Great Harvest Bread Co.

Awesome bakery filled with breads, cookies, scones, gluten free treats, soups, olive oils, etc. Storefront has seating with board games. Owner has been running this location for 16 years. Super friendly. You can tell everyone working here likes what they do.

Where to begin with this review… Great Harvest has a special spot in my mom’s heart since she franchised a bread bakery with her mom when she was young. With this location being the only Great Harvest in the entire state, you’d think it was be at the top of its game. My mom and I had the idea that we’d walk out with a good amount of bread loaves and even eat a delicious lunch while we were there. Unfortunately, their dessert and bread options for that day (we went on a Monday, St Patrick’s Day) weren’t that great. They had a gingersnap cookie, this coconut scone, and most of the emphasis was on their Irish soda bread (sot surprisingly because of the day we went lol). The cookie and scone flavors didn’t appeal to us. We were thinking of getting their oatmeal chocolate chip cookies which are enormous, but they only had them wrapped in packs of six. We weren’t about to spend a hefty amount on six of the same cookie. Another thing Great Harvest does is you can sample their breads before purchasing. My mom was disappointed when she asked if she could try some sourdough and was told they didn’t have any for tasting that day. The only breads available for sampling was the soda bread and their gluten-free option :/ The cashier in general could’ve been nicer. She didn’t even ask us what kind of bread we wanted for our sandwich; we had to specify sourdough and that’s only because we asked if they had sourdough for sampling. Even for that, she was kind of dismissive when telling us they only had like two kinds of bread for sampling that day. Moving on to ordering lunch, we decided to just order one tuna sandwich and splitting it between us. We ordered the tuna salad sandwich on sourdough. Long story short, it was nothing to write home about. The tuna salad was something you’d make at home, and the toppings of lettuce, tomato, and raw red onions were obviously something you could whip together at home. It was $10 and you don’t even get a side of ANYTHING. In fact, as the plate arrived at our table, the server was like, “did you guys get chips with that?” We answered that we didn’t, and she went in and asked if we usually get a side of chips included with the $10. She came back out and said that we didn’t, ultimately. Sad. My mom remarked that the sourdough used for the sandwich wasn’t even that true to what sourdough should be; it didn’t have any tangy sourness to it that one should expect in an authentic sourdough bread from a literal bread bakery. Anyway, now we know we won’t be returning here anytime soon.