NYC Bakeries field trip
A friend and I are headed to the city tomorrow to explore bakeries and any/all establishments serving delicious sweet goods. What places/pastries are your favorites? What do you consider can't miss? Thanks for your help!
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19 Comments:
Levain bakery for the chocolate chip cookies, Bouchon Bakery, Sullivan Street Bakery, to name a few.
laurelie at 10:16AM on 10/02/09
Here's a thread by Ed Levine that sums up the best bakeries:
http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2007/11/ten-best-bakeries-in-new-york-americas-best-b.html
laurelie at 11:04AM on 10/02/09
Oh MrsJohnson, you are in for a treat.
Cupcakes: Butter Lane, Chikalicious Dessert Club, Sugar Sweet Sunshine
Cookies: Momofuku Milk Bar, Levain, City Bakery
Chocolate: Bespoke Chocolates, Kee's, Jacques Torres
Doughnuts: Doughnut Plant
Scone's: Alice's Tea Cup
There's also Three Tarts in Chelsea, which is wonderful. The Chelsea Market is home to several great bakeries. Feel free to click through to my site to find all kinds of delicious options. And have fun!
Sweet Freak at 11:15AM on 10/02/09
Sweet Freak has a GREAT list. I would add:
Cupcakes: 'wichcraft, Grey Dog, Sage American Kitchen (available at Dean & Deluca)
Ice box pie: Magnolia (skip the cupcakes)
Chocolate chip cookies: Jack's Stir Brewed
Sandwiche cookies: 'wichcraft, Grandaisy
Scones: Sarabeth's
Croissants: Ceci-Cela, Patisserie Claude
"Sweet" breads/loaf cakes: Abraco's olive oil cake, Balthazar's chocolate bread or fruit foccacia
Muffins: Clinton Street Baking Company
Locanda Verde: anything
NB: Payard has closed as has Batch/p*ong.
See also: http://newyork.seriouseats.com/tags/Sugar%20Rush
kathryn at 11:46AM on 10/02/09
Here are my favs (some of which were already mentioned)
Almondine is worth the trip to Brooklyn for the almond croissants.
Tribeca Treats has delicious sandwich cookies.
Two Little Red Hens has good pie / cakes.
Little Pie Company, well, you know - has pie.
Dessert Delivery - cute little treats
Royale - cupcakes
City Bakery - assorted treats
Milk and Cookies - tasty fresh cookies
Levain - also cookies
Cupcake Cafe - my favorite cupcakes
Doughnut Plant - doughnuts
Billy's Bakery - old school bakery
Black Hound - truffles, cookies
i recommend skipping buttercup, magnolia, and most of the bakeries in chelsea market
kristin314 at 12:19PM on 10/02/09
Amy's Bread at the Chelsea Market
and The Doughnut Plant
velascomike at 1:51PM on 10/02/09
La Bergamote - croissants
La Maison du Chocolat - macarons, chocolate
Demel - Esterhazy torte, milchraum strudel
Cafe Sabarsky - Dobostorte, apple strudel, coffees
Andre's Hungarian Cafe - apple strudel, palacinsta
Lady M Cake Boutique - Milles crepes cakes, and the St. Honore.
Ortolan at 2:07PM on 10/02/09
Silver Moon Bakery at Bway and 105. They do a great job all around.
Carioca at 3:19PM on 10/02/09
Thank you everyone for your terrific suggestions! Trying not to eat a large breakfast in anticipation of a great day of eating!
MrsJohnson at 7:15AM on 10/03/09
If yu come across date bars---that would be a date mixture sandwiched between layers of a cookie crust, maybe you could get me the correct name. I am looking for a recipe for these. Anyone have one?
lindaj09 at 11:31AM on 10/03/09
Amy's Bread actually has multiple locations as Ed pointed out on his Top 10 Bakeries in NYC list. I also like their cashew bars which run out very quickly.
Also, you may want to track down The Treats Truck. I'm a fan of their cranberry almond rice krispy bars and the butterscotch bars.
femmebot at 3:39PM on 10/05/09
OK...let's cut the BS and get right down to it - Veniero's for cannoli, and anything else you want, but you have to have the cannoli!
Also, make sure to have a black & white cookie!
KateRuby at 8:01PM on 10/05/09
my favorite cupcakes are at sweet revenge, and the van leewen (sp?) truck has amazing ice cream...and everyone else here has made really great suggestions too!
billyburgwife at 8:25PM on 10/05/09
Sweet Freak's list is awesome, I must say. I'll add, some from the Serious Eats link mentioned, that Two Red Hens in the UES and Black Hound in the EV are good. I haven't been to Bouchon yet, but my damn brother has probably spent $100 there in the past month (and he doesn't share!), and raves about them. They're pricey, but the oatmeal cookies and the triple chocolate eclair/pastry are two of his faves, so I've heard. If you were in the area more than a day, I'd say you MUST go to Baked; the entire menu is insane. But Red Hook is a hike/expensive cab ride or ferry trip.
But I fully agree with some of the Sweet Freak recs:
Chikalicious is yummy (for cupcakes and other treats), Sugar Sweet Sunshine makes a killer lemon cupcake, and I've heard great things of Butter Lane.
Momofuku's cookies (compost!!! and the corn flake one) are delicious, so are the cakes.
I've heard amazing things about Bespoke, and of course, Jacques Torres.
And Doughnut Plant's fried carby deliciousness is so worth the trip.
ncsuemme at 2:42PM on 10/06/09
Are you going to tell us where you ended up going? Serious Eaters' minds want to know!
laurelie at 1:08PM on 10/08/09
@laurelle----ditto!
Italiancupcake at 3:27PM on 10/08/09
Jacques Torres, hands down.
The treats at Pure Food and Wine's juice outpost, One Lucky Duck, and Babycakes NYC are worth checking out, even if you don't have food allergies and/or are raw or vegan.
The Petrossian on 7th has amazing treats, as does Cafe Lalo on the UWS, bakery or not.
Baked in Red Hook.
And DO NOT leave without trying the chocolate chip walnut cakes from Levain Bakery. They are a MUST.
charliedarling at 4:16PM on 10/11/09
*chocolate chip walnut COOKIES. Although, at 6 oz. each, they are almost the size of cakes. :)
charliedarling at 4:17PM on 10/11/09
Levain bakery YES! The most amazing cookies ever!
And Baked - also a YES! But a shlep, this is true. But don't miss Levain, seriously.
alliect at 11:46AM on 10/13/09