Bread & Honey

I love Bread and Honey. I’ve been going since I was a teenager. I am a little annoyed at the cost of the rides. Its 2 dollars a ticket each ride takes 3 tickets, so each ride costs 6 dollars a person. I have 2 kids so that’s 12 dollars a ride. I couldn’t afford to join them. I asked why they don’t have a wrist band option the ticket lady said the people organising the event (The Rotary Club) didn’t want the wrist band to be an option. If it was an option the cost would have been 35 dollars a person for unlimited rides. I would have paid a little more money but the kids would have had way more fun. Shame on you Rotary Club. I guess you make more money from straight up ticket sales.

This is the go-​to place for most of the people who work in this area (not including employees of Hearst Tower). Most of the hot buffet options which I’ve had were okay– I’d stick with the fresh turkey and grilled chicken. The food isn’t bland, but there just isn’t a lot of flavor happening. Best deli counter within a couple of blocks for breakfast sandwiches: they’re cooked fast and cooked right.
This may seem like an odd complaint, but you will leave smelling of fried food no matter how quickly you run in and out. My hair and clothes stink for hours after I’m there: I have to wear a hat or tie my hair up to prevent this. May not be an issue for some (most) people, but they seriously need some upgrade their air circulation.

Great sandwiches for very reasonable prices (considering the neighborhood). A lunch-​sized sandwich will run you ~$ 7.

I live down the street from this place and come here pretty often. The buffet offers a huge variety of vegetables, fish, cheese, seafood, and meats. There’s also fresh fruits and vegetables. I used to be a whole foods slut, but this place is a better value in my opinion. The atmosphere is really chill and unpretentious. There are two cute, sweet Korean girls working there along with a nice dude and some beer geek who is super friendly. Speaking of which: awesome selection of craft beers.

I came here last night to buy some snacks and I was looking around as there were some unique choices. I was approached by a member of staff if I needed any help finding something or choosing something, which was really nice, because no-​one ever asks this anymore.
Although I didn’t purchase anything, I know I will go back when I do need something.
Great customer service.

So, it looks like the food was good but I want a coffee first! I feel like a coffee, after all was
. So there was this Mexican guy telling me that it was he’s first day and he didn’t know how to make coffee and I know how does coffee machines (espresso) work, I work in a Italian place. So i star to teach him and I decide to get inside even though I don’t work but I want to help him just for one minute, he was nice and there was absolutely no body to help him. So I was starting to enter and suddenly there was this black guy yelling at me and hi came out madly mad he wanted to chick my ass. But instead to ask what happened and help, he just started to yelling at me training to beat me up so mad, like I did something really wrong, and I was training to tell him what I was trying to do, but hi wouldn’t listen to me and an Asian guy came telling me that hi is the manager and that the back guy was right and that I was trying to steal! I really didn’t know what to do and I call 911 but then, I realized that you can’t deal with this people coz they think they can treat you as they please and nobody is going to do anything not even the owner I think. Coz they do treat costumers as they please. So sad but truth! The mentality of this people is really wrong! For sure I won’t come back and I won’t recommend this place. Understandable! I hope someone do something, isn’t right to treat costumers like that.

Recently moved jobs and started coming here. They have a little of everything, but haven’t found a single thing they do well.
So this has become my defacto breakfast spot. There are other places around, but this is the closest thing to a regular short order breakfast place. The breakfast is pretty good, they take your order quickly, and they get you the food quickly too. One thing to note though; their coffee is pretty bad. Like really really bad. Like, I hope you take milk and sugar in your coffee cause you’re gonna need it to mask that bad coffee taste. Besides that, you’re in the clear.
Bread and Honey also has a large lunch buffet and plenty of lunch specials: sandwiches, burgers, and even stir fry. I had a turkey burger there that made me half sick; I’d recommend you stick with the buffet.
Bread and Honey is a cool place to stop by if you need a quick breakfast sandwich or just need something quick that you couldn’t find at CVS.

Plenty of options for food here so I’d suggest staying away from Asian, stick to American. The buffet style layout where you choose a mixture of what you’d like and pay by the pound isn’t bad, especially as there are both and healthy and unhealthy options. Breakfast burrito is wayyu filling and good. Ramen was meh — I’ll stick to a Korean spot for that. Kimchi wasn’t that swell either. Overall this place has a lot of options.

Great place to get decent food (burgers) late at night but the beer is overpriced and often the prices are labeled incorrectly or not at all, which is annoying.

My go to for quick buffet style food. Food is fresh everyday, it’s cheap, and the deli and is always clean.

I came here time to time for lunch at the buffer bar, which had been a solid 3.5
However, I recently got a bibimbap which turned out to be a disaster. There were clusters of «hard» rice which makes it hard to chew, and a sign that rice is dried out and possibly old. The zucchini and vegs that were sauteed had a slight sour taste, which should have been a red flag for me to stop eating. But I decided to give it a more try because I was hungry. I dont know what they put in the spicy red sauce, but there were visible oil. At the end, I got a major headache, queasy, and had to throw up as soon as I got home. I would advise people to just get the buffet stuff and not get the hot food stuff.
–UPDATE–
I decided to give it a second chance since it is close to where I work. I got some fruits and hot food from the buffet station and have stomach troubles now. I will not be going back and if this diarrhea stops, I might contact the store.

Great meals by the pound. I like a little bit of a lot of different foods. Salad bar and Mongolia BBQ in the back. All yum. Get tired of eating at restaurants all the time when visiting the city.

Great place for lunch: big variety of food in buffet also with complete raw buffet. All the food is always crispy fresh. On the side they also offer custom burgers, sides and soups. The only thing I didn’t like is their coffee it was warm and sour.
There plenty of table to stay.

I have ordered their bibimbap many times and its always delicious. Continues to be a favorite lunch spot of mine.
I once had a small dispute with the guy at the counter over the price of an extra egg. I brought the problem to management’s attention and they were super friendly and attentive and the issue was quickly resolved.
Come check this place out for an quick and yummy lunch spot.

Ran into this place ravenously hungry because we were looking for a fast place to pop in before the Metropolitan Opera.
Although their «kimchi» and «Texas» burgers look good on the pictures, they cook using a frozen patty and the ingredients don’t come together too well. On the plus side, the place is open 24 hours. Their bibimbap also looked good so I probably should have gone with my instict and ordered that instead.
I also had a few things from the buffet too at $ 7.99/lb and it wasn’t tasty at all. Definitely skip on the turkey and mashed potatoes — they do have a A LOT of items, so some of them are probably bound to be OK.
The layout of the space itself is nice. It’s a convenience store, buffet-​by-​weight and grill all-​in-​one with lots of tables and I noticed there were plenty of people here studying.

This is a popular lunch spot near Columbus Circle. They have a lot of grocery options as well as hot buffet bar. Their Mongolian BBQ section is decent too with many options. There are a variety of Korean entrée and side dishes too since it is Korean-​owned.
I like coming here when I am tired of eating at the Café inside Hearst Building!

I’m giving this place a 3 stars for its fresh prepared sandwiches. If you’re a sandwich lover like I am and you like to eat cheap for lunch, go in for a sandwich. The big kaiser roll sandwich I got was $ 7.
The hot bar has an assortment of stuff but it’s $ 7.99 per lb. And it isn’t that good. It adds up quick and the next thing you know, you have paid $ 16+ for one of those buffet quality meals that you’d find at Golden Corral. :/​The staff was pretty friendly and the buffet was clean. Go for the cheap sandwich, or if you can contain yourself at the buffet and keep it to a lb or less. Otherwise, it can be too pricey for a mediocre meal in Manhattan and… ain’t nobody got time for that!

This place is good for a quick grab and go meal. I went with a salad because there were a lot of options but just didn’t have time to go through it. Added 5 ingredients for $ 6 I believe. Small salad with chicken, tomatoes, cheese, carrots and cucumbers with balsamic vinagrette. It was okay. It felt like eating a salad that I made at home. Nothing special but just enough to get you through lunch.

I know what you’re thinking: «Ugh, Bread & Honey? Sounds like a load of carbs.» But trust me on this – especially you, clean-​eaters. This one’s for you.
The outdoor exterior is the most deceiving but who’s judging? The name is a real killer for those trying to be low on carbs – this place isn’t full of carbs and sugar as you think. It’s actually quite the opposite. It offers one of the best lunch options you could ever ask for – it’s healthy, it’s delicious and the Mongolian BBQ is what makes this place amazing.
If you’re searching for actual hot, healthy food, this is the place. Pretty much everything at the BBQ bar is clean and healthy – the complete opposite of American BBQ. Blech. Now I can’t look at BBQ ribs the same way ever again. Mongolian BBQ is seriously one of the most amazing things known to mankind. Those gigantic chopsticks scream out the very best of Asian culture and shame American BBQ. It is a little tricky on how much food to get if you’re a first-​timer; I’d say fill up 75% of the bowl because chances are, if you only fill up half of it, your plate will only be like 25% full and $ 7.99/lb is not cheap at all, especially when most of it is water weight. They have great food options like bean sprouts, sweet peas, string beans, baby corn, lots of leaves and proteins like salmon, cod fish, beef, lamb and shrimp.

So I walked by this place with one of my best friends and was all like, «AHHHHH! I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!» and her response was, «EWWW, years ago that place used to be really crappy!».
Well kids, that must have been years ago because my first time in here was this February and now I’m pretty much a regular (despite sometimes going with my boss and leaving my cell phone on my work desk, thus not checking in on Unilocal… ughhhhhhhh).
I haven’t tried their hot or cold bar food, no reason for me to go out of my way when my job’s cafeteria hot and cold bars are fantastic — but what I do come here for is there awesome selection of Chinese, Korean and Japanese foods!
They’ve got different varieties of delicious sea weed snacks, delicious varieties of Pocky and Panda cookies and my personal favorite — a really, really awesome selection of frozen Asian foods.
We’re talking frozen spring rolls, dumplings (pork, shrimp, veggie — you name it!), shumai (pretty sure I’ve seen pork and veggie here), all sorts of noodles, frozen Takoyaki balls (which I’ve bought and made here, they don’t hold a candle to the real thing but they’re still pretty good when bought to a friend’s house, popped into a microwave (since their oven no longer works after I tried to make brownies and didn’t notice she had 1 tupperware container stored in her stove… le sigh, the struggle) and served with soy sauce or light mayo. Wouldn’t even be surprised if they even had frozen har gow here, Yum, yum, yum!
Prices here are pretty reasonable and considering that they have no frozen Asian cuisine competition in the neighborhood, it’s not of them to not go all psycho and overprice everything.
Asian foods aside, Bread & Honey also carries tons of cereals — both mainstream and health conscious ones (PUFFINS ya’ll! PUFFINS! Oh, oh and muesli!) and of course all the other stuff that combination deli/​grocery stores carry.
Even their hot bar dumplings look pretty decent, perhaps one day I’ll swing by and try them — but for now, I’ll keep continuing my love affair with their frozen foods section, lol.