This list of the best bakeries in New York City was written by Antonina Pattiz, a local of NYC and the founder of New York Simply, an official partner of Apple Maps. We’re happy to have you here!
I’m a self-professed bakery enthusiasts. There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeking out local bakeries and acting surprised when I accidentally order too much. After living in NYC for nearly a decade, I wanted to share my personal list of the best bakeries in NYC. From iconic time-tested institutions to newly opened gems, this list spans the gamut.
My hope is that you can benefit from the 100,000+ calories I consumed to create this list. Let’s dive in!
Best Bakeries in New York City
(Table of Contents)
NYC Bakeries (Table of contents)
- Best Bakeries in New York City
- Balthazar Bakery
- Supermoon Bakehouse
- Breads Bakery
- La Cabra
- L’Appartement 4F
- Dominique Ansel Bakery
- Mah-Ze-Dahr
- Mille Feuille
- Daily Provisions
- Best Bakeries New York City (Post Summary)
- Map of the Best NYC Bakeries
- Helpful Related Links:
Balthazar Bakery
Famous for offering a wide array of classic French pastries, bread, and desserts, this cute NYC bakery is the go-to spots for delicious baked goods. They sell thousands of croissants a day, which tells you everything you need to know about the quality.
And it’s true, the croissants are perfect, but so is everything else on the menu. There’s no seating inside, so you’ll need to grab your bounty to go, easy enough considering everything is bite sized! But fair warning, the chocolate donuts can turn into a weekly routine if you’re not careful.
Website: Balthazar Bakery
Neighborhood: SoHo
Address: 80 Spring St, New York, NY 10012
Supermoon Bakehouse
Supermoon Bakehouse is the brainchild of Ry Stephen, the mastermind behind San Francisco’s viral sensation, Mr. Holmes Bakehouse. Renowned for its creativity and innovation, the baked goods have folks waiting in line for 1+ hours. Everything is handmade every morning with locally sourced ingredients from Upstate New York.
Better still, the butter is imported from a farm in France, a testament to the bakery’s commitment to making the best baked goods in NYC. Everything on the menu is made to impress, but the filled croissant (which takes 3-4 days to make) is what put them on the map. Known to sell out by noon, both sweet and savory options are available.
Website: Supermoon Bakehouse
Neighborhood: East Village
Address: 120 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002
Hours: Thursday – Monday 10am – 6pm (closed Tuesday & Wednesday)
What to order: Spicy NYC Croissant (savory) & Nutella Cruffin (sweet)
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Breads Bakery
A few years ago the chocolate babka at Breads Bakery was named the best in New York City, and the rest (as they say) was history. Dark chocolate ribbons of Nutella delicately folded into layers of airy dough, this dessert isn’t for the faint of heart (it makes a great souvenir, by the way).
But the chocolate babka alone isn’t what makes this one of the best Jewish bakeries in NYC. Rather, it’s the fact that everything on the menu is top-notch. From classics like chocolate croissants to traditional Jewish baked goods like rugelach, there’s a reason Breads Bakery has spread to 8 locations in the city since opening in 2013.
Local’s Tip: Breads Bakery recently opened a new bakery on the Upper East Side. They chose to create a baked good exclusive to the location and landed on a delicious twist on the iconic black-and-white cookie. I would drive an hour out of the way for this thing, it’s one of my favorite deserts in the entire city, I can’t recommend it enough.
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La Cabra
La Cabra makes the best cardamom buns in New York City. These airy, delicate spiced knots have earned a reputation on an international stage (La Cabra hails from Denmark). Between the quality baked goods and top-notch coffee, the bakery swells with locals and tourists every day of the week. Excellence is the name of the game, and La Cabra delivers.
Website: La Cabra
Neighborhood: East Village & SoHo
Address: 152 2nd Ave. & 284 Lafayette St.
Hours: Monday through Friday from 7am-6pm & Sat. through Sun. 8am-6pm
L’Appartement 4F
L’Appartement 4F began as a hobby for French expat Gautier Coiffard, who started experimenting with sourdough and croissant lamination during the pandemic. Encouraged by his wife, Ashley, they began selling their baked goods to friends, colleagues, and soon enough — to strangers.
The baked goods quickly gained popularity, leading them to open a storefront in Brooklyn Heights. Their success is evident by long lines every morning, everyone eager to get their hands on these authentic French pastries. Within a year, locals began billing this as the best bakery in Brooklyn, largely thanks to the exceptional croissants, especially ‘Le Framboise,’ a raspberry-chocolate-almond croissant.
Another big deal is the viral petite croissant cereal (each tiny croissant is hand-rolled in small batches). They only make a few boxes each day are notorious for selling out at opening.
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Website: L’Appartement 4F
Neighborhood: Brooklyn Heights
Address: 115 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: Daily from 8am to 6pm (closes at 4pm on Sundays)
Dominique Ansel Bakery
Often considered the most innovative bakery in New York City, Dominique Ansel Bakery offers Michelin-star quality pastries at a fraction of the price. The bakery gained national fame in 2013 with the invention of the Cronut (half-croissant, half-doughnut). To this day (10 years later), folks line up to score the world-famous Cronut.
It sells out daily, but fret not — this NYC bakery’s innovative approach to pastries, combining traditional French techniques with imaginative concepts, ensures that every baked good is bound to impress. The Kouign-Amann (pronounced “Queen Amon”) is especially good!
Website: Dominique Ansel Bakery
Neighborhood: SoHo
Address: 189 Spring St, New York, NY
Hours: Daily from 8am-7pm
What to order: Cronut, Kouign-Amann and hot chocolate
Mah-Ze-Dahr
Mah-Ze-Dahr was opened in 2014 by Umber Ahmad, a banker-turned-baker who left the lofty confines of the financial world to purse her dream of baking. Turns out it was the right move, because she went on to open one of the best bakeries in NYC and became a semi-finalist for the prestigious James Beard Award (a huge deal in the culinary world).
Inspired by her world travels, the bakery’s name comes from the Urdu word that describes the “taste and essence of food, the flavor and magic that make it delicious.”
Website: Mah-Ze-Dahr
Neighborhood: SoHo
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Mille Feuille
If you can’t go to France on a whim for fresh pastries, what’s a viable Plan B? Pay a visit to one of the most authentic French bakeries in New York City, Mille Feuille.
Celebrated for their mastery of French pastries, especially the bakery’s namesake, the mille-feuille (delicate layers and exquisite flavor), this popular NYC bakery prides itself on using traditional French baking techniques and high-quality ingredients exclusively.
Website: Mille Feuille
Neighborhoods: West Village, Upper West Side, Prospect Heights
Daily Provisions
Daily Provisions was opened by Danny Meyer, the mastermind behind Shake Shack, and now proudly boasts four locations (Union Square, Upper West Side, West Village and Manhattan West).Most folks come to this cute New York City bakery for crullers and return to try everything else on the menu.
This bakery is famous for crullers, no doubt, but the true star of the show is the great breakfast sandwich menu (the best in NYC in my opinion). Two clear standouts are the BEC (bacon, egg and cheese) and the smoked salmon everything croissant (pictured above).
Local’s Tip: Daily Provisions serves Joe Coffee and has some of the best Americanos I’ve had in the city. Highly recommend.
Website: Daily Provisions
Neighborhoods: West Village, Upper West Side, Union Square, Cobble Hill, Manhattan West
Best Bakeries New York City (Post Summary)
In sum, these are the best bakeries in New York City.
- Balthazar Bakery
- Daily Provisions
- Mah-Ze-Dahr
- L’Appartement 4F
- Dominique Ansel Bakery
- Breads Bakery
- Orwashers Bakery
- Supermoon Bakehouse
- Maman
- Mille Feuille
Map of the Best NYC Bakeries
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Cheers!
