Levain Bakery, Upper West Side: NYC's other best cookie

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4 October 2010

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Levain Bakery, Upper West Side: NYC’s other best cookie

Thanks to my severe cookie fetish, people are always telling me to try Levain Bakery. I finally found myself there this weekend. The rumors are true: these cookies are holy-moly-nom-alicious.

First off, this isn’t your over cute-sified dessert shoppe. It’s just a tiny downstairs bakery counter with a couple stools. Secondly, cookies do sell out. I got there around 1 on Saturday and there were less than a dozen cookies left. The double chocolate peanut butter chip was prime for the taking.

The $4 cookie chunk didn’t look especially appetizing, but inside, ooey gooey, warm, half cookie/half brownie filling awaited me. This place is definitely giving Momofuku Milk Bar a run for its “best cookie” money.