Best Regards Bakery & Cafe — Restaurant in Overland Park

Congrats on the bell on the door. Flashed me right back to Luddite Victorian England. Noisy and unnecessary. Mr. Best Regards peripatetically scurries around the restaurant - one moment greeting guests, next moment cleaning tables, next moment taking orders. His OCD/ADHD is unrestrained. I'm fatigued just waiting in line at the lunch rush. Sadly, Mr was taking orders when it was my turn to do the deed. He enthusiastically yelps that every item in the flippin store has a story and he desperately wants to tell me every flippin story. I'm not interested. I just want a ham sammich. It's noon o'clock and they're out of rye bread already (think about that, what kind of bakery runs out of rye by 12noon??). I do a "build my own" deal with bacon, turkey, and ham on French peasant bread or something. What kind of cheese? No Mr, I didn't say cheese cuz I don't want cheese. He offers me a condiment and starts to launch into some Wikipedic soliloquy about how many hand-selected islands are crushed up and drizzled into their thousand island dressing or some such nonsense. Mustard, just mustard, bro. I'm told there are lousy packets of mustard "over there" if I don't want to listen to his James Michener-esque explication of condiments. My wife orders a chicken-something-something sammich. With two cokes, our tab is just shy of $20. Tip? You want a tip? Take that flippin bell off your flippin door. Sammiches arrive. What the??? I paid $8 for a sandwich on pedestrian, stiff white bread (about 3.5" x 3.5" square) with, oh, about 3 ounces of meat and one small leaf of lettuce. This is guaranteed to be the worst sammich value in greater Kansas City. If you want a sandwich of reasonable price and portion, high tail it to Adrian's Cafe on College near Corporate Woods. You'll pay just as much as Best Regards and get three, no, four times the value. Disclaimer: My gender is completely male. This place is (understandably) popular with the fairer gender who value "neat...

I can't even begin to express how disgusted and disappointed I am in this Bakery DO NOT order custom cakes from here, they are awful!!! I asked for a very simple cake for my sons birthday, they refuse to use fondant so I gave them a picture of a basic two tier cake, very simple design. I repeatedly told the owner that I wanted it to match the picture and I didn't like the one he kept pointing out to me on the wall of a previous cake he had made. What did I get? A cake completely different from what I asked and absolutely UGLY, I mean this cake was so ugly we almost didn't bring it to the party. It was hideous!!! Also the cake was so hard we could barely cut it. We finally got one tiny piece cut and gave it to my son, he took one bite and spit it out. Everyone proceeded to try it and everyone agreed it was the worst cake they had ever had! Not only did I get an UGLY cake that wasn't what I asked for but it tasted disgusting. I am beyond upset with Best Regard Bakery and I will fight to get my money back. Shame on you Best Regards Bakery! My advice to anyone looking for a custom cake is to pay the extra money to get it made by professionals and not these guys. Spend the money and go else where or you will end up with a piece of crap at your party. Do not order...

If you are thinking of ordering a cake or pastries from this bakery, do it! I ordered their chocolate cake for my boyfriend's birthday and it's the only place I'd trust to order a cake from. I saw another horribly unkind review on here involving their cake and I seriously don't see how that could be even close to true. This is a family-run, local business and it's unfathomable to me that someone would be that vindictive to write a review like that. I've had their cake on multiple occasions and it has always been delicious. It's so many levels above what you would get at a grocery store and you only have to look at their website to see how pretty they are. I will continue to order cakes from here for years to come and hope you will give it a try!

I truly enjoy this café and every friend I've brought there for a gourmet grilled cheese has been happy I've introduced them to this hidden gem. It may not be the fastest place for lunch, but the quality of the food is worth the wait and I always appreciate being able to slow down and talk to friends a bit. The BLTs are amazing, the pizza specials they have are great, the soups, the cookies, truly everything I've had...