Bobby D.
Yelp
My son's girlfriend had been visiting San Diego for a few days, but we didn't have the chance to meet up with her. Thankfully, we were able to coordinate to meet up for breakfast this morning. Thanks to my better half for finding a restaurant that was conveniently located from my son's apartment and where we needed to go afterwards. Besides being centrally located, Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe served scrumptious sandwiches with amazing bread as vessels for its contents, delightful and memorable pastries/cookies, and tasty Java to wash our grub down.
Con Pane is located in the Liberty Station confines, which is next to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot complex. Closest major thoroughfare would be Rosecrans Street. Within Liberty Station, it's on the corner of Historic Decatur and Dewey Roads. The restaurant is next to Slater's 50/50, next to Sea Hive, next to Cocina 35, across the street from the Barracks 19 building, and diagonally from the Visions Art Museum. There is plenty of lot and street parking. It's a spacious spot with indoor and outdoor umbrella seating. Inside the restaurant, vibrancy abodes with the music, paint colors, framed pics of bakery utensils, painted verbiage like "eat more bread", interesting light fixtures, and rattan chair seats. It can get loud with the consistent flow of airplanes from our local airport. You order from the customer service oriented and friendly employees, they'll provide you with a number, and your food will be delivered to you.
Con Pane is primarily a bakery that specializes in breads and baked goods. The focal point of the restaurant are their display cases of these breads and pastries. They also serve a variety of sandwiches, soups, sweets, and hot/cold drinks. It was a little intimidating trying to decide what to order because everything looks so delicious. When my son and his girlfriend finally joined us, they wanted to order sandwiches just like me. For the sandwiches, you get to choose what type of bread you want to encapsulate the toppings with and the bread would be from the Daily Breads choices. For our party of four we ordered the following: half sandwiches of Turkey Cobb with Rosemary Olive Oil bread, Roasted Turkey with Rosemary Olive Oil bread, Italian Salami with Point Loma Sourdough bread, Raisin Brioche Cinnamon Roll, and two cups of hot Butterscotch Lattes. My sandwich was the Turkey Cobb and it was amazing with the soft and tasty Rosemary Olive Oil bread. My sandwich comes with roasted turkey breast, applewood smoked bacon, fresh avocado, crumbled Gorgonzola, house roasted Roma tomatoes, mayo, and Romaine lettuce. For a half sandwich, they weren't stingy with its ingredients, it was fresh tasting, and it was yummy. I really enjoyed the butterscotch latte to make each bite of food go down easier. We brought home an assortment of scones, a butter toffee peanut butter cookie, and a chocolate hazelnut twist.
It was a blessing to spend quality time with our son and his girlfriend. We all got to enjoy for the first time the delectable sandwiches and luscious coffee from Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe.