Panera Bread

Panera Bread Decatur welcomes guests to our café with warm hospitality and quality ingredients. We serve a variety of menu favorites for breakfast, lunch, and dinner—including fresh coffee, bakery items, salads, soups, and sandwiches—crafted to help you feel good about what you’re enjoying. Whether you’re dining in while enjoying complimentary Wi‑Fi, ordering online for Rapid Pick‑Up, enjoying delivery, or planning catering for a large group, Panera Bread Decatur is here to make your day a little better. Food as it should be.

Located at 255 E Ash Ave Ste B, Decatur, IL 62526, Panera Bread operates as a bakery serving Decatur 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. Google also lists it under cafe, breakfast restaurant, caterer, which is worth knowing if you are comparing several options in the area.

In Decatur, 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. On most of those days it is open 7 am–9 pm. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. You can reach Panera Bread at (217) 872-6435; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, panerabread.com.

With 4.1 out of 5 on Google from 786 reviews, it sits in the middle of the range for bakeries in Decatur. Recent reviews are the best guide.

Decatur 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. US addresses list the street number and name, then the city, state abbreviation and ZIP code, and Decatur follows the same pattern; a suite or apartment number such as Ste 200 refers to a unit inside the building. The map link on this page shows the exact spot.

See the other bakeries in Decatur listed below to compare ratings, hours and locations before you decide. If you own or manage Panera Bread, you can claim this listing to correct details, add photos and a description, and receive a verified badge. Everyone else can help by leaving an honest review on Google after a visit.