Grand Central Bakery - Hillsboro cafe

Review for ONLY the Central Bakery on 1st/Main St in Hillsboro. The coffee cake was from yesterday and hard sides not soft, clearly left over night. The pecan pull apart were tiny, burnt, and didn’t resemble what they should be like. This location didn’t used to be this bad, not sure what happened? Did they change manager, baker? Other Central Bakery locations are excellent.

I'm so excited for this new bakery in downtown Hillsboro! There is plenty of indoor and outdoor seating with 17 picnic benches outside, both covered and uncovered. They have a great variety of breakfast items, available until noon. All their sandwiches can be turned into salads as a bread-free option! They have a wide selection of pastries and desserts. They have lots of beautiful hard-crusted bread loaves!

Hillsboro Grand Central Bakery rocks!!! I’ve been coming here at least once a week since it opened 2.5 years ago and the staff keeps surpassing my expectations. I love love love the warm greetings that the staff provides to customers who come in. And the way they really want to brighten your day (from adding whipped cream to my coffee cake, giving my kids a cookie when the cafe was really busy, to recognizing regulars and making them feel appreciated!). Also helps that the artisan breads are so delicious which keeps me coming back! Special call out to Huy, Bree, and Aislin - to name a few of this rock star team. Thank you!!!

The bread and pastries? Amazing. The prices are pretty high, but the food quality is quite high too. I think my pallet is use to less protein, the chicken salad was almost *too* chicken. I wanted more of the mix ins with it but that's personal preference. 14 dollars for a chicken salad sandwich though. That's steep. Even the salmon was only 13. I am just not sure how the price is justified. The pull apart bread was delicious and gooey though. The server was so kind. They even refilled my ice tea. Was comforting to seen a Pride flag by the front counter.

I give this spot a -10 girl with bandana on a Wednesday morning chose violence. First off I ordered a mocha latte WARM, it was cold. Croissant was stale had an old taste to it. I went up to request my mocha to go and to get it warmed. I was polite and respectful, the girl with the bandana raised her voice at me and was very disrespectful. My family and myself decided to leave the establishment and will not be returning. We spent our hard earned money here and didn’t enjoy anything here I want a full refund.

I love love love the bread here, especially the Sour Rye. I'm a fan of sourdough and Rye bread, so finding one loaf (to rule them all) with both was heavenly! The other breads (sourdough, sourdough potato, etc.) are good too, and the Friday Clam Chowder! Love the veggie quiche, and the veggie friendly monthly special sandwiches. Basically I've loved everything I've ordered here.

The first thing that I always take note is the customer service and this place didn’t have it. My wife and I were rushed twice. We weren’t greeted as we came in but everyone else that came in after us was greeted. I don’t like to say it’s because we were the only brown folks in there but everyone else got greeted with a smile and we only got the bare minimum. They didn’t have white chocolate mocha but that’s a me thing for not liking the coffee choices so far. The menu says what each item is but doesn’t show what is in the meal. If we have any allergies how will we know what to remove or sub for? The food was okay, we paid 33$ for a breakfast croissant, mocha, tuna melt and a juice from the fridge. Worth the price ? Not really but things are getting expensive anyways. Will I come here again ? I don’t think so. Disappointed that this was the experience I got the first time we came.

Nice atmosphere. Ordered a vegetable quiche and a mocha. The mocha was okay at best. The quiche was “vegetable”, but the only veggies in there were whole cherry tomatoes. Yuck. Not even cut up. The inside was entirely cold and I don’t normally complain but I did bring it back to the register and asked if they wouldn’t mind heating it up in their microwave. No microwave. She said, “Well, it should be warm because they sit on a heater”. I told her that yes, the warm part was the bottom, which was on the heater but the inside was cold. She offered me another one. Um, no, I don’t want another cold quiche. No offers of a refund. No offers of any other pastry. Update- they were kind enough to reply. They sent me a link to their website. Not planning on complaining there. For what reason? Anyway, just try to make sure your warmer warms through and not just the bottom.