks brought to them. Safe to say this was a last time visit .

Excellent assortment of breads. The soup of the day was minestrone and it was really good. Loads of space- we visited this place on Saturday at about 12 pm and there was a lot of free tables. There is a wide range of jams, chocolate spreads, olive oils and other toppings. I expected more from the cinnamon croissant, but other than that everything was good. Friendly staff. You can see that the food is made out of good quality products. Good food stop in lower Manhattan.