Breakfast quiche! Cookies! Gelato! How can you NOT be a fan of this place? It really is a Cleveland institution.
I like to come here from breafast all the way to my afternoon snack. For breakfast, I like to get their breakfast quiche or the croissant sandwiches. They're super buttery and flaky and filled with egg and cheese and your choice of breakfast meats. They're hearty and filling.
For my mid-morning snack, I'd pick up a few cookies. There's an assortment of cookies and you purchase them by weight. I often like to get a few of each. It's not too expensive considering the amount of butter that's in these babies. You can taste the clogging of your arteries -- now that's a damn good cookie.
For lunch, they have a lot of meal combos. From the Italian favorites of meatballs and cavatelli to a quick lasagna, they've got your lunch meal ready for less than 10 dollars. I often get one for there (they'll heat it up) and one to go (they close pretty early so dinner is sometimes not an option).
For my afternoon snack (I sometimes like to stay inside all day because with their free internet and delicious coffees, I can afford a study date there), I like to pick up a pastry. They used to start selling their morning donuts at a discount starting in the afternoon. It seems like their donut chef has recently left and so there are NO MORE donuts. But that's alright, I suppose, because I'm filling the donut hole in my heart with plenty of chocolate tirimisu and lemon tarts.
But if the pastry gods are listening, please bring back the donuts! PLEASEEEE!!