Good Ambler

Good Ambler is an all-day cafe, bakery and chocolatier, boasting a wide array of sweet and savory laminated pastries and breakfast breads, afternoon sweets, and handcrafted chocolates, alongside a lunch menu of salads and sandwiches.

Located at 216 N Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607, Good Ambler operates as a bakery serving Chicago in Illinois. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as cafe, chocolate shop, coffee shop, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

In Chicago, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across Illinois, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

The business lists hours on 7 days of the week. The most common schedule is 7 am–4 pm. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. You can reach Good Ambler at (312) 872-7165; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. Its website is goodambler.com, where you may find menus, price lists or booking options.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.4 out of 5 from 737 reviews, which is a strong result for a bakery in Chicago and suggests consistent service.

Chicago is in Illinois, in the Midwest, where summers are warm, winters are cold and snowy, and most errands are done by car; businesses keep steady year-round hours with the usual holiday changes. Traffic in Chicago peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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