Flour Bakery + Cafe — Restaurant in Cambridge

I come here semi-regularly, since I work nearby. Their chai lattes are good, I really like the egg strata when it has andouille sausage in it (ingredients change all the time) but it's still good with leeks and spinach. Quiche with goat cheese and cremini muchrooms was probably the best quiche I've had (not made by my mother) in a long time. The black iced tea is also really good, it's unsweetened, which I prefer. I've the mint green and the herbal fruity iced teas too, and they don't really stand out in comparison, but I'm a traditional black tea type person. I love the salads that come with the egg dishes and the French toast it really good and filling - FYI, you only need one slice of French toast, don't give in to the temptation to order more, you will definitely not be able to eat it all. One slice of French toast is actually two sizable chunks because they cut it in half. So if you order two, you will actually get four. I made the mistake of ordering an additional slice once and I was only able to eat half the amount of food I got. I ate the second slice for breakfast the next day and it was still delicious. Definitely order the side of bacon they offer with it. AND NOW FOR DESSERT: Chocolate chip cookies are good, they are made with brown sugar, melted butter and dark chocolate. The coffee cake is the best coffee cake I've ever had and I have never been able to finish a slice by myself. Twice baked brioche is my ultimate favorite indulgence but they run out of that one really fast so I rarely get it by lunch. I think they must make their own jam from fresh raspberries for the raspberry bars, and the lemon is one I had once and am scared to go back to, because it was so good but also gone really quickly. So I'm withholding judgement on lemon at flour because it's hard to get right and I don't think I've had a wide enough sample. I'm working up to trying the lemon meringue pie. I'm also trying to eat less sugar...... Anyway, the banana bread is also absolutely flawless. At Flour, they tend to emphasize savory rather than sweet in their baking and cooking, although there are almost pure sugar options if that's what you want. I would recommend against throwing yourself into the pure sugar though because I think savory is their strength and you can really taste it in the flavors they choose, like using foccaccia bread for their French toast, using balsamic vinaigrette as the salad dressing, and adding annis...

Stuff looked good, but the PSL I ordered tasted like the food experiments we dared each other to drink growing up. I was a block away and it was hard to drink and it didn't taste anything like coffee, so I thought maybe they gave me a coder, and it was so icky I couldn't drink it, so I walked back. It took a little while to get someone's attention. When I finally did, they agreed that the half inch or more of congealed thick stuff on top wasn't what it was supposed to look. So they agreed to make me a new one. And I said erm, let's take a pass on that and just go with a latte. Based on the reviews, I thought that was safe. They took a while to make my replacement bev. And it was not good. It wasn't sickening, but it was lacking in flavor, both weak and just not great coffee flavor. Yelp rarely leads me this far astray, but this is one stop I actively regret, and I feel the need to find a decent latte soon to get the taste of his place out of my mouth.

I can't speak to the baked goods, so maybe hose are as delish as they look, along with the meals.

Oh, and I overpaid for the mediocre latte when I switched to that because it costs less than the congealed pumpkin spice latte, so that was extra nice—no offer to make it up to me in any way or refund the difference, albeit small, just adding insult to injury and not compensating me for the really absurd amount of time I spent on this disaster.

Two stars rather than one because it didn’t make me sick and the staff were okay, once they decided to get around to paying attention to me. I later added a star because management responded quickly to my review, made it right, totally got the point, and said they’d try to figure out what went wrong with training or whatever (I think maybe some ingredients had turned or the temperatures were wrong...

An iced matcha latte is a hard drink to mess up. Typically, there are 2 or 3 ingredients: milk, matcha powder mixed in water, and maybe a syrup. My drink consisted of just those three components: whole milk, vanilla syrup, and matcha. Flour Bakery + Cafe did the first two correctly. Whole milk and syrup were expertly added to ice, with a nice ratio between the two. Now, let's talk about the matcha. As a small business, shouldn't you feel embarrassed when embarrassed when a global entity like Starbucks puts more energy into their matcha than you do? Starbucks will actually use a chasen and a chawan to whisk air into the matcha, creating a luxurious, silky, velvety mouth-feel, before adding it over the drink. The nice man over at Flour squirted some pre-diluted matcha powder from a squeeze bottle for .16 seconds over my drink, which yielded me a large matcha that had the final color of Common sage, and allowed me to only taste the milk and vanilla. Not to mention it took 15 minutes to get my drink, while many people who ordered after me received their drinks first. Meanwhile, at Verveine Cafe and Bakery, another small business a few steps over, my matcha latte was a luxurious forest green, allowing me to taste the grassy and seaweed-y qualities of the matcha more than I tasted the milk. Sadly, I would would recommend Starbucks, and especially Verveine, greatly over I would recommend this place due to their inability to make a matcha latte that was actually green.

However, the egg and sausage breakfast sandwich was pretty good. A little too much mustard but the flavor was definitely there. That sandwich got out 5 minutes before...