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    Zeppole Cafe

    3.5 (65 reviews)
    InexpensiveBakeries, Sandwiches
    Closed 7:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Quiet
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Banana Bread
    Kelsy P.

    Nice staff, great coffee, and BOMB pastries. They have so many delicious freshly baked breads and pastries as well as flavorful sandwiches. We picked up a couple loaves of ciabatta to use for dinner and everyone loved it! The breakfast panini was super good and my latte was perfect.

    Pumpkin Chocolate Chip - Hair was baked into the muffin.
    Bretton H.

    Came by here to try and get a few sandwiches before work this morning. The display case for sandwiches looked somewhat decrepit. Staff mentioned they were still making the sandwiches and they wouldn't be ready until around 11:30. This happened right after 11. In my opinion a place that's basically a bakery/sandwich shop should have their full array of sandwiches available sooner. But it's still only my opinion. However, I decided to try some of the lemon blueberry bread/loaf and a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin. The blueberries were dried out (over baked bread) and I provided a picture of my other item containing baked in hair. I'd already left the location before I saw this so I wasn't able to remedy the situation. Even if the hair wasn't present, the pumpkin spice flavor was ubiquitous and overpowering. I probably won't be back anytime in the immediate future.

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    Scott M.

    Mannnnn. I was told this had ham, salami, etc etc on here. It has 3 slices of grocery store thin sliced salami and 3 half slices of provolone. This is pathetic.

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    Jevonah K.

    This place is a cute bakery coffee shop located in Boise Idaho. I grabbed a couple scones and lattes for a nice breakfast. Everything was delightful and the staff were pleasant.

    Never had such a miserable, thin BLT

    With no other orders ahead of me, it took almost 15 minutes to get this paper thin, dry (no mayo) $9.99 BLT. It contained only one and a half slices of wafer thin bacon, I had to stretch to cover the bread!! My wife ordered half a chicken salad sandwich which was also very meager. The bill was just shy of $20.00 and they want a tip! It's a shame this is what you get these days. We won't be back!

    I'm outside of Zeppole's cafe and see Fido waiting to drive Mommy home. Look closely...So Precious!!!
    Jan L.

    Can I say NEW YORK RYE bread? Love the stuff. And they make it fresh at Zeppole's Cafe available on Monday and Wednesday. They have lots of other good bakery items at this cafe, but what caught my taste-buds was the New York Rye...so delicious! The best part was seeing Fido in the Window waiting to drive Mommy home. Look closely at the photo of the Denali suv. Fido is precious.

    Michele R.

    Loathe to write one star reviews, I usually just don't take the time to do it. I'm a 'glass half full' type but there are times when a counterpoint review is a little like a public service announcement for taking pause before visiting. Maybe if I'd noted one before coming here with out of town friends given positive Yelp reviews, we would have avoided the really poor experience. Here goes my bottom line humble Yelp opinion: you can do so much better for bakery items than Zeppole and as a dine in experience it is woeful. The only thing that saved the day was the friendly young woman behind the counter doing her best to represent the paltry product of pre-wrapped, pre-made sandwiches that were on soggy bread when unwrapped to eat and lukewarm soup that tasted as if out of a package. These were so bad that we didn't get as far as the cookies or sweets to comment on those. But in everything is connected mode, I noted on making a trip to the loo that one had to walk by trays of open, cooling cookies on a rolling cart right in the path of travel to the bathroom. Said facilities being out of TP and when the really nice young woman behind the counter was informed she apologized and made mention of same to a sort of sullen looking woman sitting at a corner table who with metaphorical dark cloud hanging over her head stomped in to fix the issue. IMHO both Gaston's, Acme and Wildflower all make superior bakery products to Zeppole and that was my view before coming to this store. Still, on occasion I'd buy one of the Zeppole parm breadsticks at the CoOp. But after coming in here, Zeppole is off my list for purchasing at all anywhere. I realize I may hold a minority view. I realize they may have been having a bad day on the day of my visit. But if so, what a bad day it was. THIS N THAT: 1) Parking: Big strip mall lot. 2) Accessibility: How it is 25 years after the ADA was passed that strip mall owners get parking and accessibility so wrong is a crime. Literally. Regardless, if someone in your group uses a wheelchair be advised the accessible parking is a mess.

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    Wayne W.

    The Zeppole Village Loaf has been one of our favorites for sandwiches for years. But during a recent visit I noticed the scones looked like something that needed to be investigated. They had several types of scones (Raspberry White Chocolate, Lemon Blueberry, Cranberry Orange Walnut, Maple Walnut, Butterscotch Coconut) and a sign indicating they had made too many for the day and the price was about half off the regular $2.75 price due to making too many breakfast pastries for the day. Score! We ended up with three scones...Raspberry White Chocolate, Cranberry Orange Walnut, & Butterscotch Coconut. I think the Cranberry Orange Walnut had the edge, but all were great. They are just my style of scones...no thick icing (like Big City tends to do) and not too sweet. I was able to chat with James who works there and he recommended about 20 seconds in the microwave if you take them to go. The next day heated the leftovers in the microwave and they tasted even better than the previous day's unheated version.

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