Bread Winner

This place sucks. Seriously. Don’t bother.

Over priced. This is a review for the small Bread Winner kiosk near Mellon Bank Building. My first and last time there. I ordered the $ 7.80 sandwich special (BLT, chips, soda). The sandwich barely had any meat on it and was mostly made up of shredded lettuce. The rye bread was very small. The sandwich was almost finger food appetizer style. I know we have a recession, but c’mon on. This encourages me to make my own lunch.

There are several reviews written for another Hope Street location but this is the address that is on my receipt and on the punch card that they gave me. This is for the Bread Winner that is the kiosk at the Mellon Bank Center but it actually sits facing S Grand Ave.
Anyway, I have been by Bread Winner many times but the line is always pretty long. Today I was starving so I took an early lunch, couldn’t decide where to eat, and noticed that there were only two people in line there. WOO HOO, any place that has bread in the title must be fabulous, right!!!
Well, the bread choices were nothing fancy… wheat, white, rye, sourdough, french roll, etc. OK but nothing exciting. I think I was hoping for the delicious curcuma hazelnut that Mendocino Farms has but oh well. I settled for an egg salad on wheat with lots of veggies and cheddar cheese. Very inexpensive… the sandwich plus a water came to around $ 7.50. My sandwich was made very quickly and I was happily on my way back to work.
The sandwich was good, not great. It is good for the price anyway. One thing I did not like at all is that they added mayo and mustard on each of the slices of bread which really took away from egg salad taste. Plus, egg salad is already loaded with mayo, I don’t think the sandwich needed anything more. Maybe it was my fault because the person working at the counter asked me if I wanted ‘everything’ on it and I said yes but I just meant all of the veggies. They are very generous with all of the veggies that they put on the sandwich, at no extra cost (lettuce, tomato, sprouts, onion, and pickle) so that was nice.
Overall…it was an OK lunch. Not too bad at all but didn’t blow me away. I think I like it when my egg salad has tarragon or other spices in it to spruce it up but this was pretty plain.
Oh, and at the end of the kiosk they have all this religious paraphernalia! About where will you spend eternity and are you a child of god. Stuff like that. That was kind of funny, I wasn’t expecting that!