Vegan-friendly
Lacto
Pizza
Organic
Western
Take-out
Bakery
Catering

Vegetarian bakery and coffee shop. Makes breads and baked goods, date squares, soups, salads, hummus, sandwiches, pizza. Open Tue-Fri 7:00am-6:00pm.


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19 Reviews

First Review by dkingdesigndotcom

PurpleCurrant

Points +3882

Vegan
26 Jun 2023

More vegan options please!

Don't get me wrong, their chai latte is amazing, but more vegan food options would be nice.

KatherineSt-Jean

Points +52

Vegan
06 May 2023

Délicieux!

Leur sandwich au Tempeh avec mayo vegan verrrry good 👍♥️😜

Updated from previous review on 2023-05-06

teresathomas05

Points +21

Vegetarian
17 Feb 2021

Favourite lunch

Can’t say anything more about how yummy the food is here - my favourites are the focaccia, pizza and chocolate HAZELNUT cookie. The “perfect chocolate cookies” have candied orange, which is not my thing.

Pros: Focaccia , Pizza, Bakers

Cons: Perfect chocolate cookies , Beyond Meat additions

mizmichele

Points +20

Vegan
02 Aug 2019

Vegans...better arrive by 11am

Disappointed. Looking to have lunch here today but was told they stopped making sandwiches....it was only 1pm. There were no vegan pizzas. My option was a baked muffin and there was 1 salad and two of us. Possibly a great place but if you are vegan I suspect you need to get here before 11am as they only seem to cater to vegans in the morning. Ended up eating at Copper Branch a few blocks away.

jedlm88

13 May 2021

Well you must try their tempeh sandwich when you ever get the chance, it's a must. Now they have online ordering so i recommend trying that route until things go back to normal.

brandonpaul

Points +25

Vegetarian
05 Mar 2018

Broadway Tunes!

This place had phenomenal vegetarian food options, wonderful beverages, and an excellent music selection. It’s more of a stop and go place as there is little seating, but nonetheless it was well worth it.

KarinaChartrand

Points +30

Vegan
18 Feb 2018

Very good

I love this place so much!! It's so fresh and delicious. Everything is vegetarian and have a couple of vegan options. Vegan pizza, pumpkin muffin and amazing breads!!

Pros: Bomb pizza, Very yummy

Cons: Not fully vegan, Small place

ChristineLeong

Points +53

Vegan
11 Feb 2018

lovely (but little) bakery/cafe

Always has vegan sandwich options, sometimes they have vegan pizza too! Was sad when they stopped making the vegan chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, but I am told they are bringing them back once they perfect the recipe.

Pros: tasty and interesting sandwiches made in house, vegan pizza!, fresh bread

Cons: small space, minimal seating

NeilGaudet

Points +349

Vegan
28 Mar 2017

nice place. not clearly vegan

They have some clearly marked vegan cookies which are excellent. The pizzas and sandwiches appear to all have cheese but unsure.

Pros: cold cookies

Cons: not everything is clearly marked vegan

Happy Herbivore

Points +17

Vegetarian
16 May 2016

White Bread Vegetarian

I used to really like this place, but it's gone way downhill in the past year.

What were once healthy, hearty vegetarian sandwiches on delicious multigrain bread are now unwholesome convections on tasteless white focaccia that is closer to cake than to bread.

Don't even dream of asking for anything on brown bread, because the manager will look at you as if you're from another planet. All the hullaballoo about locally sourced ingredients is pretty empty when the food on offer is so unwholesome.

Don't plan on going back again.

Pros: Friendly staff (some of them), Nice atmosphere

Cons: Unhelpful manager, Unhygienic (dirty countertops)

Frogman

Points +85

Vegetarian
26 Jun 2014

best bakery ever!

My wife and i, along with our six month old daughter, are on holiday in Ottawa and went there this morning. Pastries and sandwiches were excellent, as was the peach lassie. Lots of vegan options too. The music was great - our daughter was rocking out to it :-)

The staff were very friendly too.

We can't wait until we go back and try pizzas and other delicious looking stuff.

Pros: great food, Eco friendly, friendly staff and nice music

Mariannes

Points +90

Vegan
26 Mar 2014

Awesome muffin

A very busy place which offers hardly any vegan stuff except for a muffin, a cookie and a cheeseless pizza. But the muffin was amazing :)

sglcklch

Points +2815

Vegan
13 Jul 2013

So-so vegan sandwich

BF and I picked up a TLTP (tempeh, lettuce, tomato, bell pepper) sandwich for lunch. Line was long but moved swiftly. There're probably around 10 seats tops, so it's mostly a take-out place.

The sandwich was just alright, a tad dry, could definitely use more spread/sauce. I guess pizzas are their forte because that was what most people got.

Cons: small place

Leah Stolar

Points +367

Vegan
22 Jul 2012

Excellent Find

Yummy cinnamon roll, carrot walnut muffin, carrot juice, and vegan oat and raspberry cookie and oat and chocolate cookie. Very small with little seating in and out but highly recommend. Also, very friendly service.

Pros: Delicious, Healthy, Friendly

Cons: Small

Heidi B.

Points +46

Vegan
18 Nov 2010

Best Cookies and Pizza

Bread and Sons Bakery offers a selection of tasty health cookies, which is great for the office and retail workers in the immediate area. Cookies are often purchased for office get-togethers. Variety of flavours available, such as chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oat.
Vegetarian pizza slices are extremely popular with the clientele and the Bakery is the most popular "health lunch" option in the downtown core.

Pros: excellent food, healthy cuisine

jedzen

Points +108

Vegan
01 Apr 2010

Take out bakery with some vegan options

Bread and sons is a takeout place. They have about 2 places to sit down. I love how their food is shown all around the place instead of being the other side of the counter. We can actually see what we will be eating. We ate a vegan pizza ( with mostly spinach on it ) and we saw that there was vegan sandwiches also. On another visit, we tried the vegan muffins and cookies. They have limited choices. It is mostly a bakery, where you can get bread, some vegan sweets, or vegetarian/vegan pizza. This is not the kind of place where you get service and a full meal. Just know that. I didnt so i thought it was someting else. I still appreciated my visits there as i found it was a nice, not pretentious at all, earth friendly bakery.

katiebird

Points +69

Vegetarian
06 Oct 2008

love this place

I used to work near Bread & Sons, which was a real treat. Their baked goods are excellent, and they make delicious sandwiches, my fave being an avocado/tomato/sprouts on spelt (vegan). So delicious. Also, their soup is really excellent too. They've really expanded their vegan offerings lately, which is nice. Their chocolate chip oatmeal vegan cookies are my favourite cookies there. Excellent bread. Good price considering the quality. Friendly people work there, always nice to chat with. Love this bakery.

Pros: Local ingredients, Mostly organic, Excellent Quality

Cons: Not much seating

hellokitty

Points +31

Vegan
13 Jul 2008

Not Thrilled

I was in Ottawa visiting and delighted to see this place listed here so ran right over from my hotel the first afternoon to pick up some yummy vegan goodies. Was completely disappointed though when the only vegan options I saw were a banana bread and a cookie. I got the banana bread which was ok but nothing spectacular and pretty expensive. I wouldn't go back.

Cons: expensive, not many vegan options

Lola Crumpet

Points +84

Vegetarian
27 Oct 2007

Excellent

The baked goods at Bread and Sons are ALWAYS up to standard and they are organic. Staff is nice and up-beat.

Pros: excellent food, organic, healthy

dkingdesigndotcom

Points +88

Vegan
13 Sep 2007

Nice but pricey - not many vegan items

My wife and I were in Ottawa and wanting to stay around Parliament Hill and the National Gallery region. This small cafe/bakery wasn't too far from this region and was just a small walk away.

There weren't as many vegan options as we would have liked but we bought two cookies (of one variety), banana bread (I wish I had had some Earth Balance to spread on!) and a green tea (to sip on but maybe more to just warm up the hands on the chilly morning).

The prices were quite high but we needed to find something to eat in the morning. The cookies and banana bread slices were around $2 each so more pricey than we would pay unless we really needed to find something while travelling.

The small cup of green tea was around $1.60. Maybe this is normal for coffee shops but it seems a bit much to someone who never goes out to buy tea .

Pros: decent taste

Cons: pricey, needs more vegan items, some not labelled




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