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| - A nice little find tucked away in the overly pretentious Borgata shops, Sugarbakers is a new entry (only opened last month, I believe) into the competitive lunch market.
However, like Transformers, it's more than meets the eye. In addition to traditional lunch fare (sandwiches & salads), they also serve breakfast and have a full working bakery that churns out cookies, brownies, pies & made to order cakes.
At first I kinda thought this place was typically, Scottsdalianly overpriced. However, look who they're competing against for your lunch dollar. For $9 at Sugarbakers, you get a half-sandwich with REAL carved turkey they roasted that day, a bowl of homemade soup, a mound of kettle chips, a homemade mini-muffin, a couple pieces of carrot, a slice of pickle and an olive. (I was a little like, "uhhhhh, why do I have an olive?" at first). Compare that to $6 for Subway or $8 for something like Paradise Bakery. The freshness and quality here are so far superior that you'd be a dumbass not to pick Sugarbakers.
Also, I had a bit of an "OHMYGOD" moment. I'm not sure if it's because I'd pretty much cut sweets out of my diet for the last month or so or what, but their chocolate chip cookie is effing ridiculously good. They also had something called a "Cowboy Cookie" that had pecans & rice krispies in it. It was novel, but not holycrapworthy like the chocolate chip.
Most of their lunch items are in the $7-11 range. Next time I go, I have my eye on the "Sedona Special Salad", which has greens, turkey, cranberries & pecans.with a citrus vinaigrette or the "Sugarbakers Chopped Salad" that has greens, avocado, blueberries & walnuts.
Their breakfast stuff seems pretty fairly priced- Stack of pancakes for $5, Apple Praline or Bananas Foster French Toast (whoa, sounds good) for $8, Bacon & Eggs for $7. I'll have to check it out and throw on a homemade cinnamon roll just for good measure.
Also, like I mentioned, you can get cakes & pies to order. When I was there, one lady was picking up 30 cakes for an event.
Sugarbakers also makes mention that they use organic & natural foods whenever possible. The quality shows.
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