Reviews of The Stone Oven Bakery and Cafe
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Best Lunch on Lee
Fantastic breads, soups, and sandwiches! I highly recommend the Foccaia and Garlic and Rosemary breads, the Vichyssoise, 3 Bean, Black Bean, Chicken Tortilla, and Chicken Noodle soups, and the Chicken Tarragon Salad Sandwich - I could eat any of them for lunch any day of the week! The soups (which are hearty and filling!) will run you around $3 (depending on the size), and bread somewhere between $2.75 - $3.50 a loaf (and after 7 PM loafs are buy one get one free!); the sandwiches can be a bit pricey around $7-8, but come with chips, couscous, or tabbouleh and are well worth it. The staff are polite, but busy, and sometimes sacrifice friendliness for efficiency, but are never rude (at least not to me); it can get a bit loud inside, but they have a lovely patio in back with lots of plants and flowers growing.
Review by Alexis from Cleveland Hts. posted August 09, 2009
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Great food, depressed service
The food, especially the desserts, is great. Favorites:Delicate chocolate "bomb", uncommonly good Russian tea cakes, macaroons, lemon squares, cookies, carrot cake. Not-as-good, but OK: Layered chocolate torte and bread pudding (might taste OK, but outer crust often tastes and feels funny as if sitting out too long). Sandwiches are very good, and I always recommend their fresh breads to take home. Young counter staff often seems depressed, though - just floating around barely aware of the customers, and showing no signs of any sense of humor. Very sad. Must be a generational thing.
Review by skacleve from Cleveland posted April 01, 2006
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Nothing Wrong Here
I'll take it on faith that the other two reviewers genuinely did not like the Stone Oven, but it's hard for me to understand why. The restaurant offers good soups and sandwiches in a pleasant, comfortable environment. And they have excellent bread available by the loaf. There is also a wide variety of beverages and the staff is pleasant. What more does one want in a neighborhood soup and sandwich spot?
Review by Ian from Cleveland Heights posted March 29, 2006
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Stone has gradually rolled downhill
I've gone here since they opened - always dependably good, fresh and pretty good value. They're now in new location - and the change didn't improve anything. Mostly new staff is pretty clueless without improvement. Orders come up wrong alot. Unorganized. Poor ordering system. Some pretty weird soup choices some days. Prices up, quality and quantity down. The only good thing is still the fresh made, excellent bread. Seems they've stopped paying attention to the customer and righting wrongs. Too bad, too.
Review by David from Cleveland Hts. posted November 03, 2005
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It's ok but across the street!
We went there on a recommendation -- it was ok but across the street there was this new video game store, Alley's, and they really rock. The food at the stone oven was ok, and it looks nice from outside the store, but once inside, it felt dingy. The lentil soup looked liked vomit but there were other items on the menu. Except the dingy feel inside, it was ok. A lot of older people for customers, sort of cafeteria style environment, like au beau pain
Review by Anonymous posted April 12, 2005
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