Huckleberry Bakery Cafe - Santa Monica

Good breakfast, nice selection, but way too expensive!

I only tried the bagel and it was one of the best. A really good bake, lots of seeds, crunchy and chewy. Only 3 bucks. For not being known as a bagelry, I was impressed.

Great quality food and great service. It’s pretty expensive but I think that’s because everything is made in house. $25.50 is steep for a breakfast burrito but it’s huge and delicious. Worth it imo. Pastries look amazing too

Servicing my car again today, I checked Huckleberry for its BF offerings (this time avoiding the sugar butter laden pastries). Except for the 22 grain bowl, the menu did not show other modern appetizing but healthy BF dishes, such as white egg fluffy omelette with veggies or at least spinach. Frankly the 22 grain sounds too big for 1 person’s BF. The counter helper agreed the grain bowl was big, and the other BF were leaning toward traditional unhealthy fare, laughing “This is America!” I laughed back “This is why we all get so big and unhealthy”. Huckleberry’s might appeal to those wanting traditional American food. I left without ordering. While waiting for my car, I picked up two pastries: a muffin with apricot and raspberry, and a Kouign-amann. I think the label for the Kouign-amann was misplaced because I got a square berry tart!! Both were rich and tasty, but quite very sweet, especially the berry tart. I just had a bite of each and packed them for the freezer to avoid a sugar attack! Next time I will try the hot breakfast menu!

This came recommended from a lot of sources but frankly I am not sure what the buzz is. The service is excellent though you have to stand in line to order food, but the rest is just ok … not terrible, but also nothing particularly remarkable. Location is not great, menu choices are fairly limited and not exceptional. Decent place just not something I would go out of my way to visit