Levain Bakery
Bakery · NoHo
340 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012
Highlights
Giant cookies, fresh bread & pastries, counter seating available
Giant cookies, fresh bread & pastries, counter seating available
"City Bakery is possibly best known for its ridiculously good chocolate chip cookies, but they also do a pretty impressive salad bar in the back. A salad bar that includes a mac and cheese station. Think of it more like a fancy buffet. And get a chocolate chip cookie on your way out." - hillary reinsberg
"Taylor Swift isn’t immune to the power of a Levain chocolate chip cookie. The first location opened on the Upper West Side in 1995; it has since sprouted locations all over the city, and spreading as far as Los Angeles." - Melissa McCart
"Known as an iconic New York desserts shop famous for slinging cakey, chunky, sky-high cookies, Levain Bakery will open a second Southern California location in Venice’s shuttered Lemonade space at 1661 Abbot Kinney Boulevard; with existing locations in New York, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago, Levain opened its first West Coast bakery on Larchmont Boulevard in June 2023 to much media fanfare and long lines. The Venice bakery is slated to open in early 2025, coinciding with the shop’s 30-year anniversary — it was founded by Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald in 1995." - Mona Holmes
"As it moves to Boston, Chip City follows in the footsteps of Levain, another NYC cookie chain known for its hefty cookies chock full of chocolate and peanut butter chips. Levain opened on Newbury Street last year, marking that chain’s first entry into Boston." - Erika Adams
"Drive to Leon Bakery, and you might get lost. It’s off the beaten path, on a side street half a block from Fairmount Avenue, and it got even harder to find after the ownersrepainted the outside bright green — and painted right over the huge “PANADERIA” sign. Get closer, and any doubts should be erased when you approach the door and smell the sugar. Inside: a tiny bakery packed with tender pan dulces for takeout. At $1 a piece for various items, diners here can get the same treats that coffee shops might sell for three or four times that price."
