Paint Box Cafe

Great lunch. Chicken salad. Warm ham/​cheese roll. Homemade cookies. Potato soup wonderful. Loved the ambiance.

Awesome little place with fantastic menu!!! Recommend the chicken salad but everything sounded tasty!

Best food and service I could have found in this area, very surprised as an out of towner. 5 stars

The food was amazing!!! I wanted someone different from the typical chain restaurant and this place was perfect! Cute little bistro setting… There was a ground of ladies playing cards at one of the tables! Loved it and I will for sure be back with some girlfriends

By far the place at the Lake to eat. Super friendly, beautiful atmosphere for family and kid friendly. Make sure you get a ham and cheddar roll no matter what and a bakery item. This is a must when you visit the lake.

It’s a neat little shop and the ambiance is really nice. Colorful decorations and soft music as the backdrop. As I walkerd in, it sounded like some of the artwork is for sale.
All salads and sandwiches are $ 8. Panera type prices for Panera type food, just without the selection. I had a turkey and bacon panini (Blake’s Choice), and it tasted fine, but I don’t feel it was a good value.
The only drink options available are iced tea, lemonade, fruit infused water, or coffee.
Also, when you walk in and start to scan the menu near the ceiling, look for a stand-​up printed menu on the glass pastry case. They didn’t have the full menu available the day I visited, and options were limited to what was on the printed menu.
They are only open for lunch or private parties.
Overall it’s A-​Ok. I can see the appeal to this place, but they could add more meat to the sandwiches so I don’t feel like I was hoodwinked.

I love this locally-​owned café. Great for soup and a sandwich! Also, don’t forget to pick up one of the homemade treats at the counter. The brownies and cookies are always delicious.

Best bistro/​bakery at the Lake. Hands down. Opened August 2011. Roxie Kelley, local best-​selling cookbook author and original creator of another very popular Lake Area bistro/​bakery and her 2 grown-​up kids (Brooke and Blake) have opened a cute little spot with some really amazing food. Brooke’s artwork is also on display. The décor is whimsical and fun, and there are a variety of seating options. The service is great. The place is very clean, and you can count on attention to detail.
You can get really good vegan and vegetarian food here, and those ham and cheese rolls that the Lake loves so much? Well, I have to say, Roxie — who first brought them to us — is turning out higher quality than her competitor. in addition to having a great lunch there over the holidays, we ordered 2 dozen snickerdoodles and 1 batch of cream cheese brownies (which turns out to be 16 generously sized brownies) to give to several members of my husband’s family. Grandma Frances (who has been making snickerdoodles for about 85 years) said they were the best she ever tasted. Grandma Peggy (who I had overheard wishing for cream cheese brownies) was delighted and insisted on freezing 3 of the 4 we brought her so she could enjoy them over a few weeks. The nephews and others in Jake’s family couldn’t believe how good those brownies were. Roxie gave us a 20% discount for ordering in quantity (still not cheap, but I’m sure no more than the competitors and much higher quality), and she gave us the lovingly boxed baked goods in a very nice reusable tote bag.
The website (built on a blogspot platform) doesn’t have a lot of information (no online menu, for example), but I assume such details will come as they continue to build the business.
I agree with the description they give of the Paint Box Café on their blog: «Seriously good food in a not-​so-​serious setting. Feed your inner artist — build your own meal! Food for Saints AND Sinners. Sandwiches, soups, salads, and endless desserts! Fun artistic atmosphere great for friends and families. Affordable pricing. You’ll want to come back again and again, this is food you won’t find anywhere else!»
If you’re confused about where it is located, the door of Paint Box Café looks out at the side of the KK McDonald’s (it’s on what I would call the «back side» of the Palisades Shopping Center). Whatever you do, just get yourself over there!