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I was completely with you on Levain--they dethroned City Bakery for me. But the compost cookie and the chocolate chip cornflake cookie at Milk bar have both recently become my chocolate chip cookies of choice. I can't believe they're not included in your downtown search! The compost might stray too much from classic chocolate chip, but if you're allowing cookies with nuts (or oats), then the chocolate chip cornflake should qualify. Truly, truly outstanding cookie--and a major oversight!

told you so (re: dessert club). too bad those cookies used to be 3 for $2. now that they are $1 each, i have no excuse to eat 3 :(

milk and cookies may not have made the top of the list but those cookies make for a top notch ice cream sandwich :)

@klaus ok: Tasters started off with small pieces of each cookie, recorded first impressions, and then went back and forth between samples to compare and contrast. There were 10 cookies up for consideration here, narrowed down through preliminary rounds. It isn't realistic to eat 10 whole cookies in one sitting—especially when some were up to 4"-6" inches across and could easily have fed three. Our judges put their systems through an awful lot for Serious Eats; there's no need to make it worse.

from the photo it looks like you guys only sampled a bite-size slice of each cookie?!

you've got to eat the whole cookie to decide its the best (IMHO at least)

adam said "These are a revelation"?

what about ong's spot?

I f*cking hate Dearborn (where I was born, grew up and fled at the first opportunity) but I do LOVE me some Miller's burgers. Whenever I have the misfortune of being back in "Dogbone," I stop at Miller's at least once and gorge on the demi-god of hamburgers. I have lived in what some (mostly natives) have called the hamburger capital of the world -- Southern California -- for going on twenty years, but none of the burgers out here can compare with a Miller's burger. It is the holy grail of hamburgers, and I have spent my life trying to find a better burger, to no avail. I'll keep searching, of course, but I'm getting more and more certain with each passing year that I'll not find a burger that pleases me like the ones I inhale in that humble little bar in that dying little town.

I love Miller's. No man or woman loves Miller's more than I. I have a hard time not ordering two, on a visit. However, it's not raining yet, but there's a cloud over this parade. On last visit, with Wife-enstein, we were waiting, up against the wall, for a table, which puts you in view of the kitchen, and, to my hamburgerial horror, I saw cookie pressing the juice out of the burgers cooking on the griddle with a spatula! I could not believe it. I wanted to shout, "No! Stop!". Now, were my last couple of burgers dry, or, did I superimpose what I just saw onto my memory? I said to the waitress, "I just saw the cook pressing the juice out of the burgers." She said, "It makes them cook faster." I said, "Don't do it to mine." How do we get them to stop this new (I believe it to be new) behavior? Does George call them up and tell them? Anybody else notice this?

"there are no seasonings"

Yup that's Michigan for you, no seasonings on anything.

Millers is incredible - but I also have to give a nod to the Redcoat Tavern on Woodward Ave near Royal Oak - my wife from NC begs to go there when we come back to town!

Aww. He's a cutey. And someone must find a fine dining establishment that will be friendly to the little fella while Zach and wife get some good eats.

The funniest picture of young Harry (so far) is of Zach taking him to an all-you-can-eat buffet; Harry is in a chest carrier and Zach considerately put a napkin on the kid's head to protect him from spills. I would SO have done that with my Beautiful Daughter if I'd thought of it. Pic is somewhere over at Midtown Lunch.