Does Panera Have Quiche? (Here’s What They Actually Sell)

No. Panera doesn’t sell quiche, and as far as I can find, never has.

You’re not misremembering, though. The thing you’re picturing is real — it’s just called an egg soufflé.

Puff pastry, savory egg custard, cheese, baked in an individual ramekin, eaten with one hand. If someone described that to you without naming it, you’d call it a quiche. Most people do.

So: the item exists, the word doesn’t.

What Panera Actually Sells

Four egg soufflés on the breakfast menu:

Four cheese. The plainest and the most ordered. Egg custard, a blend of cheeses, nothing competing with it.

Spinach and bacon. Savory, slightly smoky. The one that tastes most like a diner breakfast.

Spinach and artichoke. Vegetarian, and the closest thing on the menu to a classic quiche filling.

Ham and Swiss. The one people are convinced is gone. It has rotated on and off over the years, which is why the internet can’t agree on whether it exists. (And my personal favorite which is why I make it at home all the time!)

They run roughly $6.29 to $8.39 depending on location, and they’re baked in the café rather than shipped in frozen. Lineup and prices shift, so take that as a snapshot.

Want to make these at home? Grab the Panera Bread soufflé copycat recipes here →

Panera Soufflé vs. Quiche: What’s Actually Different

Almost nothing, which is the entire reason this confusion exists.

A quiche is an egg-and-cream custard baked in a pastry shell, cut into wedges. A Panera soufflé is an egg-and-cream custard baked in a pastry shell, in a ramekin.

Same custard. Same premise. The differences are the pastry — puff instead of shortcrust — and the vessel.

It also isn’t a soufflé. Nothing is whipped, nothing rises, nothing collapses if you close the oven too hard. A French soufflé is a temperamental thing built on beaten egg whites. Panera’s is not that.

So the accurate description of a Panera egg soufflé is: a quiche in puff pastry, called something fancier. Which means if you came here wanting a Panera quiche, you were right the whole time. The menu was wrong.

Why Everyone Thinks Panera Discontinued the Quiche

Two things collided.

The first is the ham and Swiss soufflé, which has genuinely disappeared from the menu and come back. People who lost it went looking, couldn’t find it, and remembered the item as a quiche — because that’s what it looked like.

The second is that Panera cycles breakfast items frequently enough that any given memory of the menu is probably out of date. When a menu item you loved isn’t where you left it, “discontinued” is a reasonable conclusion. It’s just not always the right one.

If you’ve been searching “Panera quiche discontinued,” this is almost certainly what you’re chasing.

Panera Soufflé Nutrition and Calories

This is what people are usually asking when they search Panera quiche calories.

The soufflés run roughly 480 to 590 calories depending on flavor, with about 18 to 22 grams of protein. The calories sit in the puff pastry and the cheese, and there’s no version of this item where they don’t.

That isn’t a problem. A 500-calorie breakfast with 20 grams of protein is a real meal, and it will carry you to lunch in a way that a bagel and a coffee won’t.

Where it stops working is when it gets treated like a snack — a soufflé plus a smoothie plus a pastry is a 1,200-calorie morning that nobody planned on.

Order it as breakfast and it does its job.

For the rest of the menu, I went through what’s worth ordering in Panera Bread Healthiest Options and the broader question in Is Panera Bread Healthy?

How to Make Panera’s Soufflé at Home

If the reason you were looking for a Panera quiche is that you wanted to eat one, this is the useful part: it’s genuinely easy to make.

The custard is eggs, cream cheese, and half-and-half — no roux, no béchamel, despite what most copycat recipes will tell you.

The crust is store-bought puff pastry, thawed. It takes about ten minutes of actual work, it bakes in under half an hour, and it freezes.

All four Panera flavors come off the same base, and if you’d rather have one big sliceable quiche than four ramekins, that works too — same custard, 9-inch pie dish.

Get the copycat Panera soufflé recipe — including the one-big-quiche version →

Panera Quiche FAQs

Does Panera Bread sell quiche?

No. Panera sells egg soufflés — savory egg custard baked in puff pastry. It’s what most people mean when they search for a Panera quiche.

Did Panera discontinue quiche?

There was never a quiche to discontinue. The confusion usually traces back to the ham and Swiss soufflé, which has rotated off the menu and back over the years.

Is a Panera soufflé the same as a quiche?

Functionally, yes. Both are egg custard baked in pastry. Panera’s uses puff pastry in an individual ramekin instead of shortcrust in a pie dish, and it isn’t a real soufflé either — nothing is whipped and nothing rises.

What’s the closest thing to quiche on the Panera menu?

The spinach and artichoke soufflé. It’s the flavor profile closest to a classic vegetarian quiche.

How many calories are in a Panera soufflé?

Roughly 480 to 590 depending on the flavor, with about 18 to 22 grams of protein. Check panerabread.com for current numbers.

Can I make a Panera-style quiche at home?

Yes, and it’s easier than the name suggests. Grab the copycat recipe here →