Ess-a-Bagel
Order Everything bagel with cream cheese
Ess-A-Bagel is known for its bagels, from 9 grain to sesame and everything, plus appetizing salads, varieties of cream cheese and choice meats.
Bakery counters in New York City worth queuing for: levain breads, laminated pastry, regional bakes and the morning ritual.
Where to queue for bread and pastry
20 places
Tompkins Square Bagels
- ★ 4.4
- $$
- East Village
Order Hand-rolled bagel with house-made cream cheese
Tompkins Square Bagels opened on Avenue A in the East Village in 2011, its bagels hand-rolled, kettle-boiled and baked fresh daily in brick ovens.
Black Seed Bagels
- ★ 4.3
- $$
- SoHo and Nolita
Order Honey-boiled bagel from the wood-burning oven
Black Seed Bagels, opened in 2014, makes a New York-style bagel with Montreal techniques, boiled with honey and finished by hand in a wood-burning oven.
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2 of the bakeries on this list serve bagels.
William Greenberg Desserts
- ★ 4.5
- Upper East Side
Order Black & White Cookie
William Greenberg Desserts opened on the Upper East Side in 1946, known for Black & White Cookies with a cake-like texture and chocolate and vanilla icing.
Levain Bakery
- ★ 4.4
- Upper West Side
Order Chocolate chip walnut cookie
Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald opened Levain Bakery as a small bread shop on West 74th Street in 1995, then baked a massive chocolate chip walnut cookie.
Zabar's
- ★ 4.6
- Upper West Side
Order Homestyle babka and rugelach
Zabar's on Broadway is a family business of over 90 years, hand-slicing smoked fish and selling artisanal cheeses, fresh-baked rugelach and coffee blends.
Breads Bakery
- ★ 4.5
- $$
- Union Square
Order Chocolate Babka
Breads Bakery's Union Square flagship bakes handmade breads and pastries in small batches all day, from slow-fermented sourdough to Chocolate Babka.
Veniero's
- ★ 4.4
- East Village
Order Cannoli
Veniero's has been owned by the Veniero family on East 11th Street since 1894, baking cannoli, sfogliatelle, biscotti and more than 150 desserts.
Junior's Restaurant
- ★ 4.2
- Downtown Brooklyn
Order Original New York cheesecake
Junior's, a Brooklyn original since 1950, makes its cheesecake from 5 quality ingredients, blended in small batches and baked in a water bath.
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S&S Cheesecake
- ★ 4.7
- $$
- The Bronx
Order New York Style Cheesecake
S&S Cheesecake at 222 West 238th Street in the Bronx bakes New York Style Cheesecake with the craftsmanship of an artisan, using only the finest ingredients.
Eileen's Special Cheesecake
- ★ 4.3
- SoHo and Nolita
Order Handmade cheesecake with a hand-pressed graham cracker crust
Eileen's Special Cheesecake grew from a family recipe into a downtown Manhattan bakery in 1975 at 17 Cleveland Place, now run by her two daughters.
Kossar's Bagels & Bialys
- ★ 4.5
- Lower East Side
Order Bialy made from the original recipe
Kossar's Bagels & Bialys on Grand Street bakes bialys from the original recipe and methods, and bagels hand rolled and boiled, then baked fresh every day.
Best Bagel & Coffee
- ★ 4.5
- Bagels
Order A hand-rolled jalapeno everything bagel with a bacon honey sriracha spread.
Best Bagel & Coffee does all its baking on premises, with hand rolled and kettle boiled bagels. It sits on 35th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue.
Dun-Well Doughnuts
- ★ 4.4
- Doughnuts
Dun-Well Doughnuts in East Williamsburg handcrafts its artisanal doughnuts daily. All of its products are free of animal or animal derived ingredients.
Win Son Bakery
- ★ 4.3
- Taiwanese-American
Order The laminated bolo bao, or a millet mochi donut.
Win Son Bakery is a Taiwanese-American cafe serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with spirits, wine and beer. Its newer location is in the East Village.
Bunch O' Bagels
- ★ 4.3
- Bagels
Order A single bagel for $1.00, or a chocolate cheese muffin.
Bunch O' Bagels makes traditional-styled bagels right from a stone plate oven in Brooklyn. It has made bagels and pastries for more than 15 years.
The Hungarian Pastry Shop
- ★ 4.3
- Hungarian pastry
Order Dobos, alternating layers of chocolate butter cream and sweet sponge cake topped with hard caramel.
The Hungarian Pastry Shop was opened in 1961 by Hungarian immigrants and has been a bedrock of the Morningside Heights community since. It still has no wifi.
Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop
- ★ 4.2
- Donuts
Order The sour cream glazed or the blueberry buttermilk donut.
Peter Pan has been a family owned neighborhood donut shop for over 60 years. Its most popular donuts include red velvet, apple crumb and Boston cream.
Sullivan Street Bakery
- ★ 4.2
- Italian bakery
Order Pizza bianca, or the filone, soft 18-inch loaves made with pizza bianca dough and olive oil.
Sullivan Street Bakery is a Roman bakery in spirit that started in Soho in 1994. It bakes fresh bread, rolls, Roman-style pizzas and other treats.
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