Let Them Eat Cake

2 stars for actually being open at 4a, 1 star for passable coffee and decent pastries. The woman working the crack of dawn shift was beyond awful. She never looked at us and actually asked — as we stood at the counter and she stared at the TV — if we wanted something… yeah, hence why we are standing here.
Like I said 3 stars is generous, but it is beyond security and open at 4a, so it is a-​ok.

Stopped here to get a smoothie & watch the game for a few minutes before a flight. They won’t let you move the chairs by the bar — due to a so called Fire Hazard. The reality is they only want you to sit here if you’re buying expensive alcohol drinks. Avoid this stop while waiting to fly out of Midway or otherwise be prepared to stand & deal with Rude people

Stopped in to grab some hot tea. Opted to get a cinnamon roll as well. Line moved fast, service was friendly. Cinnamon roll was actually quite good. Tea selection was small.

Let Them Eat Cake is a cool name for a bakery. Spotted this place after disembarking from our plane. Told myself that when we came back to Midway airport, I would stop in.
True to my word, I stopped in the other day. Did not live up to my expectations. The cakes looked okay in the display case, but nothing stood out.
Vanilla bean cheesecake was what I picked. Costed almost $ 4 for a thin slice. Tasted alright, but that is the best I can say.
May stop in again in the future, but would not go out of my way for them.

Nothing too crazy to rave about, but if you’re having a craving for some cake this is one of the few places in this concourse that has a good selection of cakes. I ended up trying the carrot cake, it was pretty moist and the frosting wasn’t too sweet. But the cake tastes like any typical carrot cake, nothing special but not awful by any means. Service was pretty quick, the lady was pretty abrupt with all the customers though. There’s a bar and some standing tables for a quick bite.

Airport bars usually are lame with ok service. Linda L at the bar made my morning .
Great conversation and she let me borrow her phone charger :) such a doll. Thanks for the drinks and customer service Linda

Wow. Really rude worker. How does she stay employed at this place she clearly hates? I bet there are other people who would be happy for the opportunity. Never coming here again!

On my way out of Midway, I wanted to get a couple slices to celebrate. I got the Du Monde (sp? It’s a chocolate ganache covered chocolate cake with white chocolate and milk chocolate mousse in between the layers of cake) and a White chocolate Mousse cake.
I found both of them to be cloyingly sweet (and I consider all of my teeth to be sweet teeth otherwise) and the cake didn’t taste fresh at all. The quality overall was sup-​par and not worth the price tag.
It looks like a cute café but please save your money and skip this place.

Apparently they kick you out if you just order a coffee and have a seat. You need to be drinking alcohol to be able to stay seated. Coffee is alright, cake not so much

(2) ~ ok overall… lack of selection & variety for sweets… ended up getting coffee which wasn’t good either. Suggest they increase the Donut selection from two…

At airports, I feel like they drop you off and make you stay in this cold uncomfortable penned in area like you’re cattle, and you can only eat what they tell you to, and it’s always the most awful pre-​processed food.
This is a tiny location in the Chicago Midway Airport serving only pre-​made items including sandwiches, drinks, and desserts. Just like everything else in an airport, there’s a surcharge of several dollars on every item so it is expensive for what you get.
We were famished so I bought a tiny $ 8 turkey sandwich on a roll. The sandwich was small, dry, and only had one slice each of turkey, lettuce, and tomato. Cheese was nowhere to be found. I grabbed a few of the mayo packets and squeezed them in uneven gobs onto the sandwich to try to get some moisture into the bread, but to little avail. The sandwich took up space in my stomach though, so that was helpful.
We bought a couple $ 11 beers to wash it down. They had two domestic light beers and one craft brew, Goose Island IPA, from Chicago. The Goose Island was very good. The bartender, however, was a grumpy lady who had a demeanor that made us feel like we were inconveniencing her by ordering a beer. 12 ounces later we were ready to board our flight and get back to civilization.

I stopped in LTEC for a few bar drinks before my flight, so I got to sit around and watch what was going on. My drink was good, no complaints but a Vodka Cranberry definitely isn’t too hard to mess up.
The women working here are pretty rude to be quite honest, I see that was posted up in a few prior reviews as well. I had one barista/​bartender who was an older gentleman who was pretty nice and prompt.
Within my time here I saw some people get yelled at for grabbing a chair to sit at one of their tables as well as two people get accused of not paying only to show their receipt and get a semi-​rude apology.
It is what it is for an airport — I’m just here for the booze. Prices aren’t awful for being in the Chicago airport either.

Do not waste your time. These people are so incredibly rude. This is a terrible airport & the people that work at this place make it that much worse.

Omg I love this cakes. I remembered I worked here just for a day. I could not learn to build the boxes. The cares are nice and pricy

At 4:30 AM it’s hard to complain about the lack of options. Let Them Eat Cake had a line that was ridiculously long… sensing it must be good I waited & didn’t consult Unilocal.:(
The baked goods looked amazing but we’re only average; the coffee drinks were pedestrian… but it got the job done
Jozefa was working solo and was very pleasant, although slow.
I’ll skip this place next time if there are more places open

Not amazing. Not horrible. Justin and I stopped by here for some coffee before a late evening flight. We needed a little coffee & cookie break. Justin was on a caramel kick so we shared an iced caramel latte. It was ok. Wasn’t too sweet, but couldn’t really taste the coffee either. Justin stated, and I quote «well… it wasn’t Starbucks… but it was ok.» We ate a reeses cookie that was created by another coffee/​airport goods company called barista express and it was really good. As always with airport food though, it was overpriced. It was an awesome concept though with a painting from Marie Antoinette who Justin taught me coined the phrase «Let them eat cake.» It was also cool to see a bar inside a bakery: D so there were lots of people having drinks while watching wheel of fortune and everyone looked like they were having an awesome time!

This place is the worst. I travel a lot, and Southwest is my airline of choice, so I spend a lot of mornings in Midway just trying to get a healthy breakfast before my flight. Since Midway doesn’t have a Starbucks (seriously, it’s 2015), I have spent many months on a personal quest to answer this one question: where, in Midway, can a gal get some oatmeal???
At first, I discovered Let Them Eat Cake– which has two locations in Midway. I was elated! Finally, I had found a place that I can buy oatmeal (with nuts and dried fruit)! However, I would say about 70% of the time, they are actually OUT of oatmeal. Doesn’t matter what time you get there. Sometimes one location will have it and the other won’t… sometimes both won’t. If that wasn’t weird enough, the people here are beyond rude.
Anyway, I discovered that Manny’s and Tuscany Café both have oatmeal, if anyone is wondering!

Two locations at MDW. Cust serv is terrible at the big one, better at the small one. Neither location knows how to make a café au lait. But lattes & mochas are no problem. Srsly.

High fructose corn syrup and pre made cake nastiness. The flavored are bland and the chocolate cakes aren’t what they should be. Maybe the coffee and beer is okay but the pastries are garbage. Avoid if you like good food. For the mcdonalds airport crowd you’ll probably like this.

The tres leche cake is zomg moist! Prices surprisingly LOW. Not sure why prices are normal for an airport. There is a weird pizza sandwich. Didn’t finish because of White Castle. Didn’t finish my Monster energy drink. I’m stuffed.