Independent guide to Panera menu prices and calories Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Independent guide Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Independent guide to Panera menu prices and calories Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Independent guide Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Panera menu calories for 249 items, read from the August 2026 menu. Add what you are thinking of ordering and the tray totals the calories and the cost, with Panera’s own vegan, vegetarian and gluten conscious tags on every item.
Add what you are thinking of ordering and the totals follow as you go.
Search all 249 items, filter by category, or narrow to one of Panera’s own tags.
Press Add and it joins the tray. The calorie count and the estimated cost update with every item.
Save the tray as an image for your phone, or print it. Both list every item with its calories and price.
Or dealing with strict food allergies? We have curated guides for you.
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Calories are Panera’s published figures. Cost is an average across US cafes. We hold no protein, carb or fat figure and would rather leave one out than estimate it.
Panera tags its own menu, and those tags are more useful than any diet label we could invent. Six of them appear across the 249 items in the calculator above, and the filter there works on exactly these. Counts are from the August 2026 menu.
No meat or fish. The largest group on the menu by some way.
No animal products at all. Mostly drinks, sides and a few salads.
Panera’s own wording, and not a coeliac-safe claim: the cafes share preparation surfaces.
Carries all nine essential amino acids. This is the honest version of a “high protein” list.
Panera flags these itself. Worth knowing before a second helping of soup.
Also Panera’s own flag, and it catches drinks more often than bakery.
We hold no gram figure for any item, so rather than guess at one, these are the 23 items Panera itself tags Complete Protein, lightest first.
| Item | Calories | Typical price |
|---|---|---|
| Half Ultimate Garden Steak Salad | 400 | $8.36 |
| Half Grilled Chicken & Avo BLT | 470 | $8.00 |
| Half Spicy Fiesta Chicken | 470 | $7.25 |
| Half Chicken Bacon Rancher | 510 | $7.25 |
| Steak & Wake | 520 | $7.32 |
| Half Ciabatta Cheesesteak | 580 | $8.05 |
| Chicken Roma Asiago Bagel Stack | 610 | $7.18 |
| Spicy Steak Asiago Bagel Stack | 630 | $7.21 |
| Kids Ham & Cheese Sandwich | 640 | $7.67 |
| Toasted Caprese Focaccia | 740 | $10.28 |
| Tomato Basil BLT | 780 | $9.75 |
| Ultimate Garden Steak Salad Stuffer | 790 | $12.08 |
69 sandwiches, salads, soups and breakfast items come in under 500 calories. These are the ten lightest, and none of them is a side salad.
| Item | Category | Calories | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Bean Soup | Soups & Mac | 90 | $5.57 |
| Half Strawberry Poppyseed Salad | Salads | 140 | $6.25 |
| Coconut Macaroon | Soups & Mac | 180 | $1.99 |
| Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup | Soups & Mac | 180 | $8.60 |
| Chocolate Coconut Macaroon | Soups & Mac | 190 | $1.99 |
| Multigrain Bagel Flat | Breakfast | 190 | $2.10 |
| Bistro French Onion Soup | Soups & Mac | 200 | $5.57 |
| Cream of Chicken & Wild Rice Soup | Soups & Mac | 200 | $5.57 |
| Half Strawberry Poppyseed Chicken Salad | Salads | 210 | $8.05 |
| Mexican Street Corn Chowder | Soups & Mac | 220 | $5.57 |
The section this replaced called these “hidden calorie traps” and listed figures for them that were wrong. Here they are read from the menu: the ten heaviest things you can order.
| Item | Category | Calories | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Dozen Mixed Cookies | Bakery | 4550 | $23.20 |
| Signature Hot Chocolate Tote | Drinks | 3530 | $24.70 |
| Lobster Mac & Cheese - Group | Soups & Mac | 2500 | $39.87 |
| Bacon Mac & Cheese - Group | Soups & Mac | 2110 | $29.39 |
| Mac & Cheese - Group | Soups & Mac | 1950 | $26.31 |
| Toasted Italiano | Sandwiches | 1330 | $13.25 |
| Ciabatta Cheesesteak | Sandwiches | 1160 | $13.36 |
| Carnitas Elote Market Bowl | Sides & Extras | 1100 | $13.65 |
| Chicken Bacon Rancher | Sandwiches | 1010 | $12.32 |
| Chipotle Chicken Avo Melt | Sandwiches | 1000 | $12.41 |
A whole-menu view sits on our Panera nutrition page, and if what you want is the bill rather than the calories, the meal planner totals both as you add items.
Every calorie figure is Panera's own published number, read from the August 2026 menu across US cafes, and every price is an average across those cafes. Nothing here is estimated by us. Where a figure does not exist, the item shows a dash rather than a guess.
No, and that is deliberate. Our snapshot carries a calorie count and a price for each item and no macro breakdown. Instead of estimating grams, the calculator filters on Panera's own tags, including Complete Protein, which is its label for items carrying all nine essential amino acids. For a gram-level breakdown, Panera publishes a full nutrition PDF in its app.
It ranges more than most people expect. Of the 249 items here, 69 sandwiches, salads, soups and breakfast items are under 500 calories, while the heaviest single item on the menu is 4,550. The tables above list both ends.
Panera tags 60 items Vegan and 153 Vegetarian on the current menu. Set the diet filter in the calculator to either and the list narrows to exactly those, with the calorie count and typical price for each.
Panera says gluten conscious, not gluten free, and the difference matters: 91 items carry that tag, but the cafes share preparation surfaces, so it is not a coeliac-safe claim. Our gluten conscious menu guide goes through what the tag does and does not cover.
Panera flags 12 items High Sodium and 5 High Sugar. Both filters are in the calculator. The sugar flag catches drinks more often than bakery, which is the part that surprises people.
Yes. Each item carries the average price across US cafes, and the tray totals it as you add. It is an estimate rather than a quote: city, airport and turnpike cafes charge above the average. If the bill is the thing you care about, the meal planner adds tax and tip on top.
The snapshot is from August 2026. Seasonal items come and go between snapshots, so something here may be off the menu at your cafe, and something new may be missing. Anything we can confirm is discontinued gets taken out.
Yes, as an image. Build the tray, then use Save image and it downloads a sheet with every item, the calorie total and the estimated cost, which is the version that travels to the counter on a phone. Nothing is stored on our side and there is no account.
Panera publishes a caffeine figure for 42 drinks on this menu, topping out at 1421 mg in the Cafe Blend Dark Roast Coffee Tote. For comparison, a home-brewed cup of coffee is usually 95 to 165 mg.
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