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Grand Central Baking Co
2230 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR | Map it
(503) 232-0575 | View Website
2230 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR | Map it
(503) 232-0575 | View Website
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You can almost get full off the smells alone at GCB, but if you're still hungry their freshly baked artisan bread makes a great sandwich.
I love this place!. I LOVE the bacon egg breakfast sandwiches at Grand Central. I frequent the location in NW and it's never too crowded and the staff is friendly. The Irish Soda bread is also to die for!
Great Pastries, Bad Sandwiches. I've been here several times as well as to their other location on Weidler. The first couple of times I've been here, I tried several of the sandwiches and although I thought the turkey and chutney was all right, the ham and swiss served on a baguette was pretty bad. I first had the ham and swiss at the Weidler location and the baguette was so hard and dry that I thought there was no way this could be how all the baguette sandwiches were supposed to be. The inside of the baguette was the driest and hardest thing I've ever bit in to (no joke). So I actually went to the Hawthorne location a couple weeks later and ordered the ham and swiss there just to compare. I was very disappointed to see that the baguette sandwich there was just as bad. Since then I've never ordered any sandwich that comes on a baguette. Now when I come I always go for the pastries which are some of the best in town.…
Delicious pastries, marvelous bread, wonderful staff.
I've apparently been living in the "bizzaro universe Portland" as first I find horrid reviews of Yoko's and now disparaging ones about Grand Central. I've been going to Grand Central Baking on
Hawthorne pretty much once a day for the past 4 months, and, approx 2-3 times a week for the 2 years before that so I think I have a good grasp on their products and service (in the morning).
The pastries are consistently delicious, well-made, and still warm from the oven if you get there early enough. I love the Irish Soda Bread and the marionberry coffeecake. Also good are the: bread pudding, blueberry muffins, ham/cheese croissants, rhubarb handpie, and much more.
The bread is terrific and used at many good restaurants around town. I particularly like the piccolo comos and the campi.
True enough the baking operation has been moved to NW portland so that the breads are indeed trucked across the river but the pastries are made on-site.
Coffee is good--they use Stumptown.
Service has been nothing but wonderful. The staff cares about the customers and welcomes everyone.…
Disgusting workers. The workers here appear to be trying to be disgusting in appearance and attitude. While ordering food, I overheard one woman make a side joke to the woman taking my order about her "camel toe". Are there no aesthetic boundaries at this bakery? Also, the products are now being trucked over and no longer as fresh as in the past. The atmosphere is crowded, loud, and not conducive for enjoying coffee and pastry.…
