Kenny’s Bakery Cafe

I see this Orange Signed Café when i’m on bus coming down Lonsdale Street all the time but have never really ventured in.
But I needed a «packed lunch» one day and decided to get a salad roll!
I walked in and found the layout quite cool and different. One one side of the room, there are couches with coffee tables and a table for you to sit and chill, and on the other side is the actual food area of the café.
I ordered my roll — Dark Rye with Turkey, Lettuce, Cucumber, Carrot, Capsicum, Beetroot, Avo, Cheese and S+P.
I must say, they are not the friendliest of people, it wasn’t even that busy for them to justify needing to rush me along. When they’d finished my roll, they put in a paper bag but because I wanted to keep it for lunch, I was actually hoping for them to wrap it in clingwrap so it could keep. Easy enough one would think?
Apparently not. They made me wait whilst they served 2 other people before wrapping my sandwich up for me. I felt like a total pain but I kinda needed to wrap it so it didn’t go dry so I waited.
I was a bit frustrated and wasn’t looking forward to eating my lunch.
However, I must say, my roll was amazing. It was so delicious. I could not understand how can a roll be so tasty?
I would add Pickles next time if they have it…
The 4 stars is for the food. I get really turned off by places that don’t give good service. It’s really not hard to smile and just be pleasant. I work at a café and understand how much people value that.

Being a suffering CBD office worker Kenny’s is my affordable lunch time chicken and salad oasis. My regularity has provided me with a personalised greeting as I stride through the front door. If Kenny’s was a bar it would be my Cheers, I guess that makes me Norm. My standard routine is a chicken, avocado and salad roll, supported by a cheese and tomato roll. And if the lovely ladies are in a giving mood they slip a little sweet treat in a bag and send me on my way. There is a pleasant little room out the back where you can watch daytime TV, flick through the news-​pictorial and ponder where your life went wrong. On a positive — the rolls are cheap and fresh. You can choose a healthy option or post a boozy night you can load up on a schnitzel roll. At the Kenny’s the world is your roll. And if you see me sitting out the back please say hello, I will be the guy with hopelessness in his eyes.