Mondo Baking is a casual retro-style cafe/dessert bakery with excellent coffee and an impressive array of periodicals for sale. It has built a solid customer base as a place with good food where you won't be hurried along even if you only come in to linger over a cup of coffee or browse the magazines (at least 200 different publications).
Everything is served with a creative twist, from the prosciutto and brie sandwich, studded with chopped dates and dressed with peppery arugula, to the lemon love bars. Bowing to less sophisticated tastes, there's PB&J or grilled cheese for the kids.
Breakfast Monday through Friday consists of breakfast sandwiches and fresh baked goods such as strawberry-lemon or plum-cardamom scones. Breakfast is bigger and better on Saturday, when it's served until noon. There's always a blue-plate special, homemade granola, and a vegetarian omelet variation--maybe with brie, roasted yellow peppers, and onions.
Breakfast $2.50-$5.75. Sandwiches $4.75-$6.Open: Mon 8am-4pm; Tues-Fri 8am-5pm; Sat 9am-5pm.Credit Cards: AE, MC, V.From I-75, take the 14th St. exit and head west to Howell Mill Rd. Turn right on Howell Mill. Mondo is a few blocks up on the left at the corner of Huff Rd.
