PrintWhat's Your Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie?
Another Serious Eats taste test approaches, and we're curious: what's your favorite chocolate chipper in New York? Let us know in the comments.
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32 Comments:
Jacques Torres
pastry262 at 6:24PM on 11/03/09
I like the cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie from Milk Bar and the basic chocolate chip cookie from Desert Club/ChikaLicious.
punkerplus at 6:32PM on 11/03/09
the fairway bakery does a great one
poorstudent at 6:36PM on 11/03/09
Paradis To-Go has some great chocolate chip cookies!
Somebody's Mother at 6:38PM on 11/03/09
levain bakery!! but jacques torres does have some pretty good ones too....
linslorr at 6:45PM on 11/03/09
ooh, another vote for Levain's "regular" chocolate chip. But Jacques Torres gets vote for chocolate chocolate chip.
Goodie Guild at 6:52PM on 11/03/09
Paradis To-Go is the best and I've tried all the rest!
jemile21 at 7:04PM on 11/03/09
jacques torres by far
pupilindenial at 8:03PM on 11/03/09
city bakery...fresh every 30 minutes?! can't be beat
14japonica at 8:09PM on 11/03/09
Jacques Torres by a mile.
bephf at 9:19PM on 11/03/09
Levain chocolate chip walnut, hands down. Jacques Torres is delicious though.
brookeleigh at 9:27PM on 11/03/09
levain and torres, absolument
rebeccadiamond at 9:38PM on 11/03/09
i also really like the compost cookie, if that counts. these taste tests are unbelievable - what difficult lives you lead :)
rebeccadiamond at 9:43PM on 11/03/09
Times Square Hot Bagels by far! 44 St./7 Ave. http://www.sugoodsweets.com/blog/2009/06/best-chocolate-chip-cookies-in-new-york/
thesu at 9:47PM on 11/03/09
Jacques Torres by a mile, but a vote for Bouchon
Katy at 9:52PM on 11/03/09
i love so many of the cookies listed above.
since you are looking for suggestions for your taste test, i must add to the list and say that jack's stir brew coffee in the west village has some really really delicious (surprisingly delicious, as they are not a bakery at all!) chocolate chip cookies that they bake constantly throughout the day in small batches. make sure, though, that you get one that's been baked relatively close to when you come by! and at $1 a pop, they're a real bargain too!
musicjess at 10:08PM on 11/03/09
I'm a fan of Insomnia Cookies on 8th Street. Nothing fancy or special, just tasty.
jgelfand at 10:54PM on 11/03/09
Milk Bar, City Bakery, Jacques, then Levain.
(But if it's Levain's ChocPB Chip, it trumps them all)
Somewhere in the back is Bouchon.
Echo the shout to Jack's, which has an outpost near the Seaport.
In a pinch, Pret ain't bad. Surprisingly.
dbdtron at 11:26PM on 11/03/09
Just like Alan says when introducing Letterman: "From New York, the greatest city in the world. . ."
Are you sure the original was invented in Massachusetts?
betteirene at 1:51AM on 11/04/09
My spontaneous side trip to Levain for a gooey, enormous, nut-filled chocolate chip cookie one afternoon was one of the best decisions of my life.
teenagefoodie at 8:17AM on 11/04/09
Jacques Torres, hands down!
tonisan9 at 9:13AM on 11/04/09
I'm going to echo most of you by saying Jacques Torres and Levain...so freaking good.
Also, Ruby et Violette is pretty awesome.
charliedarling at 9:44AM on 11/04/09
Baked, Petrossian's, Chocolate Bar, Jacques Torres
vegny at 10:00AM on 11/04/09
Oh and Chocolate Room was pretty damn good too if recollection serves me.
vegny at 10:01AM on 11/04/09
It's not even close -- CITY BAKERY. CITY BAKERY. CITY BAKERY. and the CITY BAKERY ginger cookie is the SECOND-BEST chocolate-chip cookie, even thought it's not chocolate chip. It's like Chuck Norris that way.
woodchuck at 10:03AM on 11/04/09
CITY BAKERY! Why the hell would you go anywhere else??? Oh my god, I can taste it now . . . (for the record, their peanut butter cookie is like a gift from the peanut butter gods. Now if I could just finally wrangle the recipe from Maury Rubin, I'd be a much happier - and fatter! - girl.
susanl73 at 11:02AM on 11/04/09
Just look at this photo and tell me it's not the best looking chocolate chip cookie you've ever seen:
http://nycfoodguy.com/2008/02/05/levain-bakery-the-best-chocolate-chip-walnut-cookie-on-the-planet/
Don't get me wrong, Jacques Torres is delicious too, but in a high class chocolate way, because thin, buttery cookie is all about the shards of chocolate:
http://nycfoodguy.com/2008/05/30/jacques-torres-dark-chocolate-chip-cookie-rivals-levain/
City Bakery is fairly similar to Jacques in that it's thin and loaded with gooey shards of chocolate. The only thing I didn't love about City is that it's so buttery, the cookie doesn't have that delicious, home-baked, reminds us of Mom's cookie flavor that Levain has. It's that characteristic that makes Levain the best.
NYCFoodGuy
NYC Food Guy at 11:15AM on 11/04/09
Petrossian Cafe
kschuman at 11:16AM on 11/04/09
Two Little Red Hens has the best chocolate chunk cookie for only $1.60! I think Levain is way too "raw" inside.
hungryteresa at 11:57AM on 11/04/09
Ah, I love that this debate never gets old.
Levain's walnut chocolate chip, followed closely by Momofuku's cornflake marshmallow chocolate chip, followed by Petrossian's ridiculously large and gooey walnut chocolate chip.
Sweet Freak at 12:36PM on 11/04/09
Say it with Flour in Midtown East. Amazing!
citygrits at 1:02PM on 11/04/09
Birdbath (which, I guess is City Bakery) and Amy's Bread.
In any case, I'm actually partial to oatmeal or else an "everything" cookie.
Oh, also Bread Alone at Union Sq Green market.
bebo at 1:39PM on 11/04/09