Cafe Verona

I like this place. They have a perfect onion cheese bagel that I can’t seem to find anywhere else. That has to be my favorite bagel of all time. With some cream cheese and some Martinelli’s apple juice… mmmm, perfection. My only complaint is that it takes a pretty long time to get your order from the time you placed it, even when you’re the only person there.

Café Verona is not bad at all. I love their smoothies. However, they take way too long. I was the only customer and ordered 2 sandwiches plus a smoothie. Went out to organize my car and came back about 5 minutes or so later. A lady is ordering while I’m waiting and that’s fine but to make her smoothie before you are even done with mine, which I placed now about 10 minutes ago, is friggen rediculous!!! I almost lost it but kept my composure. Recommendation, good smoothies but service sucks.

Stopped by the bank and got hungry in the morning, my craving for a bagel led me to Café Verona.
Bagels, not badly priced at $ 1.20 per
Blueberry bagel — not bad, not great. Tasted slightly better then the ones I can find at the local grocery store, only slightly though.
Banana Nut Bagel — No nuts in here at all. Tastes like banana-​nut in a bagel.
What really dragged this place down was the extreme prices for any add ons.
$ 2.15 for cream cheese? Insane! I should have gone to albertson’s and brought my own cream cheese.
Craving bagels and this is the closest store for breakfast? That may be the only time I’d stop by here again.
Go to Café Verona for bagels that taste okay and expensive prices, nothing even close to being great.

I am genuinely fond of this place.
Omelets any time of the day? Awesome! Then you get it on an awesome bagel that has all the good stuff on it! I think the omelet might have been cooked in the microwave? Which isn’t as legit but doesn’t use as much oil.
I’ve had some salads and other sandwiches and they are pretty awesome too.

my favorite thing about this place is how nice and kind the owner is… and the chinese chicken salad! this salad is simply amazing, make sure you get an extra container of dressing if your a fan of lots of dressing! I heard the receipe is from a famous NY chef. it is damn good. The pastrami melt is also amazing, as well as the roast beef, and turkey pita. Cute place, open early, close early. Worth every dollar, i’m a regular there, pretty much every time i make a deposit at wells fargo next door (2 – 3 deposits a week), i get something to eat, even if i’m not hungry. love this place. Thanks and hope to see this business never close!

I almost forgot how much I liked coming to this place when I was in high school. I always order the Bagel Melt whenever I drop by, and I’ve never had a better one. The tuna melt is far and away my favorite.
I now live walking distance to some other rather well known bagel shops in Aliso Viejo (Bruegger’s Bagels, Panini Café, Bagels & Brew) and none of their bagel melts hold a candle to CAFE VERONA’s in my opinion. It’s an open-​faced sandwich with a fat layer of melted cheese on top, smothering onions, tomatoes, tuna, and the bagel of your choice (get onion and cheese if you want to do it right!). Sounds simple enough, right? But for whatever reason… no place else seems to be able to match it.
Their smoothies are good, but nothing spectacular. The side dish of potato salad, however, is fantastically fantastic. That’s the thing about this place — the seemingly ordinary items like potato salad or a god damn bagel sandwich are absurdly delicious.

This place is sort of hidden in the shopping center, it’s nice and quiet. I had a bagel with egg/​cheese… the egg was well made, not sure how they made it all fluffy and airy but it was good. The bagel was nicely toasted, maybe a little too hot because that almost burned my finger. It tasted good, so I had to balance the urge of eating with risk of finger injury.

Café Verona is one of the few breakfast hot spots at Diamond Bar. They have a nice selection of breakfast bagel specials and sandwiches — this is a nice and cute place to grab a paper and have a quiet, nice breakfast.
However, their bagels definitely don’t always seem as fresh as they should be and that would be the biggest gripe about the place. However, I really like their smoothies… they may not be healthy but DAMNIT, they’re tasty.

Love this place; it’s within walking distance of my house and is prefect for a girls’ breakfast. The patio isn’t the most gorgeous one ever, but it’s nice to sit there on a sunny day. I always order, the bagel with cream cheese and tomato slices (it really adds something!). The staff is really sweet and the smoothies are also really good. I wouldn’t call is amazing, but it’s just a nice little sandwich place to eat at on weekend mornings.

Not the best omellette but the bagel was pretty good.
I was hungry and went to the first place I saw. A bagel place? I hadn’t had bagel in forever. Got spinach omelette bagel with iced coffee.
The owner toasted the bagel and made the omelette fresh. It took a while for him to prepare this. It was too bland for me and my iced coffee wasn’t strong enough. But at least the food was fresh.
I did like the outside seating area though. It’s very relaxing and quiet.
Café Verona is almost yummylicious!

Went here for the first time today after lunch and I was craving something chocolaty, so I narrowed it down to the Chocolate Malt Shake or the Cookies and Cream Shake. Upon ordering, the barista insisted that I try a chocolate, strawberry, and banana smoothie instead and guaranteed that every person that she suggested this drink to has «loved it!»
bottom line: it was disgusting. watery. not creamy. gross. it tasted like a chocolate covered strawberry blended with ice and an old banana. eww.
next time, i’m sticking with my first instinct.

I went here after having phở next door thinking I’d try their smoothies. Diamond Bar doesn’t have a Jamba Juice so I thought this place could be a decent substitute during my work week.
I was wrong. Very wrong. Yes the price is similar to that of Jamba but the size is smaller and the quality is poor. I ordered a strawberry banana smoothie and observed the proprietor while she made it. First she pours in a red liquid which I guessed to be strawberry juice syrup. The kind that might be used to make punch or pour over a snowcone. Then she scoups out one chunk of banana that was half brown. And when I say chunk I mean about a square inch worth. So I guess that was where the ‘banana’ in my strawberry banana smoothie came from. The rest was frozen yogurt and ice. I don’t even think there was real strawberries in it. Overall it had a very bland taste, almost an artificial place thanks to that red syrup.
My coworker came here the week prior and had a pineapple mango smoothie. She didn’t like hers but I thought I’d give them a shot myself. Her smoothie had a strong scent of pineapple juice out of a can. To me, that doesn’t equal freshness especially when the lady’s advertising real ingredients.

I paid $ 7.03 for a roast beef bagel melt today. The bagel was REALLY stale, the roast beef was minimal, and the tiny cup of potato salad was gross. For $ 7.03, I expected something bigger, better, and fresher! If you want a sandwich, go to Ralphs Supermarket in the same shopping center — it’ll be cheaper, fresher, and tastier than this place.
This place isn’t expensive, but it certainly is pricey for what you get! You can get a comparable item elsewhere for at least 25% less! As much as I’d like to support small businesses, this one isn’t worth the cheap napkins they give out! Very disappointed and will never eat here again.

Had a quick lunch here with my foodie bf. We went in here purely by accident; we were actually heading the the Lollicup nearby when bf said he wasn’t hating on sandwiches right now and he was hungry =D. He was craving some egg salad sandwich and was hoping they had it.
And have it they did! He almost clapped with glee to see it on the top of the menu! I had the roast beef sandwich and he had the egg salad sandwich, of course! Mine was the standard roast beef but it was tasty. They give you a serving of potato salad along with the sandwich but I wasn’t too fond of it; too vinegary for my taste.
Atmosphere was very serene and calm. They had a nice patio area where my honey and I just inhaled our food while enjoying a nice Sunday afternoon together. It was very airy and open, quiet and clean. Bf said we’ll be back and I would be more than happy to come back!

I’ve been here several times for breakfast and their bagels are pretty average– but it’s basically the only breakfast place in this part of Diamond Bar. It’s also the only place in DB that feels like a real café… just the atmosphere. I recently went there again to hang out and ordered a chocolate-​peanut butter blended drink which was a little out of my zone, but I was craving it. I don’t like things that are too sweet, so I asked for less sweet and it was perfect! tastes like Reese’s Pieces! Definitely worth a try if you like peanut butter ;)

wow sucks that elaine had a bad experience but i can tell you its not the norm. ive been going to café verona for more than 5 years and the food and service has been excellent. their bagel and breakfast sandwiches along with their smoothies (try the #8, the strawberry peach banana) are REALLY good. go and check it out for yourself, ill bet youll be back for more.

I would hope that Elaine Y.‘s experience was her first and only experience at Café Verona. I have been going here for years and each time I go, the service and food is excellent. They have an assortment of coffees and smoothies in addition to a menu of snacks (muffins, croissants, bagels, gourmet chips, etc.) and sandwiches. I always order the veggie sandwich on a croissant and it is never disappointing. The college age kids who work there are always polite and always willing to help when you wish to create your own smoothie that might not be on the menu. I would hope that other readers do not use Elaine’s review to sway their decision on visiting this place.

I usually don’t like giving negative reviews but this place needs to step up. Ordered two bagels and a veggie dip. Looked on menu and it said some bagels were more than the stated price but doesn’t list it!!! Saw she overcharged me, but I was ok with it as it was her tip. Come home and found my veggie dip was lox!!! Never again. If you do go, beware and make sure you don’t get ripped off. Hate lox too.