Mclain's Market - Lawrence

Burrito hits every time. Also coffee is pretty good too when I pick it up.

I like McLains and that bothers me quite a bit. The atmosphere is nice, the pastries are very good and it's a nice place to hang out. The food, though, isn't that great for the price. It's too pricey for the quality.The location is nice and I do like the interior. It is fashioned to be very neo-quaint (I made that up). Everything is very eye catching and pleasing. They sell t-shirts, caps, dry tea and coffee. You can get all sorts of knick-knacks at this restaurant. The food is order at the counter style and they bring it to your table. I was here with a friend and we told the cashier we were eating in the restaurant. The funny thing is they brought us all disposable utensils. People at other tables had glass drinking cups but we had paper. Very odd and my friend was not too happy about us being singled out in this manner.I love biscuits and gravy and I thought the McLain's version was both good and bad. The biscuits and gravy were good but it came with a scrambled egg and hash browns. They were terrible. Microwave oven best. They don't give you a choice of egg- which is telling. You automatically get scrambled. I guess that's the best the microwave could off up. The total price on the biscuits and gravy and microwaved scrambled egg and hash browns was almost $10. Not worth it at all.My friend had the Farmer sandwich. It looked good and it was very big but my friend was unimpressed. All the items on their menu seemed overpriced. Bottom line for me is that it's just OK, nothing special.The restaurant is easy to access and visually appealing. There are no issues with staff and everyone seemed pleasant enough. I just think this place could be better.

We ordered a cake April 4th for our daughters birthday in July. When we arrived June 30th to pick it up they came out empty handed. They said there was an app update to Toasty and it caused our order to be missed. We were given zero apologies. We made another trip the next day to pick up the cake. And still no apology. We will be going elsewhere from now on. Luckily there are more options available in Lawrence for cakes.

Wunderbar!!!! I enjoyed the sweet potato shakshuka with scrambled eggs. It was magnificent! I also had an iced bourbon caramel latte that was divine. Eventually, I left with $30+ of pastry goodies to bring home.Definitely recommend!

Coffee is great, really everything I’ve had is tasty but McLain’s has my favorite breakfast sandwich in town, The Farm!