Best bakeries in New York

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. But fair warning, the chocolate donuts can turn into a weekly routine if you’re not careful.

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.

What to order Spicy NYC Croissant (savory) & Nutella Cruffin (sweet)

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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.

My advice 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 makes the best cardamom buns in New York City. These airy, delicate spiced knots have earned a reputation 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.

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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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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!

What to order Cronut, Kouign-Amann and hot chocolate

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 mille-feuille (delicate layers and the best flavor), this popular NYC bakery prides itself on using traditional French baking techniques and high-quality ingredients exclusively.

Daily Provisions was opened by Danny Meyer, the mastermind behind Shake Shack, and now proudly has 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).

My advice Daily Provisions serves Joe Coffee and has some of the best Americanos I’ve had in the city. Highly recommend.