Au Bon Pain

They have great food, but their prices are steep!!! But, that's to be expected in a mall. They had drinks, but they were hot bc the cooler wasn't even plugged up. They moved the line pretty fast. They made the sandwiches fast also. All in all we love their sandwiches. Some of them were spicy too, but so delicious. An added plus the bread was homemade sourdough bread!! Delicious!!

The soups here are awesome! They have 8-10 different choices daily and besides a couple standards that are always available (like vegetable), the options change every couple of months. It IS pricey, just like all of their other food and all other Au Bon Pains. But if you like really good soup and having a plethora of varieties to choose from daily as opposed to the usual 2, if any, soup options, there's no better place to go, especially near the Vanderbilt campus! Also, you ladle the soup yourself into small or large containers, so it's a lot faster than having to order & wait for sandwiches/bagels to be made. They have breadsticks and some other bread/pastry options available to go with it right there near the soup stand area, although those are extremely pricey for what you get, even compared to their own pricing standards. Staff have always been very friendly to me when I've been there, though many of them do seem to be rather stressed out most of the time...but I've heard from more than a few people for years now that apparently this store is an all-around terrible place to work from an employee's standpoint (long hours, ZERO benefits incl. no PTO, very bad mgmt people, etc. etc.), so keep that in mind if at some point you end up interacting w/someone there who seems a bit frazzled. Because it's on the Vanderbilt campus and in the main tower of the hospital, it does get extremely busy during the typical breakfast, lunch and dinner timeframes.