Boulevard Bread Co
1920 N Grant St, Little Rock, AR
Crema's Take
“Boulevard Bread Co. is a beloved neighborhood bakery and cafe where the pastries are genuinely exceptional—reviewers rave about the delicate layers and balanced flavors that never veer into oversweetness. Beyond the coffee, this is a destination for inventive sandwiches like their shrimp po' boy and fried green tomato BLT, plus a deli case full of both sweet and savory treasures that make it equally perfect for a quick lunch or a dinner-to-go pick-up.”
What to expect
Google Reviews
Just here to say how delicious their shrimp po boy is!
Flakey pastries with well balanced flavors and textures, not too sweet. Their coffee is my favorite in the city. And try their "tea set"!
The deli has always had such wonderful food items sweet as well as savory. Good place for lunch or dropping in to bring home something quick, easy, and delicious for dinner. So a nice coffee bar too. This past week we were checking out the homemade vender goods that local artists make and set up a table for sales. I got a knitted scarf and a silk print picture and enjoyed being able to shop local for Christmas gifts!
Boulevard Bread Co. is a fixture of the Pulaski Heights neighborhood of Little Rock — deservedly popular for its excellent sandwiches, bread, soups, salads, not to mention its bakery with outstanding bread and a deli counter with an array of good cheeses, olives, cakes, cookies, brownies, and so on. For lunch, you order at a counter when you walk in and staff bring your food to your table. Evening meals have wait staff coming to the table and taking your order, with daily specials that are usually scrumptious. The atmosphere is pleasant, though the cavernous dining area and the loud conversations at many tables can make the place raucous and impede conversation. There's a small parking lot, but spaces can be at a premium at lunch time. There is, however, ample parking on nearby side streets and at two other parking lots only half a block away. I highly recommend the tuna paninis (pictured in one of my photos below), smoked turkey sandwiches, and the vegan hummus sandwich. Friends dote on the pastrami sandwiches. A few years ago, I took visitors from Los Angeles to lunch at Boulevard, and they offered high praise, indeed, coming as it did from sophisticated LA to little Little Rock: they said that they'd eat there every day if they lived in Little Rock. A bonus in summertime is a table in the deli-bakery section of Boulevard offering locally grown ripe tomatoes during the tomato season.
Went here twice on my visit. The special lunch was a fried green tomato BLT. Delicious. Followed up with this breakfast array. I've never seen this many layers in pastry in person. Service was fine, since you order at the counter and they then bring to the table. I wasn't sure how or where to get napkins and utensils until I walked around and the counter that takes orders is a little busy with items and kind of awkward. The in house bread is tops, the pimento is excellent. All the food is great from what I can tell.
Crema Reviews
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