The City Bakery

This well respected bakery recently moved to a new, larger location in the Flatiron District. However, The City Bakery still sells some of the best baked goods in the city (the chocolate chip cookies are irresistible). In addition to all sorts of pastries, City Bakery serves fresh lemonade in the summer and rich, velvety hot chocolate in the winter. There are also soups, sandwiches and entrées....

Know Before You Go: Fair warning: Finding a seat during the lunch rush can be a serious challenge.

Fun Fact: Many food items are seasonal, meaning that tart you love so much might not be available all-year long.

It's beloved for its "ever-so-rich" hot chocolate, "one-of-a-kind" pretzel croissants and "scrumptious" sweets, but this Flatiron bakery also wins favor with its "wholesome" salad and juice bars; maybe prices are "out of whack" given the "mess-hall" decor and "unhelpful service", but that doesn't faze the "crazed" lunch crowds.

Located on West 18th, City Bakery offers a self serve buffet. Choose what you want, and then take it to the cash register where you can...

Maury Rubin built his reputation on unusual tarts with geometric designs and distinguished fillings. His pastry repertoire also includes buttery croissants, homemade marshmallows, and the most sinful chocolate cookies we’ve ever encountered (Rubin has added a retail line of frozen cookie dough so you can make them at home, too). Many of the locally-grown and organic raw ingredients come...

City Bakery offers comfort food that manages to be delicious, nutritious, and eco-friendly. Its salad bar is unlike any other in the city, where the integrity of the ingredients is as important as the taste. This is health food, all right—roasted beets with walnuts, glistening sautéed greens, lavender eggplant tossed in miso—but with heart and soul, offering such favorites as French toast with...

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