The Bakery Café at Greystone

Good food from the students… good service and good ambience, small selection of wine and good deserts… Menu keeps changing daily ! Lots of parking. Burger was really good !

Vegetarian options: Some vegetarian options

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bakery, Pastries

We wanted to come by for the restaurant but it was closed so we ended up coming to the cafe instead. You walk through what looks like a gift shop to get through it and it's run by students. The menu is a bit limited but nice that you look at the display in order to see what they have instead of a traditional paper menu.We ended up ordering the chicken sandwich, farmers salad, flat bread, strawberry tart, and a pumpkin latte (seasonal). The sandwich and salad were both excellent but the flatbread was a bit thick and chewy and thought both the tart and latte were good. The tart shell was a bit tough to bite through but the flavor was good and the latte was just missing something, maybe some nutmeg or something that would have made it pop a bit more.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Chips

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I bought a coffee and a one piece of chocolate truffle to go. When the truffle melted in my mouth, I felt a lot of hair in it. A mid-lenght brown one and a couple of short blonde hairs. It made me pretty sick. Not sure if it was supposed to be a joke of some immature students of Culinary Institute, or someone else who was preparing these, but it was extremely disgusting and I’m dissapointed.

We came here as part of the tour and lunch and I think we got them on a bad day. Things seemed very unorganized and they seemed to be understaffed to handle the people that opted for lunch with their tour. For the bulk of the time we were there, there was one person taking orders, making drinks and delivering orders. Eventually someone else came along to expedite the food and deliver orders. My food came out almost ten minutes after my husband's food. On to the food. I had the Italian sandwich and it was very good. The pasta salad that was on the side was fantastic. My husband opted for the other lunch option, the fried chicken sandwich, but it was a fried chicken plate when it came out. He still enjoyed it. I'd try it again and hope things were a bit better organized.

My BFF came over to visit in Calistoga and we chose to get the CIA tour including lunch for $20/p. We were delighted with our tour guide Vicky, the history of the building, and the current curriculum. The Greystone red wine, quick lunch, and dessert were perfect! Could not leave without an expresso Illy coffee to finish my brownie. The bakery cafe was worth the price and time spent. If money were not an issue, I would book my next 4 years in the CIAs curriculum!

My BFF came over to visit in Calistoga and we chose to get the CIA tour including lunch for $20/p. We were delighted with our tour guide Vicky, the history of the building, and the current curriculum. The Greystone red wine, quick lunch, and dessert were perfect! Could not leave without an expresso Illy coffee to finish my brownie. The bakery cafe was worth the price and time spent. If money were not an issue, I would book my next 4 years in the CIAs curriculum!

Very tasty sandwiches and sweets created by the students

This makes for a fine lunch stop but isn't anything special. I had the reuben sandwich and my wife had the pho. We have no complaints.

We had a pita hummus sandwich and a Rueben. Both would rate very good. One sandwich came with a soup, which was not very good. We had wine sampler, which was fairly priced, and was just that 'fair'.

This is a beautiful place with top quality products and excellent service. Really interesting and a place every foody visiting Napa should go for breakfast or just a bite.

We visited the Culinary Institute of America. While there we went to their nice cafe - The Bakery Cafe by illy. We enjoyed a good cup of coffee. They also had some splendid holiday candies. The seating area is pleasant.

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