Shirley’s Bakery & Cafe

Now this place smells great! The bread is like in every smell in the air. The elephant ears are super good! I WOULD chew again.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this place! Just go in and order a sweet roll you won’t regret it! I love the raspberry & blueberry! Cinnamon rolls are also yummy! They are a family tradition to have for Christmas morning. Heck I could eat them every morning! They also have great sandwiches!

They agreed to make something for myself, and for my wife. Then waited until we sat down to tell us they actually didn’t have either of those things. They’re unaware of their own stock. Unprofessional. The food isn’t that great either.

This place is so good. Well priced too! I can only speak to their pastries, not the other food. I will say that my Dad lives out of state and when he comes he has to come here and whenever I visit he pays me to bring him their cinnamon rolls (which are GIANT). They even sell their day old pastries for cheaper :).

First and foremost out of anything there you need to get the rolls, more importantly the raspberry cream cheese ones. Any other fruit one will do because those rolls are lit! There’s also blueberry, orange and The cinnamon rolls or the cinna pull-​aparts are flame too. They will add an extra 1000 calories to your day because they are more addicting than crack! Get there in the morning that will be when it’s most fresh.
That being said the sandwiches were fancy. I like my turkey bacon avocado is a cold sandwich. It wasn’t the best probably my fault. I also tried another turkey one but wasn’t impressed.
They still get the five stars because ROLLS. Seriously worth but be careful they run out rather quick like by 3PM will be out of most of them. It’s the only thing I get from this upscale kneaders. This place is also rather cute and be good for a date!

I really like Shirley’s, the service is always polite and cheerful, if a bit on the slow side. They have good sandwiches, I particularly like the Grown Up Grilled Cheese, but I have to shout out the egg salad too because most places that do egg salad get it SO wrong and it’s a horror show but Shirley’s egg salad is actually not bad. The baked goods are decent, their sweet rolls are great and the brownies are good but the cookies are much too dry, unless you want to feel like you’re eating cookie flavored dust, it’d skip those.
Shirley’s is just up the street from my vet’s office so now whenever we have to go to the vet, the dogs have learned that if they’re good while they’re there, we’ll stop at the drive through and get a sandwich for me and a side of turkey for them. The drive through worker always puts the extra turkey in a little to go cup for them and they’re always very excited to see the dogs.

Perfection! I’ve never had something here that I didn’t like. I had a raspberry big foot and it may just be the greatest thing I have ever eaten. If you don’t enjoy this place then you must not have taste buds. The only problem with this place is they don’t have enough locations. Beats the hell out of kneaders!

This place is for the «little old ladies who lunch» & it’s pretty good. Ordered a ham & cheese panini & chicken ric soup. The soup was outrageous! Very hearty, very filling, wanted more! I don’t come out this way very often but we have meetings at the hotel next door. Quality food, fresh, healthful. Sandwich was also delicious. Has a drive thru so go check it out.

Quite simply: Shirley’s pastries, raspberry cinnamon rolls, and chicken n’ wild rice soup are to die for! They use high quality ingredients and are fairly priced. It’s so classy and clean outside and in making this the perfect place to bring out-​of-​towners.

Shirley’s is the place I always end up at when I don’t know what I want for lunch and I’m stuck in the 5 mile radius of restaurants close to work. It’s not bad, but I never find myself «craving» anything from Shirley’s. Probably because its literally the exact same thing as Kneaders. And I’m not a big super fan of that either. It’s sandwiches, maybe even «fancy» sandwiches, but sandwiches nonetheless.
I had an issue when I came here once at 4 pm and literally every single pastry item on their menu was sold out. I get it. Bakery. Fresh. Whatever. But I’m still annoyed that they were sold out. I drove over to Kneaders and got a fruit tart within minutes. I think Kneaders just prepares better? I don’t know. All I know is that it was annoying and the girl on the drive through speaker was absolutely clueless that I was there in the line, yelling «Hello?» into the speaker while she talked with her friends ON THE MICROPHONE? It’s weird all around and I JUST WANTED AN ECLAIR.
The sandwiches are decent here. Last trip I had turkey, cranberry and stuffing sandwich because I like to pretend it’s Thanksgiving every day. The sandwich was cold (I was hoping it would be hot), but decently tasting. Not my favorite faux thanksgiving leftover sandwich, but it was fine. I also had a sugar cookie. Which had cloves and cinnamon in it so I really have a hard time calling it a sugar cookie when it tasted vaguely like a snickerdoodle. Whatever. Now I’m just being a bitter dessert elitist.
All in all, Shirley’s isn’t a bad choice. I know lots of people love it. I loved it a lot more when it was small and less known (hipster Rebekah comes out with a vengeance) because I think it tasted better and was less mass-​produced. But I don’t hate it and I don’t wish I was on a different galaxy when I’m eating it. So I guess that’s a plus.

The space is great. Clean, bright and very welcoming. We stopped in during some tire work across the street.
The chicken tortilla soup wasn’t exactly my taste, but the kids enjoyed their grilled cheese sammys and the egg salad was delish.

I really like Shirley’s! My mom stayed at a Marriott nearby awhile ago and would pop in for a treat, and she recommended it to me. I’m glad she did! It’s similar to Kneaders except, in my opinion, better and fresher. Their sandwiches are REALLY good and made on their fresh, homemade bread, and you can’t go wrong with any of their pastries (my husband and I recently took home a 12-​pack of orange rolls and cinnamon rolls, which were insanely delicious). I wish there was one closer to me, but I do visit Utah county pretty regularly. The pricing is very reasonable as well. I highly recommend this restaurant and bakery!

I got the daily special: ham and cheese on French bread, and a side of chicken noodle soup. The sandwich was about as standard as ham and cheese goes, and the soup was a step up from Campbell’s Chunky-​grade. I didn’t try any of the bakery items, so I can’t speak to their quality.
As nearly everyone else seems to agree, this place is just like Kneaders: the food, setup, decorations. As I have been unimpressed with Kneaders as of late, I don’t know if I’ll return to either of these places. It may be more worthwhile (and economical) to just make your own at home.

Wanted to try something new so we came here during dinner time. I ordered an egg salad sandwich and my boyfriend had the Chipotle chicken panini, we shared hawaiian chips, and their old-​fashioned root beer. The inside of the café is adorable and service was friendly.

Shirley’s takes care of our rolls for every holiday!

This place was adorable, and I loved their desserts… but both of the sandwiches that we got were completely bland. I said to my husband, «Mine tastes like water» and he said, «Whoa, I was just thinking the same thing about mine.» I really wanted to like it because it was such a good sounding sandwich (the chipotle chicken little bun)…but alas.

Thank you Shirley’s. I Was able to get a warm cup of coffee in the middle of Provo and an amazing cinnamon roll. Woman at the register/​counter was extremely friendly and recommended some local spots!

If I close my eyes really tight, I feel like I’m in a Kneaders. Yes, Shirley’s is a bakery /​sandwich shop much like Kneaders, which means it has all sorts of average to above average items, like turkey and bacon and avocado sandwiches, cinnamon rolls, eclairs (which didn’t taste like eggs at all) and rolls.
I didn’t have a problem with the service. I thought the space was cozy enough. I enjoyed my sandwich because I didn’t expect anything gastronomically unique. The turkey was really chunks of the Thanksgiving kind, not deli style. The bread was soft and chewy. I wanted to try a bit of the soup my friend was eating (corn chowder), but decided a full sandwich was enough, and I do want to go back to try the cinnamon rolls (I really appreciated how egg-​less the eclairs were, though I know that’s just a personal taste) because they looked just how I like them – overly frosted, softy, gooey…
I can’t say this place has the freshest ingredients or even slightly unique flavors, or even that you’re better off here than at a place like Kneader’s; however, if you’re in the mood for Zupa’s /​Paradise Café /​Kneader’s /​every other bakery restaurant in Utah County for around 8 dollars a meal, you probably won’t be disappointed.

Nothing I can say will do justice to the blueberry and raspberry sweet rolls here. You just need to get off Unilocal right now and go get some to understand!

CINNAMON ROLLS! Try them. Trust me. And try the fruit ones.
They recently expanded and their new location is really nice!
food and rolls are crazy cheap!