Great Harvest Bread Co. — Restaurant in Cedar Rapids

My routine is to go to Great Harvest in the morning, get a sample and call it breakfast and then take a tuna fish sandwich home for lunch. Its a good system.

Let me brag about the sandwich.

First of all, gotta get the white bread. I know, I know, wheat and that Dakota bread are yummy too. I say go for the white with the tuna fish. Otherwise, the tuna might lose out to the bread. Let them load it with lettuce, tomato, and red onion, but then, ask for sliced cucumber and salt and pepper. Now we are talking. I'm telling you, this is the perfect tuna fish sandwich. Perfectly salty, soft with little crisp from the cukes, and creamy from the mayo dressing. I can never finish a whole sandwich, so I get to spread the joy over a whole afternoon.... Eating half at noon and the other half at 3. So good, trust me.

Three more things that make this place a fine star: Coke products, endless sweets like cinnamon monkey bread and salted ginger cookies, and dinner rolls to die for (pre order them for holidays.)

So, make the trip. Grab a sample, order a sandwich, and take some treats home to the family. Great Harvest will...

I was familiar with Great Harvest having lived in the KC area. Was thrilled to find out that one has opened in Cedar Rapids. The breads are awesome. Its wonderful to have access to true real bread not the cotton batting you find in most grocery stores. I went one day and got the Gorgonzola Pecan, Harvest White and some sweets. I tried the Panza while there and was bowled over by its incredible flavor. I went back the next day to get Panza and the American Rye. All their breads make awesome sandwiches. The sales people were very accommodating to me with physical disabilities and that was greatly...

I just visited GHBC to pick up lunch for my guy and myself. They offer your choice of a sample of bread while you wait I selected garlic cheddar, and I'm fairly certain it's similar to what God sent the Israelites when they were wandering the desert. How the heck did they get flavorful chunks of cheese in there, amidst pillowy bread? I'm not going to try to recreate it, I'll just go there to purchase it. I had the Yardbird salad and I loved it, especially the spiced, candied seeds. My fella had the Louisville chicken salad and liked it very much. Also, both employees I encountered were...