Delessio Market & Bakery

This place is closed and should be removed from Unilocal

Overpriced and just not that tasty. I miss the old days of Delessio when Brenda Buenviaje was the executive chef.

this place doesnt look like much. it actually looks like an abandoned store and delessio just took a small corner of it. but its an amazing corner!
i came to 888brannan for a meeting and was early so came here to grab coffee and a pastry. they had brazilian french toast! its called rabanada and its basically a piece of french bread that is covered in cinnamon and sugar. since this was a pastry its eaten cold here. but the custardy center was still delicious!!!
i think my stomach is mad at me now.

Despite the fact that the space seems to be often empty I like this bakery located just a few buildings away from my workplace. It’s a vast space with plenty of seating options from hardwood tables and chairs to soft foamy couches and even a pillow lined bench.
This particular DeLessio Bakery is housed on the lobby level of the GiftCenter Pavilion at 888 Brannan Street. Unlike the rest of the building you don’t need to work in the design/​gift industry or register at one of the booths in order to purchase food and drinks here. I often walk in directly from the sidewalk, make my purchase and exit the building without incident.
The bakery /​café is open on weekdays from 8 AM until 3 PM, although they’ll often close around 2:45 PM since their business seems so underwhelming. The service is very friendly, but depending on who’s who on what day the helpfulness in the food purchasing area can vary like night and day.
I’ve never visited in the morning since I work a swing shift, but I often drop by in the afternoon on my way to work for a sweet snack of some sort. They usually have a good selection of bakery fresh scones, croissants, cookies, muffins and individual coffee cakes. For lunch they have a good selection of pre-​made sandwiches that look very good piled high in meat and veggies. When I do sample a sandwich I will write an update, but this review will only focus on a few of the sweet treats.
Their Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies (
) are very good. There are organic toasted oats in the batter that gives the cookie a nice grainy goodness and big chunks of bittersweet chocolate to please most chocolate lovers. I like their buttery, flaky croissants also, but one of my favorite items here are the individual coffee cakes (
) sold for $ 3 each. These are nice sized cakes about four inches in diameter and one inch thick that usually last me through two work breaks. The flavors will vary from visit to visit, but most have dense cake that is moist with lots of soft fruit within and topped by a nice crunchy crumb topping of brown sugar, toasted oats and confectioners sugar. Here is a cut out of a recent Cherry Cinnamon Coffee Cake I purchased (
).
In addition to hot coffee and tea they also have a small refrigerated unit with canned sodas and bottled water.

Meh. This place had a large sandwich board sign outside with fun, colorful lettering saying ‘hot lunch!’ etc. so I went in. It was like a convention died. It’s in the Giftcenter which is large and corporate-​feeling but no one was in there. They had a tiny space set up for food but I thought they weren’t open at first. It was 11am and I saw some empty serving dishes set up and was about to leave but then I saw they had some sandwiches and chips set up so I thought, why not? Got the Reuben pannini which had nice crusty bread (I think there was cornmeal mixed with the rye) with a ridiculously thick layer of corned beef which was awesome. Then I bit into it and got the cold, hard center. Not awesome. The ambiance sucked since I was the only person in there and the server was playing Pearl Jam by his lonely self. All for $ 9 and nothing but a cold, lonely sandwich. NOTHING else. No greens, no chips, no salad, nada. I got a pannini the day before at Patisserie Philippe for $ 7 and it came with a side salad and the sandwich was so big I took half of it home for dinner! This Delessio doesn’t have internet/​wireless access so I decided to get my coffee and dessert at Caffe Roma where they have free internet, people, and HOT food. Won’t be coming back and Delessio should shut this location down now. It’s a wiener. Yes, I spelled that right.

Could this place be any worse? I walk in to music blaring from a small radio on a stool, possibly turned up as loud as it could go. How off putting. Then the girl behind the counter asks if I need anything, I tell her I’m still looking and she disappears never to be seen again.
okay so bakery to me means lots of baked goods both sweet and savory and various breads. So I saw a danish or something like that, a container filled w/​chocolate discs to buy in bulk and uh soup warmers w/​no soup.
What a let down. I was expecting it to be like the other Delessio’s and it was a big open space w/​nothing in it, including someone to take my order when I wasn’t ready on the spot.
How can this place get 5 stars? How can this place get any stars from a person who hasn’t even been there, but «smelled the coffee»?
P. S. I didn’t get anything other than annoyed

Why is this place so empty? I have been here twice in the past week for their peach-​raspberry coffee cake. It’s large! It’s organic! It’s delicious! It even has frosting! It’s $ 3! YES — THREE DOLLARS!
They also have lunch, which I hope to try soon.
FYI: I think the employee said their hours are from 8 am till 3 pm, weekdays.

I was charged $ 3.99 for one item on Saturday and on Monday the same item was $ 5.99.
The reason, they had someone who did not know what they were doing.
The person who explained that was loud and rude and somewhat upset with me.
Lousy service, poor customer relations.

New Delessio bakery here in Giftcenter.
The place opened on April 11^th. I haven’t got into Giftcenter since, but today i passed by and the place was open. The mini deli fridges were empty but the smell of coffee smelled very good. I haven’t had a chance to try the place out yet. But since this place is near my office, i will spare time for it.