La Brea Bakery

Shawn

4 months ago •

This place is bottom tier. Overpriced $16 grilled cheese and the worst customer experience. The young lady at the cashier was too concerned about texting in WhatsApp, threw the receipt at people, and was generally low effort. You can do a lot better for food at JFK at a bother place. Avoid!

Christopher Hodge

a week ago •

Hungry travelers through JFK terminal 4 beware This review is of the La Brea in JFK's terminal 4. Airports are not known for the culinary exploits, but I think La Brea Café have taken the step to make a truly bad and overpriced sandwich and convince passersby that they are getting something different in this terminal. In the display case there are stacks of premade sandwiches. Are these actual sandwiches or something from a display at Madame Tussauds??? Well I will tell you they are not the same as what comes in the little box you get. I was stuck in the airport during the CrowdStrike/Delta debacle. I was getting hungry and it look as if my flight was going to be pushed back again. I wondered around looking at the myriad of selections, which in any airport is just the same renamed menu choices from vendor to vendor. What caught my eye was the look of the items on display compared to the prices they had on the board. $18.99 for a turkey sandwich seems crazy but the ones on display were large enough to be food now and pre-breakfast if I was stuck there past midnight. I ordered the Turkey with Brie to get me through the next several hours of waiting for my flight to take me away. and happily took my drink and sandwich back to my gate. Once I found a seat I opened the box with much anticipation, and a desire to quiet my stomachs interpretation of a tympani, it had been a long day without sustenance. My delight was soon vanquished when I discovered they had shorted me half a sandwich. It was a full slice of bread, however it must have been the end pieces of what I assume was a round loaf (the display obviously used a piece from the center). It was Pinni style so it was toasted but the thickness in my estimations was about 3/8 of an inch and toasting something that thin dries it out making it into a giant crouton. The amount of turkey and brie were abysmal but in line with the surrounding bread being offered. I would say it tasted good but biting into two slices of hardened bread meant any enjoyment was hard to measure. For further enjoyment this box also included handmade/fresh kettle chips, and I only assume that what was printed on the outside of the industrial size bag they came in. Looking to their website it seems that this location is only one of two left anywhere in the world. If this display of their commitment to the customer experience and their desire to squeeze out every last dollar from an unsuspecting public they have succeeded. I should have stood in the line at the Shake Shack but it was just so long… Should I have returned maybe but I was concerned about gate reassignments and the flight being called suddenly (had been happening all afternoon) so i ate it but vowed to leave a review.

Jessica Della Pepa

a year ago •

I'm actually really glad I did not read the reviews before going, as I would have not ordered from them. So far, I am eating a grilled veggie panini and it's on normal chewy bread, and the sandwich is nice and hot from the panini press. The couple across from me at our gate ordered grilled cheese from La Brea. I had just seen the overall 2.1 star review and asked the couple what they thought of their sandwiches. They said they were fine. Maybe not award winning, but certainly better than 2.1 stars. We all went around 9:20 pm, and they close at 10pm. They still had plenty of veggie options as well as meaty sandwiches. While I am not a big fan of spending 16+ dollars on a sandwich, the price is comparable to all the other food vendors in JFK, and most places were closing up at 9 pm (and rather stern about it!) Thank you for being open, and thank you for the quick, fresh service!

Austin Moore

3 months ago •

The bar for airport food is pretty low but this place goes underground. The front of store structure makes no sense. The kiosks are before the products and customers had to go into the store and then back out to use the kiosk. There were two people in front of me and it took 25 minutes to get a muffin. Avoid at all costs.

Shane White

9 months ago •

Good tuna sandwich and a cup of chicken noodle. MUCH faster than ShakeShack next door. I’d eat here again. It’s $$$…but it’s blue New York with taxes up the wazoo in an airport, so that’s to be expected.