As you know, Bowling Green has 100s of restaurants to choose from and bakeries are becoming one of the more frequent finds. Corner Bakery Cafe opened up this year, taking over the lot of the late Beijing Chinese buffet that was once shaped like a boat.
This restaurant, which features breakfast, pasta, soup, salad, sandwiches, and baked goods, was founded in 1991 (the year I was born). Their BG location is currently their only KY location.
A couple of weeks after it opened, Mom and I decided to check it out for breakfast one Saturday.
It was crowded when we got there, making it hard to find a table, but there were only a couple of people in front of us at the register. We beat the 9am BG breakfast rush.
After we both ordered and squeezed into tables, we set our sticks with numbers on said table and waited for our food. The staff works very efficiently at Corner Bakery, finding most tables with ease and constantly moving about to see that tables stayed clean.
We were both excited when our food arrived.
I picked the Smoked Bacon and Cheddar Panini with a side of breakfast potatoes. Mine was really simple–bacon and cheese on sourdough bread hot and fresh off the grill. The eggs were the perfect fluffy texture while the bacon was good and crisp, but not over cooked. The cheese and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, bread tied it all together. And the potatoes…they just might have been my favorite part about the whole meal!
Mom got the Anaheim Scramble with harvest toast and breakfast potatoes; she agreed with me about the potatoes being fabulous. We both also really liked her toast, which was a great multigrain with a nutty depth of flavor. She also really enjoyed her scrambled eggs (and she’s picky about her eggs) that came mixed with bacon, tomatoes, green onions, cheddar cheese, and avocado.
Since I had already had coffee that morning, I resisted the temptation to intake more sugar and caffeine and stuck with a glass of water. Mom ordered tea and was disappointed when they delivered a hot cup of water and a tea bag; she’d been expecting something made in house.
I see a return trip in our future, especially since I still need to try something from that tantalizing bakery case! We did buy Grandma a blueberry muffin and my husband a ginormous cinnamon roll, but I didn’t get the chance to try either of these. I really want one of their peanut butter whoopie pies.
But I don’t see this becoming a weekly breakfast place for us. The only reason I say that is because they are a bit pricy. But they have excellent food and it’s a wonderful splurge.