Ordered a coffee and avocado toast, both were terrible. The avocado toast was one small slice and so covered in salt it was inedible.

I used to come here all the time when I lived in Ithaca. The breakfast sandwiches are great - but the eggs are definitely microwaved. Aside from that, I usually get the Sunshine which has avocado and it's on a bagel. I love their bagels. They're a decent size (I hate super large bagels) so you can hold it in your hand. And they give plenty of avocado. The coffee is always good, and I love their little coffee station nearby. I also love the atmosphere and there's more than enough seating, so you can find a quiet space and use their wifi. read more

We waited quite awhile for food and it was just ok, not the best. The smoothies were very expensive and not great

Flipping lovely place. Had a sandwich that was bomb.com and some local brews. Really recommend.

I've been to Ithaca bakery 3-4 times in the last 2-3 years, while my child has been attending college in town. Ithaca bakery is also old by the people/company that own College Town Bagels (CTB). Invariably CTB is always great. Fast, courteous, accurate service. Dichotomously, Ithaca Bakery is always a mess. They frequently miss items ordered, give you the wrong item, yesterday they completely fouled up our bagel order, wrong coffee, and so on and so forth, and of course when I went back to get my orders corrected, the cashier was snippy/had a confrontational attitude. While the quality of the food is good, just as it is over at CTB, the staff or whatever that causes the issues at this location, there's always an issue. Save yourself the headache and aggravation of going to Ithaca bakery, and go to CTB. read more

Honestly, Ithaca Bakery was kind of disappointing. Perhaps it was the overhyped reviews that did it for me. Also, I rarely trust places with an overly extensive menu. I ordered J's Meal, a breakfast sandwich with scrambled eggs, portabella mushrooms, and goat cheese, among other things. I'm super disappointed that the eggs seemed like they were from a carton - the easy pour, already whisked, milk carton eggs. Also, has the cook heard of salt? Nothing was salted! A huge nono, according to the judges of Chopped. There was too much goat cheese in my opinion. Or maybe it was the lack of salt that made the goat cheese seem too overpowering. We also got a pizza bagel. I don't know why that was a good idea at first. It's something I can make at home. It's something Bagel Bites does pretty darn well already. For coffee, I got the Cocoa Express. It was nothing special. It was pretty yummy though. read more

Stopped by here for a quick bite. There are lots of options that you can select ranging from breakfast to dinner. They have a hot station if you want to serve yourself. I went for the Bronx bagel - sausage and egg on a plain bagel. The bagel was good - nicely toasted and eggs/sausage were on par. Good spot to eat outdoors on their picnic tables! read more

Good food & generally good service, but when the service is bad, it's bad. I was second in line one day, and the only register was unattended. The woman ahead of me finally gave up (I don't know how long she was there). I waited another five minutes. No one ever took my order, and there is often a 10-15 minute wait after the order is made. I hate to walk away, but sometimes you just have to move the day forward. Food is wholesome. Great choices for vegans, gluten-intolerant, etc. read more

We had ordered ahead a custom cake - vegan vanilla cake with strawberry filling and vanilla vegan buttercream. Instead we received a vegan lemon cake. I called up the bakery, they dint have an answer for why we were given the lemon cake. The flavor of the cake wasn't good, texture wasn't good too. read more

Best bakery west of NYC. Great food. Self service. Reuben sandwich for breakfast. What more do you want?

45 minutes to make 5 bagels. We are the only car outside in the lot. There is no line. Even 10 years ago they pulled this. Do not go here.

This place stinks. The bagels are lousy. The eggs are fake And, at least for us, the food came out cold. There are many better options for breakfast than this place. read more

Ithaca Bakery - "Scrambled" eggs? - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

Induces instant paralysis in newbies, at least it did for this noob :) The Ithaca bakery makes hot fresh meaty (or vegan!) sandwiches, brews great coffee drinks with Cayuga beans, sells hot fresh food by the pound on a steam table, makes cakes and pastries, and oh yeah bakes a variety of rustic breads like a rosemary salt focaccia. Also offers many NY state cheeses, plus an entire cold case dedicated to cream cheese for all kinds of College Town bagels! The zillion sandwich choices are spread across more blackboards that I could count, that's where the paralysis really set in, but I finally chose a fine one: smoked salmon, capers, sprouts, cream cheese and egg on pumpernickel bread. Outstanding but a tad spendy at $9. If you're lucky you can grab a table and linger. Surprisingly quiet inside considering how busy it can get. Staff is young, friendly and a bit disorganized, but they hunt you and your number down eventually and bring food & drinks right to your table. Vegetarian rating: solid five stars, they have many veggie and vegan sandwich choices, either on bread, a bagel or a wrap. The hot food bar has more choices, including a bean burrito when I visited. Has the look of a food co-op, that kind of crunchy, granola feeling but they don't sell bulk grains or beans LOL. read more

See all

This should really be a 2.5....it all depends on what you hope to get here which depends on whether or not you would enjoy this place. The staff are all pretty nice. I like being treated like a human being. The coffee is good. Not too strong and not too watery-like. I hate drinking burned coffee and many more places than Starbucks serves burned coffee (industry dirty secret). The food: depends on what you want. Bagels w/ various toppings are excellent w/ lots of choices of cream cheese if that is your thing and they have nice looking lox. The breakfast hot bar.....I passed on this but my partner got it. Everything is hard. The problem of maintaining a hot food bar is to make sure the eggs are not continuing to cook and the potatoes don't get hard and form a rubbery crust. We were too late getting here (9:20 a.m.). The two types of local turkey and pork were flavorful but tough to eat. The egg fritatta was hard and dried out. He got the cold German potato salad and the potatoes weren't cooked right (hard) and the dressing on it was basically oil and fresh herbs but it was lacking seasoning. I ordered the Melissa's Egg (egg/cheese on bagel) but substituted a croissant for the bagel. I think the cheese is supposed to be cheddar but I got Swiss on mine for some reason. The egg looked like an egg product - light yellow and lots of air pockets in the egg that looked like it was poured into a round small waffle press (the indentation of the egg on the top looked that way). A bouncy plastic hard egg on a beautiful nicely made croissant. I ended up tearing the egg off my second half and tossing it. I have a stomach issue that makes eating well done eggs hard to get down. I usually make soft scrambled eggs. My partner remembers coming here 3 years ago and we enjoyed our lunch here. We are wondering if this little gem was bought out and now become more corporate like. It just doesn't seem the same now. Think we'll try to find another breakfast place that is open on a Sunday (which is hard to do in this town) next time we're passing through. photos to come soon. UGH....my fears confirmed thanks to a local long-time resident, Laura, who shared this about the so-called "local" food supporter, Ithaca Bakery...."Sysco eggs that come in a god-knows-how-old-gigantic container!? Ithaca Bakery I beg you, get rid of this crap. I can't be the only person this bothers." thanks Laura, should have dug more into the reviews before visiting again today. Hope my egg sandwich doesn't harm me. read more

Ithaca Bakery - the sad egg-like substance on a croissant w/ cheese. - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

See all

I worked here for 14 years, so my review may be skewed. It's a great place for coffee and breakfast. Good breads and bagels. read more

This place used to have SO much more charm... now it's huge, crowded, the menu is overwhelmingly large, and there are different places to line up and place your order? It used to be quaint and they'd call your name to pick up your food - now you sit and wait for the server. I used to come here every weekend when I was a student at Ithaca College, but upon a recent visit to Ithaca this past weekend, I walked in and was SO confused! It's hectic, chaotic and I felt so rushed to make a decision because it would've taken me 20 minutes to read the menu! As for the food, I ordered a chicken curry sandwich but asked for it on a plate instead of in sandwich form since I didn't want the bread. It was tasty. My husband ordered a sandwich that had roast beef on it - either it wasn't sliced thin enough or the pieces were just too big in general because he couldn't bit through it. It was super messy and very frustrating to take a bite and then have the ENTIRE slice of beef come out of the sandwich. It was tasty, but not ideal. A little overpriced as well, and that's coming from a reviewer who lives right outside of NYC and its prices. Good, strong iced coffee is a plus. read more

Excellent spot and highly recommended for breakfast and lunch. Sandwiches are all on super fresh bread. BLT on toasted sour dough was excellent. The "Earl's Ham & Honey" (ham/cheese/arugula/cucumber/stoneground mustard) was fantastic, especially on the fresh baked onion roll. Very friendly service and reasonable prices. Check it out. read more

When I lived here 5+ years ago, most of the locals I knew advised me to avoid Ithaca Bakery and just go to CTB instead. But, since so much time has passed, I figured I would give them a try when I was recently in town. This was a mistake. Long story short: We waited 25 minutes for 2 bagels toasted with cream cheese. It happened like this: there was only one party ahead of us in the bagel line and only a few parties waiting around, so we figured it wouldn't take that long (10 minutes tops) to slice, toast, and add cream cheese to two simple bagels that we could take to go. Well, we were clearly wrong, as it took 5 minutes for the first party to get their bagels, then 5 more minutes for the next party to get their bagels -- and so on ... until I realized that it had been over 20 minutes since we ordered. Thinking that there must have been some sort of mix-up, I asked one of the employees standing behind the pastry case if she could check on the status of our bagels. Her response: "They should have told you to expect a 20-minute wait." To be honest, I was kind of expecting a "sorry" or a "our mistake" or similar, rather than presumably throwing one of her fellow employees under the bus. Not really sure what to do, I asked again if she would mind checking on the order, which she did. A few minutes later, she returned with two lukewarm bagels that had clearly been ready for a while. To conclude, the bagels are good, but I would love to see this place live up to their potential. Today's lesson: good advice doesn't have an expiration date. read more

Good bread, good Cole slaw, friendly service....fatty, grizzle, uneatable corned beef read more

Ithaca Bakery - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

Sadly, I haven't had a good meal here in ages. Service, especially at main location, is confusingly slowed by the way you have to order and check out. Prices are too high for what I'd typically order, and every item has nickel and dime upcharges, so I end up paying $14 for a tiny little (fake?) 'egg' on 12 pieces of arugula with an Impossible sausage patty, or with some gluten-free toast. Add a drink, tax, and tip and I'm paying $20 to wait in two lines, get very little (microwaved) food on my plate, and sometimes, wait 20 minutes for my order. I only go here when I've got no other options. read more

Food good , but do to Covid service at a all-time low . Last time for me, another example of current health issue ruined another spot .

First time here, they have a wide selection of sandwiches, bagels, spreads, cookies, breads etc. Let me tell you I love the food, ordered the Anne of Danby and removed the cheese and onion and replaced it with roasted red peppers and it was phenomenal. I also took with me a fresh loaf of bread and that was wonderful. The staff was also very hospitable and very helpful and super friendly. I recommend everyone to come here and try the food out; you won't be disappointed. read more

This place is what Panera wish it could be. Panera always has a through put problem but not here. The sandwiches are creative and not too bad on the wallet. I got the thai chicken curry panini and the Ira's big fish special i think that's what its called. The was panini good but the big was was terrible because it wasn't on a bagel. Teh smoked fish and cream cheese needs to be on a bagel. But over all its nice to order your item or in my case items and they give you a # and someone brings your food out. Seating was plentiful but it was still packed on the Sunday morning my sausage party was there. read more

Tasty food and great service. Coolest bakery ever! The ambiance was nice. There were so many options for vegans too.

Unfortunately...I have not been here! (Food delivery.) But if you take a look at the picture associated with this review, you'll understand why I had to review the spot. The Grub -- * West Willow BBQ Specialty Sandwich($8.50) - Local pulled pork in Dino BBQ Sauce, topped with house-made coleslaw, on our fresh-baked Honey roll * Medicinal Traditional Tea - Gypsy Cold Care Venue Review -- As mentioned earlier, I haven't been to this specific property, but I have passed through Ithaca Bakery's Triphammer Mall location and I liked its atmosphere. Very cozy, seeing as it's tucked away into a corner of the mall. The restaurant is wide and spacious with a nice flow around the open air bakery area through which you can see many baked goods, loaves, and pastries to nibble on. I'm assuming it'd be pretty similar here. Food Review -- If you take one look at the picture I've posted with this review, you'll know why Ithaca Bakery is getting a 5-star review in the Food Category. Seriously, would you look at that sandwich? The best part is, it tasted even better than it looked. The West Willow BBQ was perfect, not too much sauce, and the mountain of pulled pork dwarfed the coleslaw - in my opinion, that's how every pulled pork sandwich should be made. Each bite was a juicy, sweet & salty, savory piece of heaven. In short, this sandwich was something from God's own lunch menu. Service Review -- Ithaca Bakery actually delivers for FREE. Crazy, huh? As long as you order between 11am - 2pm, they'll deliver straight to your door Monday through Friday. The delivery woman was very nice, but I had one hiccup. I had scheduled my delivery through their website for the 12:30pm-1pm time frame (you can choose) but they arrived at 11:30am...what if I hadn't been home? Oh well, I wasn't hungry yet so I had to wait and reheat the burger when lunch hour came around. Overall Impression -- Besides the fact that my food arrived an hour early (which seems like an odd complaint), the experience was great. Being sick, it was a great change not to be cooking and to have a ready-made meal. I'm looking forward to dining on-site in the future and I already know what I'm ordering when I get there! read more

Ithaca Bakery - West Willow BBQ ($8.50) - Local pulled pork in Dino BBQ Sauce, topped with house-made coleslaw, on our fresh-baked Honey roll - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

Ok so I visited Ithaca for 1 week and let me just say, this place has the best EVERYTHING. If you're a true coffee lover, go here. Their coffee is out of this world. The quality is so good. I was sad to leave because I already miss this place. Highly recommend this place. read more

The place is cute, has seating outdoors, but the workers were so rude and snappy. The set up and way to order is not clear and very very confusing. read more

Excellent service, courteous, professional, and eager to let you try samples ! I highly recommend!!

We were visiting with some friends from out of town and a local recommended this place to us. From the moment we got there it was pure chaos. I even heard two employees behind the counter discussing how confusing and crazy it was. There were multiple lines- pay, order, deli, pastries, bagels, coffee- who even knows what else or where you needed to go, weaving and wrapping around the store, no clear distinguinshment. We were put in a line by an employee but turns out it was the wrong line and then other people apparent "regulars" cut us because we were not zigged in line when we should have zagged. It was a hot mess with people yelling and everyone was crowded like sardines. It didn't feel safe or organized. Our friends ordered a bagel with cream cheese which took literally 28 minutes to receive based on the receipt time. They also ordered smoothies which took a considerable time. I will give two compliments- the ice coffee was good and quick, and the chocolate chip cookie was good. There was also a little children's nook in the back which was helpful as we were with four children. This isn't a place I would recommend at the moment until they bring some order to the complete and udder chaos. read more

Sandwich? Want one? On a bagel? Ok! Hot prepared food from the buffet? Yea they got that! Soups? They got soups. Vegan food? Vegetarian? Meats? They have all of that. The food is great the people are wonderful. The samples are fun too. The coffee looked great and the rotating tap of local beer was also very tempting but to early when we wandered in. We have some corn chowder, and split a sandwich. It was plenty of food and an enjoyable experience sitting at the bar while we ate. Enjoy. read more

Paid around $11 for a corned beef on toasted gf bread with lettuce and tomato. Corned beef was grizzly and fatty with just a sliver of tomato. Expected more for my money and have gotten leaner meats pre-pandemic! read more

I cannot believe it took me so long to come here! They have an great little breakfast buffet with AWESOME biscuits and gravy! The home fries were so-so, as I feel they could have been seasoned more. Reasonably priced! You get 10 cents off your order if you bring your own coffee mug too. Friendly and efficient! I also appreciate the delineations between compost, recycling, and trash! read more

Ithaca Bakery - Items off of the breakfast buffet. Biscuits & gravy, bacon, home fries. - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

Amazing! Lots of nice local goods you can look at (and purchase) while you wait for your food. Grab a cream cheese brownie!

This was a pit stop before driving back to Boston. The place was busy during lunch. The menu was overwhelming but everything sounded great. I asked the cashier what he recommended and went with a sandwich that had ham and brie. I thought he said the bread was challah or French Toast but it turned out to be ciabatta bread- I think it was The Euro. The husband had a pastrami sandwich which was loaded with meat and was warm and fatty. My sister had a croissant sandwich with vegetables(Cayuga croissant). Lots of selection for everyone including a lot of vegetarian options. They had these almond cookies to sample that were really good - like almond macaroons. read more

See all

The book is still open on this place for me. There were a lot of great looking menu items. I am a sucker for a hot corn beef sandwich so that is what I had. No frills, just grain mustard on rye. It was good, but a little dryer and tougher than I like though seemed cooked fresh. I like my corned beef steamed and juicy. Since I am in town working near here, I will try tomorrow. One other thing. You may want to check out the menu before you go. It is substantial with coomplicated and interesting choices. read more

Ithaca Bakery - Delis Near Me - Ithaca, New York

Lots of social distancing and safety protocols in place. Got Ryan's Favorite, Renwick Rueben, and a blueberry crumb bar that, surprising to us, was vegan- everything was delicious. The focaccia is delicious. Servers were very friendly. read more

We visited ithca for 2 days as family trip with cousins. Beautiful city with great restaurants... and ithica bakery didn't disappoint us ... we ordered IB olympian and Tuscan Verde sandwich... nicely done ... liked it alot . We also ordered a carrot cake from the store for an anniversary which happened to be delicious . We almost finished it in the night . Definitely a place to visit when in Ithica read more

Really??? Must not be at the same store as the rest of the reviewers. Food ... for what you get, small portions and not very good Service ... 2 out of 3 of our items were wrong. You would think at a minimum our replacements would jump to the head of the line but no, over 30 minutes later I had to ask and the items were just getting ready. Should have received a refund. We will not be back there for food. Might swing by if the loaf of bread we bought is any good. read more

I cannot thank Ithaca Bakery enough for helping me deliver cupcakes on my son's birthday. Unfortunately, I had originally ordered with Rashida Sawyer Bakery weeks before and 48 hours before his birthday, Rashida Bakery called to say they do not deliver on Sundays. Their only suggestion was delivering the cupcakes on Saturday, which was not my son's birthday and not what we had agreed to. I immediately called Ithaca Bakery and they agreed to custom make 2 dozen pumpkin cupcakes (for the price I was paying for 1 dozen at Rashida Sawyer bakery) and deliver them on Sunday (which was less than 48 hours away). Ithaca Bakery has a kind staff, delicious cupcakes, and I am so grateful that they were able to provide cupcakes to my son on his birthday when his family could not be there to celebrate with him. Ithaca Bakery is a local business I will continue to support and share with the rest of my son's school community. read more

i just had one of the chocolate hazelnut croissants from here and it was one of the BEST things I've ever eaten. i would eat these every single day If i could read more