Corner Bakery is the devil over which I have about zero will power. Not so much with the lunch menu items, it's really the baked goods that are my Achilles heel. Although it can be the lunch items if you are not careful. As with any bakery/cafe the details are in the bread. The bread is what makes or breaks your lunch. In the case of Corner Bakery its best to stay away from just about every sandwich unless its plain turkey on rye. If you get a sandwich make it a half and get a side salad.
Today I went with a soup and salad combo with the chicken tortilla and Santa Fe salad. I am pretty sure that CB has changed the tortilla soup. Last time I recall liking it b/c it was chicken broth based and not tomato. Today it was a spicy tomato base and no chicken. At least in my bowl. It was just, meh. More or less tasted like every other food service chicken tortilla soup. The salad I don't think I would get again. For starters it comes dressed and I assumed dressing would be on the side. I typically don't eat salad dressing on my salads at all. When I do I don't use very much. This was drowning in ranch and it was pretty gross.
The Santa Fe is a big chopped salad, even when in combo form so there was a lot to eat. However the lack of chicken or tomatoes or even cheese, three things that are typically in large supply in a Santa Fe ranch salad, were missing here. The salad lacked overall flavor, not enough chicken and had too much dressing on it. Even if I were normal and ate dressing on salads it would be too much. Plus when the salad has dressing that makes your calorie count shoot way up. Per the nutrition calculator at Corner Bakery the salad is 420 plus 100 for the focaccia roll it comes with. If you 86 the ranch and the cheddar cheese you can get that down to 220 which makes eating the focaccia roll a done deal. Now I loves me some cheese but in this case if it comes down to choosing between the roll and the cheese I am going with the roll hands down. The focaccia rolls at the Houston Main Street CB are magic people. If I had the recipe for these I would make them all the time to the detriment of my entire family. Now 420 doesn't sound like a lot on its own but when combined with a cup of soup at 230 and an iced sugar cookie at 330 you are talking-- YIKES! You are talking zero to very little dinner. Like carrots and that's it. Carrots and water maybe.
True, I do know better than to get the iced sugar cookie. I got hooked on them when I was pregnant and they are proving to be a hard habit to break. Kind of like crack . . .from what I've heard. Have you ever had one? I challenge you to find or make a better one. Icing is the real homemade deal, not a thick bunch of whipped up sugar and criso (although at times that can be mighty fine too). I cannot live without one when I take the time to walk all the way across downtown from my office to eat there. The cookie has to make the trip back, end of story.
If I can't get the cookie then I'm really not even going to waste my time walking over there. I can find some crap to eat for lunch much closer... that is the kind of power the cookie has. I'm tellin' you man. Mmmmmmm.
Recommend Corner Bakery in general, but not this meal--EXCEPT FOR THE COOKIE. Salad was a 2 and the soup this trip was a 3. Last time it was a 4. I swear I am remembering it right. It was different, and better. Speaking of better, hopefully tomorrow I will do better with lunch. I sent Hubs to the store for Lean Cuisine's so it was dealer's choice on the meal. I'm not even sure what is in the freezer right now. That should be fun!
don't forget to leave room for dessert!
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