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| - I guessed that when I returned to Layers, I would be updating my review from 3 to 4 stars. I was right. The wife and I had lunch at Layers on a Friday afternoon. It was after 1 pm, but there were still about a half dozen tables eating. I had the café croissant, a large croissant with turkey, bacon, mixed greens, white cheddar, and honey mustard. This was, in a word, delicious. The croissant was large, flaky and buttery. Textbook. The turkey is LEGIT. They make it themselves, and it's tender and flavorful! They could sell it to other sandwich places. It's fantastic. People may scoff at the price ($9.50), but with ingredients and flavor like this, it's a steal at that price. If you want a $5 sandwich, eat a Subway. If you want a GOOD sandwich made with great ingredients, get this sandwich. Also, they put enough cheese on the sandwich you can actually TASTE the cheese. A lot of sandwich places around town (chains, mostly) put such a small amount of cheese on your sandwich, you are only getting extra calories, no extra flavor. At Layers, the cheese came through, and it went perfect with the moist turkey and sweet honey mustard. This is an absolute repeat, and I encourage all turkey sandwich lovers to give it a shot. You won't be sorry.
The wife had the soup of the day, tomato garlic, with the gringo taco salad. The soup was okay, not great, but I'm not a big tomato soup person. So, I'm probably not the one to ask. The taco salad was really good. Homemade croutons were crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. That's tough to do well. I saw them prepare it, they wait until the absolute last second to put the hot meat on the salad. This helped the greens stay crisp.
Both times I have eaten here the staff was very friendly. The place is clean, the food is prepared well, and they clearly care about what they are doing. We need more places like this in the Valley.
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