Smack Dab!

Superb. Yum yum vegan donuts. Yum yum egg sandwiches. Yum yum biscuits. Yum yum coffee.

Wonderful coffee, pastries, and service. Also $ 1 coffee on Wednesday?! I just wish they were open 7 days a week.

I wish for the continued success of Smack Dab, Rogers Park is so lucky to have such a great local coffee place!
I’ve never had a bad pastry from there, and at this point I’ve tried almost everything. The selection is a little modest but they DO IT WELL.
They have gluten-​free and vegan options that will blow your mind (as someone who is not personally GF or vegan) and love sourcing local products. Their crowning jewels are their egg sandwich (I love the bacon jam) and vegan donuts (you will NOT believe they are GF!).
And of course their coffee (Halfwit) is wonderful, need to try their tea selections soon!

Their breakfast sandwich with bacon jam is delicious, especially because it comes on a fresh, flaky roll. One day I’ll try the vegetarian version, because I’m sure it’d be just as tasty. The coffee is pretty great here too, and they offer hemp milk for creamer (along with dairy cream, I believe) which I’ve never seen anywhere else. I only wish this place were easier to find — my husband and I have bypassed it multiple times after it moved into Red Line Tap. Well worth searching for it, though.

Best. egg. sandwich. ever. I love the grassrootsy feel of this place — everything is delicious and made with a lot of heart. Thrilled it’s in our neighborhood!

They specialize in pastries (cookies, doughnuts, muffins) and egg sandwiches on cheese biscuits with succulent jams. There’s coffee too.
Though the selection is small, what they do they do well. The doughnuts were the perfect small size, not too greasy, great texture, delicately flavored. The muffin we ordered was moist and flavorful.
The egg sandwich I was served was really really good. It was recommended to me because I’m trying to eat eggs but I don’t like their flavor. Well, put it on a fluffy cheese biscuit with some savory tomato jam and I can be persuaded!
The seating is sparse and the facilities are iffy, but it’s a pop-​up – so go for the amazing food and enjoy reasonably priced fare that is well worth the walk over.

Really really really amazing vegan donuts + other non vegan treats. I had no idea they were vegan until I read a few reviews on here — but they are! They also have cold brew and hot coffee if you need your fix. Every time I’ve been here, the customer service is great. They don’t rush through your order or push you out the door like most bakeries on a Sat/​Sunday morning would. I highly recommend you go and get one of whatever donuts they have at the time, that’s what I do.
Ps you can find them INSIDE the redline tap bar on glenwood (right past heartland café off the morse stop).

I have never had a more delicious egg sandwich in my life! The Bacon and Jam Slam — WOW! The cheesy biscuits will make you think your mom couldn’t cook.
They have gluten free and vegan options– which normally make me run but the flourless chocolate cake and vegan donuts are THE BOMB.
I’m not kidding folks. You have to try this place. Culinary geniuses… truly. Operates out of a bar during its off hours. Plenty of places to sit and eat there or take it with you. Staff is incredibly nice.

This place is super hard to find if you’ve never been. It’s tucked away inside a bar, and the only sign they have out is usually pretty well hidden by all the cars parked on the street. Once you find it, though, you’ll be handsomely rewarded.
The bacon onion jam and egg on a yeasted biscuit is heavenly. They cook each egg to order, which just makes the sandwich all the better. The other sweet items they have on display are all delicious. I’m not much of a coffee drinker, but my husband says it’s great. We always buy a few extra biscuits with our order to eat later…
Service is really friendly, and the owner said they’re considering selling their bacon jam! Crossing fingers!

This place is amazing I write this after my first bite of an egg sandwich, it is delicious. The service is really nice and I will keep coming back to try all the items. Yum!

Their breakfast sandwich with tomato jam inspires me to live on everyday just so I can continue eating more of their breakfast sandwiches with tomato jam.
The coffee is also delicious, and they are super friendly. There is no bad experience at/​with Smack Dab.

The vegan donuts were amazing. The coffee was good and the cheese biscuit sandwiches were very very good. Definitely will be going back for weekend breakfast!

This place is seriously amazing. The owners and people who work there are all so friendly and take the time to chat a with you. I’ve gotten different pastries from there but the blueberry donut is seriously the best! Today I tried the cheese biscuit with egg and bacon jam (sounded strangely good) — it is seriously one of the best things I have ever eaten in my life.
They are such a great local business and I love stopping by when I have a chance. Definitely check this place out!

Just visited for the first time. Wow what a super friendly and awesome staff. Very laid back, excellent suggestions and easy to relate to. Great biscuits! I got the egg biscuit with bacon jam and devoured it. A great union of sweet and savory. I should have gotten a second one. Cinnamon rolls were warm and perfect. They also have vegan selections as well. Great pastries made in house (doughnuts, cookies and tarts).

OMG! Their cheese biscuit egg sandwich with tomato jam is great! The place is so great and closer to the Redline-​morse stop. I read so much about their donuts and I am definitely coming back on the weekend to try them.

Cheese biscuit and egg. AMAZING. Slightly addictive! The strawberry rhubarb pastry was really good, though on the pricey side. Coffee was great too. Great hidden gem inside of Red Line Tap.

Interesting location. Iced coffee was good. The biscuits with cheese were excellent. This was a great place to stop for coffee and a pastry.

Good made with love and good humor. The smack dab crew are always up early, working hard and smiling. The food is delicious, and I do mean delicious. Savory biscuits that melt in your mouth (thank you butter), sweets that make you drool. My fav is the egg biscuit with bacon (yes, bacon) jam, and a Concord grape donut to finish off. If you a fan of coffee, you must try it with their awesome homemade syrup.
Must try! Say Bonjour for me.

They are now reopened in their new shared space with the Red Line Tap (7006 N. Glenwood) and just reopened this Thursday 11÷19÷15.
Our first time today — great cheesy biscuits (my preference), we went with savory jam (tomato on one side, onion on the other). Sweet butter biscuits were also available (grape vs. pumpkin butter). Did give the vegan donut a try with the tropical mango starfruit glaze (grape glaze was the other option this morning)…but preferred their fruit cream tart pastry which is a must try. They also had a tea cake and a pastry bar as well we didn’t try.
They accept credit card as a plus.

I was very pleased with this find. (Thanks to all of my fellow Unilocalers for bringing it to my attention.)
I tried three items, all of which impressed me:
— A hot cup of coffee; Halfwit Coffee Roasters is the name on the cup’s sleeve.
— A house-​made doughnut (hole), about the size of a cue ball, half-​covered in a mango glaze.
— A breakfast sandwich, served on a cheese biscuit with a large egg, slathered with a bacon jam coating.
The only caveat that I will need to share is that they’ll need to move out of this space (just north of Morse on Glenwood) in two more days (01-​Nov-​2015) so please be sure to confirm their location status prior to departure.
Hoping to get back into this stop shortly. Good luck in finding a new storefront.

I expected something more. I went thinking I could get more than hot or cold coffee so was disappointed but the guy working was nice and the iced coffee was good so I got over it.
The desserts were few so more in terms of selection would be nice.

Yummy! Try the egg sandwich on the cheesy biscuit — it’s delicious. The coffee is great too. They don’t do fancy espresso drinks though. Just a hot and cold brew. It’s a great place to stop quickly before catching the Red Line in the mornings.

Smack Dab! in the middle if your taste buds is where this friendly little bake shop will impress you. The cheddar biscuits: sublime. The bacon jam: heavenly. I will be back to try more of the offerings at Smack Dab!, and it will be soon. If you do nothing else mew and different this year, treat yourself to a Smack Dab! I believe you will never regret it.

Finally got to check this place out and I LOVE IT! I’m so happy Rogers park finally got a good coffee shop with very friendly workers. The coffee selection is delicious (enjoy drinking it black) and the pastries are to die for! The cheesy biscuit was so good but my favorite was the fruit tart pie (not sure of the name) with apples and cherries. Can’t wait to frequent this place more often. And the people that work there are so friendly and make it so enjoyable to go there. You can tell the baker really has a passion for what she does (which is the best part about this place) and she is good at it :)

«This ain’t F****n around shit!» — True Detective
.gawd.
Coffee was great.
Doughnut was great.
Cheese biscuit egg sandwich was great.
You need to go there. Right now.

I made a special trip to Smack Dab, because all the Rogers Park people I know keep raving about this place.
It is a very small shop, adjacent to the Morse Red Line stop. I got a coffee to go, as always — their only sweetener is some organic liquid (agave, maybe?), and that was good. I liked the coffee very much.
Since I don’t anticipate visiting every day, I got a cheesy biscuit to eat then and a blueberry tart thing for later. The cheesy biscuit is the savory selection. I was pleasantly surprised how light it was; I kind of expected it to be heavy, but it was far far from the dreaded «hockey puck» density. Delicious.
I saved the blueberry tart for dessert after dinner. it, too, was light and flavorful. It had a really nice texture, and a flavor that was not overpowering or too sweet. Definitely not a savory treat, which it doesn’t aim to be. The sweetness and texture were just right. Yummy.
To all my friends who live north of Devon Avenue — you were right. Smack Dab is worth making a special trip. Everything was outstanding. Highly recommended!

Thank you Unilocalers for this tucked-​away powerhouse of a breakfast place. It is just a small counter with a little chalkboard menu, but everything made here is made with love. You can’t go wrong with the cheddar biscuits, and I highly recommend having it with fried egg and bacon jam. I had mine with a cold brew coffee but the person I went with had a cherry syrup iced tea that made me regret my choice. No doubt, this place gets all the stars.

Who needs friendly neighborhood business with great coffee and cheesy biscuits? Everyone. That is only among the many reasons this place is amazing.
Smack Dab is a must for the early morning commute or to fuel a stroll through the farmers market on Sunday.
Mmm homemade pastries.

I’m not a huge coffee person, or a huge pastry person, but someone on Unilocal said something about cheesy biscuits and I had to know.
I love biscuits. Love them. Eat most of my meals with a biscuit. Not really, but kind of.
Anyway, this cheesy biscuit breaks my top 5 list. Number 2 behind my grandma’s cheesy drop biscuits.
Cheese-​y. Herb-​y. Light and flaky. It doesn’t get better than that.
Also, now I have somewhere between my apartment and the train to grab breakfast, and that’s worth five stars in it’s own right.

This is the cutest, most pleasant coffee counter I’ve ever stopped in! Christine was super friendly and greeted me and my SO so warmly. I heartily recommend one of their cheddar asparagus biscuits.
This is a down-​to-​earth, local/​organic presence that Rogers Park is blessed to have!

Smack dab between the Pub [I had to use it], the supper club, and the Glenwood Sunday Market, sits this sassy coffee and pastry counter, serving cheap but tasty fruit filled/​laced/​inspired goodies.

The coffee and pastry counter is open from 7:30 — 11:30 during the workweek. We were lucky that they were open today (Memorial Day) so that we could drop in. The coffee was great — drip coffee only with simple syrup to sweeten it, which I hope means there will be iced coffee once it gets a bit warmer.
Aside from coffee, I had the zucchini and cheddar scone. I would say it was somewhere between a scone and a biscuit — extremely light, a bit sweet, completely delicious. I was loathe to share it with my husband. He got the strawberry shortbread which was a bit over caramelized on he bottom, but the strawberry filling was extremely good.
Super convenient given their proximity to the red line and the owners are completely delightful.