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Levain Bakery is a tiny bakery on the Upper West Side of New York and is famous for its cookies. The first time I walked by their tiny below-street-level location, there was a line out the door and around the corner. Since I was on my way to meet the rest of our group, I didn’t have time to wait in line. However, on my last day in the city, I went by Levain Bakery at 8:30 am and only had to stand in a short line of four people for my cookie fix.
The cookies are $4.00 a pop, which sounds expensive until you see them. They are massive! Each cookie looks like it was made with a cup of cookie dough! I weighed one and it came to 175 g (about 6 ounces). So don’t try and eat a whole cookie all at once or by yourself.
I ordered a walnut chocolate chip, a dark chocolate chocolate chip, and a dark chocolate peanut butter cup cookie. The cookies have a crisp outside but are dense and fudgy on the inside, just take a look at the cross-section in the cookies above! The chocolate cookies were extremely chocolatey, and I liked how the peanut butter chips added a savoury touch that nicely complemented the chocolate dough.
I also ordered a small plain brioche and a small hot chocolate. I wasn’t planning on the hot chocolate, but the woman in front of me ordered one and I saw that they scooped chopped chocolate pieces into a cup of steaming hot milk, and I had to try one for myself.
Levain Bakery also bakes beautiful loaves of bread, including baguettes and ciabattas. Since it was my last morning in New York, I sadly had to pass on the bread, but I will return on my next trip!
Visit Levain Bakery at one of their three locations:
Levain Bakery Upper West Side
167 West 74th St
New York, NY, 10023
Levain Bakery Harlem
2167 Frederick Douglass Blvd
New York, NY, 10026
Levain Bakery Hamptons – Wainscott
354 Montauk Hwy, Wainscott Village Shopping Center
Wainscott, NY, 11975
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WOW. Those cookies look like the best cookies ever, they’re huge! I’m visiting New York at the moment but am leaving tomorrow sadly. Gonna add it to my list for next time.
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