Name: Good Ambler - The Pass
Address: 2 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL, 60606
Price range: $$

Good Ambler - The Pass

The Loop · Bakery/Cafe Community-sourced, unverified

📍 2 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606

Good Ambler's second location skips the neighborhood-bakery pretense of its West Loop original and plants itself exactly where it's needed most: inside The Pass at Two North Riverside Plaza, aimed squarely at commuters pouring off Ogilvie and Union Station rather than a destination crowd.

The Commuter Combo — coffee and a pastry bundled in a single carrier built for the walk from the train to your desk — from a pastry program led by a three-time James Beard finalist.

Executive pastry chef Meg Galus runs the program — a DeKalb native and three-time James Beard finalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef, which is a serious pedigree for a shop built around grab-and-go morning traffic. The new location's actual innovation is logistical: a Commuter Combo that bundles coffee and a pastry together in a single carrier built for someone walking from the train to their desk, not sitting down. The rest of the case runs the brand's usual strengths — double chocolate croissants, kouign-amann, banana bread, blueberry muffins — alongside a newer lunch menu and full-service catering for the office towers upstairs.

It opened June 22 under restaurant group 16" on Center, with hours running Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. — a pure weekday-commuter schedule, closed weekends entirely, which also means there's no evening happy hour here by design. A liquor license was reportedly pending around opening, so that could change the picture later. No Commuter Combo price turned up in research; everything else about this listing points to grab-it-and-go convenience over a sit-down meal.

Hours

Mon-Fri6am-3pm

closed Sat-Sun

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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Good Ambler - The Pass

Good Ambler's second location skips the neighborhood-bakery pretense of its West Loop original and plants itself exactly where it's needed most: inside The Pass at Two North Riverside Plaza, aimed squarely at commuters pouring off Ogilvie and Union Station rather than a destination crowd.

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