Square One Breakfast & Bakery
4790 Hagardorn Road, Suite 110We didn’t have to get up quite as early on Saturday morning for skating as we did on Friday.
We were in East Lansing for the Howard E. Van Camp Invitational at the Biggby Coffee Ice Cube – East Lansing. It’s the start of the kids’ competition season.
Friday we had to be at the rink by 7 AM. We grabbed breakfast from the Starbucks across the street from our hotel.
Saturday, we didn’t really have to be there until closer to 10 AM. L still wanted to get there for 8 AM to watch some of her friends so I got up, got her Starbucks and dropped her off. On the way back from the rink to the hotel, I also got B Dunkin’ so we got the kids fed.
We got packed up at the hotel and the rest of us headed over around 10 AM. I got everyone to the rink and got all the bags inside then told J I was going to go get myself breakfast.
We’ve been coming to this competition for five years now and every year, I see a bakery just down the street from the rink. I always say we should stop for breakfast on the way but everyone is so in their competition mode that includes Starbies and Dunkin’ so we never do.
Square One Bakery is on the corner of Hagadorn Road and Hannah Boulevard in the Hannah Plaza. The breakfast joint is on the northwest side of the complex closest to Hagadorn Road. It’s just a few doors down from Pizza House, which is where we ate lunch on Friday when my parents were in town.
One of the reasons I’ve never picked up breakfast from Square One on the go before is because I couldn’t tell if it was a full service sit down restaurant or a counter service. And to be honest, I still don’t know. I put my order in online to avoid the awkwardness of getting there just to get a sandwich to go and finding out I was going to be seated and served.
The restaurant looks like a sit down restaurant to me. When I walked in to pick up my order, there was a large lunch counter right inside the door and a dining room off to the right. What seemed like the entire staff was standing at that lunch counter talking so I didn’t really get a chance to look around. I could see a bag sitting on the counter and when I told them I had a to-go order, they handed me the bag. I got so flustered by so many people standing there, I didn’t even grab a picture. I grabbed this one off Google just so you have an idea what the restaurant looks like inside. In the dining room area, there is a row of booths along the wall and a row of tables between those booths and the lunch counter. It’s a nice bright space with a lot of light coming in from the windows at the front of the building.
I ordered the Square One Sandwich and did a little customization to it. The breakfast sandwich is meat, two eggs, and American cheese. I made the meat bacon, got the eggs folded so there’d be no mess, swapped out the American cheese for Havarti and picked sourdough for the bread. The sandwich was delicious. It’s far superior to the Dunkin’ sandwich I would have gotten if I had ordered a sandwich when I got B’s food. There was a layer of crispy thick cut bacon but swapping in the Havarti cheese is what really made this sandwich stand out. I’m sure it would have been delicious with American but the Havarti and sour dough really bump this sandwich up a notch.
I also added on Home Fries to the sandwich. They didn’t throw a fork in to the bag and I forgot to look. Fortunately, the potatoes were cooked enough that I could be a caveman and pick them up with my fingers and eat them. There were delicious crispy bits on the outside of the potatoes but they were soft and fluffy in the middle. They were perfectly cooked so you got a little bit of crunchy but it wasn’t rock solid all the way through.
Square One Breakfast & Bakery was a delicious breakfast and I’m glad I finally decided to just get myself breakfast instead of waiting to go there as a family. The sandwich was way better than I could have gotten from one of the coffee chains we usually stop at on competition mornings. Being right down the street from the ice rink, I was able to get myself breakfast, get back to the rink and not miss much of the skating that morning before my kids’ skates.
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