Levain Bakery - Early Indulgence
With the weekend weather set to be in the gorgeous, surprise your mom with an early morning run to the deadly unassuming Upper West Side store-front packing the richest, most moist, decadent little boulders of cookies you'll ever see, Levain Bakery. Though they've plenty of fitting breakfast pastries - muffins, scones, the even socially acceptable banana chocolate chip bread - it's supposed to be a special day, so just cut to the chase with a sampling of their disgustingly too good Chocolate Chip Walnut, Oatmeal Raisin, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip cookies. So chocolate's not a proper breakfast. Your mother made the rules; she can break them.
Levain Bakery, 167 West 74th Street
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