In 2008, Ed wrote of the
toast bar at Blue Ribbon Bakery Market, a longtime neighborhood favorite for quick bites and light lunches. Fast-forward to 2011 and you'll find slightly higher prices but the same great service and reliable menu of classics.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] If you peek in the glass windows at Blue Ribbon Bakery Market on Bedford Street you'll spot little dessert pies sitting alongside warm quiches. Those pies are $7 apiece, and come in Blueberry-Apple and Strawberry-Apple....
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After six formal blind taste-tests, hundreds of cookies behind us, and a final half-dozen follow-up taste-offs to ensure consistency—
we're ready to declare a winner. The Top 11 Countdown, listed after the jump and in the slideshow above.
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In the spirit of competition, we've introduced a wild-card round. We listened to
your nominations, combed back through the comments, and drew up one last round.
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This city is flooded with blueberry muffins. Plain ones, sugar-dusted numbers, big ones, itty bitty ones, and others still, paired with everything from bran to corn. We loved some, hated others, and passed on a few. Our conclusion? There's one we can honestly call "the best" and many others which are simply great and worth a detour. In the end,
blueberry muffins, like most sweets, are totally subjective. Taste is personalized, so we've made sure to included seriously delicious muffins on all ends of the spectrum.
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Blue Ribbon Bakery Market is the only
toast bar that I know of. The owners conceived of it as a place where they could spread deliciousness on toast made from all the terrific breads they bake in a hundred-year-old coal oven. It turns out that a toast bar is a brilliant idea, one worthy of a MacArthur Genius Grant.
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